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In April of this year, Beverly Cleary will celebrate her 100th birthday. To honor the popular children’s books author, HarperCollins released new editions of three of her titles: Ramona Quimby, Age 8, The Mouse and The Motorcycle, and Henry Huggins.
According to a post on Cleary’s Facebook page, the publisher recruited three female writers to create new forewords: Amy Poehler, Judy Blume, and Kate DiCamillo. All of the books will also feature an exclusive interview with Cleary.
The publisher also has a new edition of Cleary’s memoir, A Girl From Yamhill, slated for release on Apr. 5. It was originally published in 1988. (via Entertainment Weekly)
Amy Poehler’s bestselling audiobook Yes Please is getting a limited edition vinyl pressing.
HarperCollins revealed the new edition today. “Recordings published on vinyl and read by the author used to be the standard format for spoken word recordings, dating back to when Dylan Thomas first recorded for our Caedmon label in the 1950s,” stated Ana Maria Allessi, vice president of digital innovation and publisher of HarperAudio. “Yes Please is a terrific recording that exemplifies modern audiobook publishing at its finest and we’re happy to be able to broaden its reach by releasing a vinyl edition.”
The vinyl edition includes seven highlights from the audiobook. It will come with a code to download the digital version. The record comes September 1, 2015.
Actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Bella Thorne will play the Statue of Liberty puppet and the Alice in Wonderland statue. This show will open at Radio City Music Hall on March 26th and close on May 3rd.
Here’s more from Playbill.com: “Celebrities announced to make video cameos include 50 Cent, Odell Beckham Jr., Victor Cruz, Walt Frazier, John Leguizamo, Al Michaels, Kelly Ripa, Mariano Rivera, Sam Rosen, Carmelo Anthony, Henrik Lundqvist, Martha Stewart, and Donald Trump. The stage production stars Tony Award winner Laura Benanti (Gypsy, Nashville), Emmy Award-winning choreographer Derek Hough (Dancing With the Stars), Lenny Wolpe (Wicked, The Drowsy Chaperone, Bullets Over Broadway), and Jared Grimes (After Midnight, Boardwalk Empire).” (via The Hollywood Reporter)
Helen Oyeyemi’sBoy, Snow, Bird claimed the top spot on this list. The other nine titles come from a variety of different genres; almost all of them have become hit bestsellers and award winners.
We’ve collected free samples of all the books on the list for your reading pleasure after the jump. What do you think? (more…)
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to learn about their own experiences with book giving during this bountiful time of year. Today's featured giver [...]
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Goodreads has announced the winners of this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards. With 46,154 votes, Landline by Rainbow Rowell has won in the Best Fiction category.
We’ve linked to samples of all the winning titles below. Did your favorite writer make it to the end?
HarperCollins has established a new partnership with JetBlue. Henceforth, the content platform on JetBlue’s Fly-Fi (a special inflight Wi-Fi program) will feature content from HarperCollins books.
For this month, passengers will be able to read excerpts from Patricia Cornwell’s thriller novel Flesh and Blood, Amy Poehler’s memoir Yes Please, and James Dean’s children’s book Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses. Readers will have also have the option to purchase any of the available titles from a plethora of booksellers.
Here’s more from the press release: “At launch, JetBlue customers will be able to choose from excerpts of books by Daniel Silva, Martin Short, Anthony Bourdain, Patti Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Carine McCandless, Paulo Coelho, Patricia Cornwell, Dorothea Benton Frank, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Dick Couch, Amy Poehler, James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton, Peter Lerangis, Herman Parish, James Dean, Nate Ball, Dan Gutman, Lauren Oliver, and Erin Hunter. Titles will change monthly. Books from these HarperCollins authors will be available to customers as e-samplers via JetBlue’s Fly-Fi Hub, which is currently accessible on 35% of their fleet.”
Amy Poehler’s new memoir, Yes Please, has joined Apple’s Top Paid iBooks in the U.S. this week at No. 2.
Apple has released its top selling books list for paid books from iBooks in the U.S. for week ending November 03, 2014. Gray Mountain by John Grisham and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn are occupying the first and third spots on the list this week.
We’ve included Apple’s entire list after the jump. (more…)
We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending November 02, 2014–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #1 in Hardcover Nonfiction) Yes Please by Amy Poehler: “Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation? Did you wish you were in the audience at the last two Golden Globes ceremonies, so you could bask in the hilarity of Amy’s one-liners? If your answer to these questions is ‘Yes Please!’ then you are in luck.” (October 2014)
Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler has enlisted several celebrity friends to serve as narrators for the audiobook edition of her memoir, Yes Please.
The participating readers include Sir Patrick Stewart, Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Mike Schur, Kathleen Turner, and Poehler’s parents. It also includes a recording of Poehler’s one night only live performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater.
The Wall Street Journal has posted a SoundCloud clip with Stewart reading Poehler’s haiku about plastic surgery. Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, released the audiobook, the eBook, and the hardcover book yesterday.
Anna Todd, the first-time author whose online fan fiction series After became a Wattpad sensation, has had a big month.
Publishing one chapter at a time, Todd racked up 1 billion reads online and gained avid fans worldwide. Last week, Paramount Pictures announced it had acquired screen rights, and this week, After was pubbed newly revised and expanded in a paperback from Gallery Books, part of a six-figure, multi-book deal with further print releases set for this November 18, December 30, and February 10, 2015.
Talking with Alexandra Alter, Todd told the New York Times that she began as a Wattpad reader, hooked on serialized fictional stories about British boy band One Direction. In 2013, she started writing her own fiction about a female college freshman who gets involved with a tattooed, lip-ringed, cute, tousled-haired guy named Harry Styles.
“I didn’t think anyone would read it.” … She updated “After” with a new chapter every day to meet readers’ demands and tapped out much of the book on her cellphone. She wrote for five hours a day and spent three hours trading messages with readers on Wattpad, Twitter and Instagram and drew on those comments to help her shape the story.
“The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone,” she said.
Todd also told Alter that she receives threats daily from angry One Direction fans on Twitter and Tumblr, which explains why, as Alter reports, in the print After the romantic lead is no longer Harry Styles but Hardin Scott. We’ll know soon enough if After is as big in print for $16 as it is online at Wattpad, where it remains free.
In other Wattpad news, the site is currently hosting two contests. “Share your Yes moment,” cohosted with HarperCollins, is the call for the Yes Please by Amy Poehler Writing Contest. They want to hear about a moment when your life changed because of saying yes. The Yes Please prize pack includes a tweet shout-out from Amy’s Smart Girls. And, to celebrate Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress, fans are asked to write a piece of fanfiction inspired by her Freeze-Dried Groom on Wattpad. Atwood will choose and recognize the winning story.
Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, has revealed the cover of Amy Poehler's upcoming book Yes Please.
In the book, the Parks & Recreation star will share personal advice and stories from her life. The book is slated for publication in October.
Today.com has the scoop: "True to form, Poehler's first foray into publishing will tackle a variety of topics, from friendship and parenting to advice on love and life, all done with her inimitable wit."
SICK of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D.You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.
CHOOSE correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a guest stint onCelebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, but make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! On sale October 14, 2014.
As a veteran of beloved television series like “Saturday Night Live” and “Parks and Recreation” and major motion pictures like “Mean Girls” and “Baby Mama,” Amy Poehler, actress, producer, comedian extraordinaire, has some advice to dish — and we can’t wait to read it.
On October 28, 2014, Dey Street Books will publish Poehler’s highly anticipated literary debut, “Yes Please.”
True to form, Poehler’s first foray into publishing will tackle a variety of topics, from friendship and parenting to advice on love and life, all done with her inimitable wit. On Sale October 28, 2014
It looks like it will be a very funny Fall. Which one do you think you will pick up first?
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Come on, who hasn’t? Even in your pretend alternate life? We can be honest here.
Here’s a short video to whet your appetite, courtesy Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. (I’ve become obsessed with Amy’s website and all her many videos, so I can promise this won’t be the only one you’ll see. But it’s a fun place to start!)
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Here’s some GREAT news straight from the Associated Press. Amy Poehler has signed a deal with It Books for an ”illustrated, non-linear diary.” It Books, a pop culture imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that the book is currently untitled and scheduled for 2014. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“Her original twist on the conventional memoir will have universal appeal,” according to It Books. “An illustrated, non-linear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons, the book will be a unique and engaging experience from one of today’s most talented and beloved stars.”
It’s the first book for Poehler, who recently co-hosted the Golden Globes ceremony with Fey, her longtime friend and professional collaborator. Poehler will be edited by It Books’ Carrie Thornton, who said in a statement that after first talking to Poehler she was “blown away by her creativity and her passion.”
With huge books from Tina Fey and Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler is sure to hit one out of the park. Can’t wait to read it!
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Vroman’s Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Pasadena, will be appearing on season four of the NBC series, Parks and Recreation. According to Jacket Copy, the bookseller will host an author event headlined by Leslie Knope, a parks department bureaucrat played by Amy Poehler.
Hyperion will release the actual title in paperback format in October. Poehler’s character wrote Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America, a 240-page humor book contains illustrations, photographs and commentary from all of the show’s characters.
Here’s more from NBC.com: “Each chapter will explore a different aspect of the fictional town’s history and expand upon events hinted at in the series, such as: the time the whole town was on fire, its long list of ridiculous town slogans, and the ongoing raccoon infestation. Knope, a resident of Pawnee since her childhood, provides all of the research and comical insights into this Midwestern town that fans have grown to love.”
Over at The Daily Beast, actress Amy Poehler listed her favorite sad films. We casually asked readers to pick the saddest books in the world, and responses have been filling up on Twitter.
Join the mid-January depressing and entertaining conversation–what is the saddest book you have ever read? Share your thoughts at the #saddestbooks hashtag (started by Emily Wolchko). This GalleyCat editor would like to add Robert Newton Peck‘s The Day No Pigs Would Die to the list.
Here’s more from Poehler’s movie list: “The Final Scene of the British Office Christmas Special (2003) This was a television show and not a movie. But let’s be honest, most TV shows are better than movies. So this counts. Dawn dumps her fiancé and comes back to the office and kisses Tim. Gets me every time. And it will get you too. Unless you are made of wood and hate love.”
As if you needed another reason to love Amy Poehler, she's headed up this very wonderful web series called Smart Girls at the Party. A very wise, very wonderful woman pointed them out to me, and I had to share. Thanks, narocroc tnega!!
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I've always been a fan but it was clinched at a show I saw in Chicago a couple years ago. It was a huge ensemble thing at the Chicago theater with TONS of famous comedians but the microphones didn't work and they were trying to do improv with two mics among ten people. Amy was the only one who really made an effort for everyone to hear her.
We left after half and hour and were SO disappointed. But she ROCKED.
In April of this year, Beverly Cleary will celebrate her 100th birthday. To honor the popular children’s books author, HarperCollins released new editions of three of her titles: Ramona Quimby, Age 8, The Mouse and The Motorcycle, and Henry Huggins.
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HarperCollins has established a new partnership with JetBlue. Henceforth, the content platform on JetBlue’s Fly-Fi (a special inflight Wi-Fi program) will feature content from HarperCollins books.
Amy Poehler’s new memoir, Yes Please, has joined Apple’s Top Paid iBooks in the U.S. this week at No. 2.
Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler has enlisted several celebrity friends to serve as narrators for the audiobook edition of 
Love that header--so cute!
Wow, I love her even more now.
I've always been a fan but it was clinched at a show I saw in Chicago a couple years ago. It was a huge ensemble thing at the Chicago theater with TONS of famous comedians but the microphones didn't work and they were trying to do improv with two mics among ten people. Amy was the only one who really made an effort for everyone to hear her.
We left after half and hour and were SO disappointed. But she ROCKED.
This is so awesome!