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We are calling on all of our library friends to send any resources that they are using to keep folks safe during the Coronavirus outbreak. On our last Facebook Live video, Wendy Bartlett from Cuyahoga County Public Library shared this... Read more

Our new video series, Door to Door, is coming to you EVERY Tuesday and Thursday at 2:00pm EDT via Facebook Live. Join us for title presentations, book talks from editors, author talks/readings, and so much more! Be sure to follow... Read more

I think we could all do with a bit of an outing today don't you and maybe a nice pot of tea and a slice of cake... It is almost twenty years since I read Miss Garnett’s Angel by Salley... Read more

Lehman and I hitchhiked from Oxford to Bournemouth one July Saturday that summer of 1968. He was a gawky redheaded teenager from New York City, and I was a shaggy headed Midwesterner who had never even been to New York... Read more

For The American Scholar, I've posted short essays on the movies listed here, with brief excerpts from each: -- Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear https://theamericanscholar.org/the-shadow-of-evil/#.Xn5LrNJKiM8 ("The Shadow of Evil") <<< Horror is what we feel witnessing the aftermath of a... Read more

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2833 I came to be working in the great and problematic Athanasia Kircher's glorious Mundus Subterraneus..., printed in 1665, which is a compendium of most things scientific though with the heavy flavor of application to... Read more

"Winner of the prestigious Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction in her native Korea, Sohn presents a 15-year-old neurodiverse protagonist with much resonance." —Booklist review We are so excited to announce that Sohn Won-pyung's Almond—a Virginia Stanley favorite—has received a... Read more

Permission Granted! Give a Virtual Reading of HarperCollins books! Check out our Daily Blog—chock full of online resources! Door to Door: Virtual offerings on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Youtube, including author interviews, book buzzes, and much more! Get suggestions for... Read more

We just launched our new video series, Door to Door, featuring book talks, author chats, and so much more! Catch the replays below and be sure to follow us on Facebook to receive an alert the next time we go... Read more

I write in self-imposed isolation. The Corona virus that originated in Wuhan, China, and is spreading with the speed of a medieval plague, has mandated “social distancing,” a phrase now commonplace. In Wall Street lingo, we have suffered a fearful... Read more