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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, August 21, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • The Song of Stork and Dromedary
  • Sea of Charms
  • Queen Mab
  • Runner

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  Freyja

• Romance

  • The Roman Holiday Rule

• Graphic Books

  • ★  The Nightingales

• Biography & Memoir

  • Unsayable: A Life in Writing

• History

  • ★  Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Created Europe
  • Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir

• Nature & Environment

  • I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Hungry Forest
  • ★  Still Water: The Wonders of Ponds, Pools, Wetlands, and More
  • All the Queens' Curses
  • Outline
  • Just Another Summer

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Afsheen Farhadi

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Keigo Higashino

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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News

• PRH's Skip Dye Receiving BISG's Sally Dedecker Award for Lifetime Service
• Grand Opening Set for the Dog-Eared Book, Edenton, N.C.
• International Update: Booksellers Association Restructures; Goldsboro Books Opens Store in Malaysia
• B&N Opening Stores Today in Ky. & Calif.
• Obituary Note: John Rousmaniere

Notes

• Image of the Day: Traci Saulsberry at Charis Books & More
• Kona Stories Weathers Storm for Delayed Bookstore Romance Day
• 'A Customer Walks in While You're Making Social Content'
• Bookseller Moment: Hills & Hamlets Bookshop
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins

Media and Movies

• Film: Donnie Darko Sequel Book in the Works

Books & Authors

• Awards: Desperate Literature Short Fiction Winner
• Reading with... Hannah Whitten

Book Review

• Starred YA Review: Like Glass

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Monday August 17, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Fortune and Glass

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Maximum Review

• Fortune and Glass

The Writer's Life

• John Mutter: Beyond History Books

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July 2, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

Books & Authors

• VIZ Media: The Gateway to the West for Japanese Storytelling
• The VIZ Media Timeline: 40 Years of Shaping Global Pop Culture
• Upcoming VIZ Media Titles