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YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST by Sunil Yapa

Sunil Yapa’s YOUR HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST was declared “One of the best books of 2016” by Minnesota Public Radio. Lee Boudreaux Books published the book on January 12, 2016...

IT’S ALL EASY by Gwyneth Paltrow

Enjoying the fifth week on the New York Times bestseller list, from easy breakfasts to lazy suppers, this book has something for everybody. Grand Central Life &Style published the hardcover April 12, 2016....

DEMOCRACY NOW! By Amy Goodman with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan

In their new book, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America, Amy, along with her journalist brother, David Goodman, and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the whistleblowers, the organizers, and the protesters, among others, who have brought about extraordinary change. The book tour is filling houses across the nation. Democracy Now! was published in hardcover April 12, 2016 by Simon and Schuster...

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY by Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel spoke with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of THE NEST, in a wide-ranging conversation for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Sweeney notes that Ausubel’s latest novel, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY, “has the same intelligence, sense of play, and heartache as that first [New Yorker] story Sweeney remembers so well.” Riverhead publishes the book on June 14, 2016...

THE RED PARTS by Maggie Nelson

Karl Ove Knausgaard praised Maggie Nelson in an interview with Men’s Journal, saying “She's so much better than anything I've read for a long, long time... If you read Maggie Nelson, that is the opposite of dogmatic, it comes from searching and opening things up and looking for something.” Graywolf reissued the book on April 5, 2016...

THE SHANNARA SERIES by Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks’ SHANNARA series has been renewed for a second season on MTV. The first season concluded on March 1st with 1.77 million viewers and high praise from various magazines and websites. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Shannara Chronicles ranks as MTV's top-rated new series this year among viewers 12-34 and has the highest seven-day DVR lift (106 percent) for a freshman series in MTV history.

Joan Didion

A new article by Joan Didion called “California Notes” will be published in the May 26, 2016 issue of the New York Review of Books. In addition a new official website for the acclaimed author has been created. It can be found at https://www.thejoandidion.com/.

IT’S ALL EASY by Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow’s New York Times best selling “new cookbook is a combination of two things I can’t resist: recipes called “easy” and chunky knit sweaters galore” says Alex Beggs of Bon Appetit. Grand Central Life & Style published the hardcover April 12, 2016....

DEMOCRACY NOW! By Amy Goodman with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Debuting at #18 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Seller list, this celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program, Democracy Now! was published in hardcover April 12, 2016 by Simon and Schuster....

PRECIOUS CARGO by Craig Davidson

PRECIOUS CARGO, Craig Davidson’s account of his time as a bus driver for children with special needs, debuted at number three on the Canadian Nonfiction Bestseller list, and was reviewed by The Globe and Mail, which called it “an almost singular accomplishment,” and “a pleasure to read.” Random House Canada published the book on April 12, 2016....