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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, February 21, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Snowy Day and Other Stories
  • Lion
  • The Dressmakers of London
  • The Garden
  • Hungerstone
  • Maya & Natasha

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Bones Beneath My Skin

• Graphic Books

  • ★  Les Normaux: Volume One

• Food & Wine

  • ★  Dinner at Our Place: Recipes for Gathering

• Biography & Memoir

  • Memorial Days: A Memoir
  • Who I Always Was
  • Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette

• History

  • Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

• Travel Literature

  • ★  On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer

• Now in Paperback

  • The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers
  • The Other Valley
  • The Fox Wife
  • American Mother: A Life Reclaimed
  • The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Oasis
  • ★  Under the Same Stars
  • What Makes a Bird?
  • Bunny Made Tea

The Writer's Life

• Heinz Insu Fenkl: Translation as a Kind of Method Acting

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Geoff Nicholson

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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News

• Wi2025: Pictures from an Exhibition
• Wi2025: The Legacy and Future of Black-Owned Bookstores
• Quill & Quest Bookstore Debuts in Farmington, N.Mex.
• Slow Burn Books Opening Early March in Garrett, Ind.
• Grand Opening for Inkwell Booksellers Company in Minneapolis

Notes

• Bookstore Wedding: Little Professor Bookshop
• Bookseller Dog: Luna at Chaucer's Books
• Personnel Changes at Abrams Children's Books; Ballantine Bantam Dell
• Book Trailer of the Day: Omniviolence

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Chelsea Handler on the Drew Barrymore Show
• TV: Lucky

Books & Authors

• Awards: SCBWI Golden Kite Winners
• Reading with... Wayne Scott

Book Review

• YA Review: Deadstream

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Wednesday February 19, 2025: Maximum Shelf: This Thing of Ours

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Maximum Review

• This Thing of Ours

The Writer's Life

• Frederick Joseph: Making Readers Feel Seen and Loved

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February 4, 2025 Dedicated Issue: Greenwillow Books's 50th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Happy 50th Birthday, Greenwillow Books!

Books & Authors

• Join Vice President and Publisher Virginia Duncan Under the Greenwillow
• The Crews Family: Nearly 50 Books in 50 Years
• Emma Hunsinger: A Member of the House of Bedelia
• Upcoming Titles from Greenwillow