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
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