the mapping of love and death

Nancy Pearl Shows Us Love!

January 28, 2011

Like most of you, we consider ourselves to be Nancy Pearl devotees. And though we go to bat for all of our titles, there's an extra-special thrill when Nancy loves something we publish. This was just the case at the ALA Midwinter conference in San Diego, when Nancy tweeted about Caribou Island, one of our hottest titles: "Reading David Vann's gorgeously crafted Caribou Island broke my heart. Wow." Moments after Nancy's tweet went out, librarians filed into our booth and–happily–discovered a pile of hardcovers that we handed to the masses.

Another librarian-favorite also found favor with Nancy: Jacqueline Winspear's The Mapping of Love and Death. She wrote: "Forgot to tweet how much I ♥ Jacqueline Winspear's Mapping of Love and Death; can't wait to read the new one [A Lesson in Secrets] this April. You go, Maisie!"

If you'd like to join in the lovefest, check out the catalog pages for Caribou Island and A Lesson in Secrets, and be sure to follow Nancy on Twitter, @Nancy_Pearl.

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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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