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Gifts & Sidelines Listings
A selection of upcoming gift books and sidelines for adults and children.
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Beyond Coloring Books: Gifts & Sidelines 2016
Coloring books aren’t going away anytime soon, but publishers are already on the hunt for what’s next in gifts.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Literary Fiction: Brave New Worlds
This spring’s selection of literary fiction features popular authors venturing into tantalizing new directions.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Essays & Literary Criticism: Turning Back the Pages
This spring’s literary nonfiction offers fresh perspectives on old books and past masters, with stories about the making—or unmaking—of famous titles, new materials from the archives of well-known authors, and an account of how great writers have faced the end.
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Spring 2016 Adult Announcements: All Our Coverage
Looking forward to the books of the spring season always makes us feel as ebullient as Persephone, and this announcements issue is no exception. Each editor selected 60 anticipated titles in 16 major categories, and from those, chose a top-10 list.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Entertainment & Sports: Bringing Out the Heavy Hitters
In entertainment, publishers will release some heavy hitters across the board this spring.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Cooking & Food: Around the World
This season sees a move in cooking toward Brooklyn, Rome, and Asia—along with large print runs for general lifestyle authors such as Lauren Conrad and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Comics & Graphic Novels: Returning Masters
Spring will see new releases from veteran creators in the graphic novel field, with long-awaited work from some of the masters of the form and the follow-up to a celebrated prose novel.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Business & Economics: Business Books with Impact
The power of individuals to influence the course of events is one of the themes running through some of the biggest business books planned for release in the spring. Several titles also take a fresh look at economic truths.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Art, Architecture & Photography: Building Stories
For eons, humans have been creating art (think cave paintings) and building structures (think Stonehenge—and what about those pyramids?), and our fascination with construction, visual art, and the people who create beauty for all of us continues unabated.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: SF, Fantasy & Horror: Worlds Turned Upside Down
Authors are creating near futures that are both glorious and grim, exciting and terrifying. Here and now, nothing feels certain—and as we learned in the atomic age, uncertain times give rise to some splendid speculative fiction.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Poetry: An Ocean of Wisdom
There are some big retrospectives (Bidart, Dove, Rich) on the slate this spring; mother (Notley) and son (Berrigan) drop new books; and one could do worse than just picking up anything from Copper Canyon, Graywolf, or Wave.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers: A Thriving Genre
Spring highlights range from bestseller Stephen King’s End of Watch, a crime novel that concludes a trilogy, to newcomer Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney, a supernatural thriller originally published by a specialty press in the U.K.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Memoirs & Biographies: Who’s Got the Story?
Everyone has one, whether it’s about the trials of growing up different, finding love, or learning a language unspoken for centuries.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Lifestyle: Living Well
It’s no surprise that this season will feature some famous names (and faces) dispensing advice on looking and feeling great.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: History: What’s Past Is Prologue
Many of the big history books this season find relevance in crises facing the world today (migration, institutional racism, global warming), luring readers with the promise that examining the past holds clues to a better future.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Science: Within the Mind
For the second consecutive season, concepts of mind—what it is, how it arises, the nature of intelligence—appear to be on many, well, minds. But old questions concerning war, sex, and death perennially lurk in the background.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Politics & Current Events: Debatable
This spring’s politics and current events titles reflect the pressure points already on display in the first months of 2016 election season.
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Spring 2016 Announcements: Romance & Erotica: History Is Happening
For a long time, the historical romance subgenre has mostly included books set in either Regency England or the American Old West, with only a handful of outliers.
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Beyond the Lemonade Stand: Personal Finance 2016
New titles serve up the financial ABCs for younger readers.