June 12, 2017
June 12, 2017Looking into the Book Future with BookExpo and BookCon! Good thing we rested up over Memorial Day weekend as the last days of May/first days of June made for a big week for publishing with both BookExpo and BookCon, held at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. From Wednesday to Friday, the annual BookExpo convention brought together publishing professionals, booksellers, librarians and bloggers, who came from across the world to learn about the upcoming books for fall, meet and greet beloved and debut authors, attend panels on publishing-related topics, and walk away with tote bags full of books to peruse and talk about. During the weekend, the BookCon event brought in readers from the general public to do much of the same. In essence, it was a five-day-long love fest of books and authors. In between business meetings, casual celeb sightings, and walking the floor to see what’s new and hot, two of our very own staffers each proudly moderated a panel with the Buzz authors, whose work was identified as a coveted "Buzz Book." Carol Fitzgerald, President and founder of The Book Report Network, moderated the adult Buzz Books panel of six super enthusiastic authors whose books are set for release later this year and into early 2018. As in the past, this event drew a standing-room only crowd, and attendees walked away buzzing about the upcoming releases. Click here to learn more about each of the titles. I’m confident you’re going to want to add all of them to your TBR list, but as a special note if thrillers are in your wheelhouse, you don’t want to miss THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (coming January 23, 2018) and UNRAVELING OLIVER (coming August 22nd). Rebecca Munro, Editorial Coordinator for Teenreads.com and Kidsreads.com, moderated a similar panel on Friday morning --- Young Adult Buzz Authors 2017. Again there was great attendance, the authors were incredibly engaging, and to no surprise, Rebecca blew it out of the water. Click here to learn more about the five titles. If you’re looking for two with strong 20something-crossover appeal, be sure to get your hands on BEASTS MADE OF NIGHT and DEAR MARTIN. If you’re looking for something to read now, look no further because our summer-long Beach Bag of Books Feature and Contest is now live! Click here to enter now through Monday, August 7th at noon ET for your chance to be one of five lucky readers who will win a copy of each of the featured titles. All of the seven books come highly recommended and make excellent beach reads, so scroll down to learn more about each one. Here are a few more recommendations for your reading pleasure: In Heather Gudenkauf's NOT A SOUND, a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf and she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing mystery that could shatter the carefully reconstructed pieces of her life all over again. As clues begin to surface, Amelia finds herself swept into an investigation that hits all too close to home. But how much is she willing to risk in order to uncover the truth and bring a killer to justice? Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, our unnamed narrator finds that her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality in Weike Wang's CHEMISTRY. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want? In J. Courtney Sullivan's SAINTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS, Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan --- a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand. Fifty years later, Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family with four grown children. Estranged from her sister, Theresa is a cloistered nun, living in an abbey in rural Vermont. Until, after decades of silence, a sudden death forces Nora and Theresa to confront the choices they made so long ago. Until next time, happy reading! 5 Things To Obsess About This Very Moment, in no particular order: --- Nicole Sherman Beach Bag of Books 2017 Feature + ContestIt's time to think about summer reading. We're talking about the kinds of books that you're glad you now have time to kick back with and enjoy. The way we see it, it wouldn't be summer without sun, surf and great reading. You supply the beach chair, and we'll provide the fantastic book ideas in our Sixth Annual Beach Bag of Books Feature and Contest. Enter now through Monday, August 7th at noon ET for your chance to be one of five lucky readers who will win a copy of each of the books listed below. This year's featured titles include:
ReviewsCHEMISTRY by Weike Wang (Fiction) COME SUNDOWN by Nora Roberts (Romantic Suspense) CRIME SONG by David Swinson (Mystery) THE DINNER PARTY AND OTHER STORIES by Joshua Ferris (Fiction/Short Stories) A DOG'S WAY HOME by W. Bruce Cameron (Fiction) DRAGON TEETH by Michael Crichton (Historical Thriller/Adventure) EXIT STRATEGY: A Nick Mason Novel by Steve Hamilton (Thriller) THE LIGHT WE LOST by Jill Santopolo (Fiction) THE LONG DROP by Denise Mina (Historical/Psychological Thriller) LOU: Fifty Years of Kicking Dirt, Playing Hard, and Winning Big in the Sweet Spot of Baseball by Lou Piniella with Bill Madden (Sports/Memoir) NOT A SOUND by Heather Gudenkauf (Mystery/Thriller) THE ONLY CHILD by Andrew Pyper (Gothic Horror/Thriller) RISE AND SHINE, BENEDICT STONE by Phaedra Patrick (Fiction) SAINTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS by J. Courtney Sullivan (Fiction) SHADOW MAN by Alan Drew (Psychological Suspense) TOUCH by Courtney Maum (Fiction) TROPHY SON by Douglas Brunt (Fiction) Young Adult ReviewsA COURT OF WINGS AND RUIN by Sarah J. Maas (Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction) HOW DARE THE SUN RISE: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana and Abigail Pesta (Biography, Culture, Nonfiction, Social Issues, Young Adult 12+) Don't forget to forward this newsletter to a friend or to visit the websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: |