The Restaurant Critic’s Wife, Elizabeth LaBan, Lake Union/Amazon–THE RESTAURANT CRITIC’S WIFE is a charming portrait of the complexities of life that many women face when dealing with their marriages, their children, their friendships, and their careers.
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After the Parade, Lori Ostlund, Scribner–Aaron Englund’s life is divided – before and after the parade, before and after his mother leaves and before and after he leaves Walter. Trying to make it on his own in San Francisco, he finds he has to make sense of his years of growing up in small-town Minnesota . . .
Read MorePEN is excited to introduce the 2016 Literary Awards judges—a distinguished group of writers, translators, and editors from across the country. Click hereto learn more about each judge, and mark your calendar for announcements...
Read MoreThe film adaptation of David Ebershoff’s debut novel, The Danish Girl was first optioned fifteen years ago and was close to going into production many times. Finally February 2015 the filming began. On sound stages in...
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The Girl who Buried her Dreams in a Can, Dr. Tererai Trent, Viking — Dr. Tererai Trent, in her personal story, tells in an inspirational children’s story how she overcame punishing obstacles to fulfill her dream of being educated.
Read MoreBarnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the NOOK Audiobooks App for iPhone and iPad and a new...
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Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, Kathryn Harrison, Anchor Books–Revered and reviled in almost equal measure during her short tumultuous life, Joan of Arc is still a popular and contentious figure nearly six hundred years after her death.
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At the Water’s Edge, Sara Gruen–Maddie Hyde and her husband Ellis have been cast out of Philadelphia’s polite society from notoriety and bitter disappointment. Together they cross the Atlantic during WWII submarine warfare to a remote Scottish village with the hope of redeeming themselves and the family name.
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A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka, Lev Golinkin, Anchor Books–When Lev Golinkin and his Jewish family escaped the Russian-dominated eastern Ukraine city of Kharkov in 1990, they were allowed to take only a few possessions. Nine-year-old Lev chose to take his stuffed bear and a backpack.
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The Bookseller, Cynthia Swanson, Harper Collins–As Cynthia Swanson’s novel The Bookseller begins we are with Kitty Miller, a thirty-eight-year-old single bookseller, when she wakes up in a bed that is not her own and discovers an alternate life in which she is a married mother of three children.
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