Stock Up NOW! The Holidays Are Almost Here.

Due to ongoing industry-wide printing and shipping complications as a result of COVID-19, we strongly urge you to place your year-end orders now. Shipping and printing times have both been impacted by supply chain issues. We want to be sure you get the front and backlist stock you need in time for holiday gift buying. Please consider ordering up now for any titles you’ll need through January, 2022.

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Stock Up Early! The Holidays Are Almost Here.

It’s time to stock up on the most giftable books of the year! Due to ongoing industry-wide supply chain complications stemming from COVID-19 and other global factors, ordering stock early is more crucial than ever. Both front and backlist titles are being affected. The fastest and easiest way to ensure you have the stock you need is to place holiday orders now.

The best way to meet demand is to order early.

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THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman Debuts at #1 on the NYT Bestseller List

Amanda Gorman’s THE HILL WE CLIMB: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, a jacketed hardcover edition of her stirring presidential inaugural poem, featuring a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times adult fiction, USA Today, and Indie hardcover fiction bestsellers lists, with the highest week-one sales of any poetry book ever published.  The collectible, hardcover

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Your Guide to Penguin Random House Virtual Events: Updated Weekly

Worldwide, readers are seeking the comforts of books and live storytelling during this time when we are physically apart, so connecting readers with books and authors is more important than ever.  To help, Penguin Random House is now hosting a wide variety of virtual events each day. Click here to find a partial listing of upcoming events.

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ALA Award Winners!

Wonderful news from the January 25 session of the ALA Midwinter Meeting, an annual convocation, held virtually this year, dear to the nation’s library community. One of its most anticipated highlights is the bestowal of numerous prizes and recognition for previous year’s children’s and young adult fiction and nonfiction deemed to be of resonant literary and cultural importance. Chief among them is the Newbery Medal, awarded yearly to “the most distinguished American children’s book.” This year’s Newbery Medal went to WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER by Tae Keller.

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