Retreat by Random House

  It never fails. At every sales conference where a new Dean Koontz novel is presented I can’t help but SQUEE! You know what I’m talking about…those “squee-worthy” authors that you just can’t get enough of? Dean Koontz is mine. I’ve got five advance reading copies of a new Odd Thomas novel on on my [...]

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We have too many books. Our solution? A Spring cleaning book giveaway! How we would love to keep every book that comes across our desks! But alas, we only have so much shelf space and occasionally, although we try to do it as little as possible, we have to do some Spring cleaning. Since one [...]

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  Calling all Kelley Armstrong fans! I have something really exciting to share with you. You’ve heard the rumours, you’ve heard the rumblings. It’s all true: Kelley is launching a brand new series, set in Cainsville, a small town as spookily fascinating as Stephen King’s Castle Rock or Dean Koontz’s Moonlight Bay. I’m pleased to [...]

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Back in 2002, we knew that Yann Martel’s Life of Pi was an outstanding read. I guess we weren’t the only ones, because a year and a half ago, it was revealed that this award winning book was going to be adapted into a movie by Academy Award winner Ang Lee. The Life of Pi [...]

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The first time I heard about Salman Rushdie’s new book, Joseph Anton, I was in a launch meeting. These launch meetings take place well before the books are scheduled to come out. They are an opportunity for the editorial department to tell the publicity and marketing departments about the upcoming season and their new lists. [...]

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Hallelujah! Doesn’t that just stir your soul? Leonard Cohen is a creative genius. His voice is unlike any other artist, his writing is in a league of its own, to say nothing of his beautiful art. In case you haven’t heard, the esteemable Cohen is currently on a worldwide tour. And we have some terribly [...]

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It might be even more accurate to say “Ainsley loves Jack Reacher.” When I first started working at Random House, a coworker turned me on to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series. I started with Gone Tomorrow, the 13th book in the series and I was immediately hooked. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more [...]

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Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro Chapters-Indigo  /  Amazon With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped — the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person [...]

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A bunch of sweet books. You’re probably thinking to yourself, “What is she going on about?” Well, sometimes I can be a bit wacky and find humour or at least coincidence in patterns. In this case, I thought it was interesting how we have three books this Fall with ‘sweet’ in their title. Can you [...]

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