Attention Book Groups

Try The Paris Wife as your next book group discussion book. This book follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. Available as a book group to go bag.

World Book Night

Hey Everybody!

Coolest thing coming down the pipes! Have you heard about World Book Night? It was a big success in the UK last year, where volunteers were given 20 copies of a book title and sent out to distribute them to citizens in the community. And this year, publishers in the US are banding together to try it out here!

Here's the website with information about World Book Night and how it all works. And here is the list of titles that will be given away on World Book Night in the U.S.

But quite possibly most important, here is the page where you go to sign up to be a book giver! By volunteering, you commit to spending some time on April 23, passing out free copies of the book that you selected from the above list. The week before April 23, there will be a party in the area (we are hoping here at Herrick, but the good folks at WBN will let us know in advance where the local pick-up point will be) where you'll be able to pick up your box of books and get ready to give them away!

Coolness, right?

Help spread the word so that Holland can be a player in this project and--as always--

Happy Reading!!

Attention Book Groups!

Once Upon A River, a fiction book set in West Michigan is now available as a Book Group to Go bag:

Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother in this novel from the National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell.

From Page to Screen

Here she comes! Stephanie Plum hits the big screen with the January 27 release of One for the Money. Katherine Heigl brings Janet Evanovich's popular character to life.



Checkout the book here, if you want to remember how Stephanie got her start.

Newly Notable -- Jodi Picoult's Next Release!

It's coming, it's coming! The new Jodi Picoult! Lone Wolf will be released on February 28, 2012!

From the publisher:
A life hanging in the balance…a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family, love, and letting go.Edward Warren, twenty-four, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara.
With her father’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable decision?
Lone Wolf explores the notion of family, and the love, protection and strength it’s meant to offer. But what if the hope that should sustain it, is the very thing that pulls it apart? Another tour de force from Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf examines the wild and lonely terrain upon which love battles reason.

Intrigued yet? Click here to add your name to the list!

From Page to Screen -- The Hobbit

Here it comes!



But don't get too excited--we're still a year (gasp!) away from the December 2012 release date. And that's just for part one! Be sure to also save space on your calandar in December 2013 for There And Back Again!

The Anti-Best Books of the Year List

Here's a novel idea: rather than a mass media list of the best books of the year, the New York Daily News bloggist Alexander Nazaryan has created the ultimate anti-list: The Most Overrated Books of 2011.

I now have one key question: how are we going to know if he's right or not, unless we read all of them?

Oh snap. There goes my shortened reading list.