BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino is Dakota Johnson’s first book club pick! Adina Giorno possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. When she receives a fax machine, it enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of Earthlings. For years, as she moves through the world and […]
Tag: Marie-Helene Bertino
Starred Review Roundup (12/7/2023)
Stars all around! These titles all received multiple starred reviews: PUNISHED FOR DREAMING: HOW SCHOOL REFORM HARMS BLACK CHILDREN AND HOW WE HEAL by Bettina L. Love 9781250280381 | 9/12/23 “Impactful educator Love (WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN SURVIVE) asserts that educational policies punish children of color, especially Black ones, by denying them an […]
Booklist Editors’ Choice 2020
Booklist has revealed their editors’ top picks of the year’s outstanding books for public library collections, including these Macmillan titles: JUST US: An American Conversation by Claudia RankineFRIDA IN AMERICA: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia StahrSIGH, GONE: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In […]
2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist
The 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal longlists have been announced, and 8 Macmillan titles are in the running! Fiction Longlist PARAKEET by Marie-Helene BertinoBRING ME THE HEAD OF QUENTIN TARANTINO: Stories by Julián Herbert; Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeneyPEW by Catherine LaceyLUSTER by Raven LeilaniJACK by Marilynne RobinsonTHE LAST GREAT ROAD BUM by Héctor […]
Women 2020: Defy Expectations (6/9/20)
In today’s Women 2020 spotlight, we’re defying norms and critiquing expectations with a Bride and an unlikely duo at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. PARAKEET by Marie-Helene Bertino 2 starred reviews! “Bertino playfully, precisely builds a big world in these pages, somehow making the case that there’s too much love, pain, and magic to […]
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