Category Archives: Trailer Tuesday

Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Restorer’ by Amanda Stevens

Seems like recently I’ve read a lot of books that have significant scenes in cemeteries. Her Fearful Symmetry. The Hollow. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. If that’s your cup of tea—maybe you love creepy stories, ghosts and … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Pun Also Rises’

I know I posted a trailer (for the movie of The Help) just a couple hours ago, but since today is Trailer Tuesday, why not post two? This trailer for John Pollack’s The Pun Also Rises is seriously cracking me … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Henning Mankell’s ‘The Troubled Man’

Not only was Henning Mankell’s The Troubled Man a featured Book of the Day last week—it is also the Top Pick for mystery and suspense for the month of April! This novel is the final installment of Mankell’s Kurt Wallander … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Fire Season’

Philip Connors is a fire lookout, which means he does exactly what the words suggest: He spends several months of the year perched high above the wilderness and searches for forest fire. Some fires are natural and will be allowed … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Ashley Judd’s ‘All That is Bitter and Sweet’

I blogged about Ashley Judd’s “memoir with purpose” more than a year ago, and the book is finally on sale a week from today. Though I usually feel a bit ho-hum about celebrity memoirs, the book trailer for Judd’s All … Continue reading

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Naked werewolves & a secret under the peach tree

Hooked you with that headline, didn’t I? For today’s Trailer Tuesday post, I thought I’d share a couple of short book trailers that are not related in any way (ha). First up: a preview for Sarah Addison Allen‘s The Peach … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Sarah Vowell meets the plate lunch

Cultural commentator Sarah Vowell has tackled topics ranging from Puritans (The Wordy Shipmates) to the murder scenes of American presidents (Assassination Vacation). Her latest book, Unfamiliar Fishes, takes readers on a romp through Hawaiian history. The book’s on sale next … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘West of Here’ by Jonathan Evison

Okay, okay, this trailer is not technically for West of Here, Jonathan Evison’s new epic novel—and our March top pick for fiction. However, this video is about Jonathan Evison, and he does mention West of Here. I wanted to share … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Madame Tussaud’

In her latest novel, Michelle Moran—bestselling author of Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen and Cleopatra’s Daughter—takes us into the world of wax artist Madame Tussaud. In this book trailer, Moran talks about her novel and also pays a visit to the … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘When the Killing’s Done’

If you’ve been keeping track of our Most Anticipated Books of 2011 (there’s a calendar on the right sidebar of this blog, or you can see a big one here), then today is a happy day! The first book on … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Foremost Good Fortune’

This week, my favorite book trailer highlights Susan Conley‘s memoir of moving her family to China—where besides the expected struggles of adapting to cultural differences, she finds out she has breast cancer. (I’m sensing a trend here in my memoir … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady’

To get a feel for the batty, chipper, wonderful weirdness that is The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady by Elizabeth Stuckey-French, all you have to do is watch this trailer: The novel is about the 77-year-old Marylou Ahearn, who is … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘Goodnight, Tweetheart’

The name says it all; could Teresa Medeiros’ Goodnight, Tweetheart be anything but cute and clever? In this story—about a Pulitzer-nominated author who turns to Twitter for promotion, then finds romance—Medeiros “demonstrates the ways in which courting via computer can … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Orson Scott Card’s ‘The Lost Gate’

When I was in eighth grade, my group of friends reverently passed around Ender’s Game like it contained the Secret of Life. So though I don’t usually count fantasy at the top of my favorite genres, a new book from … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Memoirs we love

John T. Slania writes of overcoming his skepticism about The Memory Palace, which has been compared to The Glass Castle and The Liar’s Club, in our January issue. (“Bartók’s story overcame my memoir phobia with a page-turning plot, sophisticated writing … Continue reading

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