This week’s Shelf Awareness Maximum Shelf pick is Fran Littlewood’s THE ACCIDENTAL FAVORITE, a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? Vivienne and Patrick Fisher have done an excellent job raising their three daughters, Alex, Nancy, and Eva. They’re […]
Tag: Family Life
Happy Half Hour (2/24/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a group of scuba diving friends who discover lost treasure, a legendary cave, and a new type of power; a woman’s secret comedy career and the family secrets it exposes; and five college students who go missing during their school’s parents weekend. OUT OF AIR by Rachel Reiss | 9781250366146 | […]
New Edelweiss E-galleys (2/20/2025)
Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: THE MEMORY OF THE OGISI by Moses Ose Utomi9781250849045 | 7/15/25 One thousand years after Tutu and five hundred years after Osi the City of a Thousand Stories stands resolute on the edge of the […]
Multiple POVs
Experience adventure from every angle in these page-turning multi-POV novels! THE HOUNDING by Xenobe Purvis 9781250366382 | 8/5/25 Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about […]
March 2025 LibraryReads List
You voted, they counted, and THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by Amal El-Mohtar, WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy, GO LUCK YOURSELF by Sara Raasch, and MURDER BY MEMORY by Olivia Waite are LibraryReads picks for March 2025! PLUS, Elle Cosimano (FINLAY DONOVAN DIGS HER OWN GRAVE) and John Scalzi (WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE) are […]
Three Stars for for WILD DARK SHORE!
Charlotte McConaghy’s WILD DARK SHORE, a bold and haunting family drama, has received three starred reviews! “The reality of climate change serves as the pervasive context for this terrific thriller set on a remote island between Australia and Antarctica . . . Readers won’t want to leave behind the imagined world of pain and beauty […]
ALMA Book Buzz Recap (2/11/25)
A big thank you to all who attended last week’s ALMA Book Buzz! In case you missed it, check out the titles we talked about below, and click this link to watch the recording! ANJI KILLS A KING by Evan Leikam | 9781250369246 | 5/13/25 MURDER IN THE DOLLHOUSE by Rich Cohen | 9780374608064 | 5/20/25 […]
Sneak Peek: March 2025 Indie Next List
The March 2025 Indie Next List includes FIVE Macmillan titles! #1 PICK: WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy 9781250827951 | 3/4/25 3 starred reviews! “McConaghy’s descriptions of nature’s glory and terror are galvanic, the psychological struggles wrenching, the suspenseful action spectacularly choreographed. McConaghy has attained new heights of intensity and lacerating ecological conviction in this […]
Fiction We Can’t Wait for You to Hear (1/29/25)
We can’t hold back our excitement for these upcoming audiobooks, and we can’t wait to share them with you! PENITENCE BY KRISTIN KOVAL; read by Thérèse Plummer | 9781250384225 | 1/28/25 Excerpt from the audiobook! THE NIGHT IS DEFYING BY CHLOE C. PEÑARANDA; read by Jacci Prior and Corvin King | 9781250385710 | 1/28/25 Excerpt […]
2025 RUSA Awards
Congratulations to all of the incredible Macmillan authors who won awards or were selected for RUSA’s various reading lists this year! The Sophie Brody Medal, an annual honor bestowed by the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of RUSA has announced its selection for 2025. Winner: COLD CREMATORIUM: REPORTING FROM THE LAND OF AUSCHWITZ by […]
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