Plus, LJ editors' picks, Book Pulse, display shelves of romantasy and loveable villains, and Jojo Moyes read-alikes
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February 12, 2025

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Prepub Preview | A Year of Titles To Watch
By Barbara Hoffert
As the new year steams into action, the book season gets in full gear as well, greeting spring, summer, and fall with a long list of titles worth noting, from fiction that focuses on a range of contemporary concerns, to nonfiction reminding us that the past is always prologue, to poetry that summons attention.
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Editors’ Spring Picks | Titles To Watch

By LJ Reviews
Zooming in on titles publishing in the next several months, LJ’s Reviews editors explore the many appeals of genre fiction, especially focused on series titles, plus a swath of issue-focused and expansive nonfiction.

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Janette Oke, Author of When Calls the Heart, Releasing New Novel!

For fans of ancient historical fiction and biblical fiction, The Pharisee’s Wife is an inspiring story about a beautiful woman, an ambitious Pharisee, and a nation in turmoil over a miracle-working prophet. The latest from the beloved author of Love Comes Softly will release March 11, 2025.

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Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene and Sarah Wolberg

  • Margaret Atwood To Publish Long-Awaited Memoir
  • Kristin Hannah Previews The Nightingale 10th-Anniversary Edition
  • We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes Tops Holds Lists
  • Jane Austen, Redesigned for the BookTok Generation
  • Winners of UK PEN Translates Awards
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This Week’s New Starred Reviews

By LJ Reviews 

  • Baker, Kylie Lee. Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng. Mira: Harlequin.
  • Gies, Kate. It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished: A Memoir of My Body. S. & S.
  • Janssen, Janine. Les Normaux: A Graphic Novel. Avon.
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SPONSORED BY PLUTO PRESS

 

A ‘Tough Love’ Letter to the Labor Movement


Solidarity Betrayed reckons with the labor movement’s failures on sexual harassment. Ana Avendaño draws on decades of organizing experience to provide a compelling insider’s account of trade unions’ complicity, collusion, victim blaming, and lack of perpetrator accountability.

 

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Pluto Press

Display Shelf | Romantasy

By Melissa DeWild
Readers can’t get enough of romantasy, so stock the shelves with these binge-worthy genre blends.

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Display Shelf | Villains To Love

By Melissa DeWild
The morally gray, villainous characters in these stories are sure to find their way into readers' hearts.

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SPONSORED BY THOMAS NELSON

 

A chat with the author of The Filling Station


Vanessa Miller is a bestselling, award-winning author and playwright. Her writing has been centered on themes of redemption and books about strong Black women in pivotal moments of history. Her latest novel, The Filling Station, tells the story of the horrific 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre from the perspective of two young sisters.


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Thomson Nelson

Read-Alikes for We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes | LibraryReads

By Alisa Stanfield, Janine Walsh, and Alison Zaya
We All Live Here
 by Jojo Moyes is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes by Anissa Gray, Claire Lombardo, and Terah Shelton Harris for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

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