Category: PenguinRandom House

•  Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words

  

  The Book Stall is hosting linguist, local NPR host, and veteran English professor Anne Curzan on Wednesday, June 12 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring her new book, Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words (PenguinRandom House). With lively humor and humanity, Says Who? reveals how our choices about language usage can be a powerful force for equity and…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 29, 2024

  #books, #BookTok, Book signings, Book Stall, Non-fiction, PenguinRandom House, Uncategorized

  “Says Who?”, #books, Anne Curzan, book signing, Penguin Random House

• President Obama’s Annual List of Favorites

  “As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites,” Barack Obama, the 42nd President of the United States, tweeted to his 127.5 million followers. “I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 28, 2020

  American History, Audiobooks, Autobiography, Barack Obama, Culture, Family, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Fiction, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, History, MacMillan, New York Times Best Seller, PenguinRandom House, Politics

  Barack Obama's 2020 Book Picks, Culture, Fiction, History, Memoir, Politics

• Love and Theft

  

  “In April 2007, two stolen Audi A8s smashed through the glass façade of the Wafi Mall in Dubai,” says Parish. “In a marble rotunda, the white car rammed the secure entrance of Graff Jewelers, while the black car spit out men in masks with automatic weapons.”

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 7, 2020

  Doubleday, Epic Adventure, Fiction, mystery, PenguinRandom House, Thriller

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, @doubledaybooks, @stan_parish, International crime, Love and Theft, Mystery-Thriller, Stan Parish

• Lake Success

  

  “I’ve always wanted to travel the country by Greyhound bus,” says Gary Shteyngart, the New York Times bestselling author about Lake Success, his latest book (PenguinRandom House 2018; $28) which tells the story of Barry Cohen, a hedge fund millionaire who, unable to deal with all the issues impacting his life, jumps on a bus to find…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 10, 2018

  57th Street Books, Authors, Book signings, Chicago, Fiction, Humor, Literary, PenguinRandom House, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Uncategorized

• F. MURRAY ABRAHAM NARRATES NEW RECORDING OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES

  

  ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING F. MURRAY ABRAHAM NARRATES NEW RECORDING OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES ALONG WITH ENSEMBLE CAST HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN’S FAIRY TALES is the newest installment in Listening Library’s Classics series that will be available as an audiobook download on March 27, 2018, in time to celebrate International Children’s Book Day, which has been celebrated on…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 28, 2018

  Audiobooks, F. Murray Abraham, Listening Library, PenguinRandom House