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August 23, 2023

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Read-Alikes for After That Night by Karin Slaughter | LibraryReads 
By Laura Bovee, George Lichman, Yvonne Selander, and Jennifer Winberry 
After That Night by Karin Slaughter is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes by Kia Abdullah, Tana French, and Wendy Walker for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. 
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Prepub Alert

By Barbara Hoffert

  • Literary Fiction: Reckonings, Today and Tomorrow, Mar. 2024, Pt. 2 
  • Literary Fiction: Small-Town Worlds, Mar. 2024, Pt. 2 
  • Literary Fiction: Reimagining Literary Figures, Mar. 2024, Pt. 2 
  • Literary Fiction: Layered with History, Mar. 2024, Pt. 2 
  • Current Issues, Mar. 2024, Pt. 2 
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SPONSORED BY NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS

 

Home Is Here: Liberation Is Co-created


A guide to living the Engaged Four Noble Truths from Rev. Liên Shutt: antiracist practices for wholeness, healing, and collective liberation for readers of Be the Refuge, The Way of Tenderness, and Radical Dharma.

 

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Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene and Sarah Wolberg

  • American Book Award Winners Include Lifetime Achievement for Maxine Hong Kingston 
  • The German Book Prize Announces Longlist 
  • After That Night by Karin Slaughter Tops Holds Lists 
  • Author Michael Lewis Speaks Out on The Blind Side Controversy 
  • Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
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This Week’s New Starred Reviews

By LJ Reviews 

  • Hill, Kashmir. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest To End Privacy as We Know It. Random. 
  • Neville, Aaron. Tell It Like It Is: My Story. Hachette. 
  • Macadam, Heather Dune & Simon Worrall. Star Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s Paris. Citadel. 
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SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

 

The History of Down Syndrome and the Fight for Disability Justice


Thomas W. Pearson examines his experience as the parent of a child with Down syndrome through the lens of Margaret Mead's evolving relationship to disability. Mead would become an advocate for disability rights and call on anthropology to embrace a wider understanding of humanity that values diverse bodies and minds.  

 

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University of California Press

’Tis the Season for Romance 

By LJ Reviews 
Stock the shelves now with these wintry holiday romances featuring Christmas, the winter solstice, Hanukkah, and Ramadan. 

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Christmas in August | Yuletide Mysteries 

By Lesa Holstine and Neal Wyatt 
Prepare for December demand with these Christmas mysteries in which the Queen of England investigates, a bookbinder suspects a Scottish librarian, and a Regency-era widow is snowed in with a murderer. 

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The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon | SFF Debut of the Month 

By Ashli Wells 
Guanzon brings a fresh voice and vivid world into the fantasy landscape, and this story will be incredibly popular. Readers will look forward to the next book in this new trilogy. 

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Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello | Mystery Debut of the Month 

By Lesa Holstine 
Based on the true unsolved case of Dot King’s death and told from multiple viewpoints, this page-turner of a story with tentacles reaching from Broadway to the White House exposes the influence of money and power. 

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Thank You for Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz | Romance Debut of the Month 

By Jenny Kobiela-Mondor 
Katz successfully portrays how romance meets real life in this terrific debut. 

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