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Last week, I told you about United for Libraries’ terrific author panels at ALA: Crossing Over: Teen Books for Everyone!, Quirky Books for Quirkier Librarians, Shoot Between the Lines: Mystery Writers Reveal All, and First Author, First Book. That’s 22 authors on four panels in two days, and I’m reading every title. I can currently [...]
Anna Badkhen’s The World Is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village; Dan Beachy-Quick’s An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky; Will Ferguson’s 419; and nine more.
So many books, so little time. That’s the problem with cruising the show floor at the American Library Association conference, which is why Library Journal has a galley guide especially for you. The guide has been my sole focus this week, as I’ve wrapped up all my December 2013 coverage. So you can do two [...]
So many books, such little time to prowl the aisles at the American Library Association conference in Chicago at the end of this month, June 27–July 2. Fortunately, Library Journal is again offering a galley and signing guide that should help you find what you want. Interested in Sophie McKenzie’s Close My Eyes, in advanced [...]
One of the best things about American Library Association conferences is the presentation of author panels by United for Libraries—and I should know, because I’ve been lucky enough to introduce them for more than 15 years, starting back with Friends of the Libraries USA before it joined up with ALA. The authors are always sharp, [...]
Aiden, Erez & Jean-Baptiste Michel. Uncharted: Big Data and an Emerging Science of Human History. Riverhead: Penguin Group (USA). Dec. 2013. 256p. ISBN 9781594487453. $27.95. SCIENCE/HISTORY Harvard Society Fellow Aiden and Harvard University scientist Michel, a 2012 TED Fellow recently named one of Forbes’s “30 under 30,” here address a hot (indeed, controversial) topic: mining [...]
Andersen, Laura. The Boleyn Deceit. Ballantine. Dec. 2013. 400p. ISBN 9780345534118. pap. $15; ebk. ISBN 9780345534125. HISTORICAL Andersen recently launched a Tudor trilogy with The Boleyn King, which imagines that Anne Boleyn gave birth to a lusty baby boy who would become king of England. Here, Henry IX, called William by intimates, has passed through [...]
Bradlee, Ben, Jr. The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams. Little, Brown. Dec. 2013. 784p. ISBN 9780316614351. $30; ebk. ISBN 9780316084482; lib. ebk. ISBN 9780316163712. CD: Hachette Audio. BIOGRAPHY/SPORTS On leave from 25 distinguished years as a reporter and then deputy managing editor at the Boston Globe, Bradlee gives us a biography of [...]
A list of Prepub Alert titles from the June 1 issue.
A list of 61 new exciting fiction titles.
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