Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Watch William Landay on Our Returning Favorites Panel. One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in […]
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Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the April 2023 LibraryReads Top Ten List. Request eGalleys for Your April Readers’ Advisory. Natural Beauty: A Novel by Ling Ling Huang Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. […]
Dear Librarians: My name is Elizabeth McKenzie, and I’d like to thank all of the librarians and libraries across the country who put my last novel, The Portable Veblen, on their shelves and recommended it to readers. With librarian Linus in Veblen and now with librarian Hugh in The Dog of the North, it seems […]
Do you know those rooms, homes, and buildings that are so burned in your mind they become the background for your imagination? One of those settings for me is the Missoula Public Library, a two-story structure from the ‘70s, with a dark, cozy basement, and a long, indoor ramp paved with stones that I’d climb […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter. Birmingham is in its heyday, known as the […]
The New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) and Penguin Random House’s Library Marketing are partnering to present Indie Press Spring Wednesdays. Every Wednesday from 12:00 – 2:00 pm ET, SNFL visitors will have an opportunity to meet with a New York-based independent publisher and discover some of their unique and inspiring titles. […]
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Request eGalleys of some of our favorite May titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the May list ends on 4/1. Click to Request eGalleys of These May Titles and More. The Ferryman: A Novel by Justin Cronin From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a […]
