If you love getting lost in history, here are three new novels out this month for your enjoyment: SLEEP IN PEACE TONIGHT by James McManus Harry Hopkins, FDR’s most trusted advisor, is sent to negotiate with Churchill, but found himself becoming personally involved with a woman soldier in war-torn London. “The appeal of a WWII […]
2014 National Book Award finalists
Cue the confetti cannons & kitten parade: we’ve got EIGHT finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards! Longlist for Fiction LILA by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Longlist for Nonfiction CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury) NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING: America, the Taliban, and the War through […]
Sneak Peek: November 2014 Indie Next list
The November 2014 Indie Next list was recently announced and it includes some fabulous Macmillan titles! THE LAUGHING MONSTERS by Denis Johnson “In a work that’s part spy novel and part buddy tale, Johnson aptly locates his portrayal of a shadowy world of complicated relationships and ever-shifting alliances in one of the more broken places […]
Happy #BookBday (10/14/14 Edition)
What a lovely day for a #BookBday! Today we celebrate: ON THE EDGE by Edward St. Aubyn Shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award and one of Kirkus‘s Most Anticipated Fall Novels, St. Aubyn’s take on one man’s search for enlightenment as a cure to modern malaise is “razor sharp and maniacally clever.” — Publishers Weekly […]
Stars for BERLIN
Imagine Berlin, a city of fragments and ghosts, a metropolis that inspired countless artists and witnessed uncountable murders. Imagine the most arrogant capital of Europe devastated by Allied bombs, then divided by a Wall. Imagine it reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Rory MacLean takes readers through all that […]
Friday Reads: Creepy Books
Halloween is just three weeks away but we’re already in the spirit with these creepy Friday Reads: Talia’s sketching tiny critters with THE BOY WHO DREW MONSTERS This creepy horror novel about a young boy whose drawings of monsters take on a life of their own is the #6 October 2014 LibraryReads pick! “A sterling […]
Stars for THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM
Attention sci-fi readers: if you’re looking for a book with the scope of DUNE and the commercial action of Independence Day, look no further than THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM by China’s most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Reviewers love this multiple-award-winning near-future trilogy: “Fans of hard SF will revel in this intricate and imaginative novel […]
Thriller Thursday (10/9/14 Edition)
It’s finally Fall! Temperatures are dropping and our blood is running cold after reading these great mysteries & thrillers: MALICE by Keigo Higashino The #9 October 2014 LibraryReads pick is a literal locked room mystery: an acclaimed novelist is found brutally murdered in his home office a locked room within a locked house by his […]
Free Fall Reads from Picador!
Our friends at Picador have put together a FREE book club sampler of their Fall 2014 titles just for you! Enjoy excerpts from Alice McDermott (SOMEONE) Anita Diamant (THE RED TENT) Toby Barlow (BABAYAGA) Amy Grace Loyd (THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS) Nicola Griffith (HILD) Lisa Gornick (TINDERBOX) Mary Kay Zurevleff (MAN ALIVE!) Ronald Frame (HAVISHAM) […]
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