Kareem Rosser has received an enthusiastic Starred Review from Publishers Weekly for CROSSING THE LINE. They write: “Rosser debuts with the captivating story of how he came to be a champion polo player after his challenging childhood in West Philadelphia. Rosser’s prose is restrained but confident as he notes how fortunate he was to have polo in his life, and how he was able to defy expectations as a young Black boy on the polo field. This remarkable and inspiring story shines.” St. Martin’s Press will publish the book on February 9, 2021.

After its blockbuster debut at #4 on the NYT Bestsellers List, Wally Koval’s ACCIDENTALLY WES ANDERSON has garnered a rave review from The Washington Post, which calls it a “playful,” “visually rich book” that “provides the theatrical whimsy we need right now.” The Daily Beast also featured the book in its series on “beautiful travel-related coffee table books,” declaring it “delightful.” Voracious published the book on October 20, 2020.

Rachel Swearingen's debut story collection HOW TO WALK ON WATER has been featured in The New York Times' "New and Noteworthy." They call the book a "disconcerting and promising debut," addressing "themes of violence, chance and the consolations of imagination." New American Press published the book on October 1, 2020.

Latino Stories has included Michael Zapata, author of THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU, on their 2020 list of "Top Ten 'New' Latino Latinx Authors You, Your Family, and Teachers Need To Read." They write: "This first book by Michael Zapata, of Ecuadorian and Jewish heritage, thrives in its liminality and invites us to explore what it means to be in exile." Hanover Square Press published the book on February 4, 2020.

Taking the reader beyond the hit Netflix series Narcos, MANHUNTERS presents Steve Murphy’s and Javier F. Peña’s history in law enforcement, from their rigorous physical training and their early DEA assignments in Miami and Austin to the Escobar mission in Medellin, Colombia. St. Martin’s Press published the hardcover edition on November 12, 2019, and will publish the paperback edition on November 17, 2020.

Becky Cooper’s WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE published this week after a flurry of incredible press leading up to its release. Cooper held a virtual launch via Politics & Prose in conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning-author Ron Chernow, and Harvard Bookstore will host an event with her and author Patrick Radden Keefe on November 13. The book received excellent reviews from the Boston Globe, NPR, and USA Today, excerpts were featured in Town & Country, CrimeReads, and AARP.com, and Salon and Vogue.com both released interviews with Cooper. Grand Central Publishing published the book on November 10, 2020.

THE LAST DRUID, which is the final novel in Terry Brooks’ long-running SHANNARA series, made its debut this past weekend on the New York Times Bestseller list. It debuted at number 12 on the Combined Print and E-book Fiction list and at number 15 on the Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list. Del Rey published the book on October 20, 2020.

HUMANKIND by Rutger Bregman was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The award, established in 2012, recognizes the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year and serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material. “This was unquestionably a challenging year for all the obvious reasons,” said 2021 Selection Committee Chair Bill Kelly in an October 26 statement. “And yet, in the end, reading proved to be just the balm one needs to sustain us, to give hope and strength and resilience in the face of an oppressively uncertain future. In that sense, 2020 was a great year to be a reader of outstanding books, and the Carnegie committee sincerely hopes that others will find the same power we did in the books on this year’s longlist.” The shortlist will be released November 17, 2020, with winners being announced on February 4, 2021. Little, Brown and Company published the book on June 2, 2020.

Historian Audrey Clare Farley’s biography of Ann Cooper Hewitt, THE UNFIT HEIRESS, has received two stunning bits of praise. #1 New York Times bestselling author Susannah Calahan calls the book “a sensational story told with nuance and humanity with clear reverberations to the presentt” and “a necessary call to remember the high stakes and terrible history of the longstanding fight for control over women's bodies.” Meanwhile, New York Times bestselling author Luke Dittrich raves: “Audrey Clare Farley has accomplished the rare feat of writing a book that is as thought-provoking as it is page-turning.” Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on April 20, 2021.

Less than a week out from publication, the New York Times published a stunning feature on Becky Cooper’s WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE, detailing Cooper’s decade-long research into the death of Harvard grad student Jane Britton and the college’s role in her murder investigation. Critic Emily Eakin calls the book “a true-crime procedural and a record of its author’s all-consuming obsession,” noting that “is also, more unusually, a young woman’s reckoning with an institution whose mythic reputation belies unsavory secrets.” The book has also been named a best book of November by Shondaland, Amazon Books, Town & Country, the Washington Post, and countless other outlets. Grand Central Publishing will publish the book on November 10, 2020.