We are happy to share the wonderful news that public library staff across the nation have selected five Penguin Random House titles for the January 2016 LibraryReads Top Ten list, including the top pick! Click to prepare for your January Readers’ Advisory. My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel (Top Pick!) By Elizabeth Strout (Random House) […]
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Based on Bill Bryson’s memoir of the same name, A Walk in the Woods is an adventure comedy biopic about rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The film, starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Mary Steenburgen, Nick Offerman, Emma Thompson, and Kristen Schaal, hits theatres on September 2nd. After spending two decades in England, celebrated travel humorist Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) […]
Robert Redford has announced that he will star opposite Nick Nolte in the film adaptation of Bill Bryson’s bestselling book A WALK IN THE WOODS. Redford has long wanted to make a film of the book and star in it as the travel writer. e
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In ONE SUMMER Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature events of the twentieth century: on May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first man to cross the Atlantic by […]
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What Fall books are you excited to recommend? Here are a few of our favorites, coming in October. LONGBOURN by JO BAKER In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. And, there is just as much romance, heartbreak, and intrigue downstairs at Longbourn as there is upstairs. “Irresistible […]
