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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: 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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Readers love ‘Wrecker’

Most of you probably know that BookPage sends out an e-newsletter every weekday called Book of the Day. We highlight a favorite book (fiction, nonfiction, romance or mystery/suspense) that’s recently been released. I can often predict which authors are going … 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: ‘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: ‘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: 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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Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Essential New York Times Cookbook’

It might seem a little unusual to feature a cookbook in a Trailer Tuesday post, but I think anyone interested in food, history or the New York Times will find this video interesting. The Essential New York Times Cookbook is … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: ‘You Had Me at Woof’

Julie Klam’s You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness comes out next week, and we’re highlighting it (along with three other dog-themed books) in our November issue. If you’ve ever loved a dog, you’ll … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Where Good Ideas Come From

In a recent blog post about his book trailer, Steven Johnson wrote: “I have to admit when the good folks at Riverhead mentioned that they were working on an animated video promoting Where Good Ideas Come From, I wasn’t fully … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Memoirs about addiction—whether to alcohol, shopping or anything else—will likely never go out of style. Case in point? Bill Clegg’s Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, published yesterday, sold to Little Brown for a reported $350,000 and is … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok‘s novel Girl in Translation came out a couple weeks ago, and we highlighted it in our spring debuts blog post, as well as in the May edition of BookPage. In her review, Becky Ohlsen described it as “no … Continue reading

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Trailer Tuesday: Tess Gerritsen’s ‘Ice Cold’

Ice Cold is Tess Gerritsen‘s eighth book in the Rizzoli & Isles crime series, and if the trailer is any indication, this book will be creepy, adrenaline-pumping and a page-turner. The novel follows Boston ME Maura Isles to the seemingly … Continue reading

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