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Oprah’s Book Club Selects THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD!

August 2, 2016October 20, 2016 Written by rhjen

We’re thrilled to share that OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and O, The Oprah Magazine announces the newest Oprah’s Book Club 2016 selection, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday). The Underground Railroad is on-sale today, Tuesday, August 2, 2016, at bookstores, online retailers and wherever books are sold, as well as at public libraries across the country. […]

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Who Wants an ARC of Judy Blume's IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT?

April 10, 2015 Written by rhjen

IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT by Judy Blume is our #FridayReads title. We’re loving it so much, we’re feeling generous, so we’re going to mail ARCs to 50 lucky librarians. Click on the link at the bottom of this post, and you just may be one of them! And we’re not the only ones loving […]

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Celebrate Short Story Month with Vintage Shorts!

April 9, 2015 Written by rhjen

May is Short Story Month and, to celebrate, Vintage Shorts is releasing one short story in eBook format every day of the month—including one never-before-published eOriginal each week! Featuring short stories from Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Booker Prize winning authors, these low-price eBooks are perfect for […]

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The Strangest Thing in Your Library

January 21, 2015 Written by rhjen

In honor of the publication of Haruki Murakami’s THE STRANGE LIBRARY, we asked librarians to show us: what is the strangest thing in your library? From telephone booths to bathtubs to a Chuckie Santa…you do have some strange items in the stacks! We had a tough time choosing a winner, but we did. Drumroll please… […]

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Anne Tyler on Librarians

January 14, 2015 Written by rhjen

“In 1954, when I was thirteen, Hurricane Hazel hit town just as the school day was ending. I had to walk from school to the public library, where my father always picked me up after work because we lived out in the country. No one had foreseen that the hurricane would come so far inland, […]

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March Random Reads

January 7, 2015 Written by rhjen

Looking ahead to March, here are some of our top picks. Click through to request eGalleys and, if you love the reads, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads. March nominations are due by January 20th. GIRL IN THE DARK: A MEMOIR Anna was living a normal life. She was ambitious and worked hard; she had […]

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Reminder: Host a Readathon at Your Library!

January 5, 2015 Written by rhjen

Happy New Year! Now that we’ve made it to 2015, we wanted to remind you about the upcoming event created by The National Book Foundation, GoodReads, Mashable and Penguin Random House—National Readathon Day, which will take place on Saturday, January 24, 12-4 p.m. (in each respective time zone). Under the program, readers are asked to read […]

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Happy Holidays!

December 23, 2014 Written by rhjen

As 2014 comes to a close, we want to thank you all for your passion and dedication to our books and authors—we couldn’t do it without you! We’ve got another great year ahead of us with new books from authors Cara Black, Sara Gruen, Erik Larson, and Toni Morrison (to drop a few names). Rest […]

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