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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 10, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Like This, but Funnier
  • ★  Inheritance
  • ★  The Last Letters of Sally and Walter
  • The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
  • American Fantasy
  • Tailbone

• Mystery & Thriller

  • The Survivor

• Romance

  • Dog Person

• Biography & Memoir

  • What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?: A Memoir and a Murder Investigation

• Social Science

  • London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Fruitcake: A Graphic Novel
  • ★  Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp
  • ★  Baseball's Shining Season: America's Pastime on the Brink of War
  • ★  Piper at the Gates of Dusk
  • How to Be Normal
  • Hmong: A Graphic History

The Writer's Life

• Scott Kurtz and Emily B. Martin: Fantastical Origins

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Alexander Kluge

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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News

• Pennington's Hosts Grand Opening Celebration in Chattanooga, Tenn.
• Shop Around the Corner Books, Redding, Calif., Relocating
• Blackstone Launches Whoopi Goldberg's WhoopInk Imprint
• Ewelina Oksiuta New European and International Booksellers Federation Director
• At Sourcebooks, Two Major Personnel Changes
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast

Notes

• Image of the Day: The Book Stall Hosts Andrew McCarthy
• Chalkboard: Sandmeyer's Bookstore
• Bookseller Moment: The Wandering Page Bookstore Cafe
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Second Act Advantage

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Mark Kurlansky on Here & Now
• TV: Southern Bastards

Books & Authors

• Awards: Stella Shortlist

Book Review

• Review: The Unicorn Hunters

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Thursday April 2, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Plant Lady

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Maximum Review

• Plant Lady

The Writer's Life

• Minyoung Kang: Green and Red, Plants and Blood

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April 14, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Celebrating Binc's 30th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Binc: 30 Years of Book People Caring for Book People

News

• Binc: An Amazing History
• The Binc 30th Anniversary Gala
• Binc Gala Speakers and Honorees
• How Binc Helps: Two Examples