It’s just about time to start sharpening our pencils and hitting the books! And Macmillan is here to help libraries get back to school ready with a back-to-school sale, kicking off on 8/1/22 and running through 9/30/22. Click here, or find the title list below, for the 28 titles down priced 25% across all digital […]
Tag: Beowulf
2021 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
Congratulations to the 2021 World Fantasy Awards finalists! Best Novel PIRANESI by Susanna ClarkeTROUBLE THE SAINTS by Alaya Dawn Johnson Best Novella RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí ClarkFLYAWAY by Kathleen JenningsRIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi Special Award – Professional Maria Dahvana Headley, for BEOWULF: A New Translation […]
2021 Locus Awards Finalists + Winners
Congratulations to Macmillan’s 2021 Locus Awards Finalists and Winners! SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL ATTACK SURFACE by Cory DoctorowUNCONQUERABLE SUN by Kate ElliottTHE RELENTLESS MOON by Mary Robinette KowalTHE LAST EMPEROX by John ScalziNETWORK EFFECT by Martha Wells–WINNERINTERLIBRARY LOAN by Gene Wolfe FANTASY NOVEL THE ANGEL OF THE CROWS by Katherine AddisonPIRANESI by Susanna ClarkeHARROW THE NINTH […]
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020
Kirkus Reviews includes 37 Macmillan titles in their Best Books of 2020! Fiction PIRANESI by Susanna ClarkeCLEANNESS by Garth GreenwellMASTER OF POISONS by Andrea HairstonBEOWULF: A NEW TRANSLATION by Maria Dahvana HeadleyTROUBLE THE SAINTS by Alaya Dawn JohnsonLUSTER by Raven LeilaniTHE MIRROR & THE LIGHT by Hilary MantelALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE by Louise PennyTHE […]
Extra! Extra!: September Book News
Here are the headlines you may have missed this month. Check out the trailer for The Comey Rule. Cixin Liu’s THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM will be adapted for Netflix by Games of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss! NPR reviews LUSTER + BEOWULF + SELF PORTRAIT WITH RUSSIAN PIANO + PIRANESI and interviews Claudia Rankine […]
Happy #BookBday (7/17/18 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to two terrific new novels: THE FAMILY TABOR by Cherise Wolas An August 2018 Indie Next pick! Wolas’s new novel is set over the course of a single weekend, as five members of a family confront the lies upon which their lives are built. “Wolas, whose much-acclaimed debut novel, THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN […]
Friday Reads: Superstars
Weekend, here we come with these multi-starred #FridayReads in tow: THE MERE WIFE by Maria Dahvana Headley “Headley’s fourth novel is a stunner: a darkly electric reinterpretation of Beowulf that upends its Old English framework to comment on the nature of heroes and how we ‘other’ those different from ourselves. A strange tale told with […]
For Your Consideration: July 2018 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the July 2018 LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due May 20! Click here for the full list of 2018 deadlines. BABY TEETH by Zoje Stage Also available in audio THREE starred reviews and Zoje is on the cover of Library Journal’s mystery issue! “WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT […]
PW’s Spring 2018 Literary Fiction Picks
Publishers Weekly‘s Spring 2018 literary fiction picks include 8 titles from Macmillan: Top 10 THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah Hannah’s novel, starred by PW, follows the Allbright family, who barely make ends meet, as they move from 1974 Seattle to the untamed wilderness of Kaneq, Alaska, to claim a parcel of land left to […]
June 2017 Fantasy
Looking for a summer escape? Dive into one of these new fantasy titles: DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire A June 2017 LibraryReads pick with three starred reviews! The second urban fantasy book in the Wayward Children series, following EVERY HEART A DOORWAY, explores what happened to Jack and Jill before they […]
