Spring 2012 Announcements: Spring Is Here!
Welcome to the season of hope and green shoots and new books. In this, our third season gathering our announcements with the help of Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss system, we had almost exactly 3,000 more titles to chose from than our Fall 2011 listings. more...
Adult Announcements
02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM
Still, a Few Headaches
When Nick Palmer, a screenwriter based in Los Angeles, first started downloading audiobooks in the early 2000s, he describes a process only slightly less intensive than a medieval monk copying a manuscript.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
This spring, lots of very strong poets are bringing out new volumes of poetry—it’s not the usual stampede of “selecteds” and “collecteds” by poets at the end of their careers or past the end of their lives—though there are a few of those. But the books that stand out in the next few months are the slim volumes of new poems by poets in the middle of their careers: third, fourth, and fifth books by poets we’ve been watching for a few years now.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
In art book publishing, there is an increasing confluence of disciplines—visual arts becomes urban design becomes social critique and eventually lands as cultural history. This season’s listing are replete with books on green architecture, sustainable design, and voices of dissent, and plenty of major artists. Hard to chose 10 titles among the diversity of offerings, so I will opt for reflecting that diversity.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
Globalization was supposed to bring economic benefits to people all over the world; while it brought improvements to some regions it has caused as nearly many challenges. The impact of a more interconnected world is the focus of many of the most important business books being published this spring.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
The election is still nine months away, but already our airwaves are clogged with power-mad men in power ties lying through their straight white teeth. The unemployment rate is falling, they say; the economy is in recovery. There is hope, they tell us. Everyone’s favorite dream is still alive and well. Over the next six months, if we’re going to get anything remotely resembling truth, we have to turn to fiction.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
There is nothing simpler and tastier than a juicy, vine-picked tomato sprinkled with salt and drizzled with olive oil, or a freshly caught mackerel stuffed with bay leaves, and grilled on an open fire. Food that is simple and natural is part of a continuing trend of going locavore, growing, cultivating and eating from one’s own garden or farm. And this continues in this spring’s cookbooks.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
The heaviest hitter on the lifestyle shelf this spring is not a diet book but the newest offering from mega-successful author and filmmaker Rhonda Byrne. With an announced printing of 750,000, The Magic (Atria, Mar.) is positioned to prestidigitate onto bestseller lists, following the trajectory of Byrne’s previous book phenoms, The Secret (2006, with 20 million in print) and The Power (2010).
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
A biographer’s work is never done. Just when you think you’ve written the definitive life, new material crops up and another biographer tries to claim your crown. So while Richard Ellmann set the biographical standard for James Joyce, Gordon Bowker—biographer of George Orwell and others—is giving it a go, having mined recently uncovered sources for James Joyce: A New Biography, focusing on Joyce’s inner life and shedding light on the Irishman’s time in, and attitude toward, England, as well as toward Judaism.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
Memoir can be cathartic, painful, shocking, funny, revelatory, informative, entertaining. Inquiring minds want to know: how our beloved icons made it to the top, how that drug addict made it back, why someone left the comfort of home, saved a horse, went on stage, changed gender, survived a revolution. We want to hear about overcoming loss, grief, displacement, disappointment, and always, who slept with whom.
Adult Announcements
01/20/2012 @ 07:00PM
I remember hanging out with my best friend and a couple of girls in a 1973 Dodge Challenger muscle car his older brother drove, listening to a song that came out the same year the car was made and was already a classic in 1980—“Ramblin’ Man” by the Allman Brothers. It was a hot, moist Florida night, and we were parked outside a roller skating rink, not opening the car doors until the song had ended.
Barbara Vey
Let me start by stating that I don't belong to RWA (Romance Writers of America) or RWI (Romance Writers Ink) or RRW (Rainbow Romance Writers)...
Elizabeth Bluemle
It appeals to me as a bookseller to break down the awards by publisher, not only to take a look at what works and imprints have been recognized for their achievements, but -- practically speaki...
Rose Fox
Charlene Brusso interviews Caitlín R. Kiernan for PW....
Adam Boretz
February may be the shortest month, but that doesn't mean it's not chock full o' audio goodness. So, without further ado, let's take a look at the latest batch of new releases from some of the industr...
Top Bestsellers
| Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) | Children's Fiction |
| Elf on the Shelf | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Private: #1 Suspect | Hardcover Fiction |
| Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Mass Market Paper |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Trade Paper |
