June 7 is National Cancer Survivors Day and June is Child Abuse Awareness Month—honor both occasions with The Pink Project, a charity photobook that has raised money for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) and the Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance (LABCA) since its publication in 2007.
Undead and Unwelcome is the eighth book in MaryJanice Davidson’s Undead series, which follows suburban vampire queen Betsy Taylor. In this outing, Betsy takes the body of her werewolf friend to Cape Cod and wonders how the werewolf clan there will receive her. At the same time, back home, her half-sister is starting to act very strangely.
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) and author Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves) present The Strain, the first novel in their Strain Trilogy, in which a vampiric virus infects New York and threatens to spread across the globe. CDC doctor Eph Goodweather and former professor Abraham Setrakian join a small group of people who are scrambling to stop the virus. The book will be published on Tuesday, June 2.
Hogan and del Toro will discuss the book at the Union Square Barnes & Noble on Thursday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m.; visit the B&N event page for details.
Below, watch a video of del Toro discussing the trilogy and trailers for the The Strain; click the widget to browse inside the book.
Singer/actress Vanessa Williams will visit the Columbus Circle Borders on Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00 p.m. to promote and autograph her upcoming album, The Real Thing, which contains original jazz- and Brazilian-influenced songs. Attendee priority will be given to fans who purchase the album at that Borders on the day of the event. Visit the store’s event page for details.
Williams plays Wilhelmina Slater on ABC’s Ugly Betty; click below for a video and a photo of her on the show.
Looking to unload some of your books and get ones you’ve had your eye on? Try BookMooch.com, where you can exchange books with people all over the world. There is no cost to join; you only pay for the shipping of your book.
Each time you give a book away, you receive a point that you can use toward obtaining a book from another site member. You can also arrange to give your points to one of the charities Book Mooch works with so someone else can receive new books.
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