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Sourcebooks Ranks 31st on FAST COMPANY’S 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators

Fast Company announced its fifth annual Best Workplaces for Innovators list, honoring organizations and businesses that demonstrate an inspiring commitment to encourage and develop innovation at all levels. Sourcebooks, a women-led, entrepreneurial, independent publisher, came in at No. 31, for developing a culture of innovation that resulted in its books having a success rate more than 68 percent higher than the rest of the top ten publishers in the book industry.

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There’s a Book for That: Summer Weddings

“Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”—Will Ferrell

We agree… it’s all about connection! Has your social media begun to fill with glorious wedding photos from romantic locales? Perhaps you are the one getting married or are in the wedding party or a guest. Whatever the case, certainly summer is high season for matrimony! This week, catch our bouquet of a dozen dazzling books to match the mood – we vow they make great shower gifts or reading on the way to the wedding. Continue reading →

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6 PRH Titles Snag a Highly-Coveted Spot on the 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 List

Who says you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover? As cover art is a critical component of any book, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a professional association for design, recently announced the results of the AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 competition. The association states “with 487 book and cover design entries from 27 countries, this year’s competition recognizes and showcases excellence in book design from around the world.” Continue reading →

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Listening Library Author Jarrett J. Krosoczka Wins an Odyssey Honor Audiobook

On June 26, author Jarrett J. Krosoczka received the Odyssey Honor for Excellence in Children’s Books at the American Library Association Annual Conference Chicago for his work THE FIRST HELPING (LUNCH LADY BOOKS 1 & 2).

Also in attendance were our very own Nick Martorelli, Executive Producer, Audio Production and Lauren Klein, Associate Producer, Audio, both of whom had worked on the audiobook alongside Krosoczka. Continue reading →

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WMG Presents “The Battle for the Bookshelf” Featuring RHCB’s Dominique Cimina on July 17

The Women’s Media Group (WMG) is presenting a special event, “The Battle for the Bookshelf: How to Fight Back Against Book Bans” on Monday, July 17 from 12:00 -1:00 PM ET via Zoom. To register click here.

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Delacorte Press Acquires SNOWGLOBE, An Innovative Dystopian Thriller Originally Released in South Korea

Delacorte Press has acquired SNOWGLOBE by Soyoung Park, the first book in a powerful young adult dystopian duology, as announced last week by Beverly Horowitz, SVP & Publisher, Delacorte Press. Originally published in South Korea in 2020 by Changbi Publishers, the novel has been translated into English by Joungmin Lee Comfort, introducing a new readership to the cutting-edge commentary on climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and personal identity. The book will published early 2024.

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Random House Author Dasha Kiper on Dementia & the Role of the Caregiver

After getting a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Dasha Kiper became the live-in caregiver for a Holocaust survivor with Alzheimer’s disease. For a year, she endured the emotional strain of looking after a person whose condition disrupts the rules of time, order, and continuity. Inspired by her own experience and her work counseling caregivers in the subsequent decade, Kiper offers an entirely new way to understand the symbiotic relationship between patients and those tending to them in TRAVELERS TO UNINMAGINABLE LANDS (Random House). Her book is the first to examine how the workings of the “healthy” brain prevent us from adapting to and truly understanding the cognitively impaired one.In the Q&A below, we asked Kiper what she learned while writing this book and what advice she would give caretakers. Read more below.

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Introducing INKLORE, a New Global Pop-Comics Imprint

On June 28, Penguin Random House welcomed the exciting launch of a new imprint: INKLORE, a new global pop-comics imprint dedicated to publishing manga and comics for a global readership. The news was announced by Scott Shannon, EVP & Publisher, Random House Worlds. The first project undertaken by INKLORE will be MY LOVE STORY WITH YAMADA-KUN AT LV999, a gamer rom-com manga series by Mashiro, originally published in Japanese by ComicSmart.

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PRH Named Foundation House’s Transitional Employment Honoree

On June 12, Fountain House awarded Penguin Random House as a Transitional Employment Honoree at their 75th anniversary benefit at The Glasshouse in New York. Fountain House is a national mental health nonprofit fighting to improve health, increase opportunity, and end social and economic isolation for people most impacted by mental illness.

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There’s a Book for That: Caribbean American Heritage Month

This spotlight on Caribbean American Heritage Month Reads is brought to you by Lyzbeth Lara, Corporate Communications.

Miami is not the Caribbean, but with its close proximity to countries such as Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti and many more, it sure feels like it. Growing up at the very end of South Florida, the Caribbean was my entire universe. Summers were spent on the front stoop with my Cuban abuelo, picking mangoes out of his tree and waiting for neighbors to drop by with papaya or yuca. Dusk brought out mosquitoes that lingered around my ankles, but the sweat in the creases of my arms and legs would finally dry. The house would begin to smell sweetly of fried plantain, and I could retreat into books rich with lore — sea goddesses, generation-spanning curses, earthquakes of mythic proportions, and accents lost.

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