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A Mystery Month-full of BTTs continues with the trailer for Revived, by Cat Patrick. Booklist calls the YA mystery “a fast-paced page-turner that explores the familiar moral ground often found at the heart of speculative fiction.” Indeed, we know we’re not dealing with any regular old mystery when the trailer’s narrator, Daisey Appleby, opens with [...]

BTT is kicking off Booklist‘s Mystery Month with a tale as old as time; watch as one of crime fiction’s most notorious families harasses a lowly publisher in the trailer for Ed Falco’s prequel to the Godfather trilogy, The Family Corleone. I don’t know about you, but I’m with snivelly, bespectacled book guy on this [...]

Book trailer hunting yielded a myriad of exciting results this week, truth be told. But then I found the trailer for Cat Daddy by Jackson Galaxy. Redemption story? Tattooed man showing his sensitive side? “Ah-HA!” moment? CATS?! Sorry, every other book trailer in the world. You’ll have to wait until next week, for today we [...]

Comedian and first-time author Dave Hill would probably prefer that I call this one “Incredible Book Trailer Music Video Thursday,” but then again, I would prefer that guy in the back were wearing more than a speedo. Perhaps we’ll call it even then, eh? I first watched this yesterday and I can confirm that “Tasteful [...]

With character names to his credit like “Weird Guy” and “Corny,” it’s no surprise that actor and author Jonathan Chesner seems totally at ease being goofy in front of a green screen to promote ADHD in HD: Brains Gone Wild, his nonfiction book for youngsters. Knowing one’s audience can be the key to, well, everything, [...]

Do you breathe oxygen? Are you a fan of The Hunger Games? Watch this cinematically styled book trailer for National Lampoon’s parody The Hunger Pains and let us know if you are, to borrow phrasing from our reviewer Michael Cart, either “affronted or enchanted.” “I always knew I was gonna kill a bunch of teenagers, [...]

Out in April, Mo Willems’ latest Duckling Gets a Cookie!? apparently ruffled some international pigeon feathers. Click the image below to watch the official newsreel on EW.com. Content not rated. Cookies harmed. “Poop” mentioned. It has certainly been a pigeon-y week here at Likely Stories.

Final prize on Double Dare, or book trailer? If you deduced that the Nickelodeon game show has been off the air for almost 20 years, ergo book trailer this must be, you would not get slimed. Look for Dan Kraus’ review of the forthcoming 172 Hours on the Moon, for YAs and anyone else who [...]

Rachel Maddow’s Drift, which, as Vanessa Bush writes, is “an insightful look at the cost of military vigilance to ideals of democracy,” is reviewed in today’s fresh issue of Booklist, interestingly dedicated to Dick Cheney, and accompanied by a characteristically conversational and engaging trailer.

One morning last week, I was riding my usual bus to work in my usual, pre-8 A.M., low-functioning state when I had a moment of alarming cognitive dissonance. As I scanned my review copy of Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ A Sense of Direction, I wondered why his vague reference to another book was not hyperlinked to the Booklist review [...]