Today’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Susanna Clarke’s intoxicating, hypnotic new novel, PIRANESI. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder […]
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Extra! Extra!: May Book News
Here are the headlines you may have missed this month. The New York Times reviews PHILOSOPHER OF THE HEART + THE CELESTIAL HUNTER + A HIGH FIVE FOR GLENN BURKE + PELOSI + THE BOOK OF V. + THE HILARIOUS WORLD OF DEPRESSION NPR reviews NETWORK EFFECT; Fresh Air interviews John Moe [THE HILARIOUS WORLD […]
Happy #PubDay (2/4/20)
Happy #pubday to the highly anticipated, baseball-loving debut, THE CACTUS LEAGUE by Emily Nemens. A home run of a debut that hits all of the bases, capturing life and the games played on and off the field. 2 starred reviews! “A triumphant debut; enthusiastically recommended for fans of literary fiction and great sports writing.”–Library Journal, […]
Audiobook Excerpt of CHANEL’S RIVIERA
Listen up, audiobook lovers! Check out this exciting audio excerpt from Anne de Courcy’s forthcoming CHANEL’S RIVIERA. More about CHANEL’S RIVIERA: The Cote d’Azur in 1938 was a world of wealth, luxury, and extravagance, inhabited by a sparkling cast of characters including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joseph P. Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Colette, the […]
Thriller Thursday (12/12/19)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday takes a Halloween night festival and throws in some murder, anonymous threats, an explosion, and a chilling investigation with SHATTER THE NIGHT by Emily Littlejohn. A new addition to the series, Gemma Monroe, a small-town Colorado police detective, is back with even more murder to solve. “Digging into the death of a friend […]
Audio Excerpts for Hot September Titles
Listen up, librarians! Boy, do we have some excellent audiobooks for you! Here are exclusive excerpts from our September favorites: VENDETTA IN DEATH by J.D. Robb, read by Susan Ericksen The predator becomes the prey in the newest thriller featuring homicide detective Eve Dallas. Listen to the audio excerpt here. WHAT ROSE FORGOT by Nevada […]
Thriller Thursday: DARK SITE Edition (5/30/19)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday goes straight special ops, butt-kicking action with DARK SITE: A Sam Dryden Novel by Patrick Lee! 2 starred reviews! “This is a compulsive, nail-biting, stay-up-all-night thriller.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review “As always, Lee builds tension superbly, but here he adds the extra element of parceling out information from past and present in ever-so-small increments, […]
Sneak Peek: AMERICAN DIRT
We are RIDICULOUSLY excited about AMERICAN DIRT, Jeanine Cummins’s emotional gut-punch of a novel, and you should be, too! This page-turning, poignant story of a mother and son fleeing the Mexican cartels is filled with drama and humanity. ON EVERY PAGE. Read an excerpt here. And keep checking Edelweiss for an e-galley! […]
Cozy Mystery Thursday (4/4/19)
It’s a cozy mystery Thursday with Paige Shelton’s THE LOCH NESS PAPERS: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery! Bookseller Delaney Nichols befriends a Loch Ness monster enthusiast; when he stands accused of murder she’ll do whatever it takes to learn who the killer is–and whether Nessie herself is really lurking in the Scottish waters. “The intriguing Scottish […]
Exclusive Cover Reveal! Leigh Bardugo’s Adult Debut NINTH HOUSE
Bestselling YA author Leigh Bardugo makes her first foray into adult publishing with NINTH HOUSE, a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite, and now we can officially share the stunning cover and an exclusive excerpt! Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. […]
