Engineering American economics, secret CIA experimentation, poetry from an Instagram sensation, exploring masculinity in the modern world, and the devastating effects of the East India Company–all in today’s nonfiction round-up! TRANSACTION MAN: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book of Fall […]
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Starred Review Round-Up (9/9/19)
An epic fantasy sequel + poetry + a Sherlockian mystery + Urban America + retellings of Ovid’s Metamorphoses = a stellar starred review round-up! THE NAME OF ALL THINGS by Jenn Lyons “Lyons proves she is worthy of comparison to other masters of epic fantasy, such as Patrick Rothfuss, Stephen R. Donaldson (particularly in Grand […]
Nonfiction Round-Up (9/4/19)
Shadow wars + the power of emotions + OBAMA + becoming the best you + the life of a magazine mogul–welcome to today’s nonfiction round-up! THE RUSSIA TRAP: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe by George S. Beebe The former head of CIA’s Russia analysis shows how Washington and Moscow […]
August 2019 Bestsellers and Recent Releases
Check out our updated Edelweiss collection of this month’s bestsellers and recently released titles, perfect for collection development! Here are this month’s top picks: THE BITTERROOTS by C.J. Box THE BRITISH ARE COMING: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang THE GUEST BOOK […]
Movie News for THE LAUNDROMAT
Today Netflix released the first teaser trailer for The Laundromat, a new film starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas, and based on Jake Bernstein’s SECRECY WORLD: Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite, an inside look at the world revealed by the Panama Papers–a landscape of illicit money, political […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS (8/28/19)
In today’s nonfiction spotlight, we learn about confronting the evils of the past with Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil. In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman’s LEARNING FROM THE […]
Library Journal’s “Sleeper Hits for Fall 2019/Winter 2020” Webinar
Did you miss today’s Library Journal “Sleeper Hits for Fall 2019/Winter 2020” webinar? Here are the titles we talked about! AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins BIG LIES IN A SMALL TOWN by Diane Chamberlain CILKA’S JOURNEY by Heather Morris FATHER OF LIONS by Louise Callaghan FIND ME by André Aciman THE GOD GAME by Danny […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: EQUALITY by Charles Postel (8/21/19)
Prize-winning historian Charles Postel explores the roots of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today in EQUALITY: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896. The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women’s rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the […]
Nonfiction Round-Up (8/14/19)
Nazi resistance, a musical master, neurodiversity, a portrait of a scientist, and a graphic memoir… welcome to today’s nonfiction round-up! LIVES RECLAIMED: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany by Mark Roseman 2 starred reviews! “…Bund members could aid only a few imperiled Jews, and the compromises they were forced to make raise […]
Happy #PubDay! (8/13/19)
Teenage misfits + a LibraryReads winner + a debut college parody + Cameroon in WWII + the awesomeness of Tokyo = an epic #pubday! GODS WITH A LITTLE G by Tupelo Hassman 2 starred reviews! “Irreverent, wise, heartbreaking, and heart-mending, this is about nothing less than the everyday challenges of love, belief, and existence.”–Booklist, starred […]
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