Happy #ThrillerThursday / #BookBirthday week to THE HUSH by John Hart! Also available in audio A March 2018 Indie Next pick! New York Times bestselling and LibraryReads author Hart’s sequel to THE LAST CHILD picks up ten years later when Johnny Merrimon is living in the wilds beyond the town where a dangerous force is […]
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2018 Audie Award Nominees
Listen to this great news: Macmillan Audio has 10 finalists for the 2018 Audie Awards! Best Male Narrator GLASS HOUSES by Louise Penny, read by Robert Bathurst Fiction I LIKED MY LIFE by Abby Fabiaschi, read by Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner, Therese Plummer History/Biography MY LIFE, MY LOVE, MY LEGACY by Coretta Scott King as […]
Sneak Peek: March 2018 Indie Next List
Seven Macmillan titles made the March 2018 Indie Next list! SOMETIMES I LIE by Alice Feeney Also available in audio A March 2018 LibraryReads pick and one of Bustle’s “2018 Debuts You Need in Your TBR Pile!” My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a […]
Happy #BookBday (2/6/18 Edition)
Oh what a lovely day for a #BookBday! THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah Also available in audio The #1 February 2018 LibraryReads pick, and a February 2018 Indie Next pick with two starred reviews! From the author of the worldwide phenomenon, THE NIGHTINGALE, comes a story of a family in crisis and a young […]
February is Black History Month!
Celebrate Black History Month with these new and forthcoming books: WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele, with a foreword by Angela Davis Also available in audio A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 with three starred reviews! The emotional and powerful story about the founding […]
Adult Books With Teen Appeal
These starry new adult releases may also appeal to teens: OLIVER LOVING by Stefan Merrill Block Also available in audio One of Esquire‘s “Most Anticipated Books of 2018” with two starred reviews! Nine years after seventeen-year-old Oliver Loving was struck by a bullet and fell into a coma, new diagnostic technology promises to reveal if […]
Booklist’s 2017 Editors’ Choice Picks
Over at Booklist, the Adult Books editors selected the following titles as representative of the year’s outstanding books for public library collections, including 13 Macmillan titles: Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2017 (full list) Fiction 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster FRESH COMPLAINT by Jeffrey Eugenides MARLENA by Julie Buntin THE NINTH HOUR by […]
Nuclear Nonfiction
The whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers and Noam Chomsky cover nuclear war in their new nonfiction books: THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg A finalist for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction with three starred reviews! From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an […]
Flatiron Fiction Stars
We’re seeing stars for Flatiron Books’s W18 fiction! OLIVER LOVING by Stefan Merrill Block Also available in audio “Block’s powerful, ambitious third novel (after The Storm at the Door and The Story of Forgetting) examines the dislocation, confusion, and psychological trauma experienced by families and communities when sudden, violent loss of life occurs. The author […]
November 2017 Nonfiction
November brings a bounty of excellent new nonfiction to your library’s shelves! PROMISE ME, DAD: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden The vice president pens a deeply moving memoir about the most challenging professional and personal year in which he lost his son to brain cancer. “The book is a backstage […]