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December 20, 2023

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This Week’s New Starred Reviews
By LJ Reviews
  • Ailes, Kat. The Expectant Detectives. Minotaur: St. Martin’s 
  • Bailar, Schuyler. He/She/They. Hachette Go 
  • Dziarski, Roman. How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis. Cherry Orchard  
  • Eig, Jonathan. King. Macmillan Audio
  • Lackey, Mercedes. Valdemar. DAW
  • Streisand, Barbra. My Name Is Barbra. Viking
  • Tate, ReShonda. The Queen of Sugar Hill. Morrow
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Prepub Alert | June 2024 Titles

By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt

  • Biography & Memoir
  • Current Events 
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Science
  • Horror
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Two-Time National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward Discusses Her New Novel Let Us Descend

 

A tale of inherited trauma, but also inherited hope, told in the matrilineal voices of generations of Chinese women.

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Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene and Sarah Wolberg

  • CBC’s Best Canadian Books of 2023 
  • Longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 
  • Cait Corrain Loses Book Deal Due to Goodreads Review-Bombing Scandal 
  • Literary Adaptations Shine in Golden Globes Nominee List 
  • Butcher & Blackbird by Brynne Weaver Tops Holds Lists 
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Wildfires, Vermeer, and Black Professional Baseball | Real Reels 

By Joshua Blevins Peck 
This month’s must-see documentaries include a behind-the-scenes look at Johannes Vermeer, a study of extreme wildfires, and a history of Black professional baseball. 

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9 Can’t-Miss Titles for Your List | Coming Attractions 

By Jeff T. Dick 
Forthcoming DVDs and Blu-rays for every interest, including Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic and Guillermo del Toro’s revisionist take on Pinocchio. 

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In a world of continuously proliferating sources of information, finding and recognizing reliable information has become harder than ever before. To that end, the reference publishers featured here go to great lengths to ensure that the titles and databases they offer are accurate, free of bias, and genuine. 

 

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A Pensive Policier, Pilgrimage, and Lovers on the Lam | Fast Scans 

By Jeff T. Dick 
This month’s top indie and foreign films feature a frustrated yet hopeful detective, pilgrims seeking healing at Lourdes, and two Cameroonian youths making their way in a bleak world. 

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Fascinating Photobooks | Photography Roundup 

By Michael Dashkin 
These photography books illuminate the downtown NYC art scene of the ’70s, an innovator in color photography, peripatetic contemporary street photographers, and Black American studio photographers from the 1850s to the present. 

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Bloomsbury Food Library | eReview 

By Gricel Dominguez 
Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Bloomsbury Food Library enables users to explore niche aspects of food history and their wider implications in historical and sociocultural contexts. 

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Gale Business: Plan Builder | eReview 

By Rob Tench 
Gale Business: Plan Builder effectively helps budding entrepreneurs, experienced business owners, and nonprofits create realistic business plans and analyze their business concepts 

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LJ Reviews+, Prepub Alert, and Book Pulse will return on January 8. Happy New Year! 

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