Island Beneath the Sea

Island Beneath the Sea

April 28, 2010

This month, English 101 (our modern classics book club), is reading Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune–a tour-de-force that traverses 19th century Chile, California, and China. It's fitting then, to talk about Allende's eagerly-anticipated Island Beneath the Sea, out now in hardcover! Island Beneath the Sea is the story of Zarité–known as Tété–the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Tété becomes the slave of twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain, who arrives on Saint-Domingue in 1770 to run his father’s plantation. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruellest of circumstances.

-Kayleigh

31 Bond Street, AAP, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, Book Buzz, Brava, Valentine, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Ellen Horan, Husband and Wife, Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea, Jacqueline Winspear, Leah Stewart, Louise Erdrich, Maisie Dobbs, Making Toast, Marilyn Johnson, Noah Boyd, Oscar Hijuelos, Roger Rosenblatt, Shadow Tag, The Bricklayer, The Mapping of Love and Death, The Myth of You and Me, This Book is Overdue!, Wench

AAP Spring 2010 Book Buzz

October 28, 2009

It was great seeing old friends and making new ones at last week’s AAP Book Buzz here in NYC. The AAP Library Committee is comprised of library marketers from various publishing houses. We get together several times a year to brainstorm about different ways we can connect our authors and books to libraries. We decided to invite librarians from the tri-state area and barrage them with book talks and sandwiches! It worked – we all had a lot of fun and it was a great opportunity to talk about some upcoming books that have us jazzed (there’s just never enough time to talk about them all!)

Marilyn Johnson, author of the upcoming This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All kicked off the event with a brief talk about the increasing demands on librarians to keep up with the onslaught of new technology. This book is an homage to librarians everywhere – and it is long overdue!

If anyone is interested in a galley of This Book Is Overdue, I have a few to spare. Send an email to me at librarylovefest at harpercollins dot com and I’ll be happy to send one to you.

Here is a list of the books I had presented. Clicking on each title will bring you to its page in our online catalog. Note: a few of these titles won't hit our catalogs until the beginning of November, so we've put them at the end of the list. Happy reading!

-Virginia

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt

Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich

The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd

31 Bond Street by Ellen Horan

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani

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