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

In This Issue:

- Rave Reviews! Critical kudos we'd like to share.

- Graphic Novels & Manga: A burgeoning genre. Get the picture?

- Welcome DC Comics: One of the world's leading sources for comics and comics-related products is now part of the RHPS family!

- Contest: Win a free advance reader's copy of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti!

Sometimes, people really like our books. And sometimes, they write about it. Below, some commendatory remarks:

 

 

 

 

 

  • Banana Heart Summer- Merlinda Bobis (Delta): Library Journal: "'Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon'—this Dalai Lama quote appears on the title page of Bobis's (White Turtle) wonderful debut novel about the struggle between a mother and a daughter and serves as its thematic expression." (Full Library Journal Review)
  • The Fourth Wall- Amy Arbus (Welcome Books): The New Yorker: “'The Fourth Wall' is the photographer Amy Arbus’s fourth book of pictures, and it is her masterpiece." (Full New Yorker Review)
  • The Alcoholic- Jonathan Ames and Chris Haspiel (Vertigo): Kirkus Reviews: "Ames (Wake Up, Sir!, 2004, etc.) has distinguished himself as both a novelist and an essayist/journalist with a confessional intimacy and self-deprecating humor that sometimes blurs the line between memoir and fiction. He has found his artistic match in Haspiel, who brought a revelatory new dimension to the graphic memoirs of Harvey Pekar (The Quitter, 2006). Here, the whole is even better than the anticipated sum of its parts..."
  • The Steel Wave - Jeff Shaara (Random House): Library Journal: "Shaara portrays his characters as human and fully capable of pettiness and making bloody mistakes and committing atrocities. Intense, compelling, and thoroughly researched, this is much more than just an excellent historical novel. Highly recommended for all fiction collections." (Full Library Journal Review)
  • Adam the King - Jeffrey Lewis (Other Press): Library Journal: "Lewis creates a rich cast of well-developed and refreshingly believable characters. Intelligent without being pretentious, funny, heartbreaking, and believable, this is a gem of a novel." (Full Library Journal Review)

Graphic Novels: The kids can't get enough of them. A sign of things to come. Who knows—the next William Faulkner may wield colored pencils. Check out this New Yorker article on Graphic Novels. Written way back in 2005!


Lisa Myhre
Nemi, volumes 1 & 2

(1.) 978-1-84576-586-6 | $14.95 |
Titan | HC

(2.) 978-1-84576-614-6 | $14.95 |
Titan | HC

Meet Nemi Montoya, the vegetarian, cynical/romantic, hilariously honest, twenty-something goth. Hear her opinions on romance and dating; watch her watch TV in her untidy flat; learn how she feels about birch trees and blondes; and generally experience the highs and lows of being Nemi in the modern world.
www.titanbooks.com


Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
Y: The Last Man, Vol 10: The Whys and Wherefores

978-1-4012-1813-3 | $14.99 |
Vertigo | TR

The final volume in the critically acclaimed graphic-novel series by award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughn brings the gripping saga of slacker Yorick Brown, who discovers after a plague has hit that he is the only male left on Earth, to its explosive conclusion.
"Complete and utter comic gold." Publishers Weekly (starred review)



Osamu Tezuka
Dororo, Vol. 1

978-1-934287-16-3 | $13.95 |
Vertical | TR

This action-filled tale of vengeance revolves as much around an Oedipal urge to punish the abandoning father as it does around the main characters' confrontations with ghosts and monsters that seem to be based on Asian fables and lore. An edge-of-your seat manga of redemption.
www.vertical-inc.com


Yoshinori Natsume
Batman: Death Mask

978-1-4012-1924-6 | $9.99 |
DC Comics | TR

Acclaimed manga creator Yoshinori Natsume makes his American debut with this original Batman manga tale. There’s a new serial killer in Gotham, and he may have ties to the training Bruce Wayne acquired as a young man in Japan.

 


David Petersen
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152

978-0-345-49686-7 | $17.95 |
Villard | TR

The Mouse Guard are now faced with a terrible threat: A wicked, power-hungry mouse named Midnight has a secret plan to take control of the mouse world. He has learned the location of the Mouse Guard's secret stronghold and is amassing a dark army called "The Black Axe" in order to destroy it. Once he's brought down the Mouse Guard, nothing will stop him from taking power--and forcing his fellow mice into a grim life of never-ending war.


978-0-345-50133-2 | $10.95 |
Del Rey | TR

Lucy is a young mage-in-training who dreams of joining Fairy Tail, the most famous magician's guild in the world. Natsu, a boy raised by a Dragon who mysteriously left him when he was young has devoted his life to finding his father. When Natsu helps Lucy out of a tricky situation, she discovers that he is a member of the guild, and our heroes' adventure begins.


Terry Brooks
Dark Wraith of Shannara

978-0-345-49462-7 | $13.95 |
Ballantine | TR

Jair Ohmsford discovers that he can draw on a form of magic that allows him to transform into other living creatures, both human and non-human. The magic is both powerful and seductive, for Jair can feel himself wanting to remain in each new form that he tries.


Brian Wood
The New York Four

978-1-4012-1154-7 | $9.99 |
Minx | TR

Raised by stuffy, literatti parents, Riley--just starting her freshman year at NYU--is a shy, straight-A student who convinces three other NYU brainiacs to join a research group for fast cash. What Riley doesn't bank on is finding her arty, estranged sister and accidentally falling in love with her older boyfriend.
www.dccomics.com/minx

DC Comics is now a client of Random House Publisher Services. DC is one of the largest and most diverse publishers of comics and comics-related products today with a continuous publishing history that spans over sixty years! Random House is proud to have them as part of the family, and now, more than ever, are we top among destinations for all things graphic novel. Check out DC at dccomics.com.

Win a free ARC of Hannah Tinti's richly imagined debut novel, The Good Thief!

“Set in New England, presumably in the 19th century, Tinti’s Disney-ready first novel…follows one-handed orphan Ren’s not quite rags-to-riches tale. Ren, with his love for religion and penchant for thievery, is immediately likable, and when rugged, tall-tale spinning con man Benjamin Nab strolls into Ren’s orphanage one day and claims Ren as his brother, it seems too good to be true, and it is. Benjamin, along with boozy partner-in-crime Tom, lead Ren throughout New England, using the endearing, crippled orphan to 'open doors' and make their hustling life easier. When they finally end up in North Umbrage, a town that looms large in Benjamin’s past, the trio’s luck dries up, and Ren must decide who he can trust and what he is willing to sacrifice in order to have this family. For a novel full of scams, shams and underhanded deals and populated by hustlers, thieves and grave robbers, the sense of menace is muted, but as an adventure yarn with YA crossover appeal, it’s tough to beat.”
Publishers Weekly

Be entered to win a advance reader's copy of The Good Thief when you answer this question: What is the name of Hannah Tinti's previously published short story collection? (hint)

Please email your answer along with your address (sorry, no P.O. boxes) to library@randomhouse.com with the subject line, "Good Thief" to enter.

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