The preview version of the February Indie Next List has The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah as indie booksellers’ No. 1 selection for the month. The rest of the list features: Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler Of Things Gone Astray, by Janina Mathewson Get in Trouble, by Kelly Link Sweetland, by Michael Crummey Leaving Before the Rains Come, by Alexandra Fuller The Jaguar’s Children, by John Vaillant First Frost, by Sarah Addison Allen Wolf Winter, by Cecilia Ekbäck The Swimmer, by Joakim Zander Mort(e), by Robert Repino Migratory […]
Libraries
Stein’s A Sudden Light Tops October Library Reads List
Garth Stein’s new novel A SUDDEN LIGHT leads the October Library Reads list, which also includes #1 Indie Next pick LEAVING TIME by Jodi Picoult. The rest of the list: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming Some Luck: A Novel by Jane Smiley The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel by Keith Donohue The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens Reunion: A Novel by Hannah Pittard Malice: A Mystery by Keigo Higashino Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
Doughty Tops September Library Reads
Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory tops the September Library Reads list which also includes The Secret Place by Tana French, which you can start reading right now in our fall/winter Publishers Lunch Buzz Books sampler. The rest of the list features: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel Rooms, by Lauren Oliver The Children Act, by Ian McEwan The Distance, by Helen Giltrow Horrorstor, by Grady Hendrix The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters The Witch With No Name, by Kim Harrison Season of Storms, by Susanna Kearsley
Macmillan to Offer Frontlist eBooks to Libraries, At $60 Each
Macmillan is broadening their ebook library lending program to include frontlist ebooks for the first time. Last October they went from a modest pilot program to a full backlist offer of approximately 11,000 titles. With the expansion announced Wednesday, Macmillan will offer ebooks for lending the same day new books go on sale, and their full collection of available titles grows to approximately 15,000 books. Frontlist titles will be available to order in early August. Newly-published titles are priced for libraries at $60 each, dropping to a standard $40 each 12 months after publication, vendors tell us. The frontlist titles will […]
S&S Expands eBook Lending Program to All Libraries
Simon & Schuster announced that its pilot ebook lending program, which was originally available to a handful of libraries and then had branched out to twenty systems, will now expand to libraries nationwide, providing access to its entire catalog of frontlist and backlist titles as ebooks. As in the original pilot program, each S&S title acquired by a library for digital lending is available for unlimited checkouts, one user per copy at a time, for one year from the date of purchase. The ebook program also allows users to purchase their own copies via a “Buy it Now” button through a given library’s […]
LANDLINE by Rainbow Rowell Tops July Library Reads List
Rainbow Rowell’s novel LANDLINE, her first for adults, leads off July’s Library Reads list. #1 Indie Next Pick for July THE QUEEN OF THE TEARLING by Erika Johansen; Stephen Colbert-anointed debut novel CALIFORNIA by Edan Lepucki, and ONE PLUS ONE by Jojo Moyes, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Spring/Summer Buzz Book, also appear on the list, which also includes: THE BLACK HOUR, by Lori Rader-Day CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, by Chris Bohjalian WORLD OF TROUBLE, by Ben H. Winters DOLLBABY, by Laura McNeal THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR: Life With Harper Lee, by […]