(@StephanieLaCava) via @GalleyCat
Film by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman www.gosupermarche.com
Cinematography by David Jacobson www.dpjacobson.com
Costume: Heidi Bivens
Colorist: Sam Daley
Snake Wrangler: Dominic Rizzo
Music: "Assez" by Marlena Dietrich
BOOKMARC & Stephanie LaCava present "An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris", the book tour.
December 13: NYC - 400 Bleecker St.
December 18: LA - 8407 Melrose Place
January 21: London - 56 South Audley Street
January 23: Paris - 17 Place du Marché st. Honoré
6 to 8 pm Author Signing and Champagne Reception
www.marcjacobs.com
Book available Dec. 4th, 2012 -- published by HarperCollins
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, November 30, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Book + Trailer: Fifty Shades of Chicken: A Parody in a Cookbook, by F.L. Fowler
A young, free-range chicken. A dominating, ravenous chef. A naughty tale of fowl play.
If Fifty Shades of Grey left you hungry and lusting for more (more, more!), satisfy your culinary kink with Fifty Shades of Chicken, a titillating collection of tied-and-true recipes bound to make every meal a turn-on:
Dripping Thighs, Learning to Truss You, Erect Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Happy Ending Chicken
For more titillating content from Fifty Shades of Chicken, including free recipes, @50shadeschicken Twitter feed, and a playlist of "Music to Cluck to," visit www.fiftyshadesofchicken.com.
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Book Trailer: Puppyhood: Life-size Portraits of Puppies at 6 Weeks Old, by J. Nichole Smith
(@pet_photography) via @GalleyCat
Puppyhood showcases adorable puppies in life-size photographs taken at six weeks old. The book itself is oversize at 13 by 11 inches, allowing enough space to bring each of these little ones to life. Twenty-five breeds are captured in engaging photographs, showing all the details that make puppies so irresistible, from their pink bellies to their tiny teeth, soft ears, and oversize paws. The book features the most popular breeds, including the French bulldog, Labrador, golden retriever, and Parson Russell Terrier. Puppyhood is a unique gift book for dog lovers everywhere.
Available October 2012 wherever books are sold!
Find out more at: http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Puppyhood-9781584799849.html
(From the YouTube description)
Puppyhood showcases adorable puppies in life-size photographs taken at six weeks old. The book itself is oversize at 13 by 11 inches, allowing enough space to bring each of these little ones to life. Twenty-five breeds are captured in engaging photographs, showing all the details that make puppies so irresistible, from their pink bellies to their tiny teeth, soft ears, and oversize paws. The book features the most popular breeds, including the French bulldog, Labrador, golden retriever, and Parson Russell Terrier. Puppyhood is a unique gift book for dog lovers everywhere.
Available October 2012 wherever books are sold!
Find out more at: http://www.abramsbooks.com/Books/Puppyhood-9781584799849.html
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Book Trailer: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold's @Schwarzenegger's memoir of his epic life. Schwarzenegger talks about his early days as a body builder, his rise to Hollywood fame and his time as the Governator.
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, September 17, 2012
Book + Trailer: My Mother Was Nuts, by Penny Marshall
Fred Armisen of SNL and Portlandia in drag as the one and only Penny Marshall promoting her hilarious new memoir, MY MOTHER WAS NUTS (on sale 9/18). Visit http://www.amazon.com/mymotherwasnuts and get your copy of this hilarious memoir today!
Her trailblazing career was a happy accident. In this funny and intimate memoir, Penny takes us from the stage of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1955 to Hollywood's star-studded sets, offering up some hilarious detours along the way.
Order today on Amazon and other book sellers!
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, August 24, 2012
Book + Trailer: Last to Die: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel, by Tess Gerritsen
(@tessgerritsen)
For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family's mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer's merciless mission.
Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong's mysterious benefactors aren't the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy's, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind.
Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children's fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer's twisted quest.
Rizzoli & Isles • Hit series on TNT
(From the YouTube description)
For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family's mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Determined to protect this young man, Jane discovers that what seemed like a coincidence is instead just one horrifying part of a relentless killer's merciless mission.
Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn the secrets and skills of survival in a dangerous world. But even behind locked gates, and surrounded by acres of sheltering Maine wilderness, Jane fears that Evensong's mysterious benefactors aren't the only ones watching. When strange blood-splattered dolls are found dangling from a tree, Jane knows that her instincts are dead on. And when she meets Will Yablonski and Claire Ward, students whose tragic pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy's, it becomes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind.
Joining forces with her trusted partner, medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane is determined to keep these orphans safe from harm. But an unspeakable secret dooms the children's fate—unless Jane and Maura can finally put an end to an obsessed killer's twisted quest.
Rizzoli & Isles • Hit series on TNT
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Book + Trailer: Where'd You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
Enjoy Tom Skerritt, a bevy of Seattle's finest booksellers and Jeopardy champs, bestselling author Garth Stein, and, of course, the force of nature known as Maria Semple!
(from the youtobe description)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Book + Trailer: Wake (Watersong Novels), by Amanda Hocking
(@amanda_hocking)
Reserve your copy and read an excerpt:http://www.worldofamandahocking.com/watersong/wake/
Immerse yourself in Watersong—the never-before-published series from Amanda Hocking, New York Times bestselling author of the Trylle Trilogy. The Watersong quartet begins with Wake, on-sale August 7, 2012.
ABOUT WAKE:
Gorgeous. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone's attention—but it's Gemma who's attracted theirs. She's the one they've chosen to be part of their group.
Gemma seems to have it all—she's carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He's always been just a friend, but this summer they've taken their relationship to the next level, and now there's no going back. Then one night, Gemma's ordinary life changes forever. She's taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next morning she wakes up on the beach feeling groggy and sick, knowing something is different.
Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. But her new powers come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she's is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.
Look for the second novel in the Watersong series, Lullaby, coming November 27, 2012.
(From the YouTube description)
Immerse yourself in Watersong—the never-before-published series from Amanda Hocking, New York Times bestselling author of the Trylle Trilogy. The Watersong quartet begins with Wake, on-sale August 7, 2012.
ABOUT WAKE:
Gorgeous. Fearless. Dangerous. They're the kind of girls you envy; the kind of girls you want to hate. Strangers in town for the summer, Penn, Lexi and Thea have caught everyone's attention—but it's Gemma who's attracted theirs. She's the one they've chosen to be part of their group.
Gemma seems to have it all—she's carefree, pretty, and falling in love with Alex, the boy next door. He's always been just a friend, but this summer they've taken their relationship to the next level, and now there's no going back. Then one night, Gemma's ordinary life changes forever. She's taking a late night swim under the stars when she finds Penn, Lexi and Thea partying on the cove. They invite her to join them, and the next morning she wakes up on the beach feeling groggy and sick, knowing something is different.
Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster, and more beautiful than ever. But her new powers come with a terrifying price. And as she uncovers the truth, she's is forced to choose between staying with those she loves—or entering a new world brimming with dark hungers and unimaginable secrets.
Look for the second novel in the Watersong series, Lullaby, coming November 27, 2012.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Book + Trailer: 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, by Jessica Brody
(@JessicaBrody) Lexington Larrabee, a spoiled teen heiress, famous for her party-girl antics and tabloid headlines, is forced by her ever-absent mogul father to take on a different low-wage job every week for a year, if she wants any hope of receiving her trust fund.
Recently optioned for film!
"The #1 reason you'll love this book? It's tons of fun." - Meg Cabot
"Famous and spoiled teenage heiress Lexington Larrabee could give the Kardashians a run for their money in this opulent and fast-paced story...sharp writing and over-the-top scenes will appeal to readers looking for a fun summer read." - Publishers Weekly
"This unusual riches-to-rags tale is fun and interesting...the mysteries layered throughout, as well as the depth of the main characters, draw you in. Lexi is an obnoxious but lovable character you'll root for!" - Romantic Times
BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/MEMJai
Starring Alanna Giuliani, Hunter Blake, Micky Shiloah, Tom Wade, Wesley Rice, and Javier Lezama
Featuring the song "Life in Reverse" by Time Will Tell (https://www.facebook.com/timewilltellrock)
Featuring the song "Get Down!" by Sh! It's a Secret (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down!/id480286384?i=480286510)
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux BYR
On Sale July 3, 2012
Read more about Jessica's books at: http://jessicabrody.com (From the YouTube description)
Recently optioned for film!
"The #1 reason you'll love this book? It's tons of fun." - Meg Cabot
"Famous and spoiled teenage heiress Lexington Larrabee could give the Kardashians a run for their money in this opulent and fast-paced story...sharp writing and over-the-top scenes will appeal to readers looking for a fun summer read." - Publishers Weekly
"This unusual riches-to-rags tale is fun and interesting...the mysteries layered throughout, as well as the depth of the main characters, draw you in. Lexi is an obnoxious but lovable character you'll root for!" - Romantic Times
BUY THE BOOK: http://amzn.to/MEMJai
Starring Alanna Giuliani, Hunter Blake, Micky Shiloah, Tom Wade, Wesley Rice, and Javier Lezama
Featuring the song "Life in Reverse" by Time Will Tell (https://www.facebook.com/timewilltellrock)
Featuring the song "Get Down!" by Sh! It's a Secret (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-down!/id480286384?i=480286510)
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux BYR
On Sale July 3, 2012
Read more about Jessica's books at: http://jessicabrody.com (From the YouTube description)
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Book + Trailer: The Last Policeman, by Ben H. Winters
(@BenHWinters)
What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die? Detective Hank Palace has asked this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. Several kilometers wide, it's on a collision course with planet Earth, with just six precious months until impact.
The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. Industry is grinding to a halt. Most people have abandoned their jobs. But not Hank Palace. As our story opens, he's investigating the latest suicide in a city that's full of suicides—only this one feels wrong. This one feels like homicide. And Palace is the only one who cares. What's the point in solving murders if we're all going to die?
The Last Policeman offers a story we've never read before: A police procedural set on the brink of an apocalypse. What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered?
BEN H. WINTERS is a New York Times best-selling author (Quirk's Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters) and an Edgar Award nominee (for the HarperCollins YA novel The Secret Life of Ms. Finkelman). His most recent novel, Bedbugs (Quirk, 2011), was hailed by Vanity Fair as a "diabolical tale of paranoia." He lives in Indianapolis, IN.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Book + Trailer: Size 12 and Ready to Rock (Heather Wells Mysteries), by Meg Cabot
@MegCabot's Heather Wells finally returns in Size 12 and Ready to Rock, available wherever books are sold July 10th!
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, July 16, 2012
Book + Trailer: Goodbye for Now, by Laurie Frankel
(@Laurie_Frankel)
Sam Elling is taking social networking to the next level: the afterlife. "Goodbye for Now", the second novel from Laurie Frankel, is already an international sensation, selling in 26 territories and having film rights optioned by Lionsgate/Temple Hill. "Goodbye for Now" hits stores on August 7th, 2012.
Like Laurie on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/lauriefrankel.author) and get access to exclusive content, including an excerpt from the book.
(From the YouTube description)
Sam Elling is taking social networking to the next level: the afterlife. "Goodbye for Now", the second novel from Laurie Frankel, is already an international sensation, selling in 26 territories and having film rights optioned by Lionsgate/Temple Hill. "Goodbye for Now" hits stores on August 7th, 2012.
Like Laurie on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/lauriefrankel.author) and get access to exclusive content, including an excerpt from the book.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Book + Trailer: Four New Messages, by Joshua Cohen
A short film based on "Emission," one of FOUR NEW MESSAGES, a new work of fiction by Joshua Cohen, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in August 2012. Directed by Brian Spinks.
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Book + Trailer: Wool, by Hugh Howey
(@hughhowey) via @GalleyCat.
It's the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the people who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.WOOL has captivated readers across the globe since its first release and has become one of the most talked about and best reviewed books of this year. It has drawn comparisons to the likes of The Road, The Passage and The Hunger Games, with Ridley Scott acquiring film rights earlier this year. Enter this unique world and experience the phenomenon.
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Book + Trailer: Year Zero, by Robert H. Reid
(@rob_reid)
Radio waves have been leaking from Earth for decades. Are aliens listening to our tunes? For free? If they are, isn't that ... MUSIC PIRACY?
(From the YouTube description)
Radio waves have been leaking from Earth for decades. Are aliens listening to our tunes? For free? If they are, isn't that ... MUSIC PIRACY?
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, June 25, 2012
Book + Trailer: Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.
(From the YouTube description)
Book + Trailer: The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett
Starring:
• Sir Terry Pratchett (@terryandrob) - multi-award-winning author of over 50 bestselling novels and co-author of The Long Earth
• Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) - Author
• Stephen Baxter -- multi-award-winning author of many bestselling SF novels and co-author of The Long Earth
• Rob Wilkins - Sir Terry's assistant and stenographer
• Peter James - Bestselling author and film producer
• Tony Robinson - Actor, Comedian, Historian, TV Presenter and long time reader of Sir Terry Pratchett's audio books.
• J. Spoon - Sir Terry Pratchett fan.
• Philippa Dickenson - Random House Children's Publishers UK
• Michael Logan - Author of Apocalypse Cow and joint winner of the Inaugural Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize.
• Robert Llewellyn - Actor, Presenter and Writer
• Bernard Pearson - Discworld Emporium
• Tina Andreadis - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Brianne Halverson - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Gavin Hilzbrich - Transworld Publishers UK
• Ade Hill - SFX Magazine
• David Logan - Author of Half-Sick of Shadows and joint winner of the Inaugural Terry Pratchett Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now Prize
• Danielle Plafsky - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Mark Sainsbury - Random House Publishers New Zealand
• Michael Edwards - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Andy Hancock - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Dave Golder - SFX Magazine
• Rob Wilkins - Sir Terry's assistant and stenographer
• Suzanne Bridson - Transworld Publishers UK
• Reb Voyce - Discworld Emporium
• Sir Terry Pratchett - multi-award-winning author of over 50 bestselling novels and co-author of The Long Earth
• Stephanie Selah - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Myke Cole - Author of the Shadow Ops Series (Ace)
• Mark Ferguson - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Simon Taylor - Transworld Publishers UK
• Stephen Baxter - multi-award-winning author of many bestselling SF novels and co-author of The Long Earth
• Michael Turner - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Jen Brehl - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Kathy O'Brien - Transworld Publishers UK
• Katie O'Callaghan - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Marianne Velmans - Transworld Publishers UK
• Esi Sogah - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Kai Mathur - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Ian Mitchell - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Lynsey Dalladay - Transworld Publishers UK
• The Guards
• Derek Taylor - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• Larry Finlay - Transworld Publishers UK
• Tom Hopke - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Henry Vines - Transworld Publishers UK
• Tess Henderson - Transworld Publishers UK
• Emily Krump - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Mike Spradlin - New York Times bestselling author of It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies! (William Morrow)
• Jannine Saunders - Transworld Publishers UK
• Ruth Johnson - Transworld Publishers UK
• Sacha Allen - Sir Terry Pratchett fan
• The Guards
• Dave Bradley - SFX Magazine
• Pam Jaffee - Harper Collins Publishers USA
• Jonathan Paterson - Transworld Publishers UK
• Sir Terry Pratchett - multi-award-winning author of over 50 bestselling novels and co-author of The Long Earth
http://www.terrypratchett.co.uk/
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever.
And that's an understatement if ever there was one...
The Long Earth is the first novel in an exciting new collaboration between the creator of Discworld Terry Pratchett and the acclaimed SF writer Stephen Baxter
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, June 8, 2012
Book + Trailer: Rebel Bookseller, by Andrew Laties
(@AndyLaties) via @GalleyCat:
Barnes Kong is on a rampage! The simian chain bookstore monster could go on stomping on independent bookstores and kidnapping dead authors forever, but the fearsome Amazilla has other plans: he wants in on the action. As the two battle with their laser e-readers, they destroy every public institution in sight. Can the Rebel Bookseller save the day, rescue Emily Dickinson and bring back a community of books?
Credits: Andy Laties, Nere Kapiteni, Rebecca Migdal, John Landino, GLOVE, Jessica Higgins, Denis Luzuriaga, Mary Averill, Matt Waugh, Eric Blitz
(From the YouTube description)
Barnes Kong is on a rampage! The simian chain bookstore monster could go on stomping on independent bookstores and kidnapping dead authors forever, but the fearsome Amazilla has other plans: he wants in on the action. As the two battle with their laser e-readers, they destroy every public institution in sight. Can the Rebel Bookseller save the day, rescue Emily Dickinson and bring back a community of books?
Credits: Andy Laties, Nere Kapiteni, Rebecca Migdal, John Landino, GLOVE, Jessica Higgins, Denis Luzuriaga, Mary Averill, Matt Waugh, Eric Blitz
(From the YouTube description)
Friday, June 1, 2012
Book + Trailer: The Year of the Gadfly, by Jennifer Miller
(@propjen)
Iris Dupont is a teenage reporter who communes with the ghost of Edward R. Murrow. Jonah Kaplan is a failed microbiologist-turned biology teacher who is haunted by the ghosts of his past. Each embarks on a private investigation to uncover a secret society in their remote New England town. As Iris and Jonah's paths start to intersect, they are drawn into the darker corners of their town, their school, and their own minds. Glamour Magazine calls THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY "Part Dead Poet's Society, party Heathers. Entirely addictive." www.byjennifermiller.com
(From the YouTube description)
Iris Dupont is a teenage reporter who communes with the ghost of Edward R. Murrow. Jonah Kaplan is a failed microbiologist-turned biology teacher who is haunted by the ghosts of his past. Each embarks on a private investigation to uncover a secret society in their remote New England town. As Iris and Jonah's paths start to intersect, they are drawn into the darker corners of their town, their school, and their own minds. Glamour Magazine calls THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY "Part Dead Poet's Society, party Heathers. Entirely addictive." www.byjennifermiller.com
(From the YouTube description)
Monday, May 14, 2012
Book trailer: Rapture (Fallen), by Lauren Kate
(@laurenkatebooks)
The final full-length trailer for RAPTURE, the fourth and final book in the FALLEN series by Lauren Kate. http://www.fallenbooks.com.au RAPTURE is in stores everywhere 12.6.12.
(From the YouTube description)
The final full-length trailer for RAPTURE, the fourth and final book in the FALLEN series by Lauren Kate. http://www.fallenbooks.com.au RAPTURE is in stores everywhere 12.6.12.
(From the YouTube description)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Book + Trailer: Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog, by J. H. Lee
Everyone loves Boo! His signature fluffy head and teddy bear--like persona are irresistibly adorable. With more than 1.3 million Facebook fans, Boo is an international superstar. This charming book features exclusive new photographs of Boo doing all his favorite things: lounging around, playing with friends, exploring the whole wide world, and making those famous puppy-dog eyes. To know Boo is to love him, and this book is for anyone who loves the cutest dog ever.
Available at chroniclebooks.com: http://www.chroniclebooks.com/boo
(From the YouTube description)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Book + Trailer: Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, by Florence Williams
In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them.
"'Illuminating, surprising, clever, and important." -Mary Roach
"A wonderful history of an astonishingly complex part of the human body." -Carl Zimmer
LEARN MORE:
http://www.florencewilliams.com/
https://www.facebook.com/florencewilliamsauthor
https://twitter.com/#!/flowill
+++++++
Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History - Florence Williams
AVAILABLE WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Book+Trailer: The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga) by Neal Stephenson
(@nealstephenson)
From @nytimes bestselling, Hugo and Nebula award-winning authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear comes The Mongoliad Trilogy, the first installment in the Foreworld Saga, a collaborative epic unlike any other that will enthrall fans of fantasy, martial arts, and historical fiction.
The Foreworld medieval adventure saga was actually born out of swordfighting. Stephenson and the other authors are avid practitioners of Western martial arts and they are part of an enthusiastic study group in Seattle. Stephenson realized that the descriptions of swordfighting in his novels would have been much better with contributions from people with fighting expertise. Thus the idea for a saga about the complex, bloody history of Western martial arts was born, co-written by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Joseph Brassey, Erik Bear, and Cooper Moo.
(From the YouTube description) via http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/neal-stephenson-stars-in-book-trailer-about-the-inherent-silliness-of-book-trailers_b50753
From @nytimes bestselling, Hugo and Nebula award-winning authors Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear comes The Mongoliad Trilogy, the first installment in the Foreworld Saga, a collaborative epic unlike any other that will enthrall fans of fantasy, martial arts, and historical fiction.
The Foreworld medieval adventure saga was actually born out of swordfighting. Stephenson and the other authors are avid practitioners of Western martial arts and they are part of an enthusiastic study group in Seattle. Stephenson realized that the descriptions of swordfighting in his novels would have been much better with contributions from people with fighting expertise. Thus the idea for a saga about the complex, bloody history of Western martial arts was born, co-written by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, E.D. deBirmingham, Joseph Brassey, Erik Bear, and Cooper Moo.
(From the YouTube description) via http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/neal-stephenson-stars-in-book-trailer-about-the-inherent-silliness-of-book-trailers_b50753
Monday, April 16, 2012
Book + Trailer: Kino, by Jurgen Fauth
(@muckster)
The films of Klaus "Kino" Koblitz were believed lost for generations... until a print of his 1927 film THE TULIP THIEF mysteriously appeared on his granddaughter's doorstep, 75 years after the Berlin premiere.Find out more about Klaus Koblitz in Jürgen Fauth's novel KINO, now available from Atticus Books (http://atticusbooksonline.com/books/kino), and at the TULPENDIEBE tumblr at http://tulpendiebe.tumblr.com.
Trailer restored by Ivan Guerrero.
Order KINO at
(From the YouTube description)
via http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/free-film-resources-for-book-trailers_b50186
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Book + Trailer: The Vanishers, by Heidi Julavits
A short film by @mrcarloscharlie based on THE VANISHERS, a new novel by Heidi Julavits, out March 13 from Doubleday.
Get the book here: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/89037/the-vanishers-by-heidi-julavits
Follow Heidi: http://www.facebook.com/heidi.julavits
From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor Heidi Julavits, a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
"The Vanishers is one of the best novels I've ever read, delivering all the immediate pleasures of mystery, horror, and satire." —Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA
"It is always an adventure and a delight to read Heidi Julavits. Her intellectual brio and descriptive inventiveness are on full display in The Vanishers, but she's gone further this time by inventing a new genre: the astral detective thriller." —Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize--winning author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD
http://carloscharlieperez.com/
(Adapted from the YouTube description)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Book + Trailer: Capital, by John Lanchester
This is an animated trailer made by House-Hold using illustrations by Tom Berry. John Lanchester's 2012 novel Capital follows one street as the residents cope on the brink of the 2007 financial crisis.
(From the YouTube description)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Book + "Trailer": The War That Came Early: Coup d'Etat, by Harry Turtledove
Thank you to Mr. Turtledove for writing such an excellent series, Del Rey Books for graciously and almost instantly providing the advance copy, and the Reddit community for support and advice.
Read the full story below:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/p7kfg/my_friend_has_terminal_cancer_and_may_die_by_june/
(From the YouTube description, via GalleyCat)
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Book + Trailer: The Flame Alphabet, by Ben Marcus
A short film. Video by Erin Cosgrove. Based on The Flame Alphabet, a new novel by Ben Marcus.
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In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families.
A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighborhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction.
With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn't so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition.
The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus's position in the first rank of American novelists.
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/204524/the-flame-alphabet-by-ben-marcus
(From the YouTube description)
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