This season Macmillan Library is all about boys and their adventures in growing up. The boys whose DIY robot bests MIT, the boys who attend a terrifyingly real boarding school (in the future), and the boys who use gaming as a means of salvation… We’re getting to know them all. Won’t you join us? SPARE […]
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For Your Consideration: December and January LibraryReads Titles
Nominations for the January 2015 LibraryReads list (which also includes December 2014 titles this time) are due on November 20. Here’s what we recommend: December 2014 titles SAVING GRACE by Jane Green Grace and Ted Chapman are a literary power couple whose marriage is anything but perfect. So it’s good news when the new assistant […]
Sneak Peek: November 2014 Indie Next list
The November 2014 Indie Next list was recently announced and it includes some fabulous Macmillan titles! THE LAUGHING MONSTERS by Denis Johnson “In a work that’s part spy novel and part buddy tale, Johnson aptly locates his portrayal of a shadowy world of complicated relationships and ever-shifting alliances in one of the more broken places […]
Happy #BookBday (10/14/14 Edition)
What a lovely day for a #BookBday! Today we celebrate: ON THE EDGE by Edward St. Aubyn Shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award and one of Kirkus‘s Most Anticipated Fall Novels, St. Aubyn’s take on one man’s search for enlightenment as a cure to modern malaise is “razor sharp and maniacally clever.” — Publishers Weekly […]
Stars for BERLIN
Imagine Berlin, a city of fragments and ghosts, a metropolis that inspired countless artists and witnessed uncountable murders. Imagine the most arrogant capital of Europe devastated by Allied bombs, then divided by a Wall. Imagine it reunited and reborn as one of the creative centers of the world. Rory MacLean takes readers through all that […]
Thriller Thursday (10/9/14 Edition)
It’s finally Fall! Temperatures are dropping and our blood is running cold after reading these great mysteries & thrillers: MALICE by Keigo Higashino The #9 October 2014 LibraryReads pick is a literal locked room mystery: an acclaimed novelist is found brutally murdered in his home office a locked room within a locked house by his […]
T. Jefferson Parker Luuuurves CA Libraries!
We’re extra happy to wish a special #BookBday to T. Jefferson Parker’s FULL MEASURE, a powerful standalone novel about a young man risking everything for his family. To celebrate, Parker is visiting several California libraries as part of his book tour this month: October 7, Rancho Santa Fe Library Guild, Rancho Santa Fe CA October […]
Happy #BookBday (10/7/14 Edition)
Books + Birthdays + Cake + Kitties = Happy #BookBday (and happy Talia & Anne)! Today we celebrate: LILA by Marilynne Robinson Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robinson has created a “tour de force” (Booklist, starred review) with the final volume in her Gilead trilogy. It’s a National Book Award nominee, an October Indie Next pick, and […]
Let’s talk about Atul Gawande’s BEING MORTAL
In BEING MORTAL, our most thoughtful and thought-provoking surgeon Atul Gawande argues that contemporary medicine can do a better, more humane job of managing death and dying by comforting and enhancing our experience, providing not only a good life but also a good end. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, the bestselling author of […]
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