Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the October 2015 LibraryReads list! Nominations are due August 20! Click here for the full list of 2015 deadlines. DEATH WEARS A MASK by Ashley Weaver Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo, first introduced in MURDER AT THE BRIGHTWELL (An October 2014 LibraryReads pick), take […]
Tag: mystery
Thriller Thursday (7/16/15 Edition)
We’ve got a couple of cops on the case and two terrific mysteries for you this #ThrillerThursday: AFTER THE STORM by Linda Castillo A tornado unearths human remains leading to a thirty-year-old cold case in Painters Mill. Meanwhile, a very emotional and personal turmoil strikes at Police Chief Kate Burkholder’s budding relationship with state agent […]
Penny, Clifford & Andrews Hit the August 2015 LibraryReads List!
FANTASTIC NEWS! Macmillan has THREE wonderful books on the August 2015 LibraryReads list! Coming in at #2 is THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny The 11th book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Penny’s Inspector Armand Gamache series already has THREE starred reviews! “A strong sense of place, a multilayered plot, and […]
For Your Consideration: September 2015 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the September 2015* LibraryReads list! Nominations are due July 20! Click here for the full list of 2015 deadlines. BLACK MAN IN A WHITE COAT by Damon Tweedy A BEA 2015 Editor’s Buzz & “Shout ‘n Share” selection! “An arresting memoir that personalizes the enduring racial […]
Thriller Thursday (6/18/15 Edition)
Where else would you find detectives, reporters, and a serial killer, but in our latest #ThrillerThursday roundup?! THE PRECIPICE by Paul Doiron A June 2015 LibraryReads pick! In the riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Doiron, Mike Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash […]
THOSE GIRLS hits the July 2015 LibraryReads List!
FANTASTIC NEWS: THOSE GIRLS by Chevy Stevens is the #6 pick on the July 2015 LibraryReads list! Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father’s fists. […]
2014 CALA Best Book Award Winners
The 2014/2015 Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) Best Book Awards were recently announced and we have two winners in the Fiction category: DECODED by Mai Jia Both a riveting mystery and a metaphysical examination of the mind of an inspired genius, DECODED is the first novel to be published in English by one of China’s […]
Librarians “Shout ‘n Share” Their Favorite BEA 2015 Picks!
Last Friday we rounded out a terrific BEA 2015 with the annual Shout ‘n Share panel. Here’s what your librarian pals found on the show floor to rave about: Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Robin Nesbitt kicked it off with some genre love, highlighting THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT by Seth Dickinson (“It’s like THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS […]
Thriller Thursday (5/21/15 Edition)
We’ve got four fabulous thrillers for you, plus BookCon news! LITTLE BLACK LIES by Sharon Bolton A May 2015 LibraryReads pick! When a child goes missing, three islanders—Catrin, her childhood best friend, Rachel, and her ex-lover Callum—confess to the crime. “[A] nail-biter… This brilliantly plotted thriller, filled with lies and betrayals, builds to an unexpected, […]
For Your Consideration: August 2015 LibraryReads Titles
Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles now for the August 2015* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due June 20! Click here for the full list of 2015 deadlines. THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny Nine-year-old Laurent Lepage loves to tell tall tales so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. When he disappears, […]