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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, January 30, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Grant Faulkner

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Fern Michaels

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Talking with Boys
  • When the Museum Is Closed
  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World
  • Hemlock
  • Escape!

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Missing Sam
  • The Quiet Mother
  • A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death

• Romance

  • Greta Gets the Girl

• Biography & Memoir

  • Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

• History

  • Carthage: A New History

• Social Science

  • The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy

• Children's & Young Adult

  • What a Small Cat Needs
  • Better the Devil
  • Freddie and Stella Got Hot
  • Eureka

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, January 30, 2026

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Quotation of the Day

• 'Time for Us to All Stand Up Together'

News

• Dudley's Bookshop, Bend, Ore., Adding Second Location
• Rough Draft Bar & Books, Kingston, N.Y., Damaged by Burst Pipes
• Binc Awards Scholarships to ComicsPRO Industry Meeting
• Cynthia Leitich Smith: 2026 Michael L. Printz Award Winner
• The Collective Book Studio Launches Tiny Torch Books Imprint
• Obituary Note: Ellen Mager

Notes

• Image of the Day: Saunders Launches Vigil with a Brooklyn Crowd
• Cool Idea: Walking Tour for Booksellers
• Video: Bookselling on Bridgerton Season 4 Release Day
• Great Moments in Bookselling: 'Introducing Our New Shelving Cart!'
• Personnel Changes at the Tor Publishing Group

Media and Movies

• TV: Outlander, the Final Season

Books & Authors

• Awards: Audie Finalists; Wingate Literary Winner
• Reading with... Yah Yah Scholfield

Book Review

• Review: Visitations: Poems

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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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January 15, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Jesus Calling

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Editors' Note

• Jesus Calling: Spreading the Word

Books & Authors

• Jesus Calling Finds a Growing, Grateful Audience
• Superstar Jesus Calling Guests: Anne Lamott, Terry Bradshaw, Reba McEntire
• Sarah Young (1946-2023)