OMG YA Librarians, can you believe it’s our last Teen Talk Tuesday of the year?! We’ve got a great Griffin Teen book to cap it off: INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD by Jamie Kain. From the author of THE GOOD SISTER (now available in trade paperback) comes a gripping novel about two sisters […]
For Your Consideration: March 2016 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the March 2016* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due January 20! Click here for the full list of 2016 deadlines. LUST & WONDER by Augusten Burroughs “Augusten Burroughs is back! Longtime fans of the memoirist are going to be over the moon with this new work and with […]
Inspiring Women of Fiction & Mystery
We love a good story, and our friends at Forge have five of ’em for you coming soon from some talented ladies: The Charlotte McNally series from Hank Phillippi Ryan PRIME TIME On sale: Feb. 9, 2016 FACE TIME On sale: April 12, 2016 AIR TIME On sale: June 14, 2016 MER by Katie Schickel […]
EW Best Books of 2015
Entertainment Weekly ♥s us! Three Macmillan titles made their Best of Books 2015 list: 2) A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN by Lucia Berlin Like a lot of brilliant but erratic artists, Lucia Berlin found her best work mislaid by history and largely forgotten after her death in 2004. To her credit, she might have been […]
2016 PEN Literary Awards Longlist
This week the PEN American Center announced the longlists for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards and they include 6 Macmillan titles: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS by Marilynne Robinson PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE by George Musser PEN Open Book Award (For […]
Tor.com Winter 2016 Season
Calling all sci-fi/fantasy readers! Here are the Winter 2016 books to look forward to from Tor.com Publishing: THE DROWNING EYES by Emily Foster On sale 1/12/16 The Dragon Ships took everything from Shina, but her weather magic might help win it back in this epic fantasy debut. THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle […]
Thriller Thursday (12/10/15 Edition)
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 […]
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