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ALA Midwinter 2020 photo highlights!

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ALA Midwinter 2020 photo highlights!

PLA Schedule

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We are looking forward to the Public Library Association conference in Nashville! Norton will be in booth 1512.

WEDNESDAY, February 26

9:30-10:30am: Booklist Book Buzz featuring Norton, Workman, Macmillan, HarperCollins and PRH in the Davidson Ballroom.

3:30–6:30pm: Exhibits Open. We will have lots of ARCs for you!

THURSDAY, February 27

9:00am–5:00pm: Exhibits Open

5:15-6:15pm: LibraryReads “Your Evening is Booked” author panel in Room 102. Authors included are: Odie LIndsey, Brit Bennett, Katherine Center, Leesa Cross-Smith, and Sam Tschida. RSVP is not required but it’s nice because it helps us know how many ARCs to bring (RSVP here).

FRIDAY, February 28

9:00am–2:00pm: Exhibits Open

10:00-11:30am: Book Buzz Stage in the exhibit hall - come hear about new and forthcoming books for children and teens.

12:30 – 2:00pm: Book Buzz Stage in the exhibit hall - come hear about new and forthcoming books for Adults!

ALA Midwinter 2020 ScheduleHere’s our schedule for the...

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:44:03 -0500

ALA Midwinter 2020 Schedule

Here’s our schedule for the conference with information on both our adult and children’s titles! Norton will be in booth 1354. We will have a LOT of ARCs and promotional materials to give away - get a sneak peek here. Also, mystery fans should be sure to visit Penzler Publishers at table 842 to learn more about the American Mystery Classics series.

Friday, January 24

5:30pm-7:00pm: Exhibits will be open for fully registered attendees.
6:00pm-6:45pm: David Ouimet will sign copies of I Go Quiet in the Norton booth (#1354). Both Booklist and School Library Journal have given this gorgeous picture book starred reviews. "a deep contemplation about neuro-divergence and perceptions of difference, despite its spare text…. this book is an important resource for children who don’t feel they fit in. Purchase this hauntingly beautiful story to show them that they are not alone.“ - SLJ

Saturday, January 25

9:00am - 5:00pm: Exhibits Open
2:00pm - 3:00pm: Garth Stein, author of a new graphic novel with Matthew Southworth (Stumptown) will sign ARCs of The Cloven Book 1 (Fantagraphics), in the Norton booth (#1354)
2:00pm - 2:50pm: Otto Penzler will talk about the Golden Age of mystery on the Pop Top Stage
2:40pm - 3:10pm - Golda from Norton, Chris from Sterling, and Susan from Ingram will present forthcoming Children’s and YA titles at the Book Buzz Theater.
3:00pm - 4:30pm – Betsy Bonner (The Book of Atlantis Black, Tin House) will be on the LibraryReads debut author panel in Room 126-B. The other authors on the panel are: Nadia Owusu, Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity (Simon & Schuster); Elizabeth Wetmore, Valentine (Harper); Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, Tiny Imperfections (G.P. Putnam’s Sons).

Sunday, January 26

9:00am - 5:00pm: Exhibits Open
1:45pm - 2:30pm: Come to the Book Buzz Theater to hear about forthcoming titles for Adults from HarperCollins, Norton, Workman and Sterling! Future you will be relieved when you already know about the books your patrons are requesting.
3:00pm - 3:45pm: Rex Ogle will sign copies of Free Lunch in the Norton booth.
5:00pm - 7:00pm: Adult Book and Media Awards (RUSA) will be announced at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

Monday, January 27

8:00am - 10:00am: Youth Media Awards, Ballroom AB. Keep your fingers crossed for some Norton Young Readers titles.
9:00am - 2:00pm: Exhibits open
10:30am - 12:00pm: YALSA Morris and Excellence in Nonfiction presentation at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (ticket required) – Rex Ogle (Free Lunch) is a finalist for the Excellence in Nonfiction award.

Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-BennNicole Dennis-Benn’s second...

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 09:56:35 -0400

Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn

Nicole Dennis-Benn’s second novel, Patsy, is the August pick for the “Read With Jenna” book club on the Today Show! “It’s a story about resilience and there’s some broken-heartedness,“ Jenna said. "But ‘Patsy’ is a book that will open a lot of minds.”

As with her masterful debut, Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn once again charts the geography of a hidden world—that of a paradise lost, swirling with the echoes of lilting patois, in which one woman fights to discover her sense of self in a world that tries to define her. Passionate, moving, and fiercely urgent, Patsy is a prismatic depiction of immigration and womanhood, and the lasting threads of love stretching across years and oceans.

Nicole recently wrote about the inspiration behind the book:

“I remember traveling with them in the early morning hours on the number 4 train from the Caribbean immigrant neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn to Manhattan. They were workers—men in their construction gear, nursing thermoses filled with coffee, their usual Clarks replaced by Timberland boots; women wearing sensible shoes and buttoned coats over uniforms, clutching their oversized bags packed with lunches. Each person quiet in their own meditation. Some read the Bible, some closed their eyes and hummed the tune the Trinidadian steel-pan man always played on the subway platform. Others laughed and chatted, their Caribbean accents thick, perhaps familiar with each other from traveling the same route at the same time each day for many years. I carried a vintage leather briefcase, en route to my first teaching job at the College of Staten Island. They stared at me with either unremitting distrust, curiosity, or admiration. They reminded me of the people I grew up around in Jamaica, in my small working-class community of Vineyard Town, Kingston. It was clear that they all had their steady jobs—the men working on buildings they could never afford to live in; the women working in people’s homes, mothering other people’s children or caring for somebody’s aging parent. Above our heads were the ads beckoning us to escape New York City’s winter to places with white sand beaches and palm trees—places most of us had left behind in hopes of better opportunities in this country.
I fell in love with the people I observed on the train because they reminded me of home. I felt compelled to capture them as they were in the quiet of the train. I began to write. Did they leave themselves behind? Who am I looking at now? Patsy answered.
Patsy’s story came to me as a confession—a relentless stream of consciousness of a woman, a mother, who deliberately seeks to reinvent herself in America and revel in the freedom it offers her to love the way she wants to love. Hers is a story I wanted to explore—a story that goes against everything we thought the immigrant story to be: altruistic. It’s easy to see now that Patsy’s story is my own in that I, too, chose America to redefine myself. I had always felt like an outsider as a lesbian woman in Jamaica, where homosexuality is taboo and opportunities for the working-class are limited. I wanted to simply be, to find a home in myself elsewhere. Every day on the Staten Island Ferry, for three years, in clear view of the Statue of Liberty, Patsy spoke to me. I caught sight of my fellow travelers sitting by themselves, staring quietly at the picturesque view. They seemed haunted by loss. Or perhaps I was projecting. For freedom comes with a price, a loss of something—culture, memory, loved ones, a whole country. It was then that Patsy’s story transformed into something more urgent, real, driven by one question: What do we lose when we choose ourselves?”
—Nicole Dennis-Benn

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LibraryReads votes due by 7/1!Want inventive stories on the...

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:20:39 -0400

LibraryReads votes due by 7/1!

Want inventive stories on the LibraryReads list? Want diverse voices on the LibraryReads list? Want something really interesting to read in August? It’s up to you. Vote now!

Digital ARCs are still available for librarians and booksellers to request on Edelweiss and Netgalley.

“Scott’s bold and often outlandish imagination makes for stories that may be difficult to define, but whose emotional authenticity is never once in doubt.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Mischievous, relentlessly inventive stories whose interweaving content swerves from down-home grit to dreamlike grotesque… Mordantly bizarre and trenchantly observant, these stories stake out fresh territory in the nation’s literary landscape.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“As a whole, the collection weaves incisive criticism, dark humor, and magical realism in unexpected and arresting explorations of belief, love, justice, and violence.”—Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed

“A bold new talent emerges with this boundary-shattering collection of linked stories set in fictional Cross County, Maryland, founded by the leaders of America’s only successful slave uprising. Characters range from robots to sons of God in these magical realist stories about race, religion, and violence. Think of it as Faulkner meets Asimov.” —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire

“His newest story collection displays the expansive creative genius of Rion Amilcar Scott, who has created a world so vivid and whole, it’s hard to return to reality after spending time in it. Scott’s creation is the fictional Cross River, in Maryland, a town long-ago established by the leaders of America’s sole successful slave rebellion—as origin myths go, it’s a powerful one, and it still echoes within its residents’ consciousness generations later. Scott introduces us to a cast of finely wrought characters, all of whom grapple with issues related to power, violence, love—life. Scott’s prose sparkles—it’s absurdist at times, surreal, and hilarious, but it’s always profoundly affecting, an essential reminder of all the people who’ve had to construct a home for themselves in a hostile world. That they’ve done so with brilliance and grace is not because of the unfriendly people around them but in spite of them. —Kristin Iverson, Nylon

ALA Annual Schedule - Booth 1320Friday, 6/21Exhibits will be...

Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:36:55 -0400

ALA Annual Schedule - Booth 1320

Friday, 6/21

Exhibits will be open 5:30pm-7:00pm for those with a full conference registration.
Here’s a sneak preview of some of the ARCs we’ll be giving away - including kids and YA (while supplies last)!

Saturday, 6/22

Exhibits will be open 9:00am-5:00pm.
9:00am-10:00am: author Marcia Chatelain (Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Liveright, January 2020) will be on the United for Libraries “Reads Like Fiction: Nonfiction You Can’t Put Down” author panel in room 102B.
2:30pm-3:30pm: author Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things: A Novel, Tin House Books) will be on the LibraryReads/ALMA “Fiercely Female” panel in room 204C.
2:30pm-3:30pm: author John Copenhaver (Dodging & Burning, Pegasus Books) will be on the United for Libraries “It’s a Mystery to Me” panel in room 207B.
4:00pm-4:45pm: Norton is teaming up with Annie from Workman, Chris from Sterling, and Virginia from HarperCollins for a book buzz at the Book Buzz Theater! This buzz will cover books for adults. No Tiki Hut but still lots of great titles to learn about.

Sunday, 6/23

Exhibits will be open 9:00am-5:00pm.
9:00am-10:00am: author Jeannie Vanasco (Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, Tin House Books) will be on the United for Libraries “In Real Life: Must-Read Memoirs” panel in room 140B.
2:00pm-2:30pm: author Evelina Daciutè will sign copies of the Batchelder Award-winning picture book from Thames & Hudson, The Fox on the Swing, in our booth, 1320! Hardcovers will be available for purchase ($10).

Monday, 6/24

Exhibits will be open 9:00am-2:00pm.
9:15am-10:00am: Norton is teaming up with Caitlin from Workman, Chris from Sterling, and Elenita from Ingram for a book buzz about books for kids and teens at the Book Buzz Theater. I’ll have our first list from Norton Young Readers to show you!
10:30am-11:30am: Booklist is hosting a “Read & Rave” panel, where Susan Maguire and 4 librarians will talk about the forthcoming books that are exciting them in room 202A.
10:30am-12:00pm: Marcia Chatelain, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University, will be the featured speaker at the 2019 ALCTS President’s Program in room 146A.

Fantagraphics at ALA

Fantagraphics Books will be in the booth next to Norton with lots of giveaways and signings! See their full schedule here.

LibraryReads votes due 5/1!We have 2 starred reviews for Patsy,...

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:31:27 -0400

LibraryReads votes due 5/1!

We have 2 starred reviews for Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn, but we still need your help. I hope you’ll consider voting for it for LibraryReads - the votes for June titles are due by 5/1. If you’re not familiar with the program, LibraryReads is a monthly nationwide staff picks list that is determined by votes from public library staff. Anyone who works at a public library is eligible to vote. More info on LibraryReads and how to participate here.

Digital review copies can still be requested on Edelweiss and Netgalley.

“Dennis-Benn (Here Comes the Sun, 2016) builds big worlds inside and outside of her touchable characters, writing through their knotty love in all its failures and mercies in this empathic intergenerational epic of womanhood and inheritance.” - Booklist, Starred Review

"It’s a marker of Dennis-Benn’s masterful prowess at characterization and her elegant, nuanced writing that the people here—even when they’re flawed or unlikable—inspire sympathy and respect. Dennis-Benn has written a profound book about sexuality, gender, race, and immigration that speaks to the contemporary moment through the figure of a woman alive with passion and regret.“ - Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“Nicole Dennis-Benn is an exquisite writer who paints scenes with words so vivid you might as well be walking through it as a character, not a reader. In Patsy, she addresses motherhood, sexuality, racism, and colorism; turning her prodigious talents to the timely story of an undocumented immigrant straddling two worlds while learning that love isn’t a choice, but the beat in one’s blood.” - Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things

“A stunningly powerful inter-generational novel about the price—the ransom really— women must pay to choose themselves, their lives, their value, their humanity. Frank, funny, salty, heartbreaking, full of love, Dennis-Benn is a map-maker to those places in the heart held so closely, the holder may not know even they’re there.” - Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

“Beautiful, shattering, and deeply affecting. Patsy’s story ultimately makes for a novel that is destined to endure.” - Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen

“An aching meditation on motherhood, sacrifice, and what it means to look truth in the face in order to fully become oneself. A beautiful book, as heartbreaking as it is restorative.” - Cristina Henriquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans

“A novel that splits at the seams with yearning, elegantly written and deeply felt. Dennis-Benn leads the reader through Patsy’s life with empathy and grace.” - Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias

LibraryReads LoveIf you missed Booklist’s “Library Love for...

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:26:13 -0400

LibraryReads Love

If you missed Booklist’s “Library Love for LibraryReads” webinar yesterday, here’s a catalog of the titles I presented.

You can download the full slide presentation here and the excel file of all the titles from each of the publishers here. The recording of the webinar will be posted on Booklist’s site soon.

LibraryReads is a nationwide staff picks list voted on by public library staff each month. Anyone who works in a public library can participate by voting for titles and using the monthly lists in your library! More details here.

For even more suggestions on titles to read for LibraryReads or for popular reading, check out my “For Librarians” page on Edelweiss with monthly catalogs of our top picks.

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Introducing Norton Young Readers!We are excited to announce our...

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:05:31 -0400

Introducing Norton Young Readers!

We are excited to announce our first list of Norton Young Readers titles coming out this fall. Click here for more information on each of our books.

Book Expo Schedule

Thursday, May 30th

2pm: David Shannon will sign posters for Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer in the Norton booth (1521).

Friday, May 31st

9:30am - 10:15am: David Shannon at the New Picture Book Showcase, Choice Stage
11:00am - 11:50am: Simon Boughton, the publisher of Norton Young Readers, will talk about Free Lunch, by Rex Ogle, on the Middle Grade Editors’ Buzz, Room 1E12/13/14
1:35pm - 2:05pm: Rex Ogle, author of Free Lunch, on the Middle Grade Buzz Author panel, Downtown Stage

Norton Young Readers is the children’s and young adult imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, the largest independent, employee-owned publishing house in the United States. We publish a full range of picture books, narrative fiction and nonfiction, and graphic novels for young readers of all ages, expanding the company’s mission to provide “Books That Live” to a new readership.

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We have created a For Librarians “folder” in Edelweiss to make...

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:09:21 -0500

We have created a For Librarians “folder” in Edelweiss to make it easier for folks to find our LibraryReads suggestion catalogs. You can see April through August there now and I’ll keep adding months as we go along. These lists would also work for popular reading suggestions even if you’re not voting for LibraryReads.

Ever since it started a few years ago, LibraryReads has really helped raise awareness for books and authors! Anyone who works in a public library is eligible to vote for titles for this nationwide Staff Picks list. You can read either print or digital ARCs, but all votes must be submitted through Netgalley or Edelweiss. You don’t even have to write a review if you don’t have time.

LIST - VOTING DUE DATE

April 2019 pub dates - March 1, 2019

May 2019 pub dates - April 1, 2019

June 2019 pub dates - May 1, 2019

July 2019 pub dates - June 1, 2019

August 2019 pub dates - July 1, 2019

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ALA Midwinter 2019 ScheduleNorton will be in booth 2205, right...

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:34:15 -0500

ALA Midwinter 2019 Schedule

Norton will be in booth 2205, right across from Baker & Taylor. We will have special guest Fantagraphics sharing our booth. Publisher Simon Boughton will also be in our booth to give you a sneak peak of our Fall 2019 Norton Young Readers list.

The exhibits at the convention center are divided up into 2 halls, so after you make your way through PRH and HarperCollins and you wonder where everyone else is, come on over to the other side! I will have a TON of ARCs to give away in varying quantities, including many that haven’t been featured in this newsletter yet. But don’t worry if you’re “ALAMW Left Behind” - I will have giveaways of ARCs for more of our top titles in the newsletter in the coming months. We will also have many recently published books for all ages for you to peruse in the booth.

FRIDAY

Exhibits will be open 5:30pm – 7:00pm to those with full registration.
Graphic Novel fans take note: Fantagraphics and Oni Press are joining together with the new GNCRT to host a happy hour for librarians. 7:30pm - 10:00pm at Georgetown Stables. More info here.

SATURDAY

Exhibits open 9:00am - 5:00pm.
10:30am - 11:00am: Come to the Book Buzz Stage to hear about forthcoming titles for Adults from Norton, Workman, Sterling and HarperCollins!
2:00pm - 3:00pm: Jim Woodring, author of Poochytown, The Frank Book & more, will sign books in our booth, 2205.
3:00pm - 4:00pm: Simon Hanselmann, author of Megahex, One More Year, and Bad Gateway, among others, will sign books in our booth, 2205.
3:00pm - 4:00pm: LibraryReads Debut Author Panel. I don’t have any authors on this panel but it’s always a great introduction to new authors and I encourage you to go! WSCC room 3A.

SUNDAY

Exhibits open 9:00am - 5:00pm.
2:00pm - 2:30pm: Come to the Book Buzz Stage to hear about forthcoming Childrens/YA titles from Norton, Workman, Sterling and Ingram.
5:00pm - 7:00pm: RUSA Adult Book & Media Awards announcements.

MONDAY

Exhibits open 9:00am - 2:00pm.
11:00am: We will start our “one book per librarian” booth copy giveaway.

I hope to see you there!

Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K. Chess (Tin House...

Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:10:57 -0500

Famous Men Who Never Lived, by K. Chess (Tin House Books)

LibraryReads votes due by 2/1! Librarians and Booksellers can request digital ARCs on Edelweiss and Netgalley.

Author K. Chess is the daughter of a librarian and she wanted to share with you what it was like to grow up in the library. Here is her wonderful letter:

“Dear Librarian,

When my mom finished her MLS, she was eight and a half months pregnant. You can see me in the pictures, a bulge that stretched her graduation robe tight. Other brand-new librarians put their hands on her stomach to feel me kick.

I grew up in the libraries where my mother worked. I went to elementary school next door to a crumbling downtown mansion the city’s historical society was fighting to save. The top floor housed a free lending library of educational resources for parents and educators. While my mother sorted donated materials, I squeezed between the shelves to read picture books and climbed into the cupula to imagine it was a spaceship. Later, my mom found work as a reference librarian in a neighboring town. I spent whole summer days entertaining myself during her shifts. An upstairs hallway with lancet windows stood in for Redwall. The emergency stairs were the tower in Ci’gazze, where Will lost his fingers and gained the Subtle Knife. I lurked around the circulation desk, taking notes for my spy route. I scoured the cool, carpeted basement for indications of hidden rooms where fugitives on their way north to freedom could be concealed.

A library is a place for discovery. It’s where I learned to hunt and peck by using the catalog computer and where a charismatic storyteller told me and other city kids about the tricks of Anansi the spider man. A library is abundance. My mom said we couldn’t afford child-sized Nikes, but she let me check out tottering stacks of novels, paying my overdue fines without complaint. A library is freedom. My mother and her colleagues resisted the Patriot Act’s demands for access to borrowing records. Over the years, she has helped patrons of all ages find whatever information they needed. She’s recommended thousands of books.

Famous Men Who Never Lived contains a book-within-a-book; the plot hinges on a woman’s search for a missing paperback from her vanished world. As a librarian, you understand the strength of this connection. You are a guardian and a guide. From up close, I’ve seen the work you do. Thank you. I put my book into your hands.

Sincerely,

K”

The Wall, by John Lanchester (Norton)LibraryReads votes are due...

Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:06:46 -0500

The Wall, by John Lanchester (Norton)

LibraryReads votes are due by 2/1 for March 2019 titles!

The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time.

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall—an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and are a constant threat. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold, loneliness, and fear, Kavanagh tries to fulfill his duties to his demanding Captain and Sergeant, even as he grows closer to his fellow Defenders. A dark part of him wonders whether it would be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if he had to fight for his life…

John Lanchester—acclaimed as “an elegant and wonderfully witty writer” (New York Times) and “a writer of rare intelligence” (Los Angeles Times)—has written a taut, hypnotic novel of a broken world and what might be found when all is lost. The Wall blends the most compelling issues of our time—rising waters, rising fear, rising political division—into a suspenseful story of love, trust, and survival.

Booksellers and Librarians - digital ARCs are available to request on Edelweiss and Netgalley.

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoirby Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman...

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:15:41 -0500

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (February 2019)

The first pre-pub review is in and it is starred! LibraryReads votes are due by 1/1/19. Digital ARCs are still available to request on Edelweiss and Netgalley.

“A tricky, unnerving, consistently fascinating memoir.” – Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“I’m going to cut to the chase and just come out and say that this is one of my favorite books that I have read in a long time and I want every woman I know to read it and we will all be in one huge book club.” – Jessica Rodrigues, Steger-South Chicago Heights Public Library

“Hilarious. Honest, engaging, singular… a well sequenced memoir of travels through high and low American society. An excellent examination of class, cultural homogeneity, and gender in the US.” – David Woodhead, Bookseller

“A nice mix of coming of age from Appalachia to New York with a twilight zone like venture into being a professional musician. If playing, but not really playing counts? You have to read it to believe it! Now we just have to figure out who this Composer really is…” – Joseph Jones, Cuyahoga County Public Library

LibraryReads

Ever since it started a few years ago, LibraryReads has really helped raise awareness for books and authors! Anyone who works in a public library is eligible to nominate titles for this nationwide Staff Picks list. You can read either print or digital ARCs, but all votes must be submitted through Netgalley or Edelweiss. You don’t even have to write a review if you don’t have time. Click here for more information.

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That Time I Loved You: Stories by Carianne Leung (February...

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:15:21 -0500

That Time I Loved You: Stories

by Carianne Leung (February 2019)

This collection of linked stories by Carianne Leung is getting some great reviews! LibraryReads votes are due by 1/1/19. Digital ARCs are still available to request at Edelweiss and Netgalley.

“Leung’s stories lift the veiled curtain of late 1970s suburbia to reveal the sadness and isolation of its residents….Leung looks for ways to bridge the gaps between what characters say and what they mean, what they admit to themselves and what they won’t utter aloud, ultimately painting a picture of deep social and racial divides…. Written in the tradition of Alice Munro and Jhumpa Lahiri, Leung's debut story collection marks the career of a writer to watch.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Leung, author of Toronto Book Award–finalist The Wondrous Woo (2014), walks readers through the matching split-levels of a Toronto suburb in her striking U.S. debut…. Readers peer through chain-link fences and discretely pulled curtains along with Leung’s vivid, quotable characters—and are reminded that life doesn’t happen between soap-opera episodes, cigarettes smoked at the kitchen sink, and trips to the mall, but during them.” - Booklist, starred review

“The cookie cutter layout of a Toronto suburb masks the complex lives of the individuals inside the houses. Adolescent June is the thread tying together this stunning set of stories. Recommended for fans of Elizabeth Strout, Fredrik Bachman, and Siobhan Fallon.” - Janet Lockhart, Wake County Public Libraries

“A nearly perfect collection of interconnected short stories. Each story could stand on its own without the others and be a gem, but when they are connected together the experience is all the better. A peek in to an era gone by from a unique standpoint.” - Janie Hermann, Princeton Public Library

LibraryReads

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Deep Creek, by Pam Houston (Norton, 1/29/19)We now have 4...

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:49:16 -0500

Deep Creek, by Pam Houston (Norton, 1/29/19)

We now have 4 pre-pub reviews for Pam Houston’s new memoir and they are ALL starred!

LibraryReads votes are due by 12/1, and librarians and booksellers can request digital ARCs from Edelweiss and Netgalley.

“Houston discusses a deeply personal environmentalism that impacts her neighbors, her home, and her worldview. VERDICT Highly recommended as a memoir that combines nature, writing, and personal reflection.” - Library Journal, starred review

“wields scorching honesty and heartfelt reflection that will certainly be welcomed by her many fans…. Her search for a home to make her own, far from memories and deeply entrenched in the history of the land’s pioneer past, took Houston through a literary reckoning that cuts to the bone while offering succor for a shattered youth. Always impressive, Houston is in striking form here. Her talent remains remarkable and her words extraordinarily affecting and effective.” - Booklist, starred review

“brings compassion, a deep sense of observation, and a profound sense of place to essays centered around the 120-acre ranch in the Colorado Rockies that serves as home base in her busy life of travel and academic commitments…. Houston’s vision finds a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre; her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A collection of essays about finding and maintaining one’s place on our changing planet. In her latest, Houston (English/Univ. of California, Davis; Contents May Have Shifted, 2012, etc.) writes with the same unvarnished, truth-loaded sentences that made her short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992) a contemporary classic…. The author’s affinity for the place is clearly powerful—and infectious for readers…. A profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth—and to the rest of it, as well.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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So I got this email from my mom and...

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 18:08:01 -0500

intothestacks:

That’s it. That’s the whole email.

wwnortonlibrary: Deep Creek, by Pam Houston (Norton,...

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:44:40 -0400

wwnortonlibrary:

Deep Creek, by Pam Houston (Norton, 1/29/19)

The first two pre-pub reviews for Pam Houston’s new memoir are in and they are both starred!

“brings compassion, a deep sense of observation, and a profound sense of place to essays centered around the 120-acre ranch in the Colorado Rockies that serves as home base in her busy life of travel and academic commitments…. Houston’s vision finds a solid place among the chronicles of quiet appreciation of the American wilderness, without the misanthropy that often accompanies the genre; her passion for the land and its inhabitants is irresistibly contagious.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A collection of essays about finding and maintaining one’s place on our changing planet. In her latest, Houston (English/Univ. of California, Davis; Contents May Have Shifted, 2012, etc.) writes with the same unvarnished, truth-loaded sentences that made her short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness (1992) a contemporary classic…. The author’s affinity for the place is clearly powerful—and infectious for readers…. A profound and inspiring love letter to one piece of Earth—and to the rest of it, as well.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Deep Creek now has a THIRD starred review, this time from Booklist!

“wields scorching honesty and heartfelt reflection that will certainly be welcomed by her many fans…. Her search for a home to make her own, far from memories and deeply entrenched in the history of the land’s pioneer past, took Houston through a literary reckoning that cuts to the bone while offering succor for a shattered youth. Always impressive, Houston is in striking form here. Her talent remains remarkable and her words extraordinarily affecting and effective.” - Booklist, starred review

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoirby Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman...

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:31:58 -0400

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman (Feb. 2019)

“For the early twenties, a particularly cruel age to be struck down by fear, is a stage in life when tremendous bravery is required of a woman – the bravery to discover what she wants, what she cannot abide, what she needs to make a living and be among the living.
But she knows this: A million times more than any other emotion or experience, fear has the strength and ability to mangle her into something different from what she truly is, something phony and fake and cowardly. And now, surprised and twisted and disoriented and broken as she is by fear’s sudden arrival, she realizes that she needs to fight it, fight for her life.”

A young woman leaves Appalachia for a life as a classical musician in New York—or so she thinks.

When aspiring violinist Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman lands a job with a professional ensemble, she imagines she has achieved her lifelong dream. But the ensemble proves to be a sham. When the group “performs,” the microphones are never on. Instead, the music blares from a CD. The mastermind behind this scheme is a peculiar and mysterious figure known as The Composer, who is gaslighting his audiences with music that sounds suspiciously like the Titanic soundtrack. On tour with his chaotic ensemble, Hindman spirals into crises of identity and disillusionment as she “plays” for audiences genuinely moved by the performance, unable to differentiate real from fake.

With vulnerability, humor, and sharp insight into ambition and gender, Hindman tells a surreal coming-of-age story that perfectly articulates the anxieties and illusions of her generation. As Sounds Like Titanic swells to a crescendo, it gives voice to the failed promises of a nation that takes comfort in false realities.

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“Deliciously bizarre and utterly American. It’s a Coen Brothers movie come to life—Ruby Tuesdays, QVC, and one woman working for years as a fake violinist for classical music’s version of Thomas Kinkade. I couldn’t put it down.” - Caitlin Doughty, bestselling author of From Here to Eternity and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

“It’s difficult to write a funny, angry book. It’s even harder to write a merciless, empathetic book. But here comes Jessica Hindman, doing the impossible with a funny, angry, merciless, empathetic book that’s not only a hugely entertaining memoir, but an insightful meditation on a time in our nation’s recent history whose strange and ominous influence grows more apparent by the day.” - Tom Bissell, co-author of The Disaster Artist and author of Apostle

Crewel and Unusual: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteryby Molly MacRae...

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 12:20:39 -0400

Crewel and Unusual: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery

by Molly MacRae (1/1/19)

The latest mystery in this charming mystery series finds the ever-resourceful Kath Rutledge and shop ghost Geneva tangled up in an embroidery rivalry—and a murder.

Yarn shop owner Kath Rutledge is looking forward to the grand opening of the Blue Plum Vault, a co-op of small shops on Main Street. But in the week before the grand opening, Kath and her needlework group, TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Fiber), hear rumors of an unpleasant rivalry developing between two of the new shopkeepers. Nervie Bales and Belinda Moyer declare each other’s embroidery patterns and antique embroidered linens fakes, copies—and stolen goods. Kath is caught in the middle when she’s asked to use her textile expertise to decide if there’s any truth to the accusations.

Then, the day before the grand opening, an exquisite tablecloth that Kath has fallen in love with—the pride of Belinda’s shop—is found cut to shreds. Belinda accuses Nervie of the outrage, but Nervie has an airtight alibi: she was at Kath’s shop, the Weaver’s Cat, teaching a crewel embroidery class.

Despite worries over the rivalry and vandalism, the opening is a success—until Belinda is found dead, stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors from the Weaver’s Cat. Geneva, the ghost who haunts Kath’s store, claims she saw the murderer leaving the scene of the crime. But the ghost is the ultimate unreliable witness—only Kath and her shop manager can see or hear her. That means it’s up to Kath, TGIF, and especially Geneva the ghost to solve the crime before the killer cuts another life short.

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Praise for Molly MacRae’s Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series:

“MacRae writes with familiarity, wit, and charm.” —Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
“Murder with a dose of drollery.” —Boston Globe
“A fun series and a fantastic whodunit.” —Cozy Mystery Book Review
“Snappy repartee, genuine warmth, and quirky, sassy characters… the best sort of cozy.” —Library Journal