This week has some fairly staggered release dates for an excellent collection of releases.
James Patterson’s Swimsuit and Craig Nelson’s Rocket Men both release today. Swimsuit is Patteron’s latest thriller (cowritten by Maxine Paetro), centered around the disappearance of a swimsuit model. Rocket Men is a nonfiction book, taking a new look at “the epic story [...]
Queenie D of Book Club Queen is an awesome woman from what I’ve seen, and her site is just as awesome. Part book reviews, part book club tips, part social book site, it rocks. The mother-daughter team (Queenie B being the other half of that) also have an Author Zone for writers and they run [...]
The winners of our last giveaway have been chosen and notified, thank you all for your entries. It made me feel all warm and glowy to share these books with people, so now I’d like to give away another one: an advanced copy of Tracy Kidder’s Strength in What Remains. I can not tell you [...]
Two big names in mystery will be releasing books tomorrow. Janet Evanovich’s newest Stephanie Plum book, Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, and Mary Daheim’s newest in her Emma Lord mysteries, the Alpine Uproar, are sitting here ready to go.
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann will also hit shelves tomorrow. The book begins on August 7, [...]
I know that I recently posted that zombies would soon be usurping the current vampire thrown, but there is a fairly new vampire book receiving rave reviews that I’d like to mention: Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The Strain. It’s not of the same type of vampire novel that has become popular recently (a [...]
PBS will be running Six By Agatha starting this Sunday (June 21). Six programs based on Agatha Christie novels, these Masterpiece Mystery presentations should be wonderful. The series includes:
A Cat Among the Pigeons (June 21)
Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (June 28)
A Pocket Full of Rye (July 5)
Murder Is Easy (July 12)
They Do It With Mirrors (July 19)
Why [...]
Just a reminder that today is the last day to enter to win Richard Russo’s That Old Cape Magic or Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs. Entries must be received by midnight (EST) tonight.
Good luck!
The July issue of Oprah’s Magazine features a collection of 25 books to read this summer chosen by author/editor/book reviewer Cathleen Medwick. Some of the featured titles are:
Provenance by husband-wife duo Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. A real-life thriller about the most elaborate art hoax of the 20th century. John Drewe fooled the art world [...]
Stephen King took home two Bram Stoker Awards this past weekend, one for his novel Duma Key and the other for his fiction collection Just After Sunset. The awards honored an excellent collection of horror writers, including Lisa Mannetti for her debut novel The Gentling Box. Check their site for a complete list of winners [...]
This week’s New and Upcoming column features some debut authors whose books are being added to our collection.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. I have seen some powerful reviews for this book, and have added it to my ever-growing list of books to read. The story begins in the year [...]
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