Once again, it’s time to choose your favorite 2015 LibraryReads titles! LibraryReads is celebrating their second year by having library staff vote on their favorites from the October 2014 through September 2015 lists. (You may vote even if you’ve never nominated a title, and no Edelweiss or NetGalley account is needed.) Starting Thursday, September 17, […]
2016 Carnegie Medals Longlist
The 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Longlist was announced today and we’re proud to have 6 nominees: Fiction OUTLINE by Rachel Cusk PURITY by Jonathan Franzen Nonfiction GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman LISTENING TO STONE: The Art and Life of […]
Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce Titles
The American Booksellers Association recently announced their Winter/Spring 2016 Indies Introduce selections. Chosen by panels of booksellers from across the U.S., the list honors the top upcoming debuts publishing between January and June 2016, including these Macmillan titles: HIDE by Matthew Griffin On sale: February 16, 2016 […]
Happy International E-Book Day!
Today is the second annual International Read an e-Book Day! Share the love on Twitter with the hashtag #eBookLove and tell us what your patrons are e-reading these days. Here’s what they’re e-reading* and loving from Macmillan: Top ten picks: THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah BEACH TOWN by Mary Kay Andrews EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES by […]
2015 National Book Awards Longlist
We’ve got three nominees on the 2015 National Book Awards longlist! Nonfiction PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC: Approaching Hawai’i by Susanna Moore (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) IF THE OCEANS WERE INK by Carla Power (Henry Holt) Poetry HEAVEN by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Finalists for the award will be announced on October 14 […]
Thriller Thursday (9/17/15 Edition)
Cozy treats and big thrills await you this #ThrillerThursday: SHANGHAI REDEMPTION by Qiu Xiaolong THREE stars for the 9th Inspector Chen Cao mystery, where he learns just how difficult it is to be an honest cop in a corrupt police state. “Atmospheric and rich in details about life in communist China, Qiu’s incisive portrait of […]
Elsa Hart’s Chinese Library Adventure
Two weeks ago, Elsa Hart‘s fabulous debut, JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN, about an 18th-century exiled librarian who must learn the truth about a Jesuit priest’s death, arrived on shelves and is raking in rave reviews! “In addition to being a satisfying mystery, JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN also powerfully evokes the aesthetics of the time and place it […]
Stars for THE CRIME AND THE SILENCE
Just in time to celebrate its publication yesterday, THE CRIME AND THE SILENCE: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont has received THREE starred reviews: “Polish journalist Bikont undertakes a thorough follow-up to Polish-American historian Jan Gross’s 2001 book NEIGHBORS, about the July 1941 pogrom in the rural eastern Polish town […]
Happy Belated #BookBday (9/16/15 Edition)
We’re a day late to wish these books happy #BookBday, but it’s only to keep the party going! ONLY THE ANIMALS by Ceridwen Dovey Two stars for this standout collection of 12 interconnected stories, all told by animals whose souls, after a noteworthy death, are resting in heavenly constellations. “Dovey’s unforgettable narrators provide social commentary […]
Guinness World Records 2016 Giveaway!
In celebration of the release of the 2016 Guinness World Records book our friends at GWR are giving you an inside look at one of the spreads in the book. The Pets spread covers the fascinating world of record-breaking pets with all new records, such as: – The longest fur on a rabbit – The tallest […]
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