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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, February 27, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  With the Heart of a Ghost
  • ★  Evil Genius
  • Kin
  • The Reservation
  • The Optimists
  • So Old, So Young
  • Murder Bimbo

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Weavingshaw
  • The Red Winter

• Biography & Memoir

  • Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

• Social Science

  • ★  One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  My Language Is a Garden
  • ★  Hail Mariam
  • ★  Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope
  • Is It Spring?
  • Exca-Gator!

The Writer's Life

• Zohreh Ghahremani and Rashin Kheiriyeh: Welcoming Nowruz

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Rattlebone

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, February 27, 2026

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News

• Wi2026: 'Shifts in the Tide'
• Wi2026: Pictures from Pittsburgh
• Back Again Book Shop, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Opens Second Store, in Surfside Beach
• Edelweiss Launches Discovery Access for Indie & Emerging Publishers
• Tell Me a Story: Fantastic Children's Books from the Library of Congress Released
• Obituary Note: Edward Hoagland

Notes

• BISG Webinar on Bookselling and the Supply Chain This Tuesday
• Storefront Window Art: 'Thinking Spring' 
• Bookstore Cat: Orleans at Left Bank Books
• Bookseller Moment: Fitz Books & Waffles

Media and Movies

• Movies: Losing Earth

Books & Authors

• Awards: Dublin Literary Longlist
• Reading with... B.K. Borison

Book Review

• Review: How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves

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Wednesday January 21, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Catching Sight

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Maximum Review

• Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself

The Writer's Life

• Deni Elliott: Human and Canine Interdependency

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February 19, 2026 Dedicated Issue: William Morrow's 100th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Congratulations, William Morrow!

Books & Authors

• A Century of Publishing Influential and Popular Works
• 'Carrying on the Tradition of Exceptional Publishing'
• Q&A: The Heads of Fiction and Nonfiction on William Morrow