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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, September 12, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  These Memories Do Not Belong to Us: A Constellation Novel
  • Something to Look Forward To
  • The Woman Dies
  • What We Left Unsaid
  • Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
  • Mona's Eyes
  • Archipelago
  • Dominion

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  Forget Me Not
  • Too Old for This
  • The Break-In
  • The Heir

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Maiden and Her Monster

• Romance

  • Here for a Good Time

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  A Silent Treatment
  • Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life

• Social Science

  • The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • ★  All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation

• Performing Arts

  • Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
  • Cesar Romero: The Joker Is Wild

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Grave Flowers
  • ★  Sisters in the Wind
  • ★  First Kiss with Fangs
  • Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan for Rewilding Every City on Earth
  • Troubling Tonsils!

The Writer's Life

• Jeannie Vanasco: Projecting Narrative onto Silence

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• The New Age of Sexism
• Laura Bates: AI's Dehumanization of Women

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Patrick Hemingway

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, September 12, 2025

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Independent Bookstores Carry What They Like'

News

• Pocket Books, Lancaster, Pa., Opening Second Location
• The Cozy Book Nook Relocating to Dayton, Ohio
• Teddy's Best Reads Opening in Oxford, Conn., Next Month
• NEIBA: Children's Author Breakfast

Notes

• Image of the Day: Lacey N. Dunham Returns to Politics & Prose
• Chalkboard: Volumes Bookcafe
• Columbia Univ. Press Sales Consortium to Represent Univ. of Pittsburgh Press
• Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks; the future of agency; Simon Maverick
• Book Trailer of the Day: Vanished

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Renée Watson on MSNBC's Velshi Banned Book Club

Books & Authors

• Reading with... Shaka Senghor
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: The Cracks We Bear

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Thursday September 11, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Sea Change

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Maximum Review

• Sea Change: Unlikely Allies and a Success Story of Oceanic Proportions

The Writer's Life

• James Workman and Amanda Leland: Messy, Immersive, and a Little Salty

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May 14, 2025 Dedicated Issue: The Next Chapter: The Expansion of Poisoned Pen Press Under Sourcebooks

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Editors' Note

• Sourcebooks Expands Poisoned Pen Press

Books & Authors

• How Sourcebooks Built on a Beloved Mystery Imprint and Carried Forth Its Founders' Mission
• Author Spotlights: Fan Favorites and Fresh Voices
• The Next Wave: Bold Voices and Genres
• Looking Ahead: Innovation, Talent, and an Expanding Universe