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)

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)

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.

Become a fan of Ben on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ben.M.Marcus

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)

Book + Trailer: Sliding Void, by Stephen Hunt

Book + Trailer: The Litigators, by John Grisham

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Book + Trailer: The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Outspoken Authors), by Cory Doctorow

(@doctorow)