Elizabeth Strout’s novel Anything Is Possible tops the April Library Reads list. The list also includes Omar El Akkad’s American War, an excerpt of which you can start reading now in both our big Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, and our slimmer just-released April Buzz Books Monthly. The rest of the list features: Beartown, by Fredrik Backman Waking Gods, by Sylvain Neuvel Miss You, by Kate Eberlen The Stars Are Fire, by Anita Shreve Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann The Shadow Land, by Elizabeth Kostova A Twist In Time, by Julie McElwain Gone Without a Trace, by Mary Torjussen
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Tinti Leads March Library Reads List
Hannah Tinti’s novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley tops the March Library Reads list. The list also includes Jessica Shattuck’s The Women in the Castle, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, also featured in the just-released March Buzz Books Monthly. The rest of the list features: The Wanderers, by Meg Howrey The Bone Witch, by Rin Chupeco The Hearts of Men, by Nickolas Butler Eggshells, by Catriona Lally Say Nothing, by Brad Parks The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, by Lisa See If […]
Mackintosh’s I See You Tops February Library Reads List
Clare Mackintosh’s sophomore suspense thriller I See You tops the February 2017 Library Reads list. The list also includes Elan Mastai’s debut All Our Wrong Todays and A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, excerpts of which you can read right now in our February Buzz Books Monthly. Download it now for free (at Amazon, iBooks and Google Play, or get it from NetGalley where it’s a Spotlight Pick) and share it with your reader communities to help build buzz for all of publishing in February. The rest of the February Library Reads includes: Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Norton) My […]
Delaney Tops January Library Reads List
J.P. Delaney’s suspense thriller The Girl Before tops the January 2017 Library Reads list. Books on this list that also appear on the January Indie Next list include: The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden The Dry, by Jane Harper Books for Living, by Will Schwalbe The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, by Lindsey Lee Johnson Her Every Fear, by Peter Swanson The rest of the list features: Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough The Fifth Petal, by Brunonia Barry Heartstone, by Elle Katharine White In Best of 2016 lists, you can […]
People, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to senior publicist. Recipients were announced for the second round of $1.75 million in grants that James Patterson is providing to school libraries across the country, working in partnerships with Scholastic Reading Club, which matches the grants with points for classroom materials purchases. 452 schools are receiving funds from the latest grants. Patterson says in the announcement: “We’ve just come out of the most divisive presidential election in history—and among all the issues that captivated voters, education wasn’t one of them. It was hardly discussed. Nearly half of the American […]
EU Court Affirms Libraries’ Right to Lend Legal eBooks
The European Union’s Court of Justice issued a ruling on Thursday that declares EU rules about a public lending right to physical books through libraries apply to ebooks as well. The judgment imposes as a legal right what has become established business practice in the US for some time (albeit with a number of business model variations publisher by publisher): Libraries can lend legally published and purchased ebooks on a one-user-per-copy basis. EU rules require “fair compensation” to authors; what’s not clear to us from the ruling is whether those rules allow a separate practice from some publishers in the US […]