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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 9, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  I Am Clarence
  • ★  The Bright Years
  • My Name Is Emilia del Valle
  • The Words of Dr. L and Other Stories
  • Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation
  • Twelve Post-War Tales
  • Girls with Long Shadows
  • The Original Daughter
  • Eleven Percent
  • All the Signs

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
  • Coram House

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
  • The Elimination: A Survivor of the Khmer Rouge Confronts His Past and the Commandant of the Killing Fields
  • Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

• Political Science

  • Wonder City: How to Reclaim Human-Scale Urban Life

• Social Science

  • Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

• Nature & Environment

  • Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless

• Parenting & Family

  • ★  The Family Dynamic: A Journey Into the Mystery of Sibling Success

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Invisible Wild
  • ★  Frank's Red Hat
  • At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom
  • His Face Is the Sun

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Katy Hays

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Andrew Gross

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, May 9, 2025

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Quotation of the Day

• Bookshop's Andy Hunter on 'Stealing a Crumb from the Giant's Mouth'

News

• Trump Fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
• Expresso Books and Beans Opens in Holland Township, Mich.
• Amazon Book Sale Could Overlap Independent Bookstore Day Again
• USPS Unveils Goodnight Moon Stamps at the Rabbit hOle in North Kansas City, Mo. 

Notes

• Image of the Day: Boston's Porter Square Books Launches Romantic Friction
• Reading Group Choices' Most Popular April Books
• Chalkboard: Athena Books
• Bookseller Moment: Loyalty Bookstores
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Fredrik Backman on All Things Considered
• Movies: Anxious People

Books & Authors

• Awards: Sarton, Gilda Winners 
• Reading with... Danielle Teller

Book Review

• Review: The Möbius Book

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Thursday May 8, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Guilty by Defintion

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Maximum Review

• Guilty by Definition

The Writer's Life

• Susie Dent: Learning New Words Every Day

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April 15, 2025 Dedicated Issue: Tiny Reparations Books Celebrates Five Big Years

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Editors' Note

• Tiny Reparations Books Turns Five

Books & Authors

• Executive Editor Emi Ikkanda Toasts the Fifth Anniversary of Tiny Reparations Books
• Founder Phoebe Robinson on Tiny Reparations Books
• Tiny Reparations Books Through the Years
• Tiny Reparations Books Partners with Little Free Libraries, Indie Bookstores, and Social Influencers Across the Country