Forget terrible twos, this is a terrific two: Happy Anniversary, LibraryReads! We’re so grateful for your support of the program that we’re giving away TWO super prize packs of ALL Macmillan LibraryReads picks to date! September 2015 #7 FURIOUSLY HAPPY by Jenny Lawson August 2015 #2 THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny #5 […]
Holt Rocks the NYTBR
The New York Times Book Review featured THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT by Helen Phillips & ALL THAT FOLLOWED by Gabriel Urza two Henry Holt & Co. debut novels that we’ve been talking up for months now and are finally on shelves! Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT follows Josephine, who spends […]
Happy #BookBday (8/25/15 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to a series favorite, a debut, and two biographies: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny The outstanding 11th book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Penny’s Inspector Armand Gamache series is an August 2015 LibraryReads pick, a September 2015 Indie Next pick, and has THREE starred reviews, including this one […]
For Your Consideration: November 2015 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the November 2015* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due September 20! Click here for the full list of 2015 deadlines. A WILD SWAN by Michael Cunningham Classic fairy tales are reimagined for our times by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE HOURS and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko […]
$10 E-Book Shorts For Libraries!
E-book shorts are the tapas of the literary world: you can have a snack (short read), satisfy a craving (new works that bridge books in a series), or have enough to make a meal (sample lots of new works in a range of genres). We’ve done a permanent library price drop on more than 600 […]
Thriller Thursday (8/20/15 Edition)
A pro football player turns sleuth and an investigator finally gets a lead on the cold case that haunts him most: his daughter’s abduction. HANGMAN’S GAME by Bill Syken Former Sports Illustrated reporter Syken’s first mystery stars Nick Gallow, a pro football punter who witnesses the murder of the new all-star draft pick just as […]
EW Fall Books Preview
Entertainment Weekly gave us a sneak preview of this year’s “dazzlingly rich” fall season in a recent issue guest edited by Andy Cohen (hey there, MOST TALKATIVE!). While only their list of Blockbuster Novels is available online, Anne’s got the scoop on all the other Macmillan picks: Blockbuster Novels PURITY by Jonathan Franzen In Franzen’s […]
EVERYBODY RISE is Here!
Stephanie Clifford’s spectacular debut, EVERYBODY RISE, is finally here! The August 2015 LibraryReads pick and September 2015 Indie Next pick is racking up major media reviews: “There’s little more delicious than watching an ambitious but tragically flawed protagonist brought down—especially in a designer cocktail dress. In EVERYBODY RISE, debut novelist Stephanie Clifford has written a […]
Stars for BREAKAWAY
Last Fall we fell hard for librarian Kat Spears‘ debut novel, SWAY. Everyone else did, too: it received two starred reviews and was a YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults pick! Her new novel, BREAKAWAY, is about a young man who finds himself pulled between building a healthy and stable relationship with a girl […]