October 8, 2021
EPL Collection Development Manager Betsy Bird wrote an incredible new middle-grade historical fiction for kids, LONG ROAD TO THE CIRCUS. Listen to her interview for fascinating details. Plus, check out companion crafts available now, and info on how to find more Betsy Bird – librarian, podcaster, writer, reviewer. Do you remember the first nickel you […]
November 16, 2016
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is for Amor Towles’ stylish new novel A Gentleman in Moscow. Already a NY Times bestseller, the novel follows Count Alexander Rostov after a 1922 Bolshevik tribunal orders him to spend the rest of his life inside the luxury Metropol hotel for being an unrepentant aristocrat. Described by theSkimm […]
November 29, 2012
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is this must-see clip for Penny Marshall’s new memoir My Mother Was Nuts. A virtual lock for a 2012 Moby Award, the clever spot features SNL and Portlandia star Fred Armisen impersonating the long-time actress and director to hilarious effect. Don’t miss the “lotion” bit, and after you’ve […]
October 13, 2012
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is for Dennis Lehane’s new historical crime epic Live by Night. A follow-up of sorts to 2008’s masterful The Given Day, the novel revisits the Coughlin family in Prohibition-era Boston as youngest brother Joe defies his police officer father to climb the ladder of organized crime. As his […]
July 25, 2011
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is this hilarious spoof for John Wray’s intriguing novel Lowboy. Honored with a 2010 Moby Award for the Best Cameo in a Book Trailer, this awkwardly funny clip features comedian Zach Galifianakis impersonating Wray in possibly the worst and strangest author interview of all time. Watch it now, watch it […]
June 11, 2011
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is for Dash Shaw’s darkly fantastical graphic novel BodyWorld. The year is 2060 and America is reeling from a devastating civil war when Professor Paulie Panther rambles into the small town of Boney Borough. An experimental botanist by trade, he soon stumbles upon a mysterious two-lobed plant of possible alien […]
May 28, 2011
After a brief hiatus, the Book Trailer of the Week is back with this captivating clip for Laura Hillenbrand’s new biography Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. Winner of the 2010 L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography, Unbroken tells the enthralling tale of Louie Zamperini, a 1936 Munich Olympics track star […]
March 19, 2011
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is for Peter Bognanni’s fantastic debut novel The House of Tomorrow. A finalist for the 2010 L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, The House of Tomorrow tells the story of Sebastian Prendergast, a lonely 16-year-old who lives in rural Iowa with his grandma and is homeschooled in a geodesic […]
February 21, 2011
Today is Presidents Day, and we celebrate with this Book Trailer of the Week for Ron Chernow’s landmark biography Washington: A Life. In this fascinating clip, the National Book Award-winning author tours in person several of the same landmark locations he visits in the pages of his richly nuanced portrait of America’s first President. A 2010 […]
February 12, 2011
Our latest Book Trailer of the Week is designed to put you in a T.C. Boyle state of mind. On February 22nd the author’s thirteenth novel When the Killing’s Done hits the shelves, and to help get you primed for Boyle’s patented brand of intricate, thought-provoking fiction, we present the following short film for his stunning twelfth novel The Women. Published […]
