Welcome, one and all, to our ALA Annual 2020 Alterna-Booth! In lieu of our usual confetti, music, and various shenanigans, we’re bringing you the best that virtual conferences have to offer, including SO MANY title presentations and special author guests! Scroll on, friends; magic and goodies await! Thank you for visiting our alterna-booth! You lucky […]
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You’re Invited to WB Reader Fest!
Our pals over at Wednesday Books are hosting the first ever WB Reader Fest, a week-long virtual celebration of books, authors, and readers! The festivities start Monday, April 20 and include all sorts of exclusive chats and giveaways. Check out the full schedule here! […]
Maximum Shelf: PARIS NEVER LEAVES YOU (4/8/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Ellen Feldman’s historical novel of survival, morality, and reckoning with the past, PARIS NEVER LEAVES YOU. Charlotte is a survivor. She lived through WWII in Paris, working in a bookstore under the watchful eye of the Nazis. Now she and her daughter, Vivi, are safely settled on the […]
Check Out “Bookreporter Talks To” Videos/Podcasts!
Reader extraordinaire Carol Fitzgerald has interviewed SO MANY authors on her podcast/video series “Bookreporter Talks To,” and now she wants to share those interviews with you and your patrons! Check out some of the amazing Macmillan authors she’s spoken to below, and you can view the full list of interviews here. Chandler Baker (THE HUSBANDS) […]
Maximum Shelf: DEAR CHILD (3/25/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Romy Hausmann’s English language debut, a page-turning, internationally bestselling thriller that is GONE GIRL meets ROOM: DEAR CHILD. In a windowless shack in the woods, Lena and her two children live a life that follows the rules set by their captor, the father: Meals, bathroom visits, study time […]
Maximum Shelf: SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS (3/4/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Kawai Strong Washburn’s groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga, SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver […]
Introducing: Genre For All
Hello librarians! This is Amanda Rountree, genre whisperer extraordinaire! As a long-time lover of genre fiction of all kinds–everything from the awe-inspiring world-building and magic of fantasy, to the heart-warming happy endings of romance, to the breathtaking terror of horror, to the reality-stretching imagination of science fiction–my new Genre For All series will have you […]
Maximum Shelf: HOLLYWOOD PARK (2/13/20)
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life, HOLLYWOOD PARK. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader’s mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, […]
Maximum Shelf: MIGRATIONS
Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Charlotte McConaghy’s urgent and moving U.S. debut, MIGRATIONS. Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean’s tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can […]
Maximum Shelf: THE BOOK OF V.
Today’s Maximum Shelf pick is Anna Solomon’s bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries, THE BOOK OF V. Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s […]
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