We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that public library staff across the nation have selected four Random House titles for the June 2015 LibraryReads Top Ten list, including this month’s top pick! Click to prepare for your June Readers’ Advisory. The Truth According to Us: A Novel (#2) by Annie Barrows (The Dial […]
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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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Get ready to hit the beach with some of our favorite books coming out in June. Click through to request eGalleys, and if you love the read, please consider nominating one (or more) for LibraryReads! Remember voting for the June 2015 List ends on 4/20. PIRATE HUNTERS: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship by […]
Judy Blume and I have something in common. How cool is that? We both loved Swimming, by Nicola Keegan. You’ve read my take on the book (and if you were at ALA you saw it on the Staff Picks table as one of my selections) now here’s Judy’s: “I loved Swimming. It’s the most original novel […]
Next week is Banned Books Week, a time to celebrate our right as Americans to read books of our own choosing, and a time to keep the issues of censorship and banned books front and center. Random House has put together a “First Amendment First Aid Kit” to help your library celebrate this week and […]
Just out today, In plenty of time for Banned Books Week comes the third volume of RHI magazine, an annual publication produced by our academic marketing department. This time around, we have articles from Ray Bradbury, Lois Lowry, Salman Rushdie, Billy Collins and Judy Blume, a new poem from Maya Angelou, and contributions from many […]
