Brilliant way to get a taste of some exciting new books.Especially interested in 'The Child Finder' and 'The Road to Bittersweet'

On Amazon. Name "hardworker". Loved it and I want to read several of the books. Love the excerpts!

Brilliant! Helps to define exactly which books I want to read/request.

Does what it says on the tin! Great book on finding out whats new and what you can review with direct links to Netgalley author books :)

Looking forward to Fall 2017 reading!! So many great books on the list, and I'm particularly looking forward to debut authors.

There are so many good upcoming books - loved reading the excerpts - now I just need more time in my day!

As always I enjoy getting these previews from NetGalley. I found a few books that I can't wait to read and pass along my recommendations to others!

Another great variety of upcoming titles. I am looking forward to many of these!

Really nice written book on up-coming new releases and title this fall. Helps plan my fall reading list and must read titles!

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Want to know what’s making a noise in publishing? Check out the Buzz Books editions when they’re released. Heaps of excerpts from fiction by established authors to debut fiction as well as plenty of non-fiction selections.

Each piece has an introduction with a summary or publisher’s blurb with a basic description of the book followed by the excerpt itself, which can be anything from a few pages to a lengthy chapter. The better you’re hooked, the more likely you are to look for it, of course! Some have a direct link to NetGalley to which you can connect from a Kindle to make a request, although I find it a lot easier to do online.

There were several books that appealed to me, and many have been reviewed on Goodreads already. I'll leave you to find the blurbs there. Here are a couple by established authors.

I’m looking forward to The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld. We watch Naomi begin her search.

” Naomi always began by learning to love the world where the child went missing. It was like carefully unraveling a twisted ball of yarn . . . each missing place was a portal.”

And I can see why Celeste Ng's new Little Fires Everywhere is getting a lot of attention.

Another that looks like fun is Robin Sloan’s Sourdough. Sloan wrote one that many readers loved, including me, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, (which I reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1544737663).

Then there is the debut fiction offering. Many looked good – here are a few I will look for. Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo has already been nominated for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK, so I’ve added that to my reading list.

A.F. Brady's book The Blind looks intriguing. A psychologist who treats patients nobody else will deal with comes up against a mysterious case, and it looks like gets pretty scary. Gary, who is assigned as her partner, reckons he will get this uncooperative, non-talking, ex-con mental patient to confide in him because he's going to "talk to him like a man." Says it's not rocket science, but Sam wouldn't understand because she's not a man. Looks to me like Gary's riding for a fall.

And I liked the introductory chapter to The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, which begins with a woman watching across the street as a wife welcomes a contractor into her house and into her bedroom after her husband leaves for work. The woman pervs on them a while and then sees the husband return home for something he’s forgotten. But like a good nature photographer (or journalist?) she can’t interfere, just observe. She goes back and forth as the deceitful couple disrobe, piece by piece, and as the husband gets closer to the front door, step by step . . .

And I can’t resist Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance. Bill is widely known for his non-fiction environmental books and articles and his founding of 350.org. I think his first fiction is going to fit in nicely and may attract a whole new audience.

The opening chapter has local activists arranging the detour of a Coors beer truck so they can temporarily hijack it and swap the “imported” beer with local brews to promote local goods. Mind you, they’ve made the driver a lovely picnic lunch to keep him happy while they let down his tires so he can’t drive off while they empty all the Coors bottles.

”’Hey lady This is going to take forever—I’ve got twelve hundred cartons in the truck. Why don’t you just toss them over the side and let me go?’

The woman looked up at him from above a draining carton of beer. 'This is Vermont. We RECYCLE.’

Then they pump up his tires again and off he goes to New York with the microbrew on board!

Sounds like my kind of book.

There are many non-fiction selections, and one that could be interesting is Amy Tan’s Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir. I’ve enjoyed some of her novels, and I’m aware that her Chinese heritage has played a big part in her upbringing and life.

She begins by saying she was recognised as an especially talented artist in her youth. Although very accurate at portraying likenesses and drawing things, she had no imagination, according to her art teacher! But she was so good, a piano teacher offered her free piano lessons in exchange for teaching his daughter to draw.

She was insulted (who wouldn’t be?) by her art teacher’s criticism, but when she discovered her talent for writing, the light dawned. She certainly does have imagination, and it shows in her writing in ways she couldn’t express herself with her drawing. It promises to be an interesting book.

Thanks to NetGalley and Publishers Lunch for the preview copy from which I’ve quoted. It’s still available on NetGalley as I write this. [My Goodreads review includes the current covers of the books I've mentioned.]
The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Blind by A.F. Brady
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
Radio Free Vermont A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben
Where the Past Begins A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan

As expected, a great collection of upcoming books, that made my TBR significantly bigger.

Another wonderful installment in the Buzz Books series from Publishers Lunch. I rely on these editions to guide me to up-and-coming authors and new books from some of my favorite authors and add to my reading list this fall. This Fall/Winter 2017 edition offered a great selection of titles and excerpts which stood me in good stead at BookExpo. I was able to obtain advance copies of many of my favorite selections from this book.

You don't have to be in the publishing industry to access this book — it's available as a free e-book on Amazon, and can help any avid reader learn more about high profile books coming out this fall.

Based on the excerpts in Buzz Books, these were the standout books I’m most excited about reading:

* The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
* Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
* Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
* Caroline by Sarah Miller
* Sourdough by Robin Sloan
* The World of Tomorrow by Brendan Matthews
* The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
* The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey
* The Child Finder by Rene Denfield
* Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
* Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak
* Happiness by Heather Harpham
* The Spectrum of Hope by Gayatri Devi
* Love is Not Enough by Mark Manson

Buzz Books: Fall/Winter 2017
By Publishers Lunch from NetGalley
Exclusive excepts from 40 books yet to be published

These Buzz Books are such a wonderful teaser to Books you want to add to your TBR bookshelf. Just enough of an excerpt to grab your interest.

Here are some of the books I found interesting. The books are arranged under their genre as they are in the book.

Biographies/Memoirs
We Are Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union (November 2017). A touching look into the life of a person who will achieve fame and success. It's a reminder that not all celebrities are born but raised with determination to overcome the hardest obstacles.

Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan
The author provides a thoughtful reflection on her life as a writer. Originally focusing on her artistic talents, she realizes it does not provide "an unexpected reckoning of my soul." She describes her Chinese American heritage and its influence on her writing. An eloquently written memoir by a memorable author.

Fiction
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
(2018)
Varya is the oldest of the four Gold children in 1969. She is 13 years old when she takes her siblings to seek advice from a "rishika" or seer about their future.

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
(November 2017)
The author of The Round House, writes another touching novel about the struggles of a young pregnant woman. Four months pregnant, Cedar Hawk Songmaker is desperate to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe American Indian living on the reservation.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
(September 2017)
The Richardson family watch as firefighters extinguish the fire engulfing their home. Everyone was accounted for except for the youngest daughter, Izzy. Who was responsible for setting the fires? Was it Izzy who was rumored to be a "lunatic" or were they overlooking the timely departure of renters who left that morning?

I am so excited for a few of the books! I really appreciate the staff who puts these amazing guides together for us.

I love Buzz Books because it's a risk-free way to try books I usually shy away from. Even though I usually avoid scary reads The Blind by A.F. Brady is just my thing - a psychological suspense written by a licensed, honest-to-goodness psychotherapist. Sold!

This has become the most valuable resource in planning reviews for my blog. If you read and review books, download this one!

Good list of all upcoming autumn and winter books - can't wait for them!!!!

I love when I get a new Buzz Book to read. Thank you, NetGalley and Publishers Lunch for always hooking me up with these previews. This time around the books I most look forward to reading are Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land and Caroline by Sarah Miller (OMG A LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE BOOK?! YAYAYAY!)

I love Buzz Books by Publisher's Lunch! They are a wonderful compilation of excerpts of books for the upcoming season and they give me a chance to see what's on the "buzz" list, sample new authors, and see new offerings from favorite authors. They also give me a chance to decide what I want to read in the upcoming months.

Always a pleasure!! Many thanks to NetGalley and Publishers Lunch for making this compilation available to me.