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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 18, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Open, Heaven
  • The Wildelings
  • Six Days in Bombay
  • The Seven O'Clock Club
  • The Mademoiselle Alliance
  • Barbara
  • The Imagined Life
  • The Influencers
  • The Eights

• Mystery & Thriller

  • One Death at a Time
  • Dissolution
  • The Guilt Pill

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye

• Romance

  • Say You'll Remember Me

• Political Science

  • Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

• Reference & Writing

  • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

• Poetry

  • ★  A Little Daylight Left
  • ★  Is This My Final Form?
  • ★  Little Mercy: Poems
  • Wrong Winds

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Meet Me at Blue Hour
  • ★  Nahia
  • On Again, Awkward Again
  • Rabbit Rabbit
  • How to Talk to Your Succulent

The Writer's Life

• Amy Gerstler: Poetry as the Most Protean of Art Forms

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Mario Vargas Llosa

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, April 18, 2025

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News

• Grand Opening Set for Snowfort Bookstore in Westport, N.Y.
• Hodgepodge Books & Taps Coming to Eugene, Ore.
• Downtown Book & Toy, Jefferson City, Mo., to Be Sold
• International Update: IPA's Prix Voltaire Shortlist; Soma Nami, Nairobi's Pan-African Bookstore
• Obituary Note: Clive Wilmer

Notes

• Image of the Day: Chu and Taylor at Novel Books
• Sales Floor Display: TidePool Bookshop
• Chalkboard: Cottage Book Shop
• Bookseller Moment: Athena Books
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Joy-Ann Reid on Fresh Air
• TV: Imperfect Women

Books & Authors

• Awards: Publishing Triangle Winners; Donner Shortlist
• Reading with... Brooke Williams

Book Review

• Review: The Incandescent

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Friday April 11, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Italopunk

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Maximum Review

• Italopunk: 145 Recipes to Shock Your Nonna

The Writer's Life

• Vanja van der Leeden: Reinvigorating Italian Cuisine

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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