Melissa DeCarlo’s novel The Art of Crash Landing is the No. 1 pick for the September Library Reads list. The list also includes Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winterebook. The rest of the list features: Make Me, by Lee Child House of Thieves, by Charles Belfoure Did You Ever Have A Family, by Bill Clegg The Gates of Evangeline, by Hester Young Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson This Is Your Life, […]
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Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb Leads August Library Reads List
Eli Gottlieb’s new novel Best Boy is the No. 1 pick for the August Library Reads list. The list also includes The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook. The rest of the list features: The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan Everybody Rise, by Stephanie Clifford The Fall of Princes, by Robert Goolrick In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware Black-Eyed Susans, by Julia Heaberlin Lord of the Wings, by Donna Andrews Browsings, by Michael […]
Norton Puts eBooks Into Libraries
In advance of the ALA annual conference starting Thursday in San Francisco, Norton announced that they will make their entire catalog of trade and professional ebooks available for lending through libraries, starting later this summer. The company has reached agreements with Baker & Taylor, OverDrive, and 3M to distribute their ebooks to the libraries. They declined to provide information on their lending terms or library pricing. The agreement includes all of Norton’s distributed/affiliated publishers (e.g. Albatross Publishing, C.I.R.C., Fantagraphics, George Braziller, New Directions, Odyssey Books, Guides and Maps, The Overlook Press, Peace Hill Press, Pegasus, Persea Books, Pushcart Press, Thames & Hudson, Tin […]
Stradal’s Kitchens of the Great Midwest Leads July Library Reads List
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal is the No. 1 pick for the JulyLibrary Reads list, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list features: Paula McLain, Circling the Sun Susan Mallery, Kiss Me Jill Shalvis, Second Chance Summer Kathy Reichs, Speaking in Bones Chevy Stevens, Those Girls Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life Lissa Evans, Crooked Heart Ellen Hopkins, Love Lies Beneath Leanne Brown, Good and Cheap
People, Etc.
BEA reported attendance data for the recent show in New York, and the numbers were consistent with the last couple of years. Professional attendance was down 1.2 percent, at 10,832 people (down by 133); with exhibitors included, overall attendance was up 5.2 percent, with 20,895 people. Will Heyward has joined Penguin Press as associate editor. Previously he was an assistant editor at Knopf. Michael Connole will join Quarto on September 1 as Chief Financial Officer. He is currently CFO of Global Radio Group. Stephanie Graham has joined Sourcebooks as marketing coordinator. Previously she was communications assistant at Marquette University’s Office of International Education. In addition, […]
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave Tops June Library Reads List
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave is the No. 1 pick for the June Library Reads list. The list also includes The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler, an excerpt of which (as well as Dave’s novel) you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list includes: Annie Barrows, The Truth According to Us Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop Erika Johansen, The Invasion of the Tearling Judy Blume, In the Unlikely Event Elin Hildebrand, The Rumor Paul Doiron, The Precipice Frederik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s […]