Recent LBM Mailings
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MAY BOOKS
Filled with writing prompts, art pages, quotes, and more, Tiny Buddha’s Worry Journal will help you feel calmer, happier, and more in control in your daily life. Throughout the book you’ll also find the following recurring sections:
- Let It Go pages—identify what is causing anxiety and what you can do it about so you can move beyond your worries
- Make a Plan questions—proactively manage anxiety by creating your own roadmap for peace and calm
- Color Yourself Calm—tap into your creativity to help soothe your worries with 15 coloring pages and 15 doodle prompts
It’s not possible to completely eliminate worry and anxiety. But it is possible to engage with your worries in a healthier, more productive way so that they no longer cripple you. Tiny Buddha’s Worry Journal can help you do just that.
Email mary.duke@harpercollins.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, HarperCollins!
In a society where longevity of life is prized above all else, Lea Kirino is a “Lifer,” which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential for immortality—if she does everything right. With the ideal balance of HealthTech™, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die. But Lea’s perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. She drawn into his mysterious world: the world of the secret and highly illegal Suicide Club, a network of rebels who reject society’s pursuit of immortality, and instead choose to live—and die—on their own terms. In Rachel Heng’s debut set in near future New York City—where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of eternal life is all-consuming—Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever.
Email Libby Burton libby.burton@hholt.com with your thoughts and comments. Thanks, Henry Holt!
When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she’s sure there’s been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird’s nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down. Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona’s children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they truly knew each other. But Bram’s not the only one with things to hide, and some secrets are best kept to oneself, safe as houses.
Email Fbullert@prh.com with your thoughts and comments! Listen to the first episode of The Victim on OurHouseTheBook.com Thanks, Berkley!
Move over, Charlotte Brontë. The authors of the New York Times bestselling My Lady Jane are back with a fantastic, romantic, comedic, entirely (but not really) faithful retelling of JANE EYRE. You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (yikes!) and his uneven temper (YIKES!) they fall in love—and Reader, she marries him. Or does she?
We have a different story to tell. There will be murder. Mayhem. Conspiracy. And of course, romance. Prepare for the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights, in which all is not as it seems, and a certain gentleman, Mr. Rochester, is hiding more than skeletons in his closets.
Email Sabrina Abballe (Sabrina.abballe@harpercollins.com) with your thoughts and comments, or share them on Twitter/Instagram with @EpicReads using #MyPlainJane.
APRIL BOOKS
A gripping novel about two young married couples–expectant parents and new friends–whose lives collide in a pile-up of deceits and indiscretions
“Smart, ferocious, propulsive…A thoughtful literary love story, both emotionally resonant and highly entertaining.” —J. Ryan Stradal, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Contact information: Yaima Villarreal yvillarreal@penguinrandomhouse.com
Thanks, Viking!
The West Wing meets The Office in this funny and fresh insider’s millennial’s take on President Barack Obama’s years in the White House, written by his former director of messaging.
Contact: Mackenzie Hickey, Mackenzie.Hickey@simonandschuster.com
Prep meets Girls in White Dresses in this deliciously addictive, voyeuristic exploration of female friendship and coming of age that will appeal to anyone who has ever been curious about what goes on in a sorority house…
Contact: Mackenzie Hickey, Mackenzie.Hickey@simonandschuster.com
From the popular dating columnist and “real-life Carrie Bradshaw” for the New York Post and New York Mag comes a whirlwind memoir through countless failed romances and blackout nights, told with Mandy Stadtmiller’s unflinching and honest wit.
Contact: Mackenzie Hickey, Mackenzie.Hickey@simonandschuster.com
New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren presents her first standalone women’s fiction novel, centered on childhood sweethearts reuniting after a decade—and many unresolved issues—have come between them. For readers of JoJo Moyes and Elizabeth Strout.
Contact: Mackenzie Hickey, Mackenzie.Hickey@simonandschuster.com
A poetry and prose collection about the pains of growing up from the popular millennial Insta-poet, in the vein of Amanda Lovelace and Rupi Kaur.
Contact: Mackenzie Hickey, Mackenzie.Hicky@simonandschuster.com
Thanks, Gallery!
SMALL COUNTRY by Gaël Faye
Already an international sensation and prize-winning bestseller in France, Small Country is an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood and a shattered homeland. A novel of extraordinary power and beauty, Faye describes an end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a child caught in the maelstrom of history. Shot through with shadows and light, tragedy and humor, Small Country is a stirring tribute not only to a dark chapter in Africa’s past, but also to the bright days that preceded it.
Contact: Becca Putman, bputman@penguinrandomhouse.com
Thanks, Hogarth!
This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that.
Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of overbearing fathers. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast-forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question: What happened in the years between?
With beautiful prose and characters that are so real they jump off the page, Tin Man is a love letter to human kindness and friendship, and to loss and living.
“Each spare sentence as delicate as a brushstroke; combined they paint a vibrant, emotional work that will leave you enthralled.”—Steven Rowley, author of Lily and the Octopus
Email: Emily Ollis; eollis@prh.com with your thoughts. Thanks, Putnam!
Song of Blood & Stone is Book One of the Earthsinger Chronicles by debut author L. Penelope. Set in a world where magic and ongoing whispers of war are a part of everyday life, we meet our protagonists Jasminda and Jack, and go along with them on a journey that takes twists and turns that neither one of them would have ever imagined. Danger and secrets abound, they must rely on one another—or perish—as the fates of two nations hang in the balance. Send your thoughts and comments to Beatrice Jason beatrice.jason@stmartins.com
Thanks, St. Martins!
In Patriot Number One, journalist Lauren Hilgers follows a dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight as they navigate the process of creating a new life in America: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing’s Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country—and the stubborn allure of the American dream.
Please send your thoughts and comments to Melissa Esner, or share on social media and tag @lehilgers and @crownpublishing on Twitter! Thanks, Crown!
ANATOMY OF A MIRACLE by Jonathan Miles
With his widely praised novels Dear American Airlines and Want Not, Jonathan Miles established himself as one of the most insightful and original voices in modern American fiction. His exquisite new novel Anatomy of a Miracle cements his reputation as a storyteller of rare sensibility and intellectual curiosity. Brilliantly written and powerfully executed, Anatomy of a Miracle does nothing less than render the supernatural tangible, as one man struggles with the possibility—and the consequences—of a miracle in his own life. At once universal and intimate, transcendent and grounded, Miles’ unforgettable novel will touch your heart and bring you face-to-face with extraordinary hope, with profound doubt, and with the ultimate question: How would you react if a miracle happened to you?
Contact: Lisa Erickson, lerickson@pengiunrandomhouse.com Thanks Hogarth!
GATOR: My Life in Pinstripes by Ron Guidry
Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history–the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, headline loving owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from slugger Reggie Jackson and All star catcher Thurman Munson to Cy Young Award winners Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter.
Please send your thoughts and comments to Melissa Esner, or share on social media and tag @crownpublishing on Twitter! Thanks, Crown Archetype!
