Get Ready: Four Titles You Need to Know The Week of March 24
In addition to the several titles by known quantities arriving next week (e.g., Tempting Fate by Jane Green, which gets 3.5 stars in this week’s People magazine and the author is called, “one of the first ladies of chick lit”) below are four titles you need to know.
These and other notable titles arriving next week are listed, with alternative formats and full ordering information, on our downloadable spreadsheet.
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, Jimmy Carter, (S&S; S&S Audio)
The former president has what publicists call a “platform,” meaning easy access to the media. For this book, on violence against women and girls around the world, he is scheduled to appear this weekend on the Sunday’s Meet the Press and NPR’s Weekend Edtion. Next week, he will be on a wide range of shows, including the Late Show with David Letterman and the Colbert Report.
Thrive, Arianna Huffington, (RH/Harmony; RH Audio)
Huffington has already been on the stump for this book; appearing on Ellen this week. DeGeneres passionately recommended it, saying she’s been telling everyone to read it. Huffington’s revolutionary advice? More sleep! It’s currently at #18 on Amazon’s sales rankings and lbraries are showing holds
Every Day Is for the Thief, Teju Cole, (Random House)
Expect many reviews for this book by PEN Faulkner Award-winning author of Open City, published in 2011 (and the March Read for The Atlantic‘s Twitter Book Club). There’s already advance attention; the author is profiled in the NYT and the L.A. Times, in an early review, calls it a “wonderful meditation on modern life in Nigeria.” It arrives on the heels of another Nigerian author winning the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Americanah.
Washington’s Spies, Alexander Rose, (RH/Bantam)
The tie-in version of the basis for a heavily-promoted AMC series Turn, which begins 4/6/14.