Perfect by New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins is on sale now! A companion novel to the bestselling book Impulse, Perfect is a deeply empathetic and riveting portrait of teens striving past the possible to be perfect—and their quest to let perfection go and follow their hearts.

Ellen’s new revamped site has a bunch of online assets include the video trailer, a video interview, an excerpt of the book, as well as video excerpts of the audiobook. Click to get to Ellen’s new YA focused site: http://ellenhopkins.com/YoungAdult/perfect/

Also, Banned Books Week is coming up on 9/25! Visit our Banned Book Weeks site for PDFs of Ellen’s manifesto and more! Visit: http://pages.simonandschuster.com/bannedbooksweek

See below for an update on upcoming publicity for all
Simon & Schuster adult imprints in this week’s edition of the SOURCE!
Some highlights include:

IN THE NEWS

THE LONGEST WAR, Peter Bergen
9780743278935, Free Press, $28.00
Time magazine feature, on stands May 5
The New Republic cover story, on stands May 5
NBC-TV/ “TODAY Show,” May 6
The Washington Post article, May 7
CNN-TV/ “Footsteps of bin Laden” documentary, based on THE OSAMA I KNOW, by Peter Bergen, May 7 & May 8

BUZZ-WORTHY REVIEW
THE YEAR WE LEFT HOME, Jean Thompson
9781439175880, Simon & Schuster, $25.00
New York Times Book Review, May 8:
“…an extraordinarily warm-hearted novel whose impressive humanity and lightness of touch refresh some narrative elements so abundantly precedented that most fiction writers would have been afraid to go near them.”

MOONGLASS is the debut novel for Jessi Kirby!

Don’t miss what Sarah Dessen calls “an incredible first novel.”

Moonglass by Jessi Kirby

9781442416949, S&S BFYR, Hardcover

Also out today is WHERE THINGS COME BACK by debut author John Corey-Whaley.

Kirkus Reviews calls it a “multilayered debut for sophisticated readers. Unexpected, thought-provoking storytelling.”

Where Things Come Back by John Corey-Whaley

9781442413337, Atheneum, Hardcover

Today’s Shelf Awareness – Book Brahmin feature is Elle Newmark, author of  The Chef’s Apprentice (9781451626292; eBK: 9781416597926; published in hardcover as The Book of Unholy Mischief) and of The Sandalwood Tree, which Atria is proud to publish April 5 (9781416590590; eBK: 9781416597933). The Sandalwood Tree is about two love stories, ninety years apart, set against the backdrop of two wars in India. See below for some highlights:

Favorite book when you were a child:

Robin Hood. I grew up in a Chicago apartment with gray furniture on gray carpeting; I wore a prim uniform for school, and we never ate meat on Friday or missed mass on Sunday. Robin and his Merry Men lived in a utopian forest, having one freewheeling adventure after another. They had tree houses and roaring fires and they robbed the bad guys–who so deserved it–and then spread the wealth around…. He was a jolly green Marxist with a bow and arrow, and I was young enough to believe the world could work that way. I loved Robin Hood so much, I copied the story into a notebook, then lovingly illustrated it, and when it became a TV show I gave it up for Lent. It’s the only Lenten sacrifice I remember because it was so hard to do. I’m not Catholic anymore and I’m still a little ticked off about missing those episodes.

Book you’ve faked reading:

Why would anyone fake reading a book? Oh, wait. Middlemarch. I’ve been trying to read it for years, but the lethargic pace defeats me every time. I never claimed to have read it, but I never (until now) admitted that I have not. I have, however, ordered it from Netflix.

Book you’ve bought for the cover:

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. That guy going (sneaking?) into the circus tent was a real teaser. What’s in there? He looks like he means business, like he’s going after something pretty interesting, and I wanted to go in with him.”

Read the full article here.

To learn more about Elle Newmark, click here.

P.S. Isn’t the cover beautiful?

Beyonders: A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull, New York Times bestselling author of Fablehaven, is on sale today!

Don’t miss what Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, calls “one of the most original fantasies I’ve read in years.”

Don’t miss New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann live online this Wednesday, March 16th at 6:00 PM EST.  She’ll be discussing her latest book, CRYER’S CROSS, as well her newest series coming this Fall.

Tune in to watch the live chat and sign in to ask Lisa questions.
http://www.ustream.tv/simonandschuster

Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum


“Highly Recommend – Every once in a while I discover a book that I need to read slowly, I believe a great book should be read slowly…why rush to finish a wonderful experience? I loved this novel – from the time spent in America and the events leading up to the decision to go to Africa, to the traditions of an African tribe and, how these traditions impact on the Slepy family.

Told from different points of view, this is a story filled with secrets and explores the struggle of being loved vs loving someone. Mix in African traditions versus American values and this book will keep you on your toes.”

– From Mari Partyka (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/132067545)

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Magaret Peterson Haddix bestselling Shadow Children Series is getting a new look.

Check out the new cover for the first book in the series–Among the Hidden. 

All titles will be available on 4/27/11.

Stock-up for Summer Reading!

Have you been to Simon & Schuster’s new
Reading Group Resources site? It’s a one-stop shop for all reading group needs!

We just updated the site with new book club recommendations including:

Lipstick in Afghanistan  (Gallery, 9781439191385)
Roberta Gately
“In this utterly engrossing read, Gately vividly evokes the beauty and tragedy of Afghanistan, where she, like Elsa, worked as a nurse after 9/11.” – Booklist

Blacklands: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 9781439149454)
Belinda Bauer
“Blacklands is leading the pack of profound new mysteries. . . . Atmospheric . . . . bewitching . . . . a brilliant analysis of an exceedingly twisted mind.” — Chicago Tribune

A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir (Simon & Schusters, 9781439125687)
Elena Gorokhova
A January 2010 Indie Next Pick
One of O Magazine’s 10 to Watch For, February 2010
One of the Christian Science Monitor‘s 10 Best Mother’s Day Books, 2010
“Artful memoir about the angst and joys of growing up behind the Iron Curtain. . . . Articulate, touching and hopeful.” — Kirkus Reviews

The Kitchen House: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439153666)
Kathleen Grissom
“Kathleen Grissom gives us a new and unforgettable perspective on slavery and families and human ties in the Old South, exploring the deepest mysteries of the past that help define who we are to this day.”
– Robert Morgan, Bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club selection Gap Creek

Exit the Actress: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439171172)
Priya Parmar
“Nell is a thoughtful protagonist and narrator. . . This is a solid debut from a writer readers will want to see more from.”
– Publishers Weekly
(Scribner, 9781439148952)
Colm Toibin
“A classical coming-of-age story, pure, unsensationalized, quietly profound.”
– Pam Houston, O, the Oprah Magazine
 
Diamond Ruby: A Novel (Touchstone, 9781439160053)
Joseph Wallace
“Comparisons to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are not made lightly . . . wonderful, memorable . . . perfect.”
—Laura Lippman

Best Friends Forever: A Novel (Washington Square Press, 9780743294300)
Jennifer Weiner
“Addie Downs – the Everygirl at the center of Jennifer Weiner’s latest novel – just could turn out to be one of our favorite heroines of the summer…Another superlative novel by Weiner, about a big girl with a bigger heart, that will have women and men of all sizes cheering.”
– USA Today

Thereby Hangs a Tail: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (Atria, 9781416585862)
Spencer Quinn
“[Thereby Hangs A Tail] is a fun and lighthearted book for lovers of mysteries and dogs.”
—Hudson Valley News

Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner, 9781439169018)
Audrey Niffenegger
“The endurance of love animates this gothic story set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. Niffenegger’s prose can be wearyingly overblown, but she has a knack for taking the romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets… It’s no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected.”
– The New Yorker

Infidel (Free Press, 9780743289696)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Too potent a social critic to be tolerated any longer [in her home country]…an unflinching advocate of women’s rights and an unflinching critic of Islamic extremism.”
– The New York Times

Brooklyn: A Novel 

Happy Book-Clubbing!

Many of you have been selling tons of the first Dork Diaries title–Tales From a Not-so-Fabulous Life ( 9781416980063)by Rachel Renee Russell. If you don’t know it, the Dork Diaries series  follows the middle-grade angst (don’t we all remember it well!) of Nikki Maxwell and have become an instant hit with tween girls looking for an alternative to that other diary book:). The first book has been a bestseller since it published last summer, and now the second book: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (9781416980087) is on-sale tomorrow.

These are must for Summer Reading and should fly off your shelves. Check out this adorable piece of art from the new book …