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August 11th, 2016 On the cover of the NYT Book Review for 08/14/16

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (ISBN

9780385542364 $26.95) Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora

embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share. The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection

The New York Times — Michiko Kakutani Daily Review (online 8/2; print on 8/3) USA Today — Review (online 8/2; print on 8/3) TIME Magazine – Review – 8/12 The New York Times Book Review – 8/14

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Rob Franek of The Princeton Review will discuss The Best 381 Colleges, 2017 Edition (ISBN 9781101920060 $23.99 – Aug. 30th release) on

NBC’s The Today Show on Monday, August 30th. Franek will also be doing an ABC Radio Tour to promote the book the following day, August 31st.

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and

Trial of Patty Hearstby Jeffrey Toobin (ISBN 9780385536714 $28.95) On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre “Tania.” The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing—the Hearst family trying to secure Patty’s release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; the bank security cameras capturing “Tania” wielding a machine gun during a robbery; a cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country; Patty’s year on the lam, running from authorities; and her

circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term “Stockholm syndrome” entered the lexicon. The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times (there were an average of 1,500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s). Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and re-creates her melodramatic trial. American Heiress examines the life of a young woman who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors’ crusade. Or did she?

New York Times Book Review – 8/14

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Nat Geo Greenlights ‘The Long Road Home’ (ISBN 9780425219348

$15.00) Event Series Based On Martha Raddatz Book. Go HERE for the full article

London Bookstores Go Rogue as No Wi-Fi Zones – Go HERE for

the full article

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by

Amy Schumer (ISBN 9781501139888 $28.00 – Aug. 16th release) In The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationships, and sex and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is—a woman with the courage to bare her soul to stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this highly entertaining and universally appealing collection is the literary equivalent of a night out with your best friend—an unforgettable and fun adventure that you wish could last forever. Whether she’s experiencing lust-at-first-sight while in the airport security line, sharing her own views on love and marriage, admitting to being an introvert, or discovering her cross-fit instructor’s secret bad habit, Amy Schumer proves to be a bighearted, brave, and thoughtful storyteller that will leave you nodding your head in recognition, laughing out loud, and sobbing uncontrollably—but only because it’s over.

New York Times Book Review, August 14 Sirius XM Radio Tour including "Howard Stern Show," "Town Hall," August 15 USA Today and Chicago Tribune, August 16 ABC-TV/"Good Morning America," August 16 PBS-TV/"Charlie Rose," week of August 16 People, August 17 CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," August 17 NPR-Radio/"Morning Edition," August 17 Entertainment Weekly, August 19 issue

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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (ISBN 9781101912362

$16.00) Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in a new novel that brilliantly satirizes the corporate prison complex of the twenty-first century.

Wall Street Journal – House Call Feature – 8/12

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson (ISBN 9780062359988

$25.99) Set in 1970s Brooklyn, the acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author

of Brown Girl Dreaming (ISBN 9780399252518 $16.99) delivers a searing tale of

friendship, hopes, and the realities of an adulthood coming too soon

NPR: Fresh Air 8/9/16 New York Times Book Review 8/21/16

TriStar Pictures, eOne, and the Mark Gordon Company are breathing new life isn’t C.S.

Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia” series as the three will co-produce “The Silver Chair.” Go HERE for the full story

A new ‘Longmire’ mystery releases in September An Obvious Fact by Craig Johnson (ISBN 9780525426943 $28.00) In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America’s first national monument, Devils Tower—to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a wealthy entrepreneur, and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry’s ’59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt’s granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won’t stop quoting, “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View

of Life by Ed Yong (ISBN 9780062368591 $27.99) Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on earth.

New York Times Book Review – 8/21

20th Century Fox has picked up the film rights to Ben Mezrich’s currently in the works novel “Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History’s Most Iconic Creatures”. No word on a publication date yet.

For more on this go HERE

“The Lost City of Z,” (ISBN 9781400078455 $16.95) starring Charlie

Hunnam, will have its world premiere as the closing night screening at the 2016 New York Film Festival. Go HERE for the full article

HBO greenlit a miniseries based on Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ISBN 9780385538213 $28.95), the 2016 Pulitzer-winning nonfiction book by Joby

Warrick. The project is being developed by Bradley Cooper, who will serve as EP with Todd Phillips via their Joint Effort production banner. For more on this go HERE

A Little Thing Called Life: A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving

Elvis Presley, Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between by Linda Thompson (ISBN 9780062469748 $27.99) Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning songwriter, and actress, Linda Thompson, breaks her silence for the first time to share the extraordinary story of her life, career, and her epic romances with two of the most celebrated, yet enigmatic, modern American superstars—Elvis Presley and Bruce Jenner

Entertainment Tonight 8/23/16 Access Hollywood 8/24/16 Extra 8/29/16

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Dr. Knox by Peter Spiegelman (ISBN 9780307961273 $26.95) A gripping new thriller about a medical doctor with a powerful humanitarian impulse, an unhealthy appetite for risk, and a knack for finding himself between a rock and a hard place.

New York Times Book Review – 8/14

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (ISBN 9781101947135 $26.95) A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.

Comedy Central - Daily Show w/ Trevor Noah – 8/16

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (ISBN 9780151686568

$16.00) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Cats’ Returns to Broadway. For more go HERE

Known & Strange Things by Teju Cole (ISBN 9780812989786

$17.00) he first book of essays by Teju Cole, award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief, and one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature and commentary New York Times – Review – 8/14

Get ready for a new dinosaur novel from Michael Crichton. Go HERE for the full story

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One to watch!

The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore (ISBN 9780812988901

$28.00) A historical legal thriller centered on the key personalities who fought the “War of the Currents”—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Westinghouse’s young, talented lawyer, Paul Cravath. Its John Grisham meets The Alienist. New York, 1888. The miracle of electric light is in its infancy, and untold glory (and untold riches) await the man who can power the nation with this new technology. Thomas Edison, “the wizard of Menlo Park,” has won the race to the patent office and is now suing his only remaining rival, George Westinghouse, for infringement for the unheard of sum of a billion dollars. To defend himself, Westinghouse makes a surprising choice in his attorney: he hires an untested twenty-six year old fresh out of Columbia Law School named Paul Cravath. The task facing Cravath is beyond daunting - Edison quickly shows himself an implacable and crafty opponent who will lie, cheat and betray (and worse) in order to win. To defeat Thomas Edison seems impossible, yet this young, unknown attorney shares with his famous opponent a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? Paul, a man of principle, starts making compromises he never imagined. And as he takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. In The Last Days of Night, Graham Moore takes us back to the dawn of light—electric light—into a world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla, and the novel’s hero, a young lawyer named Paul Cravath (a name that will resonate with ambitious law students everywhere). It’s part legal thriller, part tour of a magical time—the age of wonder—and once you’ve finished it, you’ll find it hard to return to the world of now."

—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City

Wall Street Journal – Friday Arts section feature with original photo – 8/12 NPR - Diane Rehm Show – Interview – 8/15 New York Times Book Review – 8/16

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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by

Jesmyn Ward (ISBN 9781501126345 $25.00) National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. Contributors include Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Garnette Cadogan, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Mitchell S. Jackson, Honoree Jeffers, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Wendy S. Walters, Isabel Wilkerson, and Kevin Young.

New York Times Book Review, August 14

Andrea Riseborough has signed on to play the role of Romaine in the

BBC’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution (ISBN 9780062094445 $13.99). Go HERE for more

Natalie Portman is eyeing the small screen and is set to star in the HBO

mystery miniseries “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (ISBN 9780142180822 $16.00).” For more on this go HERE

Syfy and Universal Cable Productions have tapped comic book writer Grant Morrison and writer-director Brian Taylor to adapt Aldous Huxley’s iconic

sci-fi novel “Brave New World (ISBN 9780060850524 $15.99).” Go

HERE for the full article

Thiller ‘Here and Gone’ Lands At Random House Studio In First Project With China’s Meridian; James Schamus To Co-Produce. For more go HERE

Still Here by Lara Vapnyar (ISBN 9781101905524 $26.00) A warm, ambitious, and beautifully moving novel from the writer Louis Menand calls “Jane Austen with a Russian soul”

New York Times Book Review – 8/14

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August 23rd Release Date

Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money,

and Power by Michael Kranish (ISBN 9781501155772 $28.00)

Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who—despite broad skepticism—could be the next president of the United States. Who is Donald J. Trump? Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of his life are not well known. To discover Trump in full, The Washington Post assembled a team of award-winning reporters and researchers to delve into every aspect of Trump’s improbable life, from his privileged upbringing in Queens to his astonishing 2016 rise to seize the Republican candidacy for president. Coauthored by Washington Post investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher, this comprehensive book documents Trump’s fascinating family roots, his aggressive efforts to make a name for himself in New York social circles, and his penchant for big bets—on real estate, branded businesses, and, ultimately,

on himself. The authors, seasoned journalists who interviewed Trump for this book, scrutinize everything from his youthful alliance with the power broker Roy Cohn to his alleged dealings with organized crime and his controversial projects in New York City, Atlantic City, Florida, Scotland, and Azerbaijan. The authors examine Trump’s wealth, the evolution of his political beliefs, and his peculiar identity as a billionaire businessman, celebrity, global brand, television star, and now candidate for the most powerful office in the world. Few individuals have ever roamed so widely through such diverse realms as real estate, sports, entertainment, and national politics. How has Trump’s life informed his bold statements on the economy, immigration, race, global trade, terrorism, and women? Drawn from in-depth reporting by The Washington Post, Trump Revealed is essential reading as the 2016 American presidential election looms.

Washington Post, adapted online excerpt, August 12 Washington Post, August 14 CBS-TV/"Face the Nation," August 21 CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," August 22

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Disney and Selma director Ava DuVernay are setting Oprah Winfrey to star

in A Wrinkle In Time, an adaptation of the 1963 Newbery Medal-

winning Madeleine L’Engle fantasy classic novel that has a script by Oscar-winning Frozen writer and co-director Jennifer Lee. Winfrey will play the role of Mrs. Which. For more go HERE

Paramount TV and The Night Manager producers The Ink Factory are teaming to develop a limited series based on another John le Carré novel, the New York Times

bestselling espionage tale, The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (ISBN 9780143124757 $16.00).

Releasing November 15, 2016 The Chemist by Stephenie Meye (ISBN 9780316387835 $28.00)

In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.

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Kirsten Dunst is set make her feature film directorial debut with The Bell Jar, an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s famed 1963 novel.

The Light Between Oceans (ISBN 9781451681758 $17.00) will

premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival

Bernie Sanders Has a Book Deal Just days after ending his campaign and endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders is preparing to take his message to the printed page. Thomas Dunne Books told The Associated Press on Thursday it will publish Sanders'

"Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (ISBN 9781250132925

$27.00)." The book is scheduled to come out Nov. 15, a week after election day. It will

include both his policy ideas for the future and reflections on his surprisingly strong run in the primaries.

Go HERE for the full article

Colored pencils! Bright Ideas Colored Pencils: Bright Ideas: 10 Colored Pencils (ISBN 9781452154374 $14.95) Colored Pencil Set: Pen & Pencil Colored (ISBN 9780735346994 $13.99) Tutti Frutti Pencils (ISBN 9781616893378 $14.95) 24 Piece Colored Pencil Set With Sharpener (ISBN 9780735348387 $14.99) Metallic Colored Pencil Set (ISBN 9780735348363 $9.99) Releasing in August A Colorful Life Pencils (ISBN 9781452146973 $14.95) Releasing in September Bright Ideas Deluxe Colored Pencil Set (ISBN 9781452159768 $24.95) 642 Things to Draw Colored Pencils (ISBN 9781452156903 $14.95) Fantastic Colors: 10 Colored Pencils (ISBN 9781452159096 $14.95) Releasing in October Brillante Pencils (ISBN 9781616895136 $14.95)

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The Littlest Bigfoot by Jennifer Weiner (ISBN 9781481470742

$16.99) Sept. 13th release From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a laugh-out-loud funny and painstakingly real tale of friendship, furry creatures, and finding the place where you belong. Alice Mayfair, twelve years old, slips through the world unseen and unnoticed. Ignored by her family and shipped off to her eighth boarding school, Alice would like a friend. And when she rescues Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake one day, she finds one. But Millie is a Bigfoot, part of a clan who dwells deep in the woods. Most Bigfoots believe that people—NoFurs, as they call them—are dangerous, yet Millie is fascinated with the No-Fur world. She is convinced that humans will appreciate all the things about her that her Bigfoot tribe does not: her fearless nature, her lovely singing voice, and her desire to be a star. Alice swears to protect Millie’s secret. But a league of Bigfoot hunters is on their trail, led by a lonely kid named Jeremy. And in order to survive, Alice and Millie have to put their trust in each other—and have faith in themselves—above all else.

Us Weekly, August 3 Time for Kids, September 1 Entertainment Weekly Author Feature, September 13 Parents Magazine, October issue CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," October 11

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Releasing in October Gertie's Leap to Greatness by Kate Beasley, Illustrated by Jillian

Tamaki (ISBN 9780374302610 $16.99 ) For fans of Three Times Lucky and The Penderwicks, this endearing new classic spins together sparkling humor, sizzle-pop writing, and a main character with Ramona Quimby's sass and smarts. Gertie Reece Foy is 100% Not-From-Concentrate awesome. She has a daddy who works on an oil rig, a great-aunt who always finds the lowest prices at the Piggly Wiggly, and two loyal best friends. So when her absent mother decides to move away from their small town, Gertie sets out on her greatest mission yet: becoming the best fifth grader in the universe to show her mother exactly what she'll be leaving behind. There's just one problem: Seat-stealing new girl Mary Sue Spivey wants to be the best fifth grader, too. And there is simply not enough room at the

top for the two of them.

Fox 2000 has acquired the rights to Brit comic and author David Baddiel’s novel The Parent Agency (ISBN 9780062405449 $16.99) . The

novel, published by HarperCollins, is an epic wish-fulfilment adventure for every child and for the child in everyone where you get to choose your parents. In this zany, internationally bestselling adventure, a boy travels to an alternate world where kids get to choose their own parents. Barry Bennett is sick of his parents. They’re boring, they’re too strict, and it’s their fault his name is Barry. So he makes a wish for better ones—and is instantly whisked away to the Parent Agency, where kids get to pick out their perfect parents. For Barry, this seems like a dream come true. But as he’s about to discover, choosing new parents isn’t as simple as it sounds…

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IN STOCK

The Little Grumpy Cat that Wouldn't (ISBN

9780399553547 $4.99)

The most famous cat in the world stars in her very own Little Golden Book! Grumpy Cat has 8 million Facebook followers, her own TV movie, and now…a Little Golden Book! In this story featuring an all-new iconic art style, Grumpy Cat’s friends and admirers try to get her to try new things and have fun, and each time she is even more resolved to say NO. In the end, she is right. Having fun is awful.

‘Divergent’ Finale to Skip Theaters, Launch as a TV Movie and Spinoff

Series. Go HERE for the full story

Scholastic has acquired the worldwide rights to four books by 9-year-old Hilde Lysiak — to be co-written with her father, reporter Matthew Lysiak

— and now the film/TV rights are being sold off. Go HERE for the full story

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Releasing in September Owl Sees Owl by Laura Godwin,

Rob Dunlavey (ISBN 9780553497823 $17.99) Fans of the classic picture book Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson (ISBN 9780763617103 $6.99) will adore this utterly simple picture book in which a baby owl goes off on his first adventure. With just three or four words per page, this story follows a baby owl one night as he leaves the safety of his nest (Home/Mama/Brother/Sister) and explores the starry world around him (Soar/Glide/Swoop/Swoosh). Inspired by reverso poetry, the words reverse in the middle when the baby owl is startled upon seeing his reflection in the pond (Owl/Sees/Owl). Afraid of it, little owl takes off toward home, soaring over farms and forests (Swoosh/Swoop/Glide/Soar) until he is finally safely home again (Sister/Brother/Mama/Home).

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