Fall 12 Preview – Little White Duck: A Childhood In China (Lerner / Graphic Universe)

Over on my3books, I've posted the first of (hopefully many) previews of some of my favorite upcoming titles from our publishers and other publishers, as well.

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
story by Na Liu & Andrés Vera Martínez
illustrated by Andrés Vera Martínez
Lerner / Graphic Universe | 9780761381150 | $9.95 | Oct 2012

It's a terrific graphic memoir, based directly on the memories of author Na Liu, one of two sisters growing up in China in the mid to late 1970s.

It has already received a starred review from Kirkus.

Click through to read more.

The first ever Heartland Fall Forum is coming!

We're excited to be participating in this year's 2012 Heartland Fall Forum - the first ever joint regional booksellers association trade show, bringing together the booksellers from both the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association!

Many of our publishers will be joining us, and many will have their best new fall releases available for you to check out. We'll see you at The Depot in Minneapolis, MN from October 3 through 5, 2012!

Fall regional trade show specials for MIBA and GLIBA

You can download the latest versions of our fall regional trade show summaries from our Terms and Specials page now. Offers are still valid for most publishers for MIBA, and still good for GLIBA, of course.

Star Wars Limited Edition Moleskines get a "book" trailer

This has been floating around the internet for a few weeks now, but I was reminded to post it here since I just started a fresh Moleskine for my autumnal to-do list, and it's one of the new limited edition Star Wars journals.

Book trailer: A Monster Calls (Candlewick Press)

A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
illustrated by Jim Kay
Candlewick Press | 9780763655594 | $16.99 | Sept 2011

I wrote about A Monster Calls in a preview post on my3books.com earlier this year, shortly after I first read it. It's still one of the fall books that comes back to me most powerfully when I tell others about it:

The two authors have created a novel that shares the hallmarks of both their best works: the story goes in directions that are simply not anticipated, and the tidal pull of emotion that hits the reader by the end is out of all proportion to what should be possible.

From the Candlewick Press web site:

At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting – he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.