Bill Gates’s HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER: On Sale Today!
In HOW TO AVOID A CLIMATE DISASTER, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. In this book, he explains not only why we need to
Read moreSurprise New Thriller by Ken Follett is Coming This November!
A new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett.
Read moreBECOMING by Michelle Obama: Coming in Paperback and Young Readers Edition!
Becoming by Michelle Obama is Coming in Trade Paperback and Young Readers Edition on March 2, 2021!
Read moreALA 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.
Read morePYR to Release Special Edition of “The Hill We Climb,” Read by Amanda Gorman at the Presidential Inauguration
Due to overwhelming demand, Penguin Young Readers will publish a special hardcover edition of “The Hill We Climb,” the poem written and delivered by Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden. At age 22, Ms. Gorman is the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration.
Read moreNew Editions of THE GREAT GATSBY Published by Penguin Random House Imprints
Having completed the established 95 years of copyright protection granted books registered under the U.S. Copyright Act, as of this January 1, F. Scott Fitzergald’s THE GREAT GATSBY, first published in 1925, has become a public domain literary property, which can be published or reprinted without restriction.
Read moreThe Sequel to Jordan B. Peterson’s Global Bestseller is Coming March, 2021!
Jordan B. Peterson’s sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes.
Read morePenguin Random House National Book Award Winners
The National Book Awards ceremony took place virtually last night and two Penguin Random House titles were chosen as winners! We are honored and proud that TOKYO UENO STATION by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles, was the winner in the Translated Literature category, and INTERIOR CHINATOWN by Charles Yu, was the choice for Fiction.
Read moreA PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama
A Promised Land by Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity
Read moreOprah Winfrey‘s “The Books That Help Me Through” Collection
Oprah Winfrey has announced a new version of Oprah’s Book Club, a special collection of seven meaningful books dubbed “The Books That Help Me Through”. This collection represents titles that have helped Oprah herself through life’s challenging moments, which she hopes will spark impactful conversation and unite our global community.
Read moreTHE DESOLATIONS OF DEVIL’S ACRE by Ransom Riggs is Coming February, 2021!
The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series.
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