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BookazineBits August 13th, 2015 On the cover of the NYT Book Review for 8/16/15 Eileen (ISBN 9781594206627 $25.95) by Ottessa Moshfegh A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposesa prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.

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BookazineBits

August 13th, 2015 On the cover of the NYT Book Review for 8/16/15

Eileen (ISBN 9781594206627 $25.95) by Ottessa Moshfegh A lonely young woman working in a boys’ prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared.

The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.

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Wind/Pinball by Haruki Murakami (ISBN 9780385352123 $25.95) In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time.

New York Times Book Review – review – 8/16

Showtime is developing a limited series based on Patti Smith’s memoir of the 1970s,

“Just Kids” (ISBN 9780060936228 $16.00). “Penny Dreadful” creator John

Logan is working on the adaptation with Smith.

TNT Renews ‘The Last Ship’ (ISBN 9780142181836 $17.00) for

Season 3 http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/the-last-ship-renewed-season-3-tnt-1201567712/

The Operators: The Wild & Terrifying Inside Story Of America’s War

In Afghanistan (ISBN 9780452298965 $17.00) Topher Grace Joins Brad Pitt in Netflix Black Comedy ‘War Machine’ http://deadline.com/2015/08/topher-grace-war-machine-brad-pitt-netflix-1201496713/

Release date changed on Trump book

Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by

Michael D'Antonio (ISBN 9781250042385 $26.99) – September 22 release

A revealing new unauthorized biography featuring firsthand interviews, including with "the Donald" himself, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael D'Antonio.

Also the updated trade of 2011’s Time to Get Tough (ISBN 9781621574958

$16.99) releases August 31st

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese Reunite for ‘Devil in the White City’ (ISBN 9780375725609 $16.00) http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-reunite-for-devil-in-the-white-city-1201567113/

Show Me a Hero (ISBN 9780316391351

$17.00) HBO miniseries starting 8/16/15

Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing how a proposal to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighborhoods nearly destroyed an entire city and forever changed the lives of many of its citizens. -- Public housing projects are being torn down throughout the United States. What will take their place? Show Me a Hero explores the answer. -- An important and compelling work of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of J. Anthony Lukas's

Common Ground. -- A sweeping yet intimate group portrait that assesses the effects of public policy on individual human lives.

Review - http://variety.com/2015/tv/reviews/show-me-a-hero-review-david-simon-miniseries-

hbo-1201559373/

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Syfy and Universal Cable Productions are in production for new scripted drama The Magicians in Vancouver. Based on the Lev Grossman novel about a collegiate

magician in training, the series is slated for an early 2016 debut.

Trailer for ‘My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me’: A Black Woman

Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past (ISBN 9781615192533 $24.95) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6VPMoAbkss

Excerpt from PRI - http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-11/would-my-nazi-

grandfather-have-shot-me-being-black

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (ISBN 9780143034759 $20.00)

Now on Broadway: The Hip-Hop Tale of A 'Bastard' Who Became A Founding Father http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/430077458/now-on-broadway-the-hip-hop-tale-of-a-bastard-who-became-a-founding-father

Broadway’s ‘Hamilton’ Ka-Chings $1M Before The Party Ended, Heading To $2M In 24 Hours http://deadline.com/2015/08/hamilton-broadway-box-office-explodes-1201495144/

Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson (ISBN 9780812997477

$27.00) Adam Johnson’s first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son, a major story collection for fans of Junot Díaz, George Saunders, and of course Adam Johnson.

NPR - Weekend Edition with Scott Simon – interview – 8/15 New York Times Book Review – 8/16 Wall Street Journal – profile by Eben Shapiro – online now, in print tentative date 8/7

USA Network announced a pilot pick-up for hour-long scripted drama Shooter, starring

Ryan Phillippe. The project is based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Hunter,

Point of Impact (ISBN 9780553563511 $7.99), and the 2007 Paramount film

starring Mark Wahlberg. Phillippe also serves as producer.

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Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives

Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder (ISBN 9780385347396 $16.00) An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are—and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior.

NBC-TV - Today Show – interview for 3-part series – 9/8

Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America by Dick

Cheney & Liz Cheney (ISBN 9781501115417 $28.00) September 1 release

Former vice president Dick Cheney, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and his daughter Liz Cheney, former deputy assistant secretary of state, explain the unique and indispensable nature of American power, reveal the damage done by President Obama’s abandonment of this principle, and show how America can and must lead again.

CBS-TV/"CBS Sunday Morning," August 30 CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," August 31 Fox News-TV/"Hannity," August 31 Fox-Radio/"The Sean Hannity Show," September 1 Fox News-TV/"Fox & Friends," September 1 MSNBC-TV/"Morning Joe," September 2 ABC-Radio/"Radio Satellite Tour,"

September 2 Fox News-TV/"Hannity," September 4 NBC-TV/"Meet the Press," September 6 Fox News-TV/"Fox News Sunday," September 6 PBS-TV/"Charlie Rose," September 22

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Color Me Mindful: Underwater by Anastasia Catris (ISBN

9781501130878 $12.99) These intricate and beautifully detailed line drawings of underwater scenes are ready for you to bring to life. Relieve stress, practice your mindfulness, and discover your creative side as you unplug and slow down by filling these exquisite pages with color. These intricate and beautifully detailed line drawings of underwater scenes are ready for you to bring to life. Relieve stress, practice your mindfulness, and discover your creative side as you unplug and slow down by filling these exquisite pages with color. No matter our age, useful mindfulness techniques can help re-center us amidst a world of noisy stimuli constantly vying for our attention. Coloring can act like a tranquil meditation—relax and unwind with this calming coloring book for adults featuring beautifully detailed line drawings and designs of soothing ocean motifs. Make your mark—inside or outside the lines—with these fifty beautiful black and white illustrations of fish, turtles, coral, and other amazing ocean life just waiting for your gentle touch to bring the magic of the sea to life.

People Magazine, August 31

The Patriarch: A Bruno, Chief of Police novel by Martin Walker

(ISBN 9780385354172 $24.95) A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death—it’s the latest adventure in the Dordogne for police Chief Bruno.

New York Times Book Review – crime roundup – 8/16

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A Walk in the Woods (MTI): Rediscovering America on the

Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (ISBN 9781101905494 $15.99)

New York Times Book Review – Jacket image included – 8/16 In theaters September 2nd

Bryson, beloved nonfiction author, travel humorist and memoirist, chronicled his hilarious and inspiring journey along the Appalachian Trail in 1998. After years of script and production delays, Robert Redford is finally making good on his promise to star as Bryson in the long-awaited film adaptation, which arrives in theaters September 2. Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NjYUr1k8rA

See today’s SHOWCASE for a full list of Bill Bryson’s titles

Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer and Michelle Dockery Board ‘The Sense Of An Ending’ (ISBN 9780307947727 $14.95) http://deadline.com/2015/08/the-sense-of-an-ending-charlotte-rampling-harriet-walter-emily-mortimer-michelle-dockery-jim-broadbent-downton-abbey-1201494142/

Coen Bros. To Adapt & Direct Ross MacDonald Novel ‘Black Money’ (ISBN 9780679768104 $15.00) For Warner Bros. http://deadline.com/2015/08/joel-ethan-coen-black-money-ross-macdonald-movie-warner-bros-1201492294/

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In theaters Oct. 16th

Trailer for Bridge of Spies (ISBN 9780767931083 $15.00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05y-uHUJtkk

Oscar Buzz Huff Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/05/bridge-of-spies-trailer_n_7519530.html Slate - http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/05/bridge_of_spies_trailer_does_steven_spielberg_and_tom_hanks_new_movie_about.html

‘Bridge of Spies’ to Premiere at 2015 New York Film Festival - http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-york-film-festival-main-slate-2015-1201568502/

Katrina: After the Flood by Gary Rivlin (ISBN 9781451692228 $27.00) Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana—on August 29, 2005—journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the city’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities.

WNYC-Radio/"The Leonard Lopate Show," August 20 MSNBC-TV/"Hardball with Chris Matthews," August 21 ABC-Radio/"Network Radio Tour," August 27 NPR-Radio/"Diane Rehm Show," August 27 Syndicated-Radio/"Sierra Club Radio," August 29 Syndicated Radio/"Travel with Rick Steves," August 29 CBS-TV/"CBS Sunday Morning," August 30 Southern Living, August issue

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The Incarnations by Susan Barker (ISBN 9781501106781 $26.00) Hailed as “China’s Midnight’s Children” (The Independent) this “brilliant, mind-expanding, and wildly original novel” (Chris Cleave) about a Beijing taxi driver whose past incarnations over one thousand years haunt him through searing letters sent by his mysterious soulmate.

NPR-Radio/"Weekend All Things Considered," August 15 or 16 Wall Street Journal, August 18 Interview, August issue Vanity Fair, September issue

Cold Mountain (ISBN 9780802142849 $16.00) Takes Civil War

Odyssey to the Opera Stage http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/08/05/429370329/cold-mountain-takes-civil-war-odyssey-to-the-opera-stage

The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman (ISBN 9781451693591

$27.99) From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.

An Indie Next Pick for August! Woman's Day, July/August issue O Magazine, August issue Cosmopolitan, August issue AARP, August/September issue Elle, August issue The New York Times Book Review, August 16

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Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A

Memoir of Humor and Healing by Reba Riley (ISBN 9781501124037 $24.99) An important inspirational debut, Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome is much more than a memoir about reclaiming faith and overcoming chronic illness. Written with humor and personality, it tackles the universal struggle to heal what life has broken. This is a book for questioners, doubters, misfits, and seekers of all faiths; for the spiritual, the religious, and the curious.

Time.com, August 18 Huffington Post, August 18 Religion News Services, August 18 Faith Street, August 18

Antonio Banderas to Star in Detective Drama ‘Havana Quartet’ for Starz http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/antonio-banderas-havana-quartet-starz-series-1201554271/

Havana Red (ISBN 9781904738091 $13.95) Havana Black (ISBN 9781904738152 $14.95) Havana Blue (ISBN 9781904738220 $14.95) Havana Gold (ISBN 9781904738282 $14.95)

2015's most anticipated book-to-film adaptations http://bookpage.com/the-book-case/18548-2015s-most-anticipated-book-to-film-adaptations#.Va4_Zvmfbji

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Mira Bartok (The Memory Palace ISBN 9781439183328 $16.00) is writing an upcoming fantasy series which centers on an

animal-human hybrid who escapes an orphanage. Fox 2000 has bought the film rights to The Wonderling, based on a partial manuscript. No dates on this first book of a planned trilogy, but movie rights have been sold. See link for full article - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bookmark/stephen-daldry-direct-fantasy-film-814332 The three books in the series are (tentatively) titled Songcatcher, House of Illusions, and The Singing Tree.

Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/man-booker-prize-announces-2015-longlist

You can find title info in the Man Booker Showcase

Johnny Depp’s ‘Black Mass’ (ISBN 9781610395533 $15.99) To World Premiere in Venice http://deadline.com/2015/07/johnny-depp-black-mass-joel-edgerton-benedict-cumberbatch-dakota-fanning-venice-scott-cooper-whitey-bulger-1201484597/

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IN STOCK The world’s most popular job-search book is updated for 2016 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today’s job-hunters and career-changers.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-

Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles (ISBN 9781607746621 $19.99) In today’s challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work—and which don’t. This revised and updated edition features an all-new list of online job-boards, plus a handy chart summarizing all the new research about resumes. Combining classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics, Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their

dream job.

Longmire is back in September! Check out today’s SHOWCASE for

a list of titles http://tvline.com/2015/07/28/longmire-season-4-premiere-netflix-release-date/

Longmire Season 4 will premiere on Thursday, September 10. It will be available in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Season 4 picks up moments after the Season 3 finale with Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), having found out who was behind the murder of his wife and setting out to find the killer.

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Releasing August 25th

Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore (ISBN 9780061779787 $26.99) Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected for ascension. Someone or something is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He’s still trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall “meat puppet waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him a suitable new body to play host. To get to the bottom of this abomination, a motley crew of heroes will band together: the seven-foot-tall death merchant Minty Fresh; intrepid grandmother-nannies, Mrs. Ling and Mrs. Korjev; retired policeman-turned-bookseller Alphonse Rivera; the Emperor of San Francisco and his dogs, Bummer and Lazarus; and Lily, the former Goth-girl. Now, if only they can get little Sophie to stop babbling about the coming battle for the very soul of humankind as she plays with her two pony-sized hellhounds . . .

This is a sequel to ‘A Dirty Job’

See all of Christopher Moore’s’ titles in today’s ‘Showcase’

Arthur & George (ISBN 9781400097036 $16.00) Coming to

‘MASTERPIECE’ in 2015 Coming in 2015, Arthur & George stars Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) as world-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This three-part adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Julian Barnes follows the intersecting lives of two very different men: a son of a vicar who is framed for a crime, and Doyle, who investigates the case.

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IN STOCK

You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day (ISBN

9781476785653 $25.99) From online entertainment mogul, actress, and “queen of the geeks” Felicia Day comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to Internet-stardom, and embracing her individuality to find success in Hollywood. After growing up in the south where she was “homeschooled for hippie reasons,” Felicia moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and was immediately typecast as a crazy cat-lady secretary. But Felicia’s misadventures in Hollywood led her to produce her own web series, own her own production company, and become an Internet star.

Marie Claire, August issue Cosmopolitan, August issue Comedy Central-TV/"Midnight," August 19

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink &

Jeffrey Cranor (ISBN 9780062351425 $19.99) – October release From the creators of the wildly popular "Welcome to Night Vale" podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of

two women, with two mysteries, will converge.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/CBS TV - 10/15/15 New York Times feature - 10/12/15

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Releasing in September Cooking as Fast as I Can: A

Chef’s Story of Family, Food, and Forgiveness by Cat Cora (ISBN 9781476766140 $25.00) Cooking as Fast as I Can chronicles the difficulties and triumphs Cora experienced on the path to becoming a chef. She writes movingly about how she found courage and redemption in the dark truths of her past and about how she found solace in the kitchen and work, how her passion for cooking helped her to overcome hardships and ultimately find happiness at home and became a wife and a mother to four boys. Above all, this is an utterly engrossing story about the grit and grace it takes to achieve your dreams.

Elle, August issue Good Housekeeping, September issue CBS-TV/"CBS This Morning," September 15

September 8th release - The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of

Age by Joyce Carol Oates (ISBN 9780062408679 $27.99) In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time—the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.

NPR: Diane Rehm – 9/8/15

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Machines of Loving Grace by John Markoff (ISBN 9780062266682

$26.99) – August 25th release As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society—on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health—Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times

science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: will these robots help us . . . or will they replace us? At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories began researching artificial intelligence. At one facility, a small group of scientists and engineers worked to recreate the human mind, while at the other, a similar group worked to augment it. For the past four decades, the dichotomy between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation (A.I. versus I.A.) has been at the heart of the revolution in computing science. Now, as the pace of technological change continues to accelerate, automated systems are confronting their designers with fundamental moral choices that have emerged too quickly for society to weigh their consequences. In Machines of a Loving Grace, New York Times reporter John

Markoff, who was the first reported to describe the World Wide Web, explores this issue. Markoff travels across the country, from the brain trusts in Palo Alto and Silicon Valley to the expanding tech corridor between Boston—home of MIT—and New York, the latest incubator for future tech development, and evaluates the present state of the A.I. versus I.A. debate. He goes deep inside the science fiction worlds of Battlestar Galactica, Terminator, and the Jetsons, which are fast becoming a reality, and talks to the insiders—scientists, entrepreneurs, ethicists, hackers and others—who are shaping the future. The result is an incisive and chilling look at our lives today—and what may come tomorrow.

NPR: Fresh Air – 8/20/15

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Plenty Ladylike by Claire McCaskill (ISBN 9781476756752 $26.00)

August 11th release In this candid, lively, and forthright memoir, Senator McCaskill describes her uphill battle to become who she is today, from her failed first marriage to a Kansas City car dealer—the father of her three children—to her current marriage to a Missouri businessman whom she describes as “a life partner.” She depicts her ups and downs with the Clintons, her long-shot reelection as senator after secretly helping to nominate a right-wing extremist as her opponent, and the fun of joining the growing bipartisan sisterhood in the Senate.

Glamour, August issue NPR-Radio/"Here & Now," August 14 HBO-TV/"Real Time with Bill Maher," August 21

Carter Blanchard To Adapt Fox’s Anti-Superhero Tale ‘Steelheart’ http://deadline.com/2015/07/steelheart-carter-blanchard-fox-1201483661/

See todays SHOWCASE for the books above plus other titles by

Brandon Sanderson

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Coming soon to BBCAmerica The Last Kingdom Based on Bernard Cornwell’s The Saxon Stories book series, Kingdom

has eight novels on which to base future series.

We have posted the titles in todays ‘Showcase’

Michael McGarrity is about two thirds of the way through The Last Ranch. This will finish the trilogy that was started with Hard Country and continued in Backlands

The Last Ranch will be published in June 2016. I for one cannot wait!!! The titles above and other Michael McGarrity titles can

be found in todays ‘Showcase’

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Hogwarts Hops ‘The Pond’: Rowling Reveals U.S. Version of Wizards' School http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/09/413127228/hogwarts-hops-the-pond-rowling-reveals-u-s-version-of-wizards-school

Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them (ISBN 9780545850568 $9.99)

The Day the Crayons Came Home (ISBN 9780399172755 $18.99)

The hysterically colorful companion to the bestselling picture book The Day the Crayons Quit (ISBN 9780399255373 $17.99) Sequel to best-seller colored by humor - http://www.theacorn.com/news/2015-08-

13/Family/Sequel_to_bestseller_colored_by_humor.html

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IN STOCK - Star Wars Little Golden Books All Star Wars Little Golden Books will feature a custom gold spine that includes popular characters from the Star Wars universe. These books will introduce young readers to the iconic film series that ranks among the top five highest-grossing film franchises of all time, and will be welcome additions for adult collectors and fans. On September 1, 2015, Random House will release a boxed set of the six initial Star Wars Little Golden Books titles.

You can find ordering info in today’s SHOWCASE, or just give us a

call or shoot us a note to order any/all of these titles STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE by Courtney Carbone; Illustrated by Heather Martinez (ISBN 9780736435420 $4.99)

STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES Illustrated by Ethen Beavers (ISBN 9780736435468 $4.99) STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH by Geof Smith; Illustrated by Patrick Spaziante (ISBN 9780736435406 $4.99) STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE by Geof Smith; Illustrated by Caleb Meurer (ISBN 9780736435383 $4.99) STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK by Geof Smith; Illustrated by Chris Kennett (ISBN 9780736435444 $4.99)

STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI by Geof Smith; Illustrated by Ron Cohee (ISBN 9780736435482 $4.99) On sale September 1, 2015 BX-THE STAR WARS LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK LIBRARY-6 Books (ISBN 9780736434706 $29.94)

For ordering info on all the above titles, visit our Showcase page at – https://orders.bookazine.com/BOOKAZINEBITS-AUGUST-13TH-2015-TITLE/44/bookazine3/show-list-sc