Monthly Archives: March 2017

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Our 10 2017 RITA Awards Finalists

The Romance Writers of America (RWA) has announced the finalists for its 2017 RITA Awards, with 10 books published by Penguin Random House imprints among the nominees in the following categories:

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There’s a Book for That: Reader, Reader How Does Your Garden Grow?

Is there a spring in your step this week? The scent and spirit of renewal is in the air! As we enjoy buds, blooms and all things growing green, gardeners are getting their hands in the soil. Penguin Random House publishes many inspiring and instructive books about gardens including a lush genre of verse, essays, and stories all inspired by gardens and gardening. We invite you to till this beautiful plot of titles… Continue reading →

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THE FIRST LOVE STORY Inspires New Ice Cream Flavor: Original Cin

Penguin Press has partnered with Ample Hills Creamery to make a new flavor of ice cream – Original Cin – inspired by Bruce Feiler’s new book, THE FIRST LOVE STORY: Adam, Eve, and Us, on sale today, Tuesday, March 21. Ample Hills is inviting customers to choose their own story, with a custom five-pack of ice cream pints. Original Cin – cinnamon ice cream with housemade fig newtons – is one of the new flavors. Continue reading →

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How Timothy Snyder’s ON TYRANNY Became a Must-Read Book

This week’s Igloo Book Buzz selection is ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Publisher Tim Duggan, who edited ON TYRANNY, says, “Snyder has been making the case for years that the world of the 1930s, especially the world of fascism, is not nearly as far behind us as we’d like to think. There are Continue reading →

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On Sale This Week

On Sale This Week previews a selection of Penguin Random House fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young readers books being published each week. The choices are a mix of titles by both bestselling and emerging authors. We hope this serves as a useful reference for hot new reads hitting shelves. Continue reading →

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Our 2016 NBCC Awards Winners in Nonfiction and Autobiography

Matthew Desmond’s EVICTED: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown) and Hope Jahren’s LAB GIRL (Alfred A. Knopf) won 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards for Nonfiction and Autobiography respectively last night at a ceremony held at the New School in New York. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: A Taste of Ireland

“Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there’s the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.”—John McGahern Continue reading →

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Chelsea Clinton Pens Children’s Picture Book About Thirteen Inspirational Women

Penguin Young Readers will publish SHE PERSISTED, a new picture book written by Chelsea Clinton and illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, that celebrates strong, inspirational women who have embodied the spirit of persistence throughout American history. The book will be published on May 30, 2017 by Philomel Books. Continue reading →

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AMERICANAH Wins One Book, One New York Campaign

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AMERICANAH, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Anchor, is the winner of the first annual One Book, One New York campaign to get all New Yorkers to read the same book at the same time. The campaign (#OneBookNY) is spearheaded by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Feminism Then and Now

While we are still honoring Women’s History Month, it’s interesting to survey where the feminist movement has been and what it means now through the lens of classic works and contemporary voices. From de Beauvoir to Crispin, from bra-burning to badass crafting, the following titles have a lot to say about the need for social change. Continue reading →

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