Monthly Archives: April 2020

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KDPG Launching New Virtual Book Club “How Have I Not Read This?” May 5 With Camus’s THE PLAGUE

The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group is launching a new virtual book club: How Have I Not Read This? Its inaugural selection, Albert Camus’s THE PLAGUE, will be discussed with participants in a digital event featuring Emily St. John Mandel, Laura Marris, and Alice Kaplan on Tuesday, May 5. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Earth Day

What on earth can you do? Plenty! Today commemorates the 50^th anniversary of Earth Day. On April 22, 1970 millions of people took to the streets to protest industrial pollution. In July of that year, the Environmental Protection Agency was created and now Earth Day is a global event with 192 countries participating. Coordinated by The Earth Day Network, it is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. As we are staying in our homes more, emissions are much- reduced and we are refocused on “what’s necessary.” To support both personal greener living goals as well as global conservation efforts, Penguin Random House publishes many excellent titles; here are a handful of the new, classic and most actionable for all ages to enjoy in the spirit of Earth Day and PRH Green Week. Continue reading →

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Dolly Parton Reads MAX AND THE TAG-ALONG MOON on YouTube and Social Channels (4/23)

Dolly Parton’s weekly “Goodnight With Dolly” series continues as she reads Floyd Cooper’s MAX AND THE TAG-ALONG MOON (Puffin) on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00pm (ET) on YouTube and Imagination Library’s official social channels on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Continue reading →

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Jeni McFarland In Conversation with Dasha Kelly Hamilton via YouTube (4/23)

Jeni McFarland, author of THE HOUSE OF DEEP WATER (Putnam), will be in conversation with writer Dasha Kelly Hamilton at a virtual event hosted by Boswell Books/The Retreat via YouTube on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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A Reading, Talk and Q&A with Jenny Offill about WEATHER via Zoom (4/23)

Jenny Offill, author of WEATHER (Knopf), gives a reading, followed by a conversation and Q&A at a virtual event hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program senior faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winning Random House author Darin Strauss via Zoom on Thursday, April 23, at 6:00pm (ET).

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John Kenney to Discuss LOVE POEMS FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLE with His Editor Sally Kim via Instagram (4/23)

John Kenney will discuss his latest book, LOVE POEMS FOR ANXIOUS PEOPLE (Putnam), with his editor, Sally Kim, as the debut virtual event for Penguin Presents, a new web series, via Instagram Live on Thursday, April 23, at 7:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Random House Virtual Happy Hour: Robert Simonson on Creating the Martini Cocktail via Instagram (4/23)

Robert Simonson, author of THE MARTINI COCKTAIL (Ten Speed Press), among other books, will be featured on Random House’s virtual Happy Hour, showing how to create the martini cocktail via Instagram on Thursday, April 23, at 4:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Adam Gidwitz and Emma Otheguy to Discuss THE UNICORN RESCUE SOCIETY via Zoom (4/23)

Adam Gidwitz and Emma Otheguy will speak to educators about the fifth title in the THE UNICORN RESCUE SOCIETY series, THE MADRE DE AGUAS OF CUBA (Dutton Books for Young Readers) via Zoom on Thursday, April 23, at 3:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Susan Meissner on “Connecting Women in a Time of Disconnect” Virtual Panel via ELYSIAN Ignite (4/23)

Susan Meissner, whose most recent novel is THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR (Berkley), is will be on a virtual panel, “Connecting Women in a Time of Disconnect,” with fellow Berkley author Kristy Woodson Harvey, via ELYSIAN Ignite online, Thursday, April 23, at 12:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Alexander Halberstadt In Conversation with Masha Gessen via Zoom (4/23)

Alexander Halberstadt, author of YOUNG HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION (Random House), will be in conversation with National Book Award-winning Riverhead author Masha Gessen (THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia), in association with Greenlight Bookstore and the Brooklyn Public Library, via Zoom on Thursday, April 23, at 7:30pm (ET). Continue reading →

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