Book + Trailer: Ashtown Burials #1: The Dragon's Tooth, by N. D. Wilson

(@ndwilsonmutters)

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

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Book + Trailer: The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

(@realjohngreen)

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
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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!
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Book + Trailer: The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont

(@pmalmont)

Book + Trailer: Writing Movies for Fun and Profit, by Robert Ben Garant

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
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[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/
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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

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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/
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Book + Trailer: The Meowmorphosis, "by" Franz Kafka

Book + Trailer: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, by Steve Hockensmith

(@MrHockensmith)

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
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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.
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