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Spring 2016 Announcements: SF, Fantasy & Horror: Worlds Turned Upside Down
Authors are creating near futures that are both glorious and grim, exciting and terrifying. Here and now, nothing feels certain—and as we learned in the atomic age, uncertain times give rise to some splendid speculative fiction.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Poetry: An Ocean of Wisdom
There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper Canyon, Graywolf, or Wave.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers: A Thriving Genre
Spring highlights range from bestseller Stephen King’s End of Watch, a crime novel that concludes a trilogy, to newcomer Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, a supernatural thriller originally published by a specialty press in the U.K.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Memoirs & Biographies: Who’s Got the Story?
Everyone has one, whether it’s about the trials of growing up different, finding love, or learning a language unspoken for centuries.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Lifestyle: Living Well
It’s no surprise that this season will feature some famous names (and faces) dispensing advice on looking and feeling great.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: History: What’s Past Is Prologue
Many of the big history books this season find relevance in crises facing the world today (migration, institutional racism, global warming), luring readers with the promise that examining the past holds clues to a better future.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Science: Within the Mind
For the second consecutive season, concepts of mind—what it is, how it arises, the nature of intelligence—appear to be on many, well, minds. But old questions concerning war, sex, and death perennially lurk in the background.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Politics & Current Events: Debatable
This spring’s politics and current events titles reflect the pressure points already on display in the first months of 2016 election season.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Romance & Erotica: History Is Happening
For a long time, the historical romance subgenre has mostly included books set in either Regency England or the American Old West, with only a handful of outliers.
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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: Personal Finance 2016
New titles serve up the financial ABCs for younger readers.
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Getting ‘Personal’: Personal Finance 2016
New titles emphasize individual responsibility and self-education.
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Select January Spanish-Language Health and Wellness Titles
Readers looking to achieve a physically and mentally healthier 2016 have a wide range of titles to choose from.
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African-American Interest Adult Titles, 2015-2016
The following is a list of African-American interest books for adult readers.
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Select New and Forthcoming Star Wars Releases
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Publishers, Booksellers Feel the Force
The new Star Wars movie is driving a mini boom in publishing, with dozens of tie-ins and licensed products queued up to hit before, and after, the film's Dec. 18 release.
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Chris Jackson: Acquiring Nonfiction on Race and Justice
It’s been quite a year for Spiegel & Grau executive editor Chris Jackson, who acquired NBA nonfiction winner Ta-Nehesi Coates' 'Between the World and Me', and Bryan Stevenson's 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption', winner of the ALA's Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction.
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Beneath the Covers: Kelly Bowen’s ‘Duke of My Heart’
Elizabeth Turner, assistant art director at Hachette, discusses how the ‘Duke of My Heart’ cover was created.
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Beneath the Covers: Nicole Jordan’s ’The Art of Taming a Rake’
Lynn Andreozzi, director of art and design at Random House, discusses how the ‘Art of Taming a Rake’ cover was created.
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Beneath the Covers: Katie Ruggle’s ‘Hold Your Breath’
Dawn Adams, art director at Sourcebooks Casablanca, discusses how the ‘Hold Your Breath’ cover was created.
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Body of Work: Romance Novels 2015–2016
Romance cover models, photographers and illustrators reveal all… of what goes into making a bang-up book cover.



