Sales of Adult Titles Had Big Gains Last Week
Unit sales of print books jumped 35% last week over the comparable week in 2020, driven by huge sales gains for adult books. At this point last spring, sales of adult books were soft because of the pandemic. more...
Sourcebooks Announces New Children's Imprint
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Susan Richman, a former publicity executive at several major publishers and who worked with the Goddard Riverside Community Center Book Fair for more than 30 years, died April 19. She was 80. more...International Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
The shortlist for the International Booker Prize, an award for the best translated work of fiction, includes two books each translated from French and Spanish, and one each from Russian and Danish. The winner will be announced June 2.COVID-19
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Summer picks for young readers. more...
- The Divorce by César Aira, trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews
- The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
- Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Temi Oh, Sandra M Grayson, Tia Ross
- When Stars Collide by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Noir Is the New Black by Edited by Fabrice Sapolsky with TC Harris
- The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan, Jan Heller Levi, Christoph Keller, Jericho Brown
- Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin
- Fair Pay: How to Get a Raise, Close the Wage Gap, and Build Stronger Businesses by David Buckmaster
- Root: Small Vegetable Plates, a Little Meat on the Side by Rob Howell
- Go Be Wonderful! by Donna Gephart, Francesca Chessa
Bell’s 'Appleseed' (Custom House, July.) spans centuries to probe climate change and the indelible marks humanity and nature leave on each other.
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Agnès Martin-Lugand returned to the top of the French bestseller list at the end of March with her ninth novel, 'The Dacha.' Germany’s top fiction title in late March was the pandemic novel 'On Humans' by Julie Zeh. more...
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Unit sales of print books rose 6% in the week ended Apr. 10, 2021, over the comparable week in 2020, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. more...
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To Slip the Surly Bonds of Earth: About the Breaking of the Day by Hugh Cameron
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The Day America Cried: So Many Innocents Died, 9-11-01: We Will Survive! by Patricia B. Schoeler
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Reflections On Life by Patricia B. Schoeler
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Life as Seen in the Eyes of Tatiana by Monica Brosnan
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The Book that Happened – Is Reality but Sheer Coincidence? by Attila Pergel
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Maddie's Saturday to Remember by karen Jonice bricker
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Rising by Jackie Ng
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Written in Silence by A. M. Holas
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God Gives you Goosebumps by Gwendolyn Davis
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Harbingers of the Apocalypse by Sandra A. Haynes
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PIP'S MEMOIRS and MANOEUVRES by Paul Gabriel
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That Rock Don't Roll by Don Alexander
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Poems of Love and Inspiration by Floyd Turner Kacey
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Dying to Live by Monica Hards
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Labor Versus Capital in the United States by Louis Patsouras
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HOW TO END POVERTY IN THE WORLD IN JUST 15 YEARS by Jean-Pierre Twagirayezu
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The Dakker Chronicles: Birth of The Defiance by Matt Gerwitz
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January Dreams by Carrigan Richards
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The Chronicles of the Obscure Detective: Williams Joy Returns with a Brand New Collection! by AMIR JOY
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The Scarred Man by Rory Surtain
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The Cats Who Love(d) Me and the One Who Doesn’t by Joyce FitzGerald Galloway
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Reckless by Kathryn C. Kelly
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Junk Drawer at the Edge of the Universe by steven reed johnson
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Just the Two of Us Desserts by Sara Childs
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Elixir Bound by Katie L. Carroll
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