Today is the Tri-State Children’s/YA Book Buzz! Anne presented her favorite books for teens including new titles from David Levithan, Stephanie Perkins and two debuts from Flatiron Books! Best of all? Ali Fisher co-presented and their babies Daniel and Jackson (OK, he’s a fur baby, but he’s still a baby!) kept things moving along. BLANKETS […]
Happy #BookBday (10/13/15 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to new nonfiction (and one heartwarming novel): HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES by Brandon Stanton The follow-up to Stanton’s bestseller, HUMANS OF NEW YORK, is “a wondrous mix of races, ages, genders, and social classes, and on virtually every page is a surprise.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) “This book is fantastic. It shows […]
St. Martin’s First – Winter 2016 E-Sampler
If you’re off from work (and we hope you are), may we suggest downloading this great Winter 2016 debut chapter sampler from our friends at St. Martin’s Press? Fun fact: SMP published the first works of Tatiana de Rosnay, Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Tropper, Dan Brown, Elin Hilberbrand, Lisa See, Louise Penny, Anita Diamant, Rosamund Pilcher, […]
Color Us Crazy!
We can’t get enough of the adult coloring book trend, and chances are your patrons are on the same page. Here are some titles to boost your programming and get your zen on: FOUR SEASONS by Aiko Fukawa Keep color and joy in your life all year round. We recommend starting with falling leaves and […]
Friday Reads: Literary Gems
Happy Friday, friends! We’re celebrating #FridayReads with a couple of literary gems released this week: GOD’S KINGDOM by Howard Frank Mosher An October 2015 Indie Next pick! A young man comes of age—and uncovers his family’s deepest secret in the little known mountains of northern Vermont by the Canadian border. “No Catcher in the Rye […]
Thriller Thursday (10/8/15 Edition)
A couple of cozy mysteries will take the chill off this #ThrillerThursday: THE HAUNTED SEASON by G.M. Malliet In the fifth installment in the series, former-spy-turned-cleric Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip. “As always, the mystery is […]
Congrats to Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievich!
Huge congratulations to Svetlana Alexievich, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” — Nobel Prize Press Release On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. VOICES […]
A WILD SWAN lands on the November 2015 LibraryReads List!
FANTASTIC NEWS! A WILD SWAN by Michael Cunningham and illustrated by Yuko Shimizu is the #10 pick on the November 2015 LibraryReads list! In A WILD SWAN, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder are transformed by […]
Sneak Peek: November 2015 Indie Next List
The November 2015 Indie Next list includes two of our favorite fall books! HOME IS BURNING by Dan Marshall A BEA 2015 Editor’s Buzz Panel selection, an ALA Annual “Read ‘n Rave” selection, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, a Maximum Shelf Awareness selection, and an Entertainment Weekly Fall Books pick! Dave […]
Happy Belated #BookBday (10/7/15 Edition)
Congrats to this bunch of new books that hit the shelves yesterday: THE CLASP by Sloane Crosley Crosley’s “signature wit is sharp as ever” (New York Times Book Review) in her first novel about three friends who reunite for a friend’s wedding in Miami, then end up on a road trip in France in pursuit […]
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