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Banner Evening for Berkley at 2022 Thriller Awards

Berkley author Amanda Jayatissa’s MY SWEET GIRL won the Thriller Award for Best First Novel at ITW’s Thrillerfest this past weekend in New York. This win marks the first Thriller Award win for Berkley. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Roe v. Wade

This is election week and one of the hot-button issues propelling people to vote is the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade. This 1973 landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. The decision struck down many U.S. federal and state abortion laws. To help understand the facts and feelings surrounding abortion in the United States, we present the following books: Continue reading →

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RHCB Author David Levithan Kicks Off B&N Pride Month Campaign

To celebrate the start of Pride Month, Random House Children’s Books author David Levithan appeared on the Barnes & Noble Poured Over podcast to talk about his 2003 debut, Boy Meets Boy, and much more. Listen to this podcast here. B&N has an exclusive edition of the novel on sale now, featuring a refreshed cover and new back matter. Continue reading →

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PRH Authors at WMG Virtual Event: “Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back”

Women’s Media Group (WMG) is presenting “Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back” via Zoom on Wednesday, June 8, 1:00-2:00 pm (ET). Penguin Random House author Heather Cabot (whose newest book is The New Chardonnay) will be moderating, and PRH author Lara Hodgson (who wrote Level Up with Stacey Abrams and Heather Cabot) is one of the speakers. The panel also includes Lorine Pendleton, Lead Partner at Portfolio Rising America Funds, and Terrez M. Thompson, Founder of Powered By Zerret (PBZ). Continue reading →

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Honoring Bill Whitehead, 70s-80s Dutton Champion of Vanguard LGBTQ+ Authors

This Pride Month, we recognize an historic E. P. Dutton colleague on the 35th anniversary of his death: Bill Whitehead, its mid-seventies-to-mid-eighties trailblazing editor-in-chief, who was a welcoming beacon and a nurturing supporter to a generation of post-Stonewall-era authors who identified as gay. Continue reading →

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Steinem, Brown, Wong to Lead “Then and Now: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom” Virtual Discussion

Join Random House, in partnership with UnTextbooked, a podcast for the future brought to you by teen changemakers, on Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. (ET) via Zoom for Then and Now: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom, featuring Gloria Steinem , Austin Channing Brown, and Carmen Rita Wong, in a virtual, cross-generational conversation between activists and thought leaders in the women’s rights space. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Gun Violence in America

The topic today couldn’t be more serious or urgent. NPR reports as of May 31, there have already been 233 mass shootings in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an independent organization that collects data from over 7,500 sources. That includes the massacre at Robb Elementary School last week in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 children and two adults and injured many others. More than 45,000 people in the U.S. were killed by guns in 2020, the Centers for Disease Control reported recently. That year, firearms became the leading cause of death for American children. On average, gun violence kills nine children every day. To help understand the issue, and repercussions, of gun violence in America we present the following books: Continue reading →

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Announcing Alchemy by Knopf Canada, New Publishing Program Led by Dionne Brand and Lynn Henry

News from Martha Kanya-Forstner, Publisher, Knopf Canada, Vice President, Penguin Random House Canada: It gives me such pleasure to announce the launch of an exciting publishing program, Alchemy by Knopf Canada, under the editorial direction of internationally acclaimed, award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Dionne Brand, working in close partnership with Knopf Canada’s Publishing Director Lynn Henry. Continue reading →

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Pantheon/Vintage Author Sasha Issenberg Takes on America’s Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

With Pride Month 2022 underway, the issue of same-sex marriage continues to be a topic of contentious debate, even though on June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. In Sasha Issenberg’s THE ENGAGEMENT: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, a New York Times Notable Book in Pantheon hardcover, now out in Vintage paperback, same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable is explored over the course of 900-plus pages. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Pride Month

June 2022 marks the 52^nd annual LGBTQ+ Pride tradition. The first Pride march in New York City was held on June 28, 1970 on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. In celebration of Pride Month, we recommend the following recent and and acclaimed memoirs: Continue reading →

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