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DIVERGENT Expectations 27 Aug 2013 | 05:42 am
The first trailer for the film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s YA novel Divergent debuted at MYV’s Video Music Awards last night. Unfortunately, it arrives just as another YA adaptation is being called ...
Fall Book Previews Arriving 26 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
In anditicpation of the end of the summer, the consumer fall book previews are beginning to arrive. The first two are New York magazine’s Fall Books Preview and Entertainment Weekly’s 14 Hot Books Fo...
THIS TOWN Rises Again 26 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
Many shows have already covered Mark Leibovich’s take-down of politics in D.C. in This Town, (Penguin/Blue Rider). Bill Moyers gave it powerful new attention, introducing his interview with the author...
More From SALINGER? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Several news stories, including on in today’s New York Times, reveal that an embargoed biography of J.D. Salinger claims there are at least five more books in the author’s vault, and that Salinger lef...
Holds Forecast: THE SMARTEST KIDS IN THE WORLD 23 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
Holds are outpacing the number of copies in libraries for Amanda Ripley’s critique of American education, The Smartest Kids in the World (S&S), but that’s not saying much, since library ordering was ...
THE BOOK THIEF; First Trailer 23 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
The trailer for the movie based on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, (RH/Knopf) starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and Sophie Nélisse in the lead, arrived online yesterday and already the book is risin...
Libraries Save Lives 23 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
Standing in the library that served as a “safe haven” to her and her four siblings (Middle Country Public Library on Long Island, NY) when they were the homeless children of a mentally ill and abusive...
New Title Radar, Week of Aug 26 23 Aug 2013 | 08:21 pm
Arriving next week are new titles by several favorite mystery authors, led by Louise Penny, whose previous Inspector Gamache title, The Beautiful Mystery, hit new highs for her on best seller l...
LIFE OF CRIME Premiere to Honor Elmore Leonard 22 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
In The Rolling Stone Daniel Schechter talks about the lengths he went to in his effort to get the rights to Elmore Leonard’s book, The Switch (HarperCollins/Morrow, part of a series of recent rereleas...
EMBARGOED Title on INSIDE EDITION 21 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
On Inside Edition, Jane Velez-Mitchell discusses her book, Exposed: The Secret Life Of Jodi Arias (Harrper/Morrow; download the EXPOSED_PRESS release with more information on the book here). The book ...
