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
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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 […]
Publishers Contribute $250 Million Worth of Free eBooks for Low-Income Students in New Federal Program
President Obama will announce later today two new steps in the ConnectED efforts. The Open eBooks initiative will make ebooks said to be worth over $250 million available for free to low-income students, through an ereader app developed by the New York Public Library. All of the five largest trade publishers are participating, along with Candlewick, Bloomsbury and Lee & Low. Macmillan is providing unlimited access to approximately 2,500 titles for K-12 readers; S&S is contributing access to their entire catalog of books for children 4 to 14, comprising 3,000 titles; Penguin Random House is promising an “extensive offering” of titles; […]
Novik’s Uprooted Tops May Library Reads List
Uprooted by Naomi Novik is the No. 1 pick for the May Library Reads list. The list also includes The Water Knife by Paolo Baciagalupi as well as Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list includes: A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown) The Knockoff, by Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza (Doubleday) Early Warning, by Jane Smiley (Knopf) The Ghost Fields, by Elly Griffiths (HMH) Our Souls at Night, […]
Gruen’s At The Water’s Edge Leads April Library Reads List, and More
Sara Gruen’s new novel At The Water’s Edge is the No. 1 pick for the April Library Reads list. The list also includes A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list includes: The Royal We, Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan (Grand Central) The Dream Lover, Elizabeth Berg (Random House) Still The One, Jill Shalvis (Berkley) Inside The O’Briens, Lisa Genova (Gallery) House of Echoes, Brendan Duffy (Ballantine) The Precious One, Marisa de los Santos (William Morrow) The Bone Tree, Greg […]