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My Grandfather’s Coat
June 18, 2014Award-winning, bestselling team of Jim Aylesworth and Barbara McClintock come together once again for My Grandfather's Coat (Scholastic, October 2014)-- a rollicking, rhyming, fun rendition of a favorite folksong about a many-times recycled coat.
The Pushcart War, 50th anniversary edition
June 17, 2014The New York Review of Books is releasing a 50th anniversary edition of Jean Merrill's classic The Pushcart War (illustrated by Ronni Solbert) this September. The New York Times Book Review originally called it “An utterly captivating book." An audio READ MORE
And This is Laura
June 17, 2014Ellen Conford's young adult novel originally published in 1977 is coming back to shelves with a new edition by Lizzie Skurnick Books. And This Is Laura (July 2014) is the hilarious story of an average girl in a family of overachievers READ MORE
Lancelot, June Kindle Deal
June 4, 2014Walker Percy’s novel LANCELOT, a tale of degeneracy, honor and the challenges of adjusting to the modern age, is a June Kindle Deal! Percy’s story of the disenchanted lawyer Lancelot Lamar is "a funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . READ MORE
I Am Livia
May 25, 2014Phyllis Smith’s debut novel, I AM LIVIA (Lake Union - May 2014), is a #1 Kindle bestseller! The book, chronicling the epic romance between Livia and Caesar Augustus, is “a wonderful journey to ancient Rome that provides amazing, thoughtful insight into READ MORE
Unmasking Juliet
May 20, 2014Teri Wilson's newest novel, UNMASKING JULIET (Harlequin - May 2014), is a charming modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, where two confectioners fall in love despite the generations-old feud between their families’ Napa Valley chocolate shops. Wilson concocts "a delightful READ MORE
The Weird Sisters, World Book Night
April 30, 2014Eleanor Brown’s New York Times bestselling novel, THE WEIRD SISTERS (Amy Einhorn - Feb. 2011) was selected for World Book Night 2014, which distributed thousands of copies of the book to unlikely readers. The novel, which People calls “delightful,” chronicles READ MORE
Tobacco Road is #1 on Kindle
April 12, 2014TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell hits #1 in the Kindle Store! This classic work set during the Great Depression was adapted into Broadway’s longest-running play and has sold over 10 million copies. Even 80 years after its initial publication, this READ MORE