February 2008
 
 
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"Random reads your library's needs."

In This Issue:

- Congratulations to our ALA award winners!

- Valentines: Books for Sweethearts, Books for The Bitter

- Be our friend on LibraryThing.com!

- Contest! Win a free advance reader's edition of What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage

ALA award winning books from Random House, Inc.!

 

 

 

 

 

We've made it back from ALA, and we'd like to thank everyone who stopped by the Random House booth and helped make it a successful show. It was another great year for RH Inc. on the awards side, with 10 ALA Notable Books, 2 ALEX awards, 3 BCALA awards, and many more! Here are this year's Notables:

ALA Notable Books

  • Ian Ayres, SUPER CRUNCHERS, Bantam, RH Audio
  • Amy Bloom, AWAY, Random House
  • Jon Clinch, FINN, Random House
  • Jim Crace, THE PESTHOUSE, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
  • Nathan Englander, THE MINISTRY OF SPECIAL CASES, Knopf
  • Uriza Holthe, THE FIVE-FORTY-FIVE TO CANNES, Crown
  • Lloyd Jones, MISTER PIP, Dial
  • Ian McEwan, ON CHESIL BEACH, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
  • David Malouf, THE COMPLETE STORIES, Pantheon
  • Lisa Margonelli, OIL ON THE BRAIN, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

For a complete listing of our award books, click here!

Whether you've got rubbery-kneed, lovestruck patrons or destitute, shuffling, lonely patrons this Valentine's day, Random House has the right books for their respective vantage points.


National Geographic
Love

Love

978-1-4262-0115-8 | $30.00 | National Geographic | HC

Universally desired and uniquely experienced, love finds expression in every land and culture. This enchanting new book celebrates the depth and diversity of love in an exquisite collection of photographs from National Geographic's famous archives and beyond.


Jan Spiller
Cosmic Love

Cosmic Love

978-0-553-38311-9 | $18.00 | Bantam | TR

Moving beyond the sun-sign profiles, author Jan Spiller delves into the meanings and mysteries of your personal North Node-the vital point where the orbits of the earth, moon, and sun intersect-to help you bring love into your life.



Everyman's Library
Chinese Erotic Poems

978-0-307-26567-8 | $12.50 | Everyman's Library | HC

The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before translated into English.


Nobuko Tagaki
Translucent Tree

Translucent Trees

978-1-934287-14-9 | $19.95 | Vertical | HC

A daughter of a sword maker reunites with a man of her past and begins a love story of epic consequence and passion reminiscent of the works of Alice Munro, set against the backdrop of bucolic Japan.

 


Cindy Lu
The Four Man Plan

978-0-7679-2857-1 | $16.95 | Broadway | TR

Do you secretly suspect that you suck at love? For years, author and actress Cindy Lu dated one wrong guy after another until she decided to use her math skills to fix her romantic life. The result is The Four Man Plan-a sure-fire formula for finding Mr. Right.


978-0-7679-2599-0 | $19.95 | Broadway | TR

The "panic years" mark the point (usually around your twenty-sixth birthday) when your dating agenda fundamentally changes—from dating for a fling to dating for a ring. What’s a girl to do when weddings become mere reminders of our own single status?


Annie Modesitt
Romantic Hand Knits

On the Wing

978-0-307-34696-4 | $27.50 | Potter Craft | HC 2006

Romance is alive and well in the sweet and sexy clothing and accessory designs you’ll find in Romantic Hand Knits. Exquisite drape married with figure-hugging silhouettes show off a woman’s curves in a most ladylike manner.


Guy de Maupassant
Alien Hearts

978-1-59017-260-5 | $14.00 |
New York Review Books | HC

The story of three lovers bound by bitterness as much as passion. Maupassant’s artist hero falls for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty whose past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him–and everyone–at arm’s length.

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Win a free advance reader's copy of Amy Sutherland's new book, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage !

While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home.

Receive your copy when you answer this question: How does the author react when her husband gets frustrated while searching for his mislaid car keys? (hint)

Please email your answer along with your address to library@randomhouse.com with the suject line, "Shamu." The first fifty respondents will receive their free copy! Don't forget to include your address! (Offer open only to librarians in the U.S.)



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