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May 29 2012 ∞
Attention mystery, adventure and thriller readers: we have two wonderful books on sale today that will have you racing through the pages - THE YARD by Alex Grecian and THE STORM by Clive Cussler! THE STORM brings back Kurt Austin in the latest NUMA Files novel, and THE YARD introduces “The Murder Squad” – a group of Scotland Yard detectives  roaming and protecting 1880s London. Here’s a peak at the startling first lines of THE YARD: Nobody noticed when Inspector Christian Little of Scotland Yard disappeared, and nobody was looking for him when he was found. A black steamer trunk appeared at Euston Square Station sometime during the night and remained unnoticed until early afternoon of the following day. The porter discovered it after the one o’clock train had departed, and he opened the trunk when it proved too heavy for him to lift. He immediately sent a boy to find the police. Look for both of these at your favorite retailer today! THE YARD by Alex GrecianAmazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes | Google THE STORM by Clive Cussler and Graham BrownAmazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes | Google

Attention mystery, adventure and thriller readers: we have two wonderful books on sale today that will have you racing through the pages - THE YARD by Alex Grecian and THE STORM by Clive Cussler!

THE STORM brings back Kurt Austin in the latest NUMA Files novel, and THE YARD introduces “The Murder Squad” – a group of Scotland Yard detectives  roaming and protecting 1880s London.

Here’s a peak at the startling first lines of THE YARD:

Nobody noticed when Inspector Christian Little of Scotland Yard disappeared, and nobody was looking for him when he was found.

A black steamer trunk appeared at Euston Square Station sometime during the night and remained unnoticed until early afternoon of the following day. The porter discovered it after the one o’clock train had departed, and he opened the trunk when it proved too heavy for him to lift.

He immediately sent a boy to find the police.

Look for both of these at your favorite retailer today!

THE YARD by Alex Grecian
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THE STORM by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
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May 24 2012 ∞

With the end of the school year approaching, we’ve been thinking about the teachers who had the biggest impact on us. We love this video and piece by Taylor Mali, taken from WHAT TEACHERS MAKE:

If having even just one truly exceptional teacher in your life makes you lucky—and I think it does—then my life has been an absurd embarrassment of riches.  Kate Millonzi was my fourth-grade teacher at the Collegiate School for Boys in New York City. That was her first year at the school, but I think she had taught for a few years at another school before coming to Collegiate. Kate read out loud to the class at least once a day, all of us sitting at her feet in ever-widening concentric semicircles. I remember a story she read to us about the Buddha and how he was thirty years old before he ever witnessed human suffering. She put the book down for a moment and looked up and said, “He was my age before he’d ever witnessed suffering. Imagine that.” Unfortunately, none of us found that as interesting as the fact that she had inadvertently told us how old she was. “You’re thirty!?” Kate Millonzi made a difference for me because she loved me, and I would do anything in order to avoid the look of disappointment that occluded her face when I didn’t do well. If that meant working harder and behaving better, so be it. Mrs. Millonzi, you made a difference in my life.

Publisher’s Weekly calls WHAT TEACHERS MAKE “straightforward, fast-paced, and trenchant. … [An] evocative, small book bulging with a big idea—“to remind teachers that they are dearly loved.” You can now find it at your favorite retailer!

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May 10 2012 ∞
We are so excited to bring OVERSEAS into the world! As PW says in a starred review:  This is a delicious story about the ultimate romantic fantasy: love that not only triumphs over time and common sense, but, once Kate overcomes Julian’s WWI-era ideas about honor, includes mind-blowing sex.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) lydiahirt: “How would an old-fashioned chap like me convince a cynical modern girl that he can be trusted with her love?” - Beatriz Williams in OVERSEAS If you follow me on Twitter, you’re probably sick of hearing about OVERSEAS - since I haven’t stopped talking about it. But you guys - it’s FINALLY ON SALE TODAY and I’m so excited to share it with all of you! Jane at Dear Author very eloquently summarized my love for this novel by saying OVERSEAS is “if Time Travelers Wife wasn’t so tragic and unhappy” sort of book.” Read her full review here, where comparisons to FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and TWILIGHT are also made. If you’re still not convinced, here’s another quote: “I am not … Kate, you’re rubbish … stop that at once!” His frantic hands manacled mine at last; he flipped me onto my back and held my wrists above my head. “Minx,” he muttered, kissing me. “You’ll pay for that.” Read more of this excerpt on Beatriz’s site and try not to blush (and get reallllly excited to read more)! Seriously - how can you resist a book that includes an endearment of “minx”!? Now - go read the book, find your own Julian, and let me know how it goes! PS I’m not typically a romance reader either, so if that’s why you’re hesitating… just give it a chance!

We are so excited to bring OVERSEAS into the world! As PW says in a starred review: 

This is a delicious story about the ultimate romantic fantasy: love that not only triumphs over time and common sense, but, once Kate overcomes Julian’s WWI-era ideas about honor, includes mind-blowing sex.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

lydiahirt:

“How would an old-fashioned chap like me convince a cynical modern girl that he can be trusted with her love?” - Beatriz Williams in OVERSEAS


If you follow me on Twitter, you’re probably sick of hearing about OVERSEAS - since I haven’t stopped talking about it. But you guys - it’s FINALLY ON SALE TODAY and I’m so excited to share it with all of you!


Jane at Dear Author very eloquently summarized my love for this novel by saying OVERSEAS is “if Time Travelers Wife wasn’t so tragic and unhappy” sort of book.” Read her full review here, where comparisons to FIFTY SHADES OF GREY and TWILIGHT are also made.

If you’re still not convinced, here’s another quote:

“I am not … Kate, you’re rubbish … stop that at once!” His frantic hands manacled mine at last; he flipped me onto my back and held my wrists above my head. “Minx,” he muttered, kissing me. “You’ll pay for that.”

Read more of this excerpt on Beatriz’s site and try not to blush (and get reallllly excited to read more)! Seriously - how can you resist a book that includes an endearment of “minx”!?

Now - go read the book, find your own Julian, and let me know how it goes!

PS I’m not typically a romance reader either, so if that’s why you’re hesitating… just give it a chance!

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May 04 2012 ∞
lydiahirt: “Because you are defined, not by life’s imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running screaming from - the utter absurdity of life.”“Raccoons are totally OCD and they are driven to wash everything that they see, which you’d think would make them smell better, but it doesn’t because they smell all musky and vaguely sour, like one-night stands.”“…with the quiet dignity usually reserved for saints of catatonics.”“Oh, I wouldn’t know about such things. I’ve never even owned any coyote-face purses because I can never figure out what to wear with them.” Then Victor glared at me and told me I wouldn’t understand, and I agreed and blamed it all on my vagina, since it seemed like that’s what we were both doing at the moment.” I’m being forced to clean off my ereader due to lack of space for all our manuscripts for the Winter 2013 season, and I didn’t want to lose all these gems I highlighted from The Bloggess’ #1 bestselling memoir, LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED! Just the re-typing of these quotes made me want to read the book all over again, for both the laughter and the tears.

lydiahirt:

“Because you are defined, not by life’s imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running screaming from - the utter absurdity of life.”

“Raccoons are totally OCD and they are driven to wash everything that they see, which you’d think would make them smell better, but it doesn’t because they smell all musky and vaguely sour, like one-night stands.”

“…with the quiet dignity usually reserved for saints of catatonics.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t know about such things. I’ve never even owned any coyote-face purses because I can never figure out what to wear with them.” Then Victor glared at me and told me I wouldn’t understand, and I agreed and blamed it all on my vagina, since it seemed like that’s what we were both doing at the moment.”

I’m being forced to clean off my ereader due to lack of space for all our manuscripts for the Winter 2013 season, and I didn’t want to lose all these gems I highlighted from The Bloggess’ #1 bestselling memoir, LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED!

Just the re-typing of these quotes made me want to read the book all over again, for both the laughter and the tears.

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And you can now add Ladies’ Home Journal to the growing list of fans of OVERSEAS by Beatriz Williams (available May 10)! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes | Google

And you can now add Ladies’ Home Journal to the growing list of fans of OVERSEAS by Beatriz Williams (available May 10)!

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May 03 2012 ∞
Introducing THE Penguin Rep Pick of the summer: CITY OF WOMEN by David Gillham - available August 7th from Amy Einhorn/Putnam Books.The novel Alan Furst calls “extraordinary,” Paula McLain declares “powerful and piercingly real,” and Pam Jenoff proclaims “haunting and sensual” is now available for preorders! Here’s a glimpse into the book that already has bestselling authors and booksellers buzzing: It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime.But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former Jewish lover, who is now lost in the chaos of the war.Sigrid’s tedious existence is turned upside down when she finds herself hiding a mother and her two young daughters—whom she believes might be her lover’s family—and she must make terrifying choices that could cost her everything.  Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes

Introducing THE Penguin Rep Pick of the summer: CITY OF WOMEN by David Gillham - available August 7th from Amy Einhorn/Putnam Books.

The novel Alan Furst calls “extraordinary,” Paula McLain declares “powerful and piercingly real,” and Pam Jenoff proclaims “haunting and sensual” is now available for preorders! Here’s a glimpse into the book that already has bestselling authors and booksellers buzzing:

It is 1943—the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime.

But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former Jewish lover, who is now lost in the chaos of the war.

Sigrid’s tedious existence is turned upside down when she finds herself hiding a mother and her two young daughters—whom she believes might be her lover’s family—and she must make terrifying choices that could cost her everything.

 Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes

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May 01 2012 ∞
Look who came in the Penguin offices today to sign some books: the wonderful Ace Atkins, author of ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY (on sale TODAY) and THE LOST ONES (available May 31). Click here to read an excerpt of THE LOST ONES now! ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Google | IndieBound | Books-A-Million | iTunes THE LOST ONES Barnes & Noble | Amazon | IndieBound | Books-A-Million |Google

Look who came in the Penguin offices today to sign some books: the wonderful Ace Atkins, author of ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY (on sale TODAY) and THE LOST ONES (available May 31). Click here to read an excerpt of THE LOST ONES now!

ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY

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THE LOST ONES

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Apr 26 2012 ∞
More wonderful displays of Jenny Lawson’s LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED featuring Hamlet Von Schnitzel- Jenny’s taxidermied Shakespearean mouse! Left: Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA Center:Schuler Books & Music in Okemos, MI Right: Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, KS

More wonderful displays of Jenny Lawson’s LET’S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED featuring Hamlet Von Schnitzel- Jenny’s taxidermied Shakespearean mouse!

Left: Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA

Center:Schuler Books & Music in Okemos, MI

Right: Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, KS

Apr 25 2012 ∞
The wards of lower Manhattan (circa 1845) that are at the heart of Lyndsay Faye’s thriller THE GODS OF GOTHAM! Click here to enter to win your book club copies of the book AND specially concocted cocktails!    NPR’s Maureen Corrigan raves: “It’s been almost 20 years since Caleb Carr’s best-selling Olde New York crime novel, The Alienist, was published and I can’t count the number of times since then that someone has asked me if I can recommend a suspense story anything “like it.” Well, New York has inspired lots of terrific thrillers, but I’ve just stumbled on one of the worthiest successors yet. Lyndsay Faye’s novel, The Gods of Gotham. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | IndieBound | iTunes | Google | Sony | Kobo

The wards of lower Manhattan (circa 1845) that are at the heart of Lyndsay Faye’s thriller THE GODS OF GOTHAM! Click here to enter to win your book club copies of the book AND specially concocted cocktails!  

 NPR’s Maureen Corrigan raves:

“It’s been almost 20 years since Caleb Carr’s best-selling Olde New York crime novel, The Alienist, was published and I can’t count the number of times since then that someone has asked me if I can recommend a suspense story anything “like it.” Well, New York has inspired lots of terrific thrillers, but I’ve just stumbled on one of the worthiest successors yet. Lyndsay Faye’s novel, The Gods of Gotham.

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Apr 23 2012 ∞
Who peeked under their copy of THE WITNESS by Nora Roberts? Check out the 200th book seal!

Who peeked under their copy of THE WITNESS by Nora Roberts? Check out the 200th book seal!

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