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Ron Rash In Conversation with Colum McCann via Zoom (9/2)

Ron Rash, author of IN THE VALLEY: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena (Doubleday), in conversation with Colum McCann at a virtual event hosted by Powell’s Books (Portland, OR) via Zoom on Wednesday, September 2 at 8:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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DK Launches New Travel Podcast “Where to Go”

DK Eyewitness has launched a new travel podcast, “Where to Go” – produced for today’s travelers, for a new era where restrictions and precautions are ever present. The hosts, James Atkinson and Lucy Richards, don’t shy away from the impact COVID-19 has had on our vacation plans and openly discuss the effect of the pandemic on the world’s favorite destinations. They also share insights into what travel might be like in 2021. 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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John Green’s First Work of Nonfiction to be Published by Dutton in May 2021

Dutton will publish a collection of essays by #1 internationally bestselling author John Green, whose books have been translated into 55 languages with more than 50 million copies in print worldwide. Scheduled for publication on May 18, 2021, THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED is adapted and expanded from the podcast Green writes and hosts in partnership with WNYC Studios, and will include new pieces exclusive to the book. It is novelist Green’s first work of nonfiction. Continue reading →

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Peter Geye to Discuss His Novel NORTHERNMOST via Zoom (9/1)

Peter Geye, author of NORTHERNMOST (Knopf), will be in conversation with Vanessa Veselka at a virtual event hosted by Books in Common NW via Zoom on Tuesday, September 1 at 9:30pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Colin Woodard to Discuss His Book UNION via Zoom (9/1)

Colin Woodard, author of UNION (Viking), will be in conversation with Derek Chollet, Executive Vice President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which is hosting this virtual event via Zoom on Tuesday, September 1 at 10:30am (ET). Continue reading →

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El Gran Combo Virtual Author Panel to Feature Carolina De Robertis via Crowdcast (9/1)

Carolina De Robertis, author of CANTORAS (Vintage), will be featured on the El Gran Combo, a virtual author panel hosted by Duende District Bookstore and Loyalty Bookstores via Crowdcast on Tuesday, September 1 at 6:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Poisoned Pen Presents Carl Hiaasen In Conversation with John Sandford via Facebook (9/1)

Carl Hiaasen will discuss his new book, SQUEEZE ME (Knopf), with fellow bestselling novelist John Sandford at a virtual event hosted by the Poisoned Pen bookstore via Facebook on Tuesday, September 1 at 9:00pm (ET). Continue reading →

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Bestselling Author Jim Collins Reunites with Portfolio Publisher Adrian Zackheim to Release BE 2.0 This December

Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great, will release an ambitious upgrade of his classic first book, Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company. Portfolio President and Publisher Adrian Zackheim acquired World English Audio and eBook rights from Peter Ginsberg of Curtis Brown for simultaneous publication with Random House Business in the U.K. on December 1, 2020. The new edition will have a new title, BE 2.0. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Independent Bookstores

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.” – Jerry Seinfeld

How do we love our independent bookstores? Let us count the ways! Tomorrow, August 29, is Independent Bookstore Day and we want to shower our neighborhood bookstores with attention this year, especially, when they’ve been hit so hard due to the pandemic. Independent booksellers are special people who practice the art of handselling, sharing their personal recommendations, in order to connect authors with readers. Each bookstore has its own welcoming personality and truly, there are few places we’d rather be! Find out more about planned events and activities by visiting indebookstore.com and enjoy these bookstore-centric titles as you support your favorite bookstore: Continue reading →

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