It’s National Library Week, and what better way to celebrate than with some of our favorite books by librarians, about libraries, or starring librarians: DEAR FAHRENHEIT 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence A September 2017 LibraryReads pick, Gen X-er librarian Spence’s book is a snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of […]
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March 2018 Bestsellers & Recent Releases
Our sales team created an Edelweiss collection of our month’s bestsellers and recently released titles — what a perfect collection development tool for you! Here are some of the top titles for March 2018: Recent Releases: THE SUN DOES SHINE: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton, with a […]
Our 2018 YALSA & RUSA Award Winners!
Congratulations to all of the amazing Macmillan authors who won awards or were selected for YALSA and RUSA’s various reading lists this year! 2018 Alex Awards (the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences): ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES by Seanan McGuire A HOPE MORE POWERFUL […]
2018 PEN Literary Awards Nominees (& Winners!)
UPDATE 2/21/18: Congratulations to our 2018 PEN Literary Award winners: PEN/Jean Stein Book Award WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Edmund White (THE UNPUNISHED VICE) […]
NPR’s 2017 Book Concierge Picks
NPR’s Book Concierge is live and it includes nearly 50 Macmillan titles!! 300 ARGUMENTS: Essays by Sarah Manguso 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster AFFLUENCE WITHOUT ABUNDANCE: The Disappearing World Of The Bushmen by James Suzman AGE OF ANGER: A History Of the Present by Pankaj Mishra THE ANSWERS by Catherine Lacey AUTONOMOUS by […]
Murder, Medicine, and a Female Longmire
Happy #ThrillerThursday to: THE BUTCHERING ART: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris A Publishers Weekly Fall 2017 Top 10 Science Book with two starred reviews! “British science writer Fitzharris slices into medical history with this excellent biography of Joseph Lister… She infuses her thoughtful and finely crafted […]
2 Stars aka HAVE YOU ORDERED THESE BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY YET???
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear “In an overcrowded field, another entry that stands head and shoulders above nearly everything else.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review “With a glorious and dramatic story, Bear begins a stunning new series set in the same world as her Eternal Sky trilogy.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review Trace by Archer Mayor […]