Sentences with phrase «adult books»

More complete information on audience appropriateness, theme, and content can be found in previous reviews in the Booklist Adult and the Adult Books for Young Adults sections.

Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English - language children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience:

In the year ending in January 2012, the American Association of Publishers reported that e-book sales had risen more than 49.4 % in the adult books category, 475.1 % in the children's and young adult category, and 150.7 % in the religious publications category.5 We at the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project reported that ownership of e-book readers among adults age 18 and older had nearly doubled from 10 % of the population to 19 % over the holiday gift - giving season at the end of 2011, and ownership of tablet computers had surged a similar amount.6 In the final week of 2011 the e-book version of 42 of the top - selling 50 books on USA Today's best - seller book list was outselling the paper version of the same book.7

A book blog focusing on Young Adult books as well as the occasional adult one!

New York Times - bestselling authors Curtis Sittenfeld (Eligible: A Retelling of Pride and Prejudice), John Hart (Redemption Road) and Gayle Forman (Leave Me), who has transitioned from young - adult books to debut her first adult novel.

In a year where Adult Books have shown growth and Childrens / YA hasn't fared as well, Oct. was an unusual month; Adult Books were down 0.4 % and Childrens / YA Books were up 8.1 % compared to Oct. 2014.

Click here to view all the winners, including the Schneider Awards (books that embody an artistic expression of the experience of disability), the Alex Award (the 10 best adult books that appeal to teens), the Stonewall Awards (exceptional books relating to the LGTBQ experience), the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book and more.

Revenue for Trade Books was up 5.0 % in May 2017 compared to last May, with gains in Adult Books, Childrens / YA Books and Religious Presses.

The year - to - date figures, through Oct. 2015 show growth of Adult Books by 2.6 % and a decline in Childrens / YA of 5.3 %

Click here to view all the winners, including the Schneider Awards (books that embody an artistic expression of the experience of disability), the Alex Award (the 10 best adult books that appeal to teens), the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book and more.

There are plenty of young adult books that have crossover appeal — particularly those with adventure and romance.

Much of the growth is attributed to increased revenue in the two of the largest categories — Adult books and higher education course materials.

Growth was consistent in January, February and March for Adult books as were the declines in Children's / Young Adult and Religious Presses.

I think we've all looked with frankly envious eyes at the success of the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, for example, and wished for something on that scale honoring adult books.

Try the Alex Awards, the Young Adult Library Services Association's annual listing of adult books likely to appeal to YA readers, or my own reflections from 2014 about books for in - between age readers.

The categories with the greatest growth in May were Childrens & Young Adult Books (11.8 %) and University Presses (7.3 %).

Click here to view all the winners, including the Alex Awards (the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences), the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Stonewall Book Award (books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience), the Pura Belpre Awards for Latino authors and illustrators and more.

Click here to view all the winners, including the Alex Awards (the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences), the Stonewall Book Award (books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience), the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book and more.

She had to go to library and OK it with that I could check out adult books.

Specializing in sf, fantasy, and young adult books, she has also written reviews for the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books and Library Journal Xpress.

«For trade publishers, 2014 was a blockbuster year — especially in the Childrens and Young Adult Books category; so despite the challenging comps, increased sales in Adult Books helped the industry post gains in 2015,» said Tina Jordan, Vice President of the Association of American Publishers.

Though Hardback Books were up for the month in both Childrens / YA (12.5 %) and Adult Books (4.3 %) categories, they remain down 3.6 % year - to - date compared to 2014.

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She retired as Booklist's Young Adult Books Editor in 2003, but still enjoys reading, writing, talking, and arguing about books — if only part - time.

Alan Moores, former associate editor of the Adult Books section of Booklist, has worked with the magazine for more than 30 years.

This list curates young adult books that exemplify this.

Since leaving Booklist in 2010, former associate editor for Adult Books Ray Olson has continued contributing reviews to the Adult Books department and Booklist Online from his new home in St. Paul, MN, which feels quite comfortable because his apartment building has been in his family longer than he has.

The annotated list is organized topically, following the subject arrangement used in the Adult Books section.

She is the reference librarian for the ALA. [Adult Books]

[Adult Books, Reference]

Stonewall Book Award for children's and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA + experience: Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (Little, Brown) and The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater (FSG)

I think it's pretty cool that Shepard writes adult books (this is her second), since we so often hear about authors going in the other direction — see: Meg Wolitzer, James Patterson, John Grisham, Harlan Coben.

He is in good company, as The Salvatore Collection is situated alongside The Robert Cormier Library, which celebrates the writing career of the co-alum and esteemed author of young adult books.

Nominated and selected by the Adult Books for Young Adults Task Force from fiction and nonfiction published during 1998, this year's winners were chosen as the best based on literary quality, readability, and strength of teen appeal.

She ranges widely across fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, adult books and YA books, always tearing down the artificial distinctions that would separate great books from one another and from readers of all kinds.

He will be joined by representatives from Random House, who will talk about marketing adult books to teens.

Funded by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust, the Alex Awards, which are announced annually in conjunction with National Library Week, honor the top 10 adult books for teenagers published during a calendar year.

So which young adult books are people reading more than ever right now?

Two great lists of books that feature overweight protagonists in young adult and new adult literature are Nerdy Book Club's Top Ten Fat Books and Goodreads» New Adult and Young Adult Books starring a Plus Size Heroine.

Brad Hooper, Adult Books Editor, Booklist; Danise Hoover, Associate Librarian for Public Services, Hunter College Library (New York, NY); A. Issac Pulver, Director, Saratoga Springs Public Library (Saratoga, NY); Nonny Schlotzhauer, Collection Development / Social Sciences Librarian, Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA); Donna Seaman, Senior Editor, Adult Books, Booklist; and Rebecca Vnuk, Editor, Reference and Collection Management, Booklist.

Have you read any good young adult books lately?

(For the adult books I've been reading lately, click here for a quick list.)

I can publish anything related to publishing, writing, book marketing, business, paranormal romance or young adult books.

Under that, are three widgets, one for picture books, chapter books and young adult books.

* Please note that LDLA does NOT represent screenplays, poetry, or illustrated adult books.

For example, an agent might say on her website that she wants «children's books» when she's only interested in picture books and chapter books (and not middle grade or young adult books).

If you write young adult books, try reading a business book; if you write fantasy, jump into a biography occasionally.

Children's writers literary agents interested in young adult books represent many sub-genres such as: mystery, romance, adventure, career, success, etc..

Young adult books can be fiction and / or nonfiction.

We have three reading groups, one in Stockholm, one in York and one in London (they work with the adult books).