The Los Angeles Times announced the finalists for their 2018 Book Prize, and Macmillan has 7 titles in the running! Graphic Novels/ComicsSHIT IS REAL by Aisha Franz THE STRANGE by Jérôme Ruillier HistoryTHE BROWNS OF CALIFORNIA: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel PoetryWILD IS THE WIND: Poems […]
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Amazon’s Best Books of 2018
For the next annual round-up for 2018, we’re happy to share Amazon’s Best Books of 2018! Top 20 THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER by Shobha Rao Memoir/Biography THE ELECTRIC WOMAN: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts by Tessa Fontaine LOOK ALIVE OUT THERE: Essays by Sloane Crosley ROBIN by Dave Itzkoff Comics/Graphic […]
September 2018 Politics Roundup
The midterm elections are coming up! First, make sure you’re registered to vote, then take a break from the current headlines with these new books about politics: ONE PERSON, NO VOTE: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Nonfiction & a September 2018 Indie […]
PW’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018
Publishers Weekly‘s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018 include these 5 Macmillan titles: Fiction A WELL BEHAVED WOMAN: A Novel of the Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler Also available in audio Available October 16, 2018 Fowler (Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald) follows Alva Vanderbilt and her family as they preside over Gilded Age New […]
Booklist’s Top Biographies of 2016
Booklist‘s favorite Biographies in 2016* include these Macmillan titles: Top 10 Biographies: 2016 AMERICAN RHAPSODY: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building by Claudia Roth Pierpont Pierpont offers a scintillating portrait gallery of creative, embattled, yet profoundly influential modern Americans, including James Baldwin, Dashiell Hammett, Katharine Hepburn, and Bert Williams, along with the incandescent Chrysler Building. THE […]
Macmillan has 12 Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards!
Macmillan has 12 Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards! AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Roz Chast, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” (Bloomsbury) Meline Toumani, “There Was and There Was Not” (Metropolitan Books) BIOGRAPHY: Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Miriam Pawel, […]