A mid-century doctor’s raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter’s attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own is an unforgettable testament to the reaches of the mind and the redeeming power of a determined heart. Click to Read an Excerpt. Click to Request an […]
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Books make the best gifts! #GiveaBook For the reader on your “nice” list this holiday season, who enjoys investigative journalism and narrative nonfiction, here’s your chance to win a signed copy of the bestselling and award-winning, FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL! Enter To Win One Free Signed Copy! Six winners will be chosen at random. […]
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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic. “In his superb new book, The Invisible Front, Yochi Dreazen paints a deeply disturbing portrait of the overstretched United States Army, downsizing in Afghanistan while deploying against the […]
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A high profile publicity campaign will have your patrons eagerly adding their names to your holds list for 41 by George W. Bush! The Today Show; CBS Face The Nation and Sunday Morning; Fox News Channel programs: Hannity and Greta Van Susteren; a Parade magazine cover story; and a USA Today article are just the beginning of […]
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Award-winning novelist Suki Kim’s haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea’s elite during the last six months of Kim Jong Il’s reign—a moving and incalculably rare glimpse of life in the world’s most unknowable country, and at the privileged young men she calls “soldiers and slaves.” –Unprecedented access. –Author has deep […]
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Marie-Helene Bertino confessed to a room full of librarians that her “real” first novel was not in fact published by Crown. It was actually published by the Huntingdon Valley Library in Pennsylvania! She poured her 12 year old heart and soul into it, laying the groundwork for a talent that has now brought us her transporting debut novel, […]
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Happy National Library Week! The amazing debut we’d like to share with you today is THE GIRL IN THE ROAD by Monica Bryne! Why this book should be on your night stand: There is nothing like this. Lyrically written with sci-fi elements; worldly but not of one culture; spiritual but sharply intelligent—the sheer originality makes […]
