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Fall 2014 Book Announcements: Memoirs: My Way
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, according to John Lennon.
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Fall 2014 Book Announcements: Literary Fiction: At Home and Abroad
Jamaica, Japan, Dubai, Sierra Leone, the U.K. The settings of our top 10 fall Literary Fiction titles are far ranging, from rainy backwater towns to lush desert oases. And that’s not even mentioning the books set in our own backyard.
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Fall 2014 Book Announcements: Business & Economics: A Closer Look
Publishers have already released a plethora of books about the Great Recession, but the causes and ramifications of the severest downturn in the American economy since the Great Depression continues to be a major topic for business book publishers.
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Fall 2014 Book Announcements: Lifestyle: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This
As ever, this season’s top lifestyle books give known quantities with au courant spins.
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Fall 2014 Book Announcements: History & Military History: Leaders of the Pack
From the port of Hong Kong to the red light district of New Orleans, from a coal mine in Copiapó, Chile, to a concentration camp north of Berlin, this season’s top history books take us around the world, but the real trend to emerge this fall is accounts of war told from the perspective of those in the line of command—both high and low.
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Changing with the Times
It’s undeniable that LGBTQ publishing is in flux and facing a changing marketplace much like the rest of the industry, albeit with unique challenges of its own.
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Back to Business: Business Management Books 2014
The U.S. economy is back on its feet, with unemployment dropping (down to 6.3% in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) and consumer spending rising steadily.
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Alive and Clicking: Reference Books 2014
For the last two decades, the talk has been that library reference is dead. Is it time to change the conversation?
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The War that Fractured History, 100 Years On: WWI Books
If one can glean anything from the WWI-related titles released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the war’s outbreak, it’s that historians continue to find new perspectives through which to examine the conflict.
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Solving the Unsolved: True Crime 2014
This is the story of a murder, of a single soft-nosed bullet that traveled upward through a man’s rib cage, piercing his lung and lodging in his neck, after being fired by an unknown assailant 92 years ago on a cold Los Angeles night.
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The Art of Photography: Photography Books, 2014
Browse any gift shop or bookstore. Odds are you will soon be within thumbing distance of an art or photography book.
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Spanish Books, Spring 2014: All Our Coverage
The latest on the Spanish-language publishing market: new books coming this spring, e-book sales, how libraries are engaging the Spanish-speaking community, and more.
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Inspirational and Spirituality Books 2014: Getting Centered
The spirituality and inspirational category has long had something for everyone—exploring the wildest of fringe interests, as well as more mainstream varieties of encouraging personal and spiritual growth.
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Sustaining Sustainability: Green Publishing 2014
Publishers’ environmental efforts gained significant momentum in the mid-2000s, as companies large and small began to explore and implement practices to lower their carbon footprint.
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Books in Spanish: Spanish Books Spring 2014
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Where One Death Is a Crime (But a Thousand Is a Statistic): Mysteries 2014
“Most of the shell shock victims he’d seen in hospital had been docile, sitting with blank faces staring blindly into the abyss of their terrors, or pacing back and forth, hour after hour, as if bent on outdistancing the demons pursuing them.
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You Could Look It Up…Sports Books 2014
The concept of too much information does not exist in sports.
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How to Parent? Hard Science, Light Humor: Parenting Books 2014
Today’s parents have science savvy—they demand evidence-based information, but want it delivered with cleverness and wit (who has time to read a dry scientific treatise when baby’s diapers are wet?).
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Travel Directions: Travel Books 2014
The dust has just settled on 2013, a year in which travel publishers, weary from six straight years of declining sales, weathered several headline-making mergers and acquisitions.
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Spring 2014 Announcements: Spring Books
Man, it’s cold. As we polish off this new year’s spring announcements issue, there is much to look forward to: weather that must be warmer and, from what we can tell, great books to keep us company and keep publishers, booksellers, and librarians happy that the flow of great content between covers goes unabated.
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