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BookPage names NEWS OF THE WORLD the #1 Book of 2016!!!

Y648 (2)The adoration continues to swell for Paulette Jiles' News of the World, and with so many "Best of 2016" lists beginning to roll in, we don't expect it to end any time soon. The latest? BookPage.com just named it as their #1 book of 2016! Click here to see the full list.

A National Book Award finalist, Paulette Jiles' latest is a fast-paced, heartfelt, beautifully written tale of a most unlikely duo—an aging war veteran and his young charge recently rescued from her Indian captors—as they travel across Texas to the young girl's adoptive aunt and uncle.

The #1 LibraryReads pick for October, News of the World has received widespread coverage and critical praise, a sampling of which you can see below! To celebrate, we will give away a finished copy of the book to the first FIVE people to email us at librarylovefest@harpercollins.com. 

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS published an insightful feature on Paulette which can be found here.

READER’S BOOKS in Sonoma, California recommended News of the World in a list published in the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. Click here to read the feature.

THE WASHINGTON POST selected News of the World as one of the "BEST BOOKS OF 2016." Click here for the full list.

THE NEW YORK TIMES included the book in their "8 NEW BOOKS WE RECOMMEND THIS WEEK" feature. See the full article here.

Finally, check out this amazing blurb from THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: "…at scarcely 200 pages, this exhilarating novel, a finalist for this year’s National Book Award, travels through its marvelous terrain so quickly that one is shocked, almost stricken, to reach the end. So do what I did: Read it again." 

-Chris

 

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NEWS OF THE WORLD is the #1 LibraryReads Pick for October!

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It is our heartfelt pleasure to announce that News of the World by Paulette Jiles has been voted by public librarians as the #1 LibraryReads pick for October!

News of the World is a stunning work of historical fiction that follows an aging war veteran whose solitary existence traveling post-Civil War Texas reading news to the people is interrupted when he takes a job transporting an orphaned girl across Texas to her adoptive aunt and uncle. Beautiful, sparse, and heart-wrenching, this a book that will stick with you long after the last page. Just check out some of the librarian praise:

"My respect for Paulette Jiles grows with every novel she writes, and News of the World is her best work yet… She writes with great clarity, understanding, and a forgiving heart."
    — Nancy Pearl, librarian, bestselling author, literary critic

"News of the World has everything. Stupendous writing, characters that get under your skin and burrow deep into your heart, great pacing, and an ending that makes you cry with joy and relief…. I feel sorry for the book I read next. News of the World is a hard act to follow."
    — Janet Lockhart, Wake County Public Library, Raleigh, NC

"The language is lyrical and spare and wonderfully evocative, so that by the end of the book, readers will have a hard time returning to the contemporary world. Surely one of the best books of the year."
    — Vicki Nesting, Assistant Director, St. Charles Parish Public Library

News of the World goes on sale October 4th. Download the egalley from Edelweiss here.

If you voted, thank you so much for the support you've shown this book. If you didn't vote, please visit LibraryReads.org for more details on this wonderful program! The deadline for the November list is September 20th.

-Chris

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Check Out this Wonderful PW Review for NEWS OF THE WORLD

9780062409201_2396aNews flash! The upcoming News of the World by Paulette Jiles just received another sparkling review, this time from Publishers Weekly, who raves, “Jiles delivers a taut, evocative story of post–Civil War Texas in this riveting drama of a redeemed captive of the Kiowa tribe…Jiles unfolds the stories of the Captain and Johanna, past and present, with the smooth assuredness of a burnished fireside tale, demonstrating that she is a master of the western.”  To read the full review, click here.

If you're unfamiliar with this incredible upcoming piece of historical fiction, News of the World follows an aging war veteran whose solitary existence traveling post-Civil War Texas giving public readings of the news is quickly broken when he agrees to transport an orphaned little girl across Texas to her adoptive aunt and uncle. Thrilling yet intimate, epic in scope but sure to tug at your heartstrings, this is a book that is garnering A LOT of buzz, which will only grow as we draw closer to the October pub date. Download the egalley from Edelweiss by clicking here.

To learn more about Paulette, whose previous work includes New York Times bestsellers Stormy Weather and Enemy Women, check out the video below, shot on Paulette's ranch outside San Antonio. News of the World goes on sale October 4th. 

 

 

 

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