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Eric Jerome Dickey: 1961-2021

Publishing has lost a beloved icon, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey, who passed away on Sunday, January 3, in Los Angeles after battling a long illness. He was 59. Continue reading →

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One World Author Ingrid Persaud Wins 2020 Costa Book Award for First Novel

Ingrid Persaud, Photo © Russell Watson

Winners of the 2020 Costa Book Awards, one of the UK’s most prestigious and popular literary prizes, have been announced. The award in the First Novel category went to Ingrid Persaud, author of LOVE AFTER LOVE, published by One World in the United States and Canada. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: New Year, New You!

“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”

― Maya Angelou, from “On the Pulse of Morning”

Welcome 2021 and with it our hopes and intentions for health and healing. To support your New Year, New You goals, we offer our Top 10 titles in the categories of health, diet and fitness… with some Maya Angelou thrown in for good measure! 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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Tom Vanderbilt to Share the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning via Zoom (1/7)

Tom Vanderbilt, author of BEGINNERS: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning (Knopf), will be in virtual conversation with Oliver Burkeman, followed by an audience Q&A, at a virtual event hosted by Greenlight Bookstore via Zoom on Thursday, January 7 at 7:30 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Valarie Kaur In Conversation with Chris Jackson at One World Ideas x Action Book Club via Zoom (1/7)

Join Valarie Kaur, civil rights lawyer, award-winning filmmaker, founder of The Revolutionary Love Project, and author of SEE NO STRANGER: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutonary Love (One World), in conversation with One World editor-in-chief Chris Jackson at a One World Ideas x Action Book Club event via Zoom on Thursday, January 7 at 8:00 pm (ET). Together they will explore how we, as individuals and as a nation, can begin the labor of reckoning, reimagining, and healing our nation. We each have a role to play and we will only succeed if we choose to show up with love. Continue reading →

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Jane Smiley to Present PERESTROIKA IN PARIS via Zoom (1/7)

Jane Smiley, author of PERESTROIKA IN PARIS (Knopf), will discuss her latest novel in conversation with Barbara Lane, followed by audience Q&A at a virtual event hosted by Copperfield’s Bookstore via Zoom on Thursday, January 7 at 10:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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“She Persisted” Panel to Feature Chelsea Clinton and Andrea Davis Pinkney via Zoom (1/7)

Join Politics & Prose and the Persisterhood for an inspiring conversation and Q&A with Chelsea Clinton and award-winning authors Andrea Davis Pinkney, Lesa Cline-Ransome and Atia Abawi, as they discuss Penguin Young Readers’ new She Persisted chapter book series featuring female trailblazers Harriet Tubman, Claudette Colvin and Sally Ride, with moderator Deborah D. Taylor at a Politics & Prose Live! virtual event via Zoom on Thursday, January 7 at 6:00 pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Del Rey Publishes New Star Wars Book, Partners With Out of Print for Limited Editions

Beginning with this week’s Del Rey publication of STAR WARS: Light of the Jedi (The High Republic), Lucasfilm is launching an epic new era of Star Wars storytelling that will be explored through multiple voices in adult and young adult novels, children’s books, and comics from a variety of publishers, including Del Rey, Disney Lucasfilm Press, IDW Publishing, and Marvel. Continue reading →

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THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr. Celebrates the Heroic Power of Love

Our first Igloo Book Buzz selection of 2021 is THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones, Jr., creator of the “Son of Baldwin” online community (Facebook / IG / Twitter). Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons today, January 5, this stunning debut novel is about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in eachother, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Edmund White’s starred Publishers Weekly review raved, “The lyricism of THE PROPHETS will recall the prose of James Baldwin … a masterpiece.” Continue reading →

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