It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: The Devil’s Muse by Bill Loehfelm “A rookie New Orleans cop discovers that regular rules don’t apply during Mardi Gras, when a shooting sets off a cascading series of violent events. Loehfelm doesn’t need showy murders or gory scenes to writes crime stories with grit that stay lodged in your […]
Three Stars for Jac Jemc’s THE GRIP OF IT
Jac Jemc’s chilling literary horror novel THE GRIP OF IT has Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal celebrating… “The latest from Jemc is a haunted house tale that toys with the hallmarks of ghost stories—a young city couple moving to a small town, a curmudgeonly neighbor, a spooky legend—to create an exhilarating and unsettling […]
Nonfiction on the Shelves (07/12/17)
Mothers + daughters, a celebrated writer’s home-life, female aviators during WWII and death… All topics explored in today’s featured titles: I Need a Lifeguard Everywhere but the Pool by Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella “The Edgar Award–winning Scottoline and her writer daughter, Serritella, have been investigating human foibles in a series that now reaches its eighth […]
“Great Book-Group Reads” Booklist Webinar
The right book can be just the thing to make your book-group discussions come alive. Join Talia Sherer (and her beloved dog, Kugel the Corgi) for this free, one-hour webinar where she will discuss forthcoming and backlist titles that are sure-to-be hits with book groups around the country. This webinar features mostly adult books with […]
CBS “Sunday Morning” + Louise Penny
Watch Louise Penny’s CBS “Sunday Morning” segment from Sunday, July 9 right here! […]
#bookbday (07/11/17)
Happy #bookbday! Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong A July Indie Next List Selection! “In her tender, well-paced debut novel, which spans Ruth’s year at home, Khong writes heartbreaking family drama with charm, perfect prose, and deadpan humor.”–Booklist (starred review) “A heartfelt family dramedy in a debut novel that ruminates on love, loss, and memory.”–Kirkus Reviews […]
Sneak Peek: August 2017 Indie Next List
The August 2017 Indie Next list includes 4 Macmillan titles! EMMA IN THE NIGHT by Wendy Walker “Both twisted and twisty, this smart psychological thriller sets a new standard for unreliable narrators.” — Booklist, starred review “Walker’s portrayal of the ways in which a narcissistic, self-involved mother can affect her children deepens the plot as […]
#fridayreads (07/07/17)
Today’s #fridayreads are all debuts! South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby A July Indie Next List Selection! “Shelby’s first novel, based on a short story that won the Third Coast Fiction Prize, skillfully weaves science, climate change, politics, sociology, and art. Competing ideas about the origins of the universe are wrapped in the vagaries of […]
#thrillerthursday (07/06/17)
It’s #thrillerthursday and we’re reading: The Lake by Lotte Hammer and Søren Hammer “Simonsen is as brilliant yet fallible as ever in a piece of Nordic noir that will leave readers chilled to the bone, even though it is set in spring and the thaw is on . . . THE LAKE scores highly as both […]
Stars for the Women Who Flew for Hitler
Both Library Journal and Booklist love Biographers’ Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley’s THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER—a dual biography of Nazi Germany’s most highly decorated women pilots! THE WOMEN WHO FLEW FOR HITLER: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry by Clare Mulley “Biographer Mulley comes through in a major way with […]
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