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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, September 23, 2016

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From My Shelf

• Banned Books Week

Book Candy

• J.K. Rowling's Writing Tips

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Shoeless Joe

The Writer's Life

• Daniel Levitin: Tools for Critical Thinking

Book Review

• Fiction

  • The Wonder

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Darktown
  • Daisy in Chains

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Warp

• Biography & Memoir

  • A Woman on the Edge of Time: A Son Investigates His Trailblazing Mother's Young Suicide
  • A Truck Full of Money
  • Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

• Current Events & Issues

  • A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

• Social Science

  • Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Fear, Mock... and Why

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo
  • The Best Man
  • Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

• Reference & Writing

  • The Jane Austen Writers' Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World's Best-Loved Novelist

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, September 23, 2016

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News

• HMH CEO Linda Zecher Resigns
• Politics & Prose, ABA Return to National Book Festival
• Island Bound Bookstore, Still for Sale, Sets Closing Date
• MacArthur 'Genius' Award Authors
• B&N Opens Lindenwood University Store
• 'Emblematic Bookstore' in Athens, Greece, to Close

Notes

• Image of the Day: Dinner on the Prairie
• Changing Hands: 'More than a Bookstore to Readers'
• 'Futuristic Shopping' Includes L.A. Bookstore
• Cool Idea of the Day: Books About Books Club
• Book Trailer of the Day: After the Dam

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Mary Karr on Fresh Air
• TV: The Sinner

Books & Authors

• Awards: Forward Poetry Collection; Taste Canada Food Writing
• Reading with... Una

Book Review

• Review: Float

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016: Maximum Shelf: The Word Detective

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Maximum Review

• The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

The Writer's Life

• John Simpson: More to Language Than We Thought

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016: Penguin Classics' 70th anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Happy Birthday, Penguin Classics!

Books & Authors

• Penguin Classics Celebrates 70th Anniversary
• Classic Penguin: Cover to Cover
• The Penguin Orange Collection
• Penguin Galaxy
• Pelican Shakespeare Series
• The Haunting of Hill House and The Lord of the Flies