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There’s a Book for That: Jazz Appreciation Month

“Jazz is not a what, it is a how.” – Bill Evans

We didn’t forget: April is Jazz Appreciation Month! The Smithsonian launched Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in 2001 to pay tribute to jazz both as a historic and living American art form. From the cultural movement of the Jazz Age to today’s poets and writers, jazz inspires literary improvisation more than any other genre of music. We recommend you keep some time with the following books by and about the greats of jazz: Continue reading →

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R.I.P: 60s, 70s Bantam Sales Head Lou Satz, 94

Lou Satz, whose driving sales leadership for such reprint titles as THE EXORCIST, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, and JAWS helped position Bantam Books as a twentieth-century mass-market paperback publishing powerhouse, died of natural causes on April 9 in Seattle, at 94, nineteen days shy of his 95th birthday. Continue reading →

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Abbott, Polzin, Schiff Win LA Times Book Prizes, Betts Receives Innovator’s Award

The Los Angeles Times announced the winners of its 42nd annual Book Prizes on April 22, the day before the 27th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books opened for its first in-person event since the pandemic began. Among this year’s prize winners were three books published by Penguin Random House imprints. Continue reading →

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The PRH Education Team Launches Its New Translanguaging Collections

Penguin Random House Education is thrilled to announce the launch of the new PRH Education Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners! Translanguaging invites students to use their own experiences and languages to make connections and deepen their engagement with texts and people in their lives. We have partnered with educators Drs. Luz Yadira Herrera and Carla España to create these new collections for Kindergarten through 12^th grade that carefully consider how we are validating and supporting bilingualism and multilingualism in our learning communities. The collections grew out of Carla and Luz’s love for children’s literature, teachers that celebrate their students, and honoring the ways that children navigate their expanding language repertoires both in and out of the classroom. Continue reading →

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Join Underlined for a Virtual Slumber Party Featuring RHCB Authors Gina Chen, Katharine McGee, Kelis Rowe, Kate M. Williams

Gina Chen (Violet Made of Thorns), Katharine McGee (American Royals III: Rivals), Kelis Rowe (Finding Jupiter), and Kate M. Williams (Never Coming Home) will host a virtual slumber party presented by Underlined at YALLWest Book Festival on Wednesday, April 27 at 8:00 PM (ET) via Zoom.

The evening will feature games, Q&As, writing advice, and free books! All attendees will receive an early digital copy of a select upcoming title after the event. Everyone who attends can also enter a giveaway featuring ten of our upcoming titles, including titles by our featured authors. Continue reading →

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Tiny Reparations Books’ PORTRAIT OF A THIEF Lands on New York Times Bestseller List

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li, only the second novel published by Tiny Reparations Books, landed at #15 on the New York Times bestseller list for the week of April 24, marking the first bestseller from the new imprint.

It’s also the first New York Times bestseller for Editor Amber Oliver, who says, “I loved Portrait of a Thief from the moment it landed in my inbox. Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Green Works

Happy Green Week! This week, we commemorate the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day. On April 22^nd,1970 millions of people took to the streets to protest industrial pollution. Our environmental concerns and circumstances have only become more dire since. To support both personal greener living goals as well as global conservation efforts, we recommend the follwing recent, acclaimed and actionable titles: Continue reading →

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Riverhead Author Brandon Taylor Wins 2022 Story Prize

Riverhead author Brandon Taylor has won the 2022 Story Prize for FILTHY ANIMALS, a short story collection set among the lives of young creatives in the Midwest, it was announced on April 13 during a private, live-streamed event. Continue reading →

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Friday Reads: Poet Memoirs

“Part of what you have to figure out in this life is, who would I be if I hadn’t been frightened? What hurt me, and what would I be if it hadn’t?”

― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

In further celebration of National Poetry Month, for you lovers of prose, we’d like to draw your attention to some of the best memoirs by acclaimed poets (including Pulitzer winners, and Poet Laureates). Their love of language along with the ability to be hilarious, profound, vulnerable and revealing make reading each of these books a huge treat! Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Autism Acceptance Month

50 years ago, In 1972, the Autism Society launched the first annual National Autistic Children’s week, which evolved into Autism Acceptance Month (AAM). This April, we support the effort to spread awareness, promote acceptance, and ignite change through the following noteworthy books by and about people with autism: Continue reading →

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