It’s a beautiful day for today’s AAP Children’s & Teen Tri-State Book Buzz in NYC! Sadly, we’re not there to present, but here’s what we’d tell you about if we were: ALL THE RAGE by Courtney Summers On Sale: April 14, 2015 Three words: O.M.G. Possibly one of the best, most important Griffin Teen books […]
T. Jefferson Parker Luuuurves CA Libraries!
We’re extra happy to wish a special #BookBday to T. Jefferson Parker’s FULL MEASURE, a powerful standalone novel about a young man risking everything for his family. To celebrate, Parker is visiting several California libraries as part of his book tour this month: October 7, Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild, Rancho Santa Fe CA October […]
Happy #BookBday (10/7/14 Edition)
Books + Birthdays + Cake + Kitties = Happy #BookBday (and happy Talia & Anne)! Today we celebrate: LILA by Marilynne Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robinson has created a “tour de force” (Booklist, starred review) with the final volume in her Gilead trilogy. It’s a National Book Award nominee, an October Indie Next pick, and […]
Let’s talk about Atul Gawande’s BEING MORTAL
In BEING MORTAL, our most thoughtful and thought-provoking surgeon Atul Gawande argues that contemporary medicine can do a better, more humane job of managing death and dying by comforting and enhancing our experience, providing not only a good life but also a good end. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, the bestselling author of […]
LJ’s Famously Firsts
Library Journal shared their “Famously Firsts”—recently published or forthcoming debut novels that they are most excited about. Check out their Macmillan picks! KEY FALL CHILLS NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR by Joe Gannon A freelance journalist in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution, the setting of this book, Gannon introduces police captain Ajax Montoya, a revolutionary hero who […]
BODEGA CATS!!!
If you’re not totally psyched that it’s Friday, here’s the extra boost you need to get happy: BODEGA CATS. We dare you to watch these videos of NYC kitties and not feel warm & fuzzy. More furry goodness view here. Happy Weekend! #Meow! […]
LibraryReads: New Voting Deadlines!
LibraryReads is moving the voting deadlines for each monthly list to the 20th of the month two months prior to publication. For example, nominations for the February 2015 LibraryReads list (featuring titles with on sale/publication dates in February 2015), are due on December 20, not January 1. Still confused? Don’t worry, we did the math […]
Bonus Buzz for DE POTTER’S GRAND TOUR
There’s just so much happening for Joanna Scott’s recently published DE POTTER’S GRAND TOUR, we can’t help but #humblebrag: It was an Editors’ Choice in the Sunday New York Times Book Review (9/19) and was featured in the “Newly Released Books” section of the New York Times (9/24), which called Scott “versatile and talented” and […]
Thriller Thursday & 2014 Shamus Award Nominees
Not only do we have a new batch of fabulous mysteries & thrillers, we’ve got the scoop on Shamus Award nominees! The Private Eye Writers of America announced the finalists for its 2014 Shamus Awards and we’ve got 4 mysteries in the running: Best Hardcover P.I. Novel: THE GOOD COP by Brad Parks NEMESIS by […]
Free Speech Rules!
Fifty years ago today (October 1), students at the University of California at Berkeley surrounded a campus police car on the school’s main plaza and held it captive for 33 hours. This non-violent protest in the fall of 1964 launched the Free Speech Movement, the first major campus protest by white students of the sixties. […]
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