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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, November 22, 2024

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  The Bishop's Villa
  • ★  The City and Its Uncertain Walls
  • ★  An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth
  • Eleanore of Avignon
  • Sister Deborah
  • Christmas with the Queen

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Grey Wolf
  • A Case of Matricide
  • All's Fair in Love and Treachery

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Improvisers

• Romance

  • The Muse of Maiden Lane

• Food & Wine

  • Very Good Bread: The Science of Dough and the Art of Making Bread at Home

• History

  • Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
  • The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

• Social Science

  • More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working

• Essays & Criticism

  • ★  How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

• Nature & Environment

  • What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

• Art & Photography

  • The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography

• Poetry

  • Water, Water: Poems
  • Unmoored: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Still Sal
  • ★  We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord
  • ★  How We Share Cake
  • Knight Owl and Early Bird
  • Drawn Onward

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... August Clarke

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Elizabeth Nunez

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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Editors' Note

• Happy Thanksgiving!

News

• Booksellers Ready for Indies First/SBS
• Seattle's Third Place Books: How to Help After the Storm
• Ownership Change at Black Garnet Books, St. Paul, Minn.
• Left on Read Coming to Wichita, Kan., November 30
• AAP Sales: 2.4% Gain in September, Trade Slips 0.9%
• Obituary Note: Andy Rubin

Notes

• Image of the Day: Weinberger's The Gonif at Readers' Books
• Bookstore Video: 'Santa's Friend' Mac Barnett Visits Quail Ridge
• Chalkboard: Barrier Island Books & Art
• Bride-to-be's Timed Shopping Spree

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Michael Owen on Fresh Air
• This Weekend on Book TV: The Litquake Festival

Books & Authors

• Awards: Blackwell's, Foyles Books of the Year
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites
• Reading with... Richard Smith

Book Review

• YA Review: What the Woods Took

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Shelf Awareness for Monday, November 25, 2024

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Maximum Review

• The Queen of Fives

The Writer's Life

• Alex Hay: Big Houses and Bad Families

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August 13, 2024 Dedicated Issue: Abrams Celebrates Three Milestone Anniversaries

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating Three Milestone Anniversaries at Abrams

Books & Authors

• Abrams CEO McAveney: 'We Honor Our Legacy and Look Forward to the Future'
• Abrams 'Essentials' and a Visual History
• Abrams: 75 Years of Perfecting 'The Art of Books'
• Abrams Children's Books: 15 Years Old and Still Growing
• Abrams ComicArts: Continuing to Expand the Genre
• New Titles for Fall '24