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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 Monday, March 2, 2026

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News

• The 21st Annual Winter Institute: It's a Wrap
• Physical Storefront for Magnolia & Main Books, Ridgeway, Va., to Continue
• Former Tattered Cover CEO Spearman Opens Denver Book Society
• B&N: New Bookstores Opening This Week in Colorado Springs, Chicago
• My Secret Shelves Opens in Pineville, La.

Notes

• Image of the Day: N. West Moss Launch at Watchung Booksellers
• Bookstore Rooftop Wedding: Buffalo Books & Coffee
• Bookseller Cat: Copper at Analog Books
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan
• Book Trailer of the Day: Eggs: All Day, Every Way

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Books & Authors

• Awards: Republic of Consciousness, U.S. & Canada Shortlist; E.U. Literature Shortlist

Book Review

• Starred Review: Screen People: How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

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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