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Stephanie Squicciarini: Macmillan's Librarian of the Month

Macmillan’s Library Marketing department is proud to present Stephanie Squicciarini as this month's featured librarian.

In addition to her role as Fairport Public Library's Young Adult Librarian, Ms. Squicciarini runs the Annual Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival, an event that attracts thousands of teens. Maybe that's why Library Journal named her a 2008 "Mover and Shaker."



How did the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival come to be?
Well, it began when someone told me about a Teen Book Festival in Montgomery County (Houston, TX). I had never heard of a Book Festival targeted at teens, even though there are state book festivals, many adult reading initiatives, and lots of things aimed at younger children. I decided to go check it out. It was so cool and energizing! I came back to work totally convinced I needed to try something like it for our teens in Rochester. I called, emailed, and probably harassed a few colleagues to join me. And TBF Live! (as we like to call it) was born!

What steps were essential in making the festival a reality?
There are thousands of essential steps! The most essential step was getting support on many different levels. My director is amazingly supportive, as is the entire staff here at “my” library; they cheered me on.
Read the full interview

Our Spring 2008 "First Fiction" flyer is now available. Librarians are great champions of first-time authors, and we think that this piece really connects with the excitement of discovering a new writer.


July 2008


"After she received her PhD from Yale, Elizabeth Samet startled herself, her friends and her family by taking a job as an instructor in the English Department at West Point. She describes her experiences teaching there over the last decade in Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, a moving tribute both to literature, her students, and the military academy itself.
Read the full review

—Nancy Pearl


The Snake Stone nominated for 2008 Macavity Award


Jason Goodwin's The Snake Stone, has been nominated for the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award, one of the four Macavity Awards.

The Macavity Awards are named for the "mystery cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories. The winners will be announced this October at Bouchercon 2008 in Baltimore.


Macmillan’s Indie Next Picks: July 2008


Note: Book Sense Picks are now known as Indie Next Picks.
For more information, visit indiebound.org.



What Was Lost
by Catherine O'Flynn
"O'Flynn is able to capture a character or a scene with a few perfect details, and she seems to possess an uncanny, ennobling sympathy for her characters. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and immensely rewarding."
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Night Work nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award


Steve Hamilton's Night Work has been nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, the largest prize for crime fiction in the world, with £20,000 going to the winner. The two previous winners, Ann Cleeves and Peter Temple, are both Macmillan authors.

The Dagger Awards are organized by the Crime Writers’ Association, a group of professional writers formed over fifty years ago as a body committed to the support of fellow professional writers. The winner will be announced at the CWA Awards Dinner, to be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in London's Park Lane on July 10th.


Hot Titles: September 2008


What books will your patrons be asking for three months from now? Check back here regularly for lists of our hottest forthcoming titles from all of Macmillan’s adult publishers.




Paul of Dune
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson

Tor Books
0-7653-1294-8
$27.95

Sweetheart
Chelsea Cain
St. Martin's Minotaur
0-312-36847-X
$24.95

Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick
Farrar, Straus
& Giroux
0-374-26426-0
$24.00

The Army of
The Republic

Stuart Archer Cohen
St. Martin's Press
0-312-38377-0
$24.95

Emotional Awareness
The Dalai Lama
& Paul Ekman

Henry Holt & Co.
0-8050-8712-5
$23.00

My Name is Number 4
Ting-xing Ye
St. Martin's Griffin
0-312-37987-0
$11.95


St. Martin's Minotaur books nominated for 2008 Barry, Anthony Awards















Three St. Martin's Minotaur books were nominated for the prestigious Barry and Anthony Awards this weekend. The nominees include:
The Barry Awards are given out annually by Deadly Pleasures and Mystery News publications in recognition of excellence in crime fiction. The Anthony Awards, also awarded in recognition of excellence in crime fiction, are presented by the Bouchercon membership each year for works done during the preceding year. The Barry and Anthony Awards will be presented in September 2008, at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Baltimore.
Kirkus gears up for an exciting summer
with Macmillan authors
















Macmillan is rolling out the big guns for summer conferences—and Kirkus Reviews has taken note in its latest special section on BEA and ALA. The Kirkus special section features:
  • Don Borchert, ALA keynote speaker and author of Free For All
  • Thomas Friedman, author of Hot, Flat and Crowded
  • Stephen Cannell, author of Three Shirt Deal


Click here to read more.
John Hart's Down River wins the Edgar Award



I am thrilled to report that my good friend Nora Rawlinson (former librarian turned celebrity thanks to her progressive and groundbreaking approach to collection development) had a new brainchild, a tool to help make your job (and life) easier. Nora, who started as a librarian in Baltimore County then ran Publishers Weekly & Library Journal and even had time to lead the library services department @ Hachette – has just launched Early Word, a web site for collection development and readers advisory librarians. It offers easy access to publishers’ resources and features the "Give 'em What They Want" blog on buying for demand.

Visit Early World today!

Macmillan’s New York Times Best-Sellers

July 13, 2008
Fiction-Hardcover
#1 Fearless Fourteen, Janet Evanovich
#10 Love the One You're With, Emily Giffin
#19 Married Lovers, Jackie Collins
Fiction-Trade Paperback
#21 Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
#28 Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin
#29 The Gatecrasher, Madeleine Wickham
Fiction-Mass Market
#1 Lean Mean Thirteen, Janet Evanovich
Nonfiction-Hardcover
#23 A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah
#25 A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs
#27 The Last Campaign, Thurston Clarke
Nonfiction-Paperback
#23 The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
#26 The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous-Paperback
#7 Hungry Girl, Lisa Lillien

Macmillan All-Stars

A Better Angel
Chris Adrian
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
0-374-28990-5 | $23.00

"Illness, loss and grief assume ingeniously arresting forms in this short-story collection from a uniquely gifted author...quite unforgettable fiction."
Kirkus Reviews
“The moment you feel as if you’ve discovered the meaning in his words, it slips between your fingers and leaves you unsettled, unmoored, and unmistakably impressed.”
Booklist
"With heartbreaking imagination, Adrian illuminates how people act out their grief on their own bodies and the bodies of others, and enter the world of the spirit in the process."
Publishers Weekly


Man in the Dark
Paul Auster
Henry Holt & Co.
0-8050-8839-3 | $23.00

"Darker and more impactful than The Brooklyn Follies and with broader appeal than Travels in the Scriptorium...This best-selling author with a cult following of literati finally offers one to please both fan bases."
Library Journal
“An utterly authentic story of culpability and survival, the vortex of loss, and our endless struggle to translate terror into understanding.”
Booklist
"Probably Auster's best novel, and a plaintive summa of all his books that—we now see—have gone into its making."
Kirkus Reviews


Don't Tell a Soul
David Rosenfelt
St. Martin's Minotaur
0-312-37395-3 | $24.95

"A harrowing ride equal to James Patterson's or Harlan Coben's best…The book deserves a wide audience and is highly recommended for popular fiction collections."
Library Journal
“High-voltage entertainment from an author who plots and writes with the verve and wit of Elmore Leonard...Rosenfelt ratchets up tension with the precision of a skilled auto mechanic wielding a torque wrench.”
Booklist
"Stellar...Rosenfelt keeps the plot hopping and popping as he reveals a complex frameup of major proportions with profound political ramifications both terrifying and enlightening."
Publishers Weekly


Atmospheric Disturbances
Rivka Galchen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
0-374-20011-4 | $24.00

"Witty, tender, and conceptually dazzling, Galchen’s metaphysical tale of longing, grief, love, and the volatility of the self gracefully charts the tempestuous weather of the human psyche."
Booklist
“Enthralling...Don't be surprised if this gives you a Crying of Lot 49 nostalgia hit.”
Publishers Weekly
"Everything is other than it appears to be in Galchen’s assured debut—an intricate puzzle powered by an urgently beating heart...A superb first novel."
Kirkus Reviews


The Importance of Music to Girls
Lavinia Greenlaw
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
0-374-17454-7 | $23.00

"Well-written, bewitching and subtly dazzling."
Kirkus Reviews
“Greenlaw's coming-of-age story is smartly and tenderly told, likely to snag readers like an infectiously catchy tune.”
Publishers Weekly
"A bristling remembrance of childhood and adolescence, Greenlaw’s memoir is also an homage to the unfathomable power of music."
Booklist


Cheating at Solitaire
Jane Haddam
St. Martin's Minotaur
0-312-34308-6 | $24.95

"The Gregor Demarkian series keeps getting better, each novel just a little more dramatic, more thought-provoking, and more entertaining than the last...It’s about time [Jane Haddam] gets the A-list status she so richly deserves."
Booklist
“A slyly cerebral indictment of the cult of celebrity...With wry intelligence, Haddam explores the reasons why we reach for those magazines at the checkout counter, dog the rich and the overpublicized and worship the famous for being famous.”
Kirkus Reviews
"Stellar."
Publishers Weekly


The Silver Swan
Benjamin Black
Henry Holt & Co.
0-8050-8153-4 | $25.00

"Stunning…Laconic, stubborn Quirke makes an appealing hero as the pieces of this unsettling crime come together in a shocking conclusion."
Publishers Weekly
“Black/Banville is a master of atmosphere; the fear and dread associated with hidden desires and deeds fairly leap off the page. Recommended for all public libraries.”
Library Journal
"Exceptionally nuanced...[An] engrossing tale of passion, crimes, and chaos shot through with lightning wit and radiant compassion."
Booklist


Lush Life
Richard Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
0-374-29925-0 | $26.00

"Wrenching...There oughta be a law requiring Richard Price to publish more frequently. Because nobody does it better. Really. No time, no way."
Kirkus Reviews
“With its perfect dialogue and attention to the smallest detail, Price’s latest reminds readers why he’s one of the masters of American urban crime fiction.”
Publishers Weekly
"Making the streets safe for the café crowd has its hidden cost—and no one shows that better than Price."
Booklist

For more information about our children’s publishers, please visit:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Feiwel and Friends
First Second
Henry Holt and Company Books for Young Readers
Priddy Books
Roaring Brook Press
Square Fish

For more information about our distributed publishers, please visit:

Bloomsbury
The College Board
Consumer Reports
Drawn & Quarterly
Enchanted Lion Books
Graywolf Press
Oxmoor House
Papercutz
Rodale
Virgin Books
Walker & Company
Watson Guptill

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Macmillan
All-Stars




Three or more starred reviews make these books All-Stars
"What should our book club read next?"
Reading Group Gold has the answer


Not sure what your group should discuss next? If you are looking for group read ideas, Macmillan's Reading Group Gold brochure features a broad selection of supplementary materials for book club favorites like Gail Tsukiyama, Tom Perrotta, and Marilynne Robinson.

You can find our latest brochure here:
Brochure Part 1
Brochure Part 2

And be sure to check the Reading Groups section of our website—we are always adding new titles!


Slumberland
Paul Beatty
Bloomsbury USA
1-59691-240-5 | $24.99


"There are very few novelists with Beatty's swinging sense of play," writes NPR's Troy Patterson. Paul Beatty's new novel, Slumberland, follows a Los Angeles DJ who has crafted the perfect beat as he seeks the approval of an elusive jazz genius.

Click here to read the full review and an excerpt.


You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero
Bob Powers
St. Martin's Griffin
0-312-37734-7 | $13.95


In traditional "choose your own adventure" books, heroes are often dashing figures who conquer perilous obstacles; in Bob Powers's hilarious "choose your own adventure" book for adults, You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero, the hero is a modest thirtysomething who has accomplished very little.

Click here to listen to listen to Bob Powers discuss his new book on NPR's Bryant Park Project.


Exiles
Ron Hansen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
0-374-15097-4 | $23.00


On a winter evening in 1875, five exiled nuns on a ship to America tragically sank to their deaths, inspiring a Jesuit seminarian to write his most famous poem. Ron Hansen's new novel, Exiles, breathes life into the story behind Gerard Manley Hopkins's The Wreck of the Deutschland.

Click here to listen to an interview with Ron Hansen on NPR's Fresh Air.


Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Don Borchert
Virgin Books USA
1-9052-6412-7 | $21.95


Don Borchert has seen his share of fights and drug busts during his 12 years at the Torrance Public Library in Southern California. His memoir, Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library, reveals the shocking scenes that accompany daily life at his beloved branch.

Click here to listen to an interview with Don Borchert on NPR's The Bryant Park Project.
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