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 […]
Tag: Jennifer Thorne

Happy Half Hour (1/8/24)
For our first episode of 2024, we’re kicking off the year right with a tale of three young alchemists navigating dark academia, a story about an art history student whose life eerily mirrors that of a deceased famous artist, and a horror-comedy about a dysfunctional family vacationing in Italy. INFINITY ALCHEMIST by Kacen Callender | […]

Genre Friday: Horror (12/15/23)
If you’re looking for frights, you’ll find them in a gothic vacation tale of a haunted Italian villa, a space crew trying to survive on an abandoned planet, a family protecting their town from vampires, the discovery of a ship that reveals an ancient doom, a mother-daughter reckoning with vampires, and a YA anthology. DIAVOLA […]

For Your Consideration: March 2024 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and vote for your favorite March titles for the March 2024 LibraryReads list! Votes due February 1! LISTEN FOR THE LIE by Amy Tintera | 9781250880314 | 3/5/24Request on Edelweiss and NetGalley “Best friends Lucy and Savvy are the darlings of their little Texas town, with Lucy marrying her pick of beaus and […]

ALMA Book Buzz Recap (10/10/23)
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 know more or below to watch the recording! DEEP FREEZE by Michael C. Grumley | 9781250898685 | 1/9/24THE LONGEST AUTUMN by Amy Avery | 9781250896490 | 1/16/24NO […]

New Edelweiss E-galleys (10/10/23)
Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE by Natalie Jenner9781250285188 | 5/14/2024 The bestselling author of THE JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY and BLOOMSBURY GIRLS returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting […]

Halloween Reads (10/31/22)
The candy corn is out, the ghosts and ghouls are getting ready, and we have picked some of our favorite horror stories to keep the Halloween spirit going! LITTLE EVE by Catriona Ward 2 starred reviews and a LibraryReads Hall-of-Famer! “Ward works in so many motifs—Bible resonances, colonialism, science versus faith, and the pall of […]

Happy Half Hour (8/1/22)
This Happy Half Hour brings us an unsettling folk horror novel about love and community, an NYC costume designer hiding from her failures and controlling her own narrative, the discovery of an octopus species with its own language and culture, and a critique of American journalism from a media insider. LUTE by Jennifer Thorne | […]

For Your Consideration: October 2022 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and vote for your favorite October titles for the October 2022 LibraryReads list! Votes due September 1! BAD GIRL REPUTATION by Elle Kennedy9781250796752 | 10/4/22Download on Edelweiss and NetGalley “Full of lusty scenes, Kennedy’s second ‘Avalon Bay’ book (following GOOD GIRL COMPLEX) is a great read for fans of the series or as […]