Monday, December 26, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Book + Trailer: Taft 2012, by Jason Heller
(@jason_m_heller)
Meet William Howard Taft. He's back, and he's the biggest thing in politics.
Paid for by the Citizens to Reelect William Howard Taft
Taft 2012
www.taft2012.com
(From the YouTube description)
Meet William Howard Taft. He's back, and he's the biggest thing in politics.
Paid for by the Citizens to Reelect William Howard Taft
Taft 2012
www.taft2012.com
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Book Trailer: The Beggar's Opera, by Peggy Blair
(@peggy_blair)
The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series.
(From the YouTube description)
The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series.
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Michael Scott
(@flamelauthor)
Watch the amazing trailer for The Alchemyst, the first action-packed thriller in his bestselling The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.
What would you do it you held the secret which could end the world?
Josh and Sophie arrive at their summer jobs expecting just another ordinary day. But their whole world is about to change....
www.thealchemyst.co.uk
www.nicholasflamel.co.uk.
(From the YouTube description)
Watch the amazing trailer for The Alchemyst, the first action-packed thriller in his bestselling The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.
What would you do it you held the secret which could end the world?
Josh and Sophie arrive at their summer jobs expecting just another ordinary day. But their whole world is about to change....
www.thealchemyst.co.uk
www.nicholasflamel.co.uk.
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, November 28, 2011
LADY GAGA x TERRY RICHARDSON, by Lady Gaga
@ladygaga reads the foreword she wrote to open her new book LADY GAGA x TERRY RICHARDSON, available wherever books are sold on 1. Pre-order at www.ladygagaxterryrichardsonthebook.com
(From the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: Goodnight iPad: a Parody for the next generation, by Ann Droyd
A witty parody picture book for the gadget-crazy kid in all of us.
GOODNIGHT iPAD is a gentle reminder to power down at the end of the day. It will make you laugh, and it will also help you wrest yourself away from your gadgets and put yourself -- and your machines -- to sleep. Don't worry, though. Your gadgets will be waiting for you, fully charged, in the morning.
(From the YouTube description)
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Book + Trailer: Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers
(@OliverJeffers)
Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Watch this fantastic video reading by Oliver himself.
(From the YouTube description)
Delightful chaos ensues when a young boy gets his kite stuck up a tree in this laugh-out-loud new picture book from award-winning, internationally best-selling author-illustrator Oliver Jeffers! Watch this fantastic video reading by Oliver himself.
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Book + Trailer: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
( @ransomriggs)
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
Credits:
Written and directed by Ransom Riggs
Cinematography by Charles Haine and Ransom Riggs
Boy: Zachary Haas
Grandfather: Paul Gregory
Music composed by Michael Picton
(From the YouTube description)
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
Credits:
Written and directed by Ransom Riggs
Cinematography by Charles Haine and Ransom Riggs
Boy: Zachary Haas
Grandfather: Paul Gregory
Music composed by Michael Picton
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Book + "Trailer": Marcel the Shell With Shoes On: Things About Me, by Jenny Slate
(@jennyslate25)
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Written by Dean Fleischer-Camp + Jenny Slate
Starring Jenny Slate as "Marcel"
***Read our new picture book MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON: THINGS ABOUT ME, out now!***
www.penguin.com/Marcel
(From the YouTube description)
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Written by Dean Fleischer-Camp + Jenny Slate
Starring Jenny Slate as "Marcel"
***Read our new picture book MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON: THINGS ABOUT ME, out now!***
www.penguin.com/Marcel
(From the YouTube description)
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Book + Trailer + Music: Breathe Owl Breathe - The Listeners / These Train Tracks
After years of writing one-off children's stories, Micah Middaugh has created a limited edition canvas-covered book that reads from the outside covers inward, ending at the center. And in the middle, slipped between a hand cranked copper block printed sleeve, are two new Breathe Owl Breathe songs pressed onto black 70 gram 7" vinyl. A project that took close to 3 years to complete, and all within the confines of his home studio (Cavern Lantern Wonder Welding) in the Jordan River Valley of Northern Michigan. Every single cover, page, sleeve, and block was made in Michigan.
Breathe Owl Breathe - The Listeners / These Train Tracks
RAD 006 - Book / 7"
Release: 12/6/11
1. The Listeners (The Mole & The Ostrich) [4:49 / 26 pages]
2. These Train Tracks [3:41 / 26 pages]
www.breatheowlbreathe.com || www.whatisrad.com
Copyright 2011 by Breathe Owl Breathe
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Book + Trailer: Confessions of a Guidette, by Nicole Polizzi
Monday, October 17, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Book + Trailer: You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness, by Julie Klam
(@JulieKlam)
The secrets of love, health, and happiness gleaned from a life lived with dogs from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Woof and Love At First Bark.
Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, unable to meet a man she could spend her life with. And then it happened: she had a dream about a Boston terrier- a dream that practically hit her over the head. The companion she needed was not necessarily the one she'd had in mind.
As fate would have it, a dog is exactly the thing that she needed. The New York Times bestselling You Had Me at Woof is the often-hilarious and always charming story of one woman's discovery of all she really needed to learn about life through her relationships with her canine companions. Klam shares how her love for dogs and the lessons she's learned caring for them has shaped her heart. This is a funny, earnest, and emotionally compelling look at the surprises, pleasures, and revelations that happen when you let any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world.
(From the YouTube description)
The secrets of love, health, and happiness gleaned from a life lived with dogs from the bestselling author of You Had Me At Woof and Love At First Bark.
Julie Klam was thirty, single, and working as a part-time clerk in an insurance company, unable to meet a man she could spend her life with. And then it happened: she had a dream about a Boston terrier- a dream that practically hit her over the head. The companion she needed was not necessarily the one she'd had in mind.
As fate would have it, a dog is exactly the thing that she needed. The New York Times bestselling You Had Me at Woof is the often-hilarious and always charming story of one woman's discovery of all she really needed to learn about life through her relationships with her canine companions. Klam shares how her love for dogs and the lessons she's learned caring for them has shaped her heart. This is a funny, earnest, and emotionally compelling look at the surprises, pleasures, and revelations that happen when you let any mutt, beagle, terrier, or bulldog go charging through your world.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
The Visible Man, by Chuck Klosterman
Book trailer for bestselling author @CKlosterman's new novel.
[Directed by Charles Haine; produced by Dirty Robber]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Book + Trailer: A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness
(@Patrick_Ness) and illustrated by Jim Kay
Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting-- he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, October 3, 2011
Liesl & Po, by Lauren Oliver
Enter the world of Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver (@OliverBooks) with an animated book trailer featuring the official Liesl & Po song: "A Train with Wings."
Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice—until one night a ghost appears from the darkness. It is Po, who comes from the Other Side. Both Liesl and Po are lonely, but together they are less alone.
That same night, an alchemist's apprentice, Will, bungles an important delivery. He accidentally switches a box containing the most powerful magic in the world with one containing something decidedly less remarkable.
Will's mistake has tremendous consequences for Liesl and Po, and it draws the three of them together on an extraordinary journey.
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous and magnificent novel that glows with rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the darkest of places.
Discover the world at http://www.lieslandpo.com
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Book + Trailer: A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness
(@Patrick_Ness]
The monster showed up just after midnight.
As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.
Carnegie and Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself.
A Monster Calls is an absolutely unmissable novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.
http://www.patrickness.com
http://www.facebook.com/patricknessfanpage
(From the YouTube description)
The monster showed up just after midnight.
As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... The monster in his back garden, though, this monster is something different. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.
Carnegie and Costa Award winner Patrick Ness spins a tale from the final idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself.
A Monster Calls is an absolutely unmissable novel of coming to terms with loss from two of our finest writers for young adults.
http://www.patrickness.com
http://www.facebook.com/patricknessfanpage
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Book + Trailer: Dark Inside, by Jeyn Roberts
(@JeynRoberts)
In a world gone mad
4 will fight to survive
Something bad is about to happen. A lot of people are going to die and it's only the beginning.
A murderous rage has been unleashed. Moments after earthquakes rock the world, people start to change in the most terrifying ways. Friends turn in on friends, girlfriends on boyfriends, brothers on sisters. Nobody can be trusted.
For those who survive the first wave of killing, the world is a different, deadlier place. Michael, Aries, Mason and Clementine must battle to stay alive in a world determined to kill them. All they have is one another... but can they even be sure of that?
http://www.mykindabook.com/Books/Dark-Inside
http://www.mykindabook.com/Authors/Jeyn-Roberts
(From the YouTube description)
In a world gone mad
4 will fight to survive
Something bad is about to happen. A lot of people are going to die and it's only the beginning.
A murderous rage has been unleashed. Moments after earthquakes rock the world, people start to change in the most terrifying ways. Friends turn in on friends, girlfriends on boyfriends, brothers on sisters. Nobody can be trusted.
For those who survive the first wave of killing, the world is a different, deadlier place. Michael, Aries, Mason and Clementine must battle to stay alive in a world determined to kill them. All they have is one another... but can they even be sure of that?
http://www.mykindabook.com/Books/Dark-Inside
http://www.mykindabook.com/Authors/Jeyn-Roberts
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, September 16, 2011
Book + Trailer: I Am Maru, by mugumogu
Everyone's favorite cat in a box is back in action with his new book, I Am Maru. Check him out hopping in the box the books came in!
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, September 12, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Name of the Star (Shades of London), by Maureen Johnson
(@maureenjohnson)
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper events of more than a century ago.
Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
READ AN EXCERPT: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63600546/The-Name-of-the-Star-Shades-of-London-1-by...
(From the YouTube description)
The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper events of more than a century ago.
Soon "Rippermania" takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn't notice the mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
READ AN EXCERPT: http://www.scribd.com/doc/63600546/The-Name-of-the-Star-Shades-of-London-1-by...
(From the YouTube description)
Pretty, by Jillian Lauren
Book trailer for the new novel by @jillylauren, @nytimes bestselling author of SOME GIRLS: My Life in a Harem.
Directed by Aaron Nardi. Music by Scott Shriner. Still photographs by D.J. Mendel.
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Book + Trailer: You Deserve Nothing, by Alexander Maksik
(@AlexanderMaksik)
Directed by John McNulty. Available now from Europa Editions.
(From the YouTube description)
Directed by John McNulty. Available now from Europa Editions.
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Black Prism (Lightbringer), by Brent Weeks
A book trailer for @brentweeks' BLACK PRISM, directed by Leo Kei Angelos.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Book + Trailer: Shut Out, by Kody Keplinger
Sophomore novel from @Kody_Keplinger
"Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part,Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy's car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend's attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players' girlfriends go on a hookup strike."
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Book + Trailer: Happy Accidents, by Jane Lynch
@janemarielynch intimidates shoppers in a bookstore to get her new book, HAPPY ACCIDENTS, front and center.
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: The Apothecary, by Maile Meloy
(@mailemeloy)
It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin's father is kidnapped, Janie and Benjamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecary's sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia, in order to find him, all while keeping it out of the hands of their enemies - Russian spies in possession of nuclear weapons. Discovering and testing potions they never believed could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the apothecary and prevent impending disaster.
Together with Ian Schoenherr's breathtaking illustrations, this is a truly stunning package from cover to cover.
ON SALE OCTOBER 4, 2011!
www.theapothecarybook.com
(From the YouTube description)
It's 1952 and the Scott family has just moved from Los Angeles to London. Here, fourteen-year-old Janie meets a mysterious apothecary and his son, Benjamin Burrows - a fascinating boy who's not afraid to stand up to authority and dreams of becoming a spy. When Benjamin's father is kidnapped, Janie and Benjamin must uncover the secrets of the apothecary's sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia, in order to find him, all while keeping it out of the hands of their enemies - Russian spies in possession of nuclear weapons. Discovering and testing potions they never believed could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous race to save the apothecary and prevent impending disaster.
Together with Ian Schoenherr's breathtaking illustrations, this is a truly stunning package from cover to cover.
ON SALE OCTOBER 4, 2011!
www.theapothecarybook.com
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater
(@mstiefvater)
Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the blood-stained water. Every year, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. To race the savage water horses can be suicide. But the danger is irresistible...
A stunning new standalone fantasy from the best-selling author of SHIVER and LINGER.
(From the YouTube description)
Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the blood-stained water. Every year, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. To race the savage water horses can be suicide. But the danger is irresistible...
A stunning new standalone fantasy from the best-selling author of SHIVER and LINGER.
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Book + Trailer: One Love, by Cedella Marley
This heartwarming picture book, based on one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, brings his joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics to life for a new generation. Adapted by Cedella Marley, Bob Marley's oldest child, and vibrantly illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, One Love depicts the positive groove of change, showing one girl's journey as she enlists her friends, family, and community to help transform their neighborhood for the better.
Cedella says, "When my father sang 'One Love,' he felt it all the way—heart and soul, mind and body. He thought a world united by love was possible, and it is. All we've got to do, he said, is 'Give a little, take a little.' " One Love animates this sentiment and passes on an important message about the strength of love and community. Perfect for families everywhere, this charming story is a colorful and upbeat testament to the amazing things that can happen when we all get together with one love in our hearts.
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Book + Trailer: Machine Man, by Max Barry
(@MaxBarry)
MACHINE MAN by Max Barry (author of "Syrup", "Jennifer Government", "Company"): *** OUT AUGUST 9, 2011 *** http://maxbarry.com/machineman
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts.
Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon.
"Machine Man" is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
http://maxbarry.com/machineman
MACHINE MAN by Max Barry (author of "Syrup", "Jennifer Government", "Company"): *** OUT AUGUST 9, 2011 *** http://maxbarry.com/machineman
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts.
Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon.
"Machine Man" is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
http://maxbarry.com/machineman
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Book + Trailer: Children of Paranoia, by Trevor Shane
(@childofparanoia) Break the rules, become the target.
Children of Paranoia is the first novel in a trilogy by Trevor Shane. On Sale September 8, 2011.
http://www.childrenofparanoia.com
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Implosion of Aggie Winchester, by Lara Zielin
(@larazielin)
My Kirkus review for 'Aggie Winchester' was so brutal, my friend turned it into a black metal song, which we turned into a video. Rock on, readers!
(From the YouTube description)
My Kirkus review for 'Aggie Winchester' was so brutal, my friend turned it into a black metal song, which we turned into a video. Rock on, readers!
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Book + Trailer: "You: A Novel", by Joanna Briscoe
Cecilia is obsessively in love with her teacher, the older, married Mr. Dahl. She plots and speculates, yet she never guesses that what she dreams of could actually happen. Is it her imagination, or is the high-minded Mr. Dahl responding to her?
Cecilia's mother Dora wants the good life. She and her husband moved to Dartmoor so their children could run wild, free to make their own choices and mistakes. But Dora discovers that there is more to the countryside idyll, and indeed to her own marriage, than she assumed, when she finds herself fascinated by the very last, the very worst person she could fall for: the elegant and dangerous Elisabeth Dahl.
Now, after twenty years, Cecilia is coming home, to face Dora, and to face her past. But the excitement and pain she had thought were buried cannot be buried. The past is a dangerous place.
You, the unnerving and exceptional new novel from Joanna Briscoe, is a stunning story of sex, memory and family lies.
http://bloomsbury.com/You/Joanna-Briscoe/books/details/9780747598992
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
[Book + Trailer] Bad Girls Don't Die: From Bad to Cursed, by Katie Alender
(@KatieAlender)
Zendaya (From Disney Channel's Shake It Up!) stars in the trailer for Katie Alender's new novel, BAD GIRLS DON'T DIE: FROM BAD TO CURSED, available now from Hyperion!
http://katiealender.com
http://facebook.com/KatieAlenderBooks
http://twitter.com/KatieAlender
http://zendaya.com
http://twitter.com/Zendaya96
Music by Lovett: "The Signal Waltz, 1st Movement" - available on Amazon and iTunes
http://www.lovettmusic.com/
(From the YouTube description)
Zendaya (From Disney Channel's Shake It Up!) stars in the trailer for Katie Alender's new novel, BAD GIRLS DON'T DIE: FROM BAD TO CURSED, available now from Hyperion!
http://katiealender.com
http://facebook.com/KatieAlenderBooks
http://twitter.com/KatieAlender
http://zendaya.com
http://twitter.com/Zendaya96
Music by Lovett: "The Signal Waltz, 1st Movement" - available on Amazon and iTunes
http://www.lovettmusic.com/
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, May 27, 2011
Book + Trailer: Wire to Wire, by Scott Sparling
(@Sparling)
Scott Sparling takes his editor, Tony Perez, on something of a tour of his debut novel.
tinhouse.com
Learn more about Scott at: scottsparling.net
Directed by Zak Davis
Produced by Zak Davis & Jayson Bosteder
Shot by Jayson Bosteder & Everett Yockey
Edited by Jayson Bosteder & Adam Souza
Sound Design by Matt Harmon
Scott Sparling takes his editor, Tony Perez, on something of a tour of his debut novel.
tinhouse.com
Learn more about Scott at: scottsparling.net
Directed by Zak Davis
Produced by Zak Davis & Jayson Bosteder
Shot by Jayson Bosteder & Everett Yockey
Edited by Jayson Bosteder & Adam Souza
Sound Design by Matt Harmon
(From the vimeo description)
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Book + Trailer: Man with a Pan, by John Donohue
(@StayAtStoveDad) Daddy Does Dinner! The first video in Parent Earth's and Algonquin Books' series celebrating dads in the kitchen features John Donohue, editor of "Man with a Pan -- Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families." In this send-up of a 1950's film noir, Donohue creates harmony out of chaos by stepping into the kitchen to cook. Contributors to the book include Chef Mario Batali, Mark Bitman, Stephan King, Matt Greenberg, Paul Greenberg, Shankar Vedantam, Sean Wilsey and others!
find more videos about food for parents at http://www.parentearth.com/
GET THE BOOK and read John Donohue's blog:http://www.stayatstovedad.com/
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Book + Trailer: Rotters, by Daniel Kraus
@DanielDKraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.
To learn more, visit:http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385738576
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, April 4, 2011
Book + Trailer: All That Is Bitter and Sweet: A Memoir, by Ashley Judd
@AshleyTJudd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world.
Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, "I will never forget you," Ashley began writing extraordinary diaries—on which this memoir is based—expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.
Along the way, Ashley realized that the coping strategies she had developed to deal with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment, were no longer working. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Ashley found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but an expanded kit of spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.
Now, in this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Ashley Judd describes her odyssey, as a left-behind lost child attains international prominence as a fiercely dedicated advocate. Her story ranges from anger to forgiveness, isolation to interdependence, depression to activism. In telling it, she resoundingly answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Troubled Man, by Henning Mankell
The much-anticipated return of Henning Mankell's brilliant, brooding detective, Kurt Wallander.
On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter's future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won't keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he's become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/201002/the-troubled-man-by-henning-mankell
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Book + Trailer: Where She Went, by Gayle Forman
(@gayleforman)
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future-and each other.
ON SALE APRIL 6, 2011
www.WhereSheWent.com
(From the YouTube description)
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future-and each other.
ON SALE APRIL 6, 2011
www.WhereSheWent.com
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Book + Trailer: Invincible (The Chronicles of Nick), by Sherrilyn Kenyon
(@kenyonsherrilyn)
Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse...
Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.
His new principal thinks he's even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can't even mention and the girl he's not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.
But more than that, he's being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn't learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them...
Book Excerpt: http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/book_profile.php?id=93
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse...
Nick Gautier's day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.
His new principal thinks he's even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can't even mention and the girl he's not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.
But more than that, he's being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn't learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them...
Book Excerpt: http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/book_profile.php?id=93
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Friday, March 18, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Book Trailer: My Life Undecided, by Jessica Brody
Coming June 7, 2011! By @JessicaBrody, a new young adult novel from the best selling author. Available wherever books are sold.
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: Royal Wedding: William and Kate Dress-Up Dolly Book
Celebrate William and Kate's royal romance that has captured the hearts of people around the globe with this charming paper doll book. This fully illustrated book contains lifelike cut-out figures of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton, and includes a variety of delightful outfits to mix-and-match. Children will have hours of fun dressing up their favourite prince and princess. The book also contains interesting facts about their budding romance, engagement and forthcoming marriage. This beautiful paper doll book is the perfect gift for children, paper doll fans and anyone who is thrilled by the magic of a royal wedding.
http://books.ladybird.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781409390701,00.html
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Book + Trailer: If You Knew Then What I Know Now, by Ryan Van Meter
(@Ifyouknewthen)
"@SarabandeBooks presents a short film by Tucker Capps, inspired by "First" from Ryan Van Meter's debut essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now.
Music by Goldmund, courtesy of Western Vinyl."
(Adapted from the Vimeo description)
"@SarabandeBooks presents a short film by Tucker Capps, inspired by "First" from Ryan Van Meter's debut essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now.
Music by Goldmund, courtesy of Western Vinyl."
(Adapted from the Vimeo description)
Book + Trailer: City of Fallen Angels, by Cassandra Clare
(@cassieclare)
The Shadowhunters—touched by angels and charged with protecting innocents—battle demons and other evil in the bestselling Mortal Instruments series.
For more information on the author:
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Cassandra-Clare/35026200
(From the YouTube description)
The Shadowhunters—touched by angels and charged with protecting innocents—battle demons and other evil in the bestselling Mortal Instruments series.
For more information on the author:
http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Cassandra-Clare/35026200
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Book + Trailer: Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell
From the bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.
Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight.
Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade.
With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.
For more details: http://bit.ly/hb4Jww
Join Sarah's fans on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SarahJaneVowell
(From the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: Live Wire, by Harlan Coben
#1 @NYTimes bestselling author @HarlanCoben proves once again that "nobody writes them better" in a thriller that asks a provocative question: Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?
Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client's interests so fiercely that he can't help but jump in to save them, no matter the cost.
When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze - at eight months pregnant - asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband's life. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago.
As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement - including the ones told by Myron himself. If we thought we knew Myron Bolitar, Coben now proves we didn't. An electric, stay-up-all night thriller that unfolds at a breakneck pace, Live Wire proves that Harlan Coben still has the ability to shock us anew.
View more: http://bit.ly/govysV
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Book + Trailer: Drinking Closer to Home, by Jessica Anya Blau
Animated trailer for the novel published by Harper Perennial.
www.jessicaanyablau.com
Art and animation by Luca Dipierro.
www.lucadipierro.com
Music by Mahmoud Guinia
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Book + Trailer: The Band that Played On, by Steve Turner
When TITANIC collided with an iceberg at 23:40 on April 14th, the eight members of the band had already retired for the evening. Still, they put on overcoats and mufflers and came out to play in the lounge. When most of the First Class passengers had taken to their lifeboats, the musicians simply moved to the deck and continued to play, calming the passengers as the ship sank. One second class passenger said: "Many brave things were done that night, but none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame." Survivors' accounts differ about whether their final tune was "L'Automme" or "Nearer My God To Thee." What has never been disputed is the courage of these musicians who deliberately sacrificed the possibility of escape in order to produce a mood of tranquillity at a time of extreme anxiety. But who were they? What journeys brought them to this deck on this icy ocean? Had any of them previously displayed signs of great courage? Who did they leave behind? Historian and biographer Steve Turner delves into the lives of these brave men, revealing eight unique portraits of bravery.
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
When the Killing's Done, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Official Book Trailer for T.C. Boyle's new novel, When the Killing's Done. Available from Viking Books on 2.22.11.
Dir. Jamieson Fry
http://www.tcboyle.com
http://jamiesonfry.com
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, February 18, 2011
Book + Trailer: Let's Panic About Babies! by Alice Bradley
(@finslippy)
Babies. So small, so terrible.
In this educational filmstrip, we learn that the only cure for the horrors of new motherhood is a healthy dose of information-soaked pages, conveniently bound into the new book LET'S PANIC ABOUT BABIES!
Written by Alice Bradley (www.finslippy.com) and Eden M. Kennedy (www.fussy.org) and released by St. Martin's Press, LET'S PANIC ABOUT BABIES! is available in bookstores everywhere March 1.
(From the YouTube description)
Babies. So small, so terrible.
In this educational filmstrip, we learn that the only cure for the horrors of new motherhood is a healthy dose of information-soaked pages, conveniently bound into the new book LET'S PANIC ABOUT BABIES!
Written by Alice Bradley (www.finslippy.com) and Eden M. Kennedy (www.fussy.org) and released by St. Martin's Press, LET'S PANIC ABOUT BABIES! is available in bookstores everywhere March 1.
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Book + Trailer: Fuddles, by Frans Vischer
A pampered fat cat finds his grounding.
(From the YouTube description)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Book + Trailer: Strings Attached, by Judy Blundell
(@judymblundell) via @reverieBR: From National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, comes Strings Attached—a daring blend of love, mystery, and the Mob.
(From the YouTube description)
(From the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: Play Like a Girl!, by Jennifer Shahade
(@JenShahade)
The Play Like a Girl! Tactics by 9 Queens trailer features author and 2-time US Women's Champ Jennifer Shahade and former Denker Champion Abby Marshall.
Buy the book at mongoosepress.com, uscfsales.com, amazon.com or 9queens.org!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Book + Trailer: Chocolate & Vicodin, by Jennette Fulda
(@jennettefulda)
The pretty pink teddy bear tries 12 things that didn't cure my headache. The best cure? "Chocolate & Vicodin" by Jennette Fulda. http://www.chocolateandvicodin.com/
Music is "Penalties" by The Odyssey Favor. http://odysseyfavor.com/
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Book + Trailer: You Killed Wesley Payne, by Sean Beaudoin
YA novel by @SeanBeaudoin to be released Feb. 2011. Learn more at www.seanbeaudoin.com
Trailer directed and scored by the awesomely talented Shawn Harris http://oxenoxen.com/
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
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