Inside a drawer in my office desk sits a stash of manilla envelopes. Inside each are some of the letters I have collected over a span of nearly twenty years from high school students across the U.S. In these writings, the students share with me, often quite poignantly, what impact reading The Kite Runner has had on their lives.

A Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs is summoned to rural Oklahoma to investigate the disappearance of two women…one of them her sister.

Penguin Random House Library Marketing will be exhibiting at the Urban Librarians Conference: We Didn’t Start the Fire on Friday, September 22nd. This virtual gathering is hosted by Urban Librarians Unite, a passionate group of urban library professionals and advocates working to build community centered 21st Century Libraries.

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the October 2023 LibraryReads Top Ten List.