OK, I hope the picture up above is not misleading, ha! I mean, this is NOT a new book about “The Art of Batman: Death By Design”, ha ha! It’s a graphic designed to present a wonderful video created by Bernard Hill who seems to really like the Batman Graphic Novel created by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor, BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics). It’s one of those “Book Trailers” where they browse through the book and give you an idea of it’s contents. It’s pretty well made and we think it really does showcase Dave Taylor’s amazing artwork really well. So, please check it out! (Thanks Bernard!)

Random House of Canada just posted a completely wonderful book Trailer for David Rakoff’s new book titled: LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH. The book is being published by Doubleday and comes out on July 16, 2013.

LOVE, DISHONOR, MARRY, DIE, CHERISH, PERISH leaps cities and decades as David Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland - a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here, the characters’ lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff “magnificent,” a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.

OK, Just to be clear, Chip Kidd did NOT design the cover for this book… but we wanted to share this fun video of the new BOOK TRAILER for “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc” (published by Little, Brown and Company) because David Sedaris is a good friend. Plus, the video (and the book) is totally hilarious! Enjoy. Oh yeah, and don’t forget to share this on Facebook or Twitter, ha!

Other David Sedaris Books with Covers Designed by Chip Kidd:

OK, This is pretty cool news! A company in Barcelona, Spain called “Ecc Ediciones” will be publishing Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN (DC Comics) into a foreign language! The new title will be called, “Batman: Arquitectura Mortal”. They even created a really nice Book Trailer Video which you can see down below. We’re not really sure of an exact release date but it is due in 2013. Stay tuned to this site and once we know we’ll pass it on. Also, for more information, please be sure to check out their website, just CLICK HERE!

The BIG Book Reading News this Summer is the much-anticipated adventure story by Peter Heller titled, “THE DOG STARS, a novel”. The basic plot goes like this:

“Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life-something like his old life-exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return-not enough fuel to get him home-following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face-in the people he meets, and in himself-is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.”

Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human.

Peter Heller Book Signings:

Lemuria Book Store Inc
August 21st, 2012 at 5:00 pm
202 Banner Hall
4465 I-55 North
Jackson, MS 39206

SQUARE BOOKS
August 22st, 2012 at 5:00 pm
160 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655

Book Trailer Video:

Writers on Writing:

First off, we would like to thank the HUFFINGTON POST for their recent article about this new book titled, WONDER, written by R. J. Palacio and published by Random House KNOPF. She has created a very inspiring book and it really deserves some attention & we appreciate it.

In the video above , Author R. J. Palacio and Chip Kidd discuss Palacio’s debut novel, WONDER. They also discuss the anti-bullying campaign, CHOOSE KIND, that was inspired by the book and more. The basic premise of the book is that it is about a little boy named Auggie. He is ten and he was born with a facial deformity that is really quite severe. One of the really interesting things R. J. has done is she writes from his point of view and she writes from other characters points' of view, and little by little, she describes what he looks like. You start to build it in your head, but it starts with people's reactions to it. The entire story is very inspirational and will change your point of view about both life, and people, in many good ways.

Please check out the Official Book Trailer for WONDER up above and then, for more information, please check out this extra “Introduction” Video with the Author R. J. Palacio down below:

Here at Alfred A. Knopf we’re really excited about the sudden success of the recently published book titled, “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln, A Novel”. The Book asks the question, “What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been killed by that bullet on April 14, 1865 and, also, did the president subvert the Constitution? ”

That’s the startling premise of the latest novel from Yale Law School professor Stephen Carter, in which Lincoln survives that terrible night at Ford’s Theatre, only to face an impeachment trial two years later. Please be sure to check out the BOOK TRAILER Video and then, below that, be sure to listen to what the Author had to say on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” TV News Program. They’re both pretty interesting.