Monthly Archives: October 2021

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Join Betsy Bird for Her LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS Virtual Book Release Party

Alerting colleagues with children: Betsy Bird, author of LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS (Knopf Books for Young Readers), will celebrate the publication of her new middle-grade title at a virtual book release party hosted by The Book Stall via Crowdcast tonight, Tuesday, October 5 at 7:30 pm (ET).

This event is aimed at kids ages 10 and up, and adults who love ostriches, kid lit, and history!

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Creative Writing Awards Competition Launches With New Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry

Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books (WNDB), a national grassroots organization that advocates for diversity in children’s literature, have opened submissions for the 2022 Creative Writing Awards. This is the first year the awards are featuring the newly named Amanda Gorman Award for Poetry. For the third consecutive year, we are partnering with WNDB to nurture the next generation of literary talent by supporting young writers from a variety of backgrounds. Continue reading →

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Erik Larson’s First-Ever Work of Fiction Released as Audiobook Original by PRH Audio

Penguin Random House Audio published NO ONE GOES ALONE, an audiobook original—and the first-ever work of fiction—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson on Tuesday, September 28. Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt, this otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible marshals Larson’s trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story deeply grounded in history, available exclusively on audio, because, as Larson says, ghost stories are best told aloud. Continue reading →

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Vintage Author Mary Beth Norton Wins 2021 George Washington Prize for “1774”

The 2021 George Washington Prize has been awarded to Mary Beth Norton for her book 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, published by Vintage. This annual award recognizes the past year’s best works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance a broad public understanding of early American history. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: In a Word

In our complex world, do you sometimes crave simplicity? The power of a single word is evident in the following new and popular nonfiction—all with one-word titles. Here are books that range from the personal to the political, from sociology to self-help, yet all carry a sense of promise that by reading them we may understand society and one’s self better: Continue reading →

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