Monthly Archives: January 2021

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Ashley Audrain Shares Her Debut Novel THE PUSH via Zoom (1/13)

Ashley Audrain will be in conversation about her debut novel, THE PUSH (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking), with author Laura Zigman at a virtual event hosted by the Blue Willow Bookshop via Zoom on Wednesday, January 13 at 8:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Knopf to Publish Book on Antitrust by Senator Amy Klobuchar This Spring

Alfred A. Knopf will publish a new book by Senator Amy Klobuchar in April 2021. ANTITRUST: TAKING ON MONOPOLY POWER FROM THE GILDED AGE TO THE DIGITAL AGE is a call to action for changes to U.S. competition policy, examining the history of America’s antimonopoly movement from the Gilded Age to today. Continue reading →

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Your Daily Guide to PRH’s Virtual Events: Share on Social!

Connecting readers with our books and authors is more important than ever in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, ongoing social distancing, racism and police use of deadly force that has mobilized our country. Across Penguin Random House, we are hosting a variety of virtual events, and you can help promote them. Share the day’s complete calendar or your favorite individual listings via the share button, which will allow you to directly deliver all the relevant event information to your social network.
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Melanie Benjamin Mines Her Own Heartland in Telling a Gripping Tale

THE CHILDREN’S BLIZZARD, the new novel by New York Times bestselling author Melanie Benjamin, tells a story of courage on the American prairie, inspired by actual events. On the afternoon of January 12, 1888—a day that had dawned surprisingly warm—a ferocious storm hit the Great Plains right as school was letting out. It would come to be known as “The Children’s Blizzard,” since hardest hit were the schoolchildren in the one-room prairie schoolhouses, and their teachers—children themselves, barely out of the schoolroom—who had to make life and death decisions in an instant. Should they let their pupils make a run for it, hoping they would make it home in time? Or keep them there and risk freezing to death in poorly insulated shacks, hoping for eventual rescue? Published by Delacorte Press,THE CHILDREN’S BLIZZARD unfolds through the perspectives of two sisters who make vastly different choices— and find their destinies changed irrevocably, forever labeled for their actions.

In this Behind the Pages Igloo feature, Melanie Benjamin shares what inspired her to write this novel as well as the research and process involved in bringing the book to fruition: Continue reading →

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Tom Vanderbilt Shares the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning via Zoom (1/12)

Tom Vanderbilt, author of BEGINNERS: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning (Knopf), will be in virtual conversation with Amanda Katz, followed by an audience Q&A, at a virtual event hosted by the Harvard Bookstore via Zoom on Tuesday, January 12 at 7:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Robert Jones, Jr. In Conversation with Brit Bennett via Crowdcast (1/12)

Robert Jones, Jr., author THE PROPHETS (Putnam), will discuss his debut novel with Brit Bennett, author of THE VANISHING HALF (Riverhead), at a virtual event hosted by Charis Books via Crowdcast on Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Stephanie Schriock and Hillary Clinton to Discuss RUN TO WIN via Zoom (1/12)

Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY’s List discusses her book, RUN TO WIN: Lessons in Leadership for Women Changing the World (Dutton), with Hillary Clinton at a virtual event hosted by Politics & Prose via Zoom on Tuesday, January 12 at 5:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Mysterious Galaxy Presents Gerald Brandt Discussing THREADER ORIGINS via Crowdcast (1/12)

Gerald Brandt, author of THREADER ORIGINS (DAW), will be in conversation with Jason M. Hough at a virtual event hosted by Mysterious Galaxy via Crowdcast on Tuesday, January 12 at 10:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut’s life and work is of perpetual interest, even more so with the December release of LOVE, KURT compiled by his daughter. Perhaps there are some of his writings you’ve yet to discover? Time for a tour of this literary idol’s seminal works and some exciting extras! Continue reading →

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Grammy Winner Lil Nas X Releases His Debut Children’s Book, C IS FOR COUNTRY

Grammy Award–winning music artist Lil Nas X has released his debut children’s book, C IS FOR COUNTRY, published this week in hardcover by Random House Books for Young Readers and as an audiobook by Listening Library. Continue reading →

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