Happy #BookBday to these big new releases! SHELTER IN PLACE by Nora Roberts A June 2018 Indie Next pick and a Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2018 Literary Fiction pick! “Roberts’ latest polished novel delivers all the literary touchstones her fans have come to expect, including high-stakes suspense, a generous dollop of romance, a thoughtful exploration of […]
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Friday Reads: Memorial Day All Stars
Memorial Day weekend is here! Kick off your summer reading with our super-starred #FridayReads picks: STAY HIDDEN by Paul Doiron Also available in audio “The plot is complex, and the action intense, made all the more so by forbidding terrain. The extraordinary sense of place makes this Doiron’s strongest novel yet.” — Booklist, starred review […]
2018 Anthony Award Nominees
Happy #ThrillerThursday! First, congratulations to our 2018 Anthony Award nominees: Best Novel GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny Best First Novel THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK by Kristen Lepionka THE DRY by Jane Harper Bill Crider Award for Best Novel in a Series GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny The winners will be announced on September 8 […]
May 2018 Nonfiction
Pluto. Milk. Aviation. Rebellion. Social Media. Meet this month’s new nonfiction titles: CHASING NEW HORIZONS: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern & David Grinspoon Also available in audio One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of Summer 2018! A behind the scenes look at the science, politics, egos and public expectations that […]
For Your Consideration: August 2018 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the August 2018 LibraryReads list! Nominations are due June 20! Click here for the full list of 2018 deadlines. FEARED by Lisa Scottoline Also available in audio In the next book in the mega-best-selling Rosato & DiNunzio thriller series, the all-female law firm is hit with a […]
Friday Reads: Fantasy
Our #FridayReads are three fantastic fantasies that will take you to exciting new worlds: SONG OF BLOOD & STONE: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book One by L. Penelope A Library Journal Spring 2018 Editors’ Pick with two starred reviews! The incredible first book in the Earthsinger series—a treacherous, thrilling, epic historical fantasy drawing on Native American and […]
May 2018 Memoirs
What do a fire-eating woman and two comedians have in common? New memoirs out this month! THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine A Spring 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick! A daughter’s astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, through life in a traveling sideshow and her mother’s […]
Thriller Thursday (5/10/18 Edition)
A LibraryReads pick, a cozy, and a sniper thriller are our #ThrillerThursday reads: OUR KIND OF CRUELTY by Araminta Hall Also available in audio A May 2018 LibraryReads pick! Verity + Mike sitting in a tree C.R.A.V.I.N.G. First comes (a twisted kind of) love, then comes marriage (to another man), then comes murder? “Hall brings […]
Happy #BookBday (5/8/18 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to two perfect, beach-ready reads! MY EX-LIFE by Stephen McCauley Also available in audio A May 2018 Indie Next pick! When midlife woes descend, a long-divorced couple find their paths merging again in this breakout book for fans of Tom Perrotta, Maria Semple, and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. “McCauley’s effervescent prose is full of […]
May 2018 All-Stars
Sooooo many stars! Have you ordered these forthcoming books for your library yet? (If not, what are you waiting for?!) BRING ME BACK by B.A. Paris Also available in audio “[An] outstanding Hitchcockian thriller… Paris plays fair with the reader as she builds to a satisfying resolution. Fans of intelligent psychological suspense will be richly […]