Last week, we presented our favorite forthcoming titles during the Adult Library Marketers Association’s [ALMA] Book Buzz, and for anyone who missed out, here’s the goods: AMERICAN DIRT | Jeanine Cummins | 1/21/20 | 9781250209764 | Flatiron Books CILKA’S JOURNEY | Heather Morris | 10/1/19 | 9781250265708 | St. Martin’s Press DEAL WITH THE DEVIL […]
Tag: nonfiction
Meet the Author, er, Raconteur: John Waters
Acclaimed spinner-of -yarns and overall cool dude John Waters shares more of himself in MR. KNOW-IT-ALL: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder. No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray, […]
Nonfiction Spotlight: STAY SEXY & DON’T GET MURDERED
Murderinos, unite! STAY SEXY & DON’T GET MURDERED: The Definitive How-To Guide by My Favorite Murder podcast creators Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark is on sale now! Winter 2019 Indies Introduce Pick + June Indie Next Pick! “[T]here is not a dud in the collection, and readers will be left feeling like they just had […]
Nonfiction Round-Up (5/22/19)
Money, money, money–today’s nonfiction round-up highlights some that make it, and some that take it: BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich “Featured in the New York Times best-selling Facebook saga THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES, basis of the film The Social Network, Harvard twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had a […]
Stars on stars on stars on stars on stars on stars (5/17/19)
Stars on stars on stars on stars for your #FridayReads! THE HISTORY OF LIVING FOREVER by Jake Wolff “The epic sweep and sly humor in the midst of enormous anguish will remind readers of Michael Chabon’s work as they relish this heady exploration of grief, alchemy, and love.“–Publishers Weekly, starred review “Wolff’s wild, hilarious, and […]
Nonfiction Round-Up (5/15/19)
For this week’s nonfiction round-up, we celebrate a family memoir and a nautical history! THE DEER CAMP: A Memoir of a Father, a Family, and the Land that Healed Them by Dean Kuipers “Lushly detailed and full of eco-devotion, this candid narrative has much to say about human beings bearing burdens, coping, and aiding one […]
Summer/Fall 2019 Indies Introduce Debut Picks + Reading Groups Preview Summer 2019
The American Booksellers Association’s Summer/Fall 2019 Indies Introduce Adult Debut picks, honoring the top upcoming debuts (publishing between June and November 2019), include IN WEST MILLS! IN WEST MILLS by De’Shawn Charles Winslow PW Best Book of the Summer + Library Journal Editors’ Pick & Best Debut + Two starred reviews! “Winslow’s heroine isn’t easy […]
Author Spotlight: Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Liberation Trilogy, and now he turns his intellectual eye to a new era: the American Revolution. THE BRITISH ARE COMING: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, Volume 1) recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence, from […]
Author Spotlight: Tan France
In this heartfelt, funny, and touching memoir, Tan France, Queer Eye’s charming and stylish fashion expert, reveals how an Englishman raised in a traditionally religious home became a fashion icon–and the first openly gay, South Asian man on television—simply by being NATURALLY TAN. Before he became famous as one of the Fab Five makeover experts, […]
Sneak Peek: June 2019 Indie Next List
The June Indie Next list features a whopping SEVEN Macmillan titles! RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE by Casey McQuiston PW Best Book of the Summer + May LibraryReads Pick + Three starred reviews! “The much-loved royal romance genre gets a fun and refreshing update in McQuiston’s debut…. A clever, romantic, sexy love story.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred […]
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