We hope you’ve been following all the great mystery & thriller recommendations on Twitter from your fellow librarians (hashtag #libfaves15). Today we celebrate five new spine-tingling books out this week and next: DESPERATE MEASURES by Jo Bannister Bannister’s third series outing finds police officer Hazel Best helping her friend Gabriel Ash rescue his family from […]
THE THINGS WE KEEP & ORNAMENTS OF DEATH are January 2016 LibraryReads Picks
FANTASTIC NEWS! Macmillan has two books on the January 2016 LibraryReads list! Coming in at #7 is THE THINGS WE KEEP by Sally Hepworth. Librarians across the country are gushing over this novel reminiscent of Nicholas Sparks’s THE NOTEBOOK and Lisa Genova’s STILL ALICE about a 38-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer’s who falls in […]
Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best Books
We’ve got 14 books on Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best list! Selected by a team of CPL librarians, the list represents the year’s most outstanding titles, books of exceptional quality for a diverse, city-wide readership. Fiction A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN by Elsa Hart A MANUAL […]
THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS is a 2016 Morris Award Finalist!
HUGE NEWS!! THE WEIGHT OF FEATHERS by Anna-Marie McLemore is a finalist for the 2016 Morris Award! The William C. Morris Award honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. The winner will be announced at the ALA Midwinter 2016 conference in […]
Read an excerpt from ONE WITH YOU
Can’t wait for the finale to Sylvia Day’s Crossfire saga? You’re in luck! We’ve got an exclusive excerpt from the first two chapters of ONE WITH YOU that you can read right now: New York was the city that never slept; it never even got sleepy. My condo on the Upper West Side had the […]
Happy #BookBday (12/8/15 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to two lovely historical novels on shelves now: BEATRICE AND BENEDICK by Marina Fiorato Set a year before the events of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, bestselling author Fiorato imagines the first youthful encounter between the famous lovers Beatrice and Benedick. “Fans of historical fiction, Gregory Maguire’s retellings of classic tales, and Geraldine […]
Join us for LJ & SLJ’s Day of Dialog 2016!
Day of Dialog 2016 registration is open!! Join us, Library Journal, and School Library Journal in Chicago for the best librarian-only gathering of the year. New city, new authors, and plenty of new ARCs to bring home! Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 9am–6pm UIC Forum, 725 Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60607 Seating is limited, so […]
RT Book Reviews 2015 Reviewer’s Choice Awards
Did you know that 22 Macmillan titles were nominated for Romantic Times Book Reviews’ 2015 Reviewer’s Choice Awards? It’s true! Best Contemporary Romance BROWN-EYED GIRL by Lisa Kleypas Best Historical Romance THE HIGHWAYMAN by Kerrigan Byrne Best Futuristic Romance BORN OF DEFIANCE by Sherrilyn Kenyon Best Paranormal Romance PRIMAL HEAT by A.C. Arthur Best Romantic […]
Kirkus Best Books of 2015 – Nonfiction
In addition to their Best Fiction list, Kirkus Reviews unveiled their Best of 2015 Nonfiction lists which include 20 Macmillan titles: Best Nonfiction GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman THE CRIME AND THE SILENCE: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont IRREPRESSIBLE: […]
Sneak Peek: January 2016 Indie Next List
The January 2016 Indie Next list includes 3 Macmillan titles! ROSALIE LIGHTNING by Tom Hart Eisner-nominated cartoonist Hart’s beautiful and touching graphic memoir about the untimely death of his young daughter, Rosalie, is also a Winter 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and has THREE starred reviews. “ROSALIE LIGHTNING is a masterpiece—and […]
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