If you love breakneck thrillers with strong female heroines, Tony Park’s THE DELTA has your name written all over it! THE DELTA stars ex-soldier turned assassin-for-hire Sonja Kurtz, who’s been tasked with killing the president of Zimbabwe but it’s a set up and the assassination attempt fails. Determined to lay low and take it easy, […]
Tag: starred reviews
Kirkus’s Most Anticipated Fall Novels
Kirkus Reviews has chosen their Most Anticipated Novels of the Fall and 2 of the 10 are Macmillan titles! 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, LILA. It’s already received THREE starred reviews and has a major […]
Thriller Thursday (Stars Edition)
Today’s #ThrillerThursday picks are superSTARS! THE LONG WAY HOME by Louise Penny Penny’s highly anticipated tenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel is here! Booklist and Library Journal loved it with the latter warning, “The heartbreaking conclusion will leave series readers blinking back tears.” Keep an eye out for upcoming major media for THE LONG WAY HOME, […]
Happy #BookBday (8/26/14 Edition)
Happy #BookBday to these fabulous new titles: LOCK IN by John Scalzi Scalzi’s near-future thriller landed on the August 2014 LibraryReads list and received three starred pre-publication reviews, like this one from Kirkus: “This SF thriller provides yet more evidence that Scalzi is a master at creating appealing commercial fiction.” FIVES AND TWENTY FIVES by […]
Back to School Cool with Griffin Teen
Beat the back-to-school blues with these awesome books from Griffin Teen: SWAY by Kat Spears In this “compelling debut told with swagger and real depth” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) by librarian Spears, a young man who avoids emotional connection at all costs is forced to open his heart when he meets the girl of his […]
B&N Fall 2014 Discover Picks
Barnes & Noble recently announced their Fall 2014 selections for the Discover Great New Writers program and several Macmillan titles made the cut! FIVES AND TWENTY FIVES by Michael Pitre We can’t stop talking about former marine Pitre’s deeply affecting debut novel about three men from a road repair platoon in Iraq and the struggles they […]
Sneak Peek: September 2014 Indie Next list
The September 2014 Indie Next list was recently announced and we’re thrilled that it includes some of our favorite titles! THE LONG WAY HOME by Louise Penny Unsurprisingly, Penny’s tenth and most personal Chief Inspector Gamache novel yet made the list and the media coverage for her continues to ramp up. She’ll be interviewed by […]
Thriller Thursday (8/14/14 Edition)
Murder, murder everywhere! Well, maybe just in this week’s #ThrillerThursday picks: THE FROZEN DEAD by Bernard Minier This suspenseful and “compelling” (Booklist, starred & boxed review) murder mystery set in a high-security asylum for the criminally insane and the snowy mountains of the French Pyrénées has two starred reviews and is one of Talia’s favorite […]
For Your Consideration: October LibraryReads titles
Download, read, and nominate our favorite titles now for the October 2014* LibraryReads list! *Nominations are due September 1 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, LILA. It’s already received two starred reviews and has a major […]
Friday Reads: Stars Edition
TGIF! We’ve got several novels with starred reviews to add to your TBR pile this weekend! SUMMER OF THE DEAD by Julia Keller In Pulitzer winner Keller’s third Bell Elkins mystery, a spate of violent crime in Acker’s Gap, WV casts suspicion on a struggling young woman’s family. At the same time, Bell must deal […]
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