On a Scavenger Hunt
to Save Most Humans
One of the first characters to appear in “Inferno” is a spike-haired, malevolent biker chick dressed in black leather. She looks like trouble in more ways than one. What is the girl with the dragon tattoo doing in Dan Brown’s new book?
She’s scaring Robert Langdon, the tweedy symbologist who stars in Mr. Brown’s breakneck, brain-teasing capers. Reader, she will scare you too. . . . Read the rest of the New York Times Review
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“Salt Sugar Fat continues Moss’s hot streak
of ace reportage, chronicling the insidious
ways in which big food companies, over time, have sneaked more and more of the bad stuff into our diets…”—The New York Times
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss | 978-1-4000-6980-4
HC | $28.00 | Random House Group | February 26, 2013 -
“Lean In is a superb, witty, candid, and meaningful read for women (and men) of
all generations.”—Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state
Read the New York Times review
See Sheryl on the cover of Time | Read the feature article
Check out the Vanity Fair review
Watch the TED talk here
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg | 978-0-385-34994-9
HC | $22.00 (special price) | Knopf | March 11, 2013 -
There’s something irresistible about a skinny, self-possessed underdog who has hidden talents that emerge at just the right moment….Sophie Blackall’s intricate, witty cutout illustrations feel exactly right both for the story and the 5- to 8- year-olds who will most enjoy it.
The Mighty Lalouche by Matthew Olshan; Illustrated by Sophie Blackall
978-0-375-86225-0 | HC | $17.99 | Schwartz & Wade | May 14, 2013
As in her wonderfully funny ‘Traction Man’ picture books, Ms. Grey uses vigorous illustration and lively writing to give each character a distinct, childlike personality.
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Toys in Space by Mini Grey | 978-0-307-97812-7
HC | $16.99 | Knopf | May 14, 2013 -
“Blume deals affectingly with grief and adjustment to death . . . Davey’s feelings are credibly and sensitively rendered.” —Booklist
“It is her finest book—ambitious, absorbing, smoothly written, emotionally engaging, and subtly political . . . .”
—The Nation
“This is, without question, Judy Blume’s best literary effort to date.” —Catholic Library World
Read a profile on Judy Blume in Entertainment Weekly promoting the upcoming release of the Tiger Eyes movie
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume | 978-0-449-81646-2
TR | $8.99 | Delacorte BFYR | May 14, 2013 -
“Original and fun, Crazy Rich Asians is quite a roller coaster trip. I loved it!”
—Jackie Collins, bestselling author of The Power Trip
“Crazy Rich Asians is an unputdownably funny, original, modern novel. An outrageous satire of the Asian squillionaire set, this book is like a Chinese Dallas meets Pride and Prejudice. ... I actually couldn’t put this book down to eat or to watch Downton Abbey.”
—Plum Sykes, bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes
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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan | 978-0-385-53764-3
TR | $19.00 | Doubleday Publishing | June 11, 2013 -
“Let The Great World Spin is one of the 21st century’s most celebrated novels thus far—with a National Book Award and an IMPAC Dublin Literary Award among its lauds. Not an easy act to follow. But McCann is an acrobat, and his newest offer, TransAtlantic is entrancing.”
—DENVER POST
“A dazzlingly talented author’s latest high-wire act. . . . TransAtlantic is McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.”
—O MAGAZINE
Read an interview with Colum in the LA Times
Visit the award-winning author’s website
Transatlantic by Colum McCann | 978-1-4000-6959-0
HC | $27.00 | Random House Group | June 4, 2013 -
From one of the country’s top legal minds, a bold and thought-provoking book on the future of U.S. and Chinese international relations and America’s role in the world.
“A crisp writer, Feldman . . . lays out a compelling case for why the neither-allies-nor-enemies standing between the two powers is tenuous but not necessarily doomed to topple into hot war.” —Kirkus Reviews
Read an excerpt on Salon.com
Watch Noah Feldman on the Colbert Report
Cool War by Noah Feldman | 978-0-8129-9274-8
HC | $26.00 | Random House Group | May 21, 2013
