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PRH Partners With Tattered Cover to Donate Baseball-Related Books to Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver

As a part of Penguin Random House’s mission to promote free expression and the joy of reading, Penguin Young Readers and Random House Children’s Books partnered with Tattered Cover, a Denver bookstore chain, to donate more than 1,200 baseball-related children’s books to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, in celebration of the 2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which took place at Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, on July 13. Continue reading →

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THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN Authors to Virtually Present Their New Historical Novel

Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, authors of THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN (Berkley), will their discuss their New York Times bestselling historical novel, a Good Morning America Book Club pick, at a virtual event hosted by the Detroit Public Library on Wednesday, July 28 at 6:00 pm (ET). To register, click here. Continue reading →

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Join Razorbill Author Jessica Goodman for the Virtual Launch of Her New YA Thriller

Jessica Goodman, author of THEY’LL NEVER CATCH US (Razorbill), is launching her new YA novel in conversation with writer and reporter Kelsey McKinney at a virtual event hosted by Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) via Zoom on Tuesday, July 27 at 7:30 pm (ET). To register, click here. Continue reading →

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PRH Expands Support for the Starlight Book Mobile, Bringing Reading to Hospital-Bound Children

For the past nine years, Penguin Random House has supported the Starlight Children’s Foundation Book Mobile Program, which offers pediatric patients at local hospitals the chance to explore fictional worlds through books. The program provides a much-needed pastime for severely ill children throughout their hospital stays and helps them cope with feelings of fear, loneliness, and anxiety. Continue reading →

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Del Rey and Vintage Titles: World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The 2021 World Fantasy Awards finalists for works released in 2020 have been announced and include two books published by Penguin Random House imprints. The awards will be presented during World Fantasy Convention 2021, to be held November 4-7, at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal, Quebec. Continue reading →

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Riverhead Books’ “Marlon & Jake Read Dead People” Podcast Back for Season 2

The Marlon & Jake Read Dead People podcast has returned for a highly anticipated second season. Hosted by Booker Prize-winning and internationally bestselling author Marlon James and his editor, Jake Morrissey, Executive Editor at Riverhead Books, the podcast features their uncensored literary conversations about works by dead authors. Since launching in January 2020, this podcast has achieved more than 220,000 downloads, with close to 800 listener ratings. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Summer Shorts

It’s surely shorts weather… have you found the perfect pair? As Shakespeare once wrote, “brevity is the soul of wit.” We readers know that short stories run deep. Curated for you below are some of the best short story collections to dive into this summer – piece by piece. Continue reading →

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Knopf Author Camilla Läckberg to Talk About Her New Thriller via Crowdcast

Camilla Läckberg, author of SILVER TEARS (Knopf), will discuss her latest novel in conversation with Crown author Lisa Unger at a virtual event hosted by Books & Books (Coral Gables, FLA) via Crowdcast on Sunday, July 25 at 12:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Read The Atlantic Essay by Knopf’s Jonathan Segal on Sonny Mehta & Dan Frank

Jonathan Segal, Vice President and Executive Editor at Knopf, has written an intimate and perceptive essay about his late two great friends and colleagues: Sonny Mehta, office neighbor, Knopf head and Editor-in-Chief, who died in late December 2019, and Dan Frank, Pantheon Editorial Director, whom we lost May 24. Just published by The Atlantic, his essay expands upon his recollective appreciation for his subjects’ professional and personal uniqueness to discuss his impressions of the impact social media and social-justice movements are having on the book-publishing culture Mehta and Frank helped define.

Click here for this must-read.

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How PRH Supported Behind the Book’s Spring Book Bash in Washington Heights

Penguin Random House is a longtime partner of Behind the Book, a nonprofit organization that inspires students to love reading by bringing accomplished authors and their books into classrooms through innovative literacy programs. They partner with classroom teachers and work directly in NYC public schools – exclusively those at which 75% or more of the student population lives at or below the federal poverty line. All programs are designed to meet Common Core Learning Standards and fit the class curriculum. Continue reading →

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