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

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  The Disappointment
  • ★  All the World Can Hold
  • Python's Kiss
  • The Beheading Game
  • Westward Women
  • The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Green & Deadly Things

• Romance

  • Toe to Toe
  • Second Chance Duet

• Biography & Memoir

  • Service Ready: A Story of Love, Restaurants, and the Power of Hospitality

• History

  • The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World

• Poetry

  • ★  A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Heiress of Nowhere
  • ★  The Danger of Small Things
  • ★  Arthur's Cat
  • ¡Viva Valenzuela!: Fernandomania Erupts in Los Angeles

The Writer's Life

• Jung Yun: 'Crises help us see the good more clearly'

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Len Deighton

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

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News

• Little Blue Pigeon Opening April 1 in Denver, Colo.
• Semicolon Books Opening in Bethlehem, Pa.
• The Yellow House, Tiverton, R.I., Adding Bar & Cafe
• New Leadership Team at the Feminist Press
• International Update: Hong Kong Booksellers Arrested; TG Jones CEO Toal Steps Down
• Applications for Scholastic CI Scholarship Close on Tuesday

Notes

• Image of the Day: Future Relic, Next to Heaven
• Happy 15th Birthday, The Underground Bookshop! 
• Chalkboard: Wonderland Books
• Simon & Schuster to Sell and Distribute Bedford Square Publishers
• Personnel Changes at the Tor Publishing Group

Media and Movies

• On Stage: Primal Fear
• TV: Opposing Counsel

Books & Authors

• Awards: Griffin Poetry Prize Longlist
• Reading with... Casey Scieszka

Book Review

• Review: Memory House

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Wednesday March 4, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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Maximum Review

• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The Writer's Life

• Ben Reeves: Life and Death and Empathy

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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