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On Thursday of last week, my wife met me at the door with a look on her face that I knew meant something had gone very, very wrong. “What is it? What happened??” I inquired. “It’s…the TV.” She shook her head, and I knew. For the sake of an entertaining blog post, you can now […]Read more "A Death in the Family, Amazon’s Virtual Currency, and Other Internet Junk"

Recognize the finch? It’s one of the famous Darwin finches, which he collected on his voyage to the Galapagos Islands in the 1830s. As a result of that voyage, and from observations of those birds and other animals on the islands, Charles Darwin began to put together a groundbreaking theory that would explain the scientific […]Read more "Shaking the Foundation"

Congratulations, Beth! You’ve won our new Pop Culture Bios: Action Movie Stars series from Lerner Publications! Email us at publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” to tell us your mailing address and we’ll get your books in the mail faster than the paparazzi can take a new picture of the Twilight cast! This week we’re hitting the field […]Read more "Free Book Friday!"

I’m pleased to introduce Jon Fishman, Lerner’s manager of reprints, on the Lerner blog today. Not only does Jon deftly deal with anything and everything on Lerner’s reprint list—he’s also a talented writer and our resident sports expert to boot! Here’s Jon. In my opinion, this is the absolute best time of year to be […]Read more "On Springtime, Sports, and Carmelo Anthony"

In addition to being the author of Sex & Violence, Carrie Mesrobian maintains a very funny Tumblr I’m not supposed to read: But I do read it. I like the formula: 1. Find a picture of an attractive man. (The Internet haz these.) 2. Add a caption where he says something implausibly sensitive, solicitous, and/or […]Read more "Conversations with her fake boyfriend"

Three cheers for GeoLibrarian! You’ve won Millbrook Press’s You’ve Got Spirit: Cheers, Chants, Tips, and Tricks Every Cheerleader Needs to Know. Email us at publicityinfo@lernerbooks.com with the subject line “Free Book Friday” to tell us your mailing address, and you’ll be cheering all the way to the mailbox! This week’s Free Book Friday is action packed as we giveaway our […]Read more "Free Book Friday"

Full disclosure: As a child, I was bored out of my mind by science. And math. And the computer classes I took in high school as my sole available alternative to Advanced Home Ec. Throughout the years of my primary and secondary education, these subjects didn’t simply go over my head: They never made me […]Read more "A Breathtaking View…of Science at its Most Spellbinding"

Our intrepid (and history-loving!) intern, Eliza Leahy, is back with more thoughts to share. Take it away, Eliza!I’ll admit it. I’ve been called an “old soul” once or twice in my life. Example one: Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books were great companions to me in my childhood. As I read them, I found myself […]Read more "Learn from the Past, Embrace the Present"

Aaaaaah, I have to admit I don’t have books and publishing trends on the brain today because of the, um, weather. We at Lerner Publishing Group are finally bidding a more than fond farewell to winter! With the recent sky-blue sunny days here, with temperatures well above freezing, we’ve all packed away our parkas and […]Read more "Coming out of Hibernation"