Shelf Awareness - Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade

Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for April 18, 2014

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From My Shelf

• National Library Week

Book Candy

• Bookish Easter Egg Decorating; Steinbeck Quiz

The Writer's Life

• Book Brahmin: Denise Kiernan

Book Review

• Fiction
• Acts of God
• Mimi Malloy, At Last!
• Science Fiction & Fantasy
• The Word Exchange
• Graphic Books
• The Undertaking of Lily Chen
• Food & Wine
• Low and Slow: The Art and Technique of Braising, BBQ, and Slow Roasting
• Land and Wine: The French Terroir
• Biography & Memoir
• Living with a Wild God
• A Farm Dies Once a Year: A Memoir
• History
• The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
• Children's & Young Adult
• Bears in the Bath
• Salvage
• What We Hide
• Poetry
• And Short the Season

Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for April 18, 2014

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Real People Pouring Their Hearts Out'

News

• $64 Million Question: Why Are Big Stockholders Selling B&N?
• Colorado House Passes Sales Tax Fairness Bill
• Upshur Books to Open in D.C.'s Petworth Neighborhood
• Harris Poll: More Americans Reading E-Books
• WBN U.S. Update: NPR Underwriting; NYPL's 7-Author Launch
• Obituary Note: Gabriel García Márquez

Notes

• Image of the Day: Books and a Birthday by the Bay
• Myanmar Publisher/Bookseller/Distributor Wins Laber Award
• James Patterson, Dwyane Wade Go One on One for Reading
• Sarabande Books Opening New York Office
• Book Trailer of the Day: Bad Birthdays

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Lisa Robinson on NPR's Weekend Edition
• Movies: If I Stay; Heaven Is for Real

Books & Authors

• Awards: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Book Brahmin: Alan Cheuse

Book Review

• Review: In the Light of What We Know

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: DIESEL's 'Close Readers of Beautiful Writing'

Wednesday, April 16, 2014: Maximum Shelf: Wonderland

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Maximum Review

• Wonderland

The Writer's Life

• Stacey D'Erasmo: Life's Improvisational Music

Tuesday, February 24, 2014: Dedicated Issue: Grand Central Publishing

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Editors' Note

• Grand Central Publishing

Books & Authors

• A Trio of Tantalizing Tales
• Elise Juska: Family Ties
• Susan Jane Gilman: Sweet Dreams
• Book Brahmin: Jean Hanff Korelitz