Booklist’s True Crime, Thrillers and Mysteries, Oh My! Recap

A huge thanks to everyone who attended today’s “True Crime, Thrillers and Mysteries, Oh My!” webinar with Booklist! Here are all the titles we talked about, plus you can watch the archived webinar know more: THE BLAME GAME by Sandie JonesSTAY AWAKE by Megan GoldinDIRT CREEK by Hayley ScrivenorDAISY DARKER by Alice FeeneyAMERICAN DEMON: Eliot Know More » […]

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Thriller Thursday (2/17/22)

This thriller Thursday, you can follow fan-favorite crime-solving heroes as they track down a threat to their safe haven, work with a canine sidekick to unravel a puzzling disappearance, and race against the clock to find a killer before he strikes a devastating blow. THE DEEPEST OF SECRETS: A Rockton Novel by Kelley Armstrong “Armstrong Know More » […]

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2018 Texas Topaz List

2018 Texas Topaz List

We’re proud to have four books on the 2018 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List! A BURGLAR’S GUIDE TO THE CITY by Geoff Manaugh DO NO HARM: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh I’M JUDGING YOU: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi THE MONOPOLISTS: Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World’s Know More » […]

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Monday Funday With New Nonfiction

Monday Funday With New Nonfiction

Memoirs, feminism, espionage, comedians, dogs—these new nonfiction books available this month have something for every reader: ADMISSIONS: Life as a Brain Surgeon by Henry Marsh “Like DO NO HARM, Marsh’s previous memoir, ADMISSIONS is ‘wandering and ruminative, an overland trek through the doctor’s anxieties and private shames,’ our critic Jennifer Senior writes. Marsh once again Know More » […]

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For Your Consideration: October 2017 LibraryReads Titles

For Your Consideration: October 2017 LibraryReads Titles

Download, read, and nominate your favorite titles for the October 2017 LibraryReads list!   Nominations are due August 20! Click here for the full list of 2017 deadlines. FRESH COMPLAINT by Jeffrey Eugenides “Pulitzer Prize winner Eugenides, whose novels have also been runners-up for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Know More » […]

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Booklist Editors’ Choice 2015

Booklist Editors’ Choice 2015

Yesterday Booklist revealed their Editors’ Choice Books of 2015, including these 11 Macmillan titles: Adult Books CHILDREN OF THE STONE: The Power of Music in a Hard Land by Sandy Tolan This is an engrossing and powerful story, moving skillfully amid the failure of the never-ending battles and “peace” talks between Israel and Palestine and Know More » […]

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Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best Books

Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best Books

We’ve got 14 books on Chicago Public Library’s 2015 Best of the Best list! Selected by a team of CPL librarians, the list represents the year’s most outstanding titles, books of exceptional quality for a diverse, city-wide readership. Fiction A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC by V.E. Schwab JADE DRAGON MOUNTAIN by Elsa Hart A MANUAL Know More » […]

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Kirkus Best Books of 2015 – Nonfiction

Kirkus Best Books of 2015 – Nonfiction

In addition to their Best Fiction list, Kirkus Reviews unveiled their Best of 2015 Nonfiction lists which include 20 Macmillan titles: Best Nonfiction GIVE US THE BALLOT: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman THE CRIME AND THE SILENCE: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont IRREPRESSIBLE: Know More » […]

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New York Times Notable Books of 2015

New York Times Notable Books of 2015

The gray lady picked 20 Macmillan titles: Fiction & Poetry THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT by Helen Phillips An administrative worker’s experiences pose existential questions in Phillips’s riveting, drolly surreal debut novel. CITIZEN: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine A meditation, in prose poems, images and essays, on what it means to be black in our racially Know More » […]

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Booklist Spotlight on Health & Science

Booklist Spotlight on Health & Science

Booklist recently featured their top picks for the most engaging, mind-stretching, and informative science and health books, including these three from Macmillan: Top 10 Science and Health Books BLACK MAN IN A WHITE COAT: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy Tweedy, an African American psychiatrist, expertly weaves together statistics, personal anecdotes, Know More » […]

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