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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, March 28, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  • Twist
  • Tilt
  • The Girl from Greenwich Street: A Novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America's First Murder Trial
  • Kate & Frida
  • One Good Thing
  • The Evening Shades
  • Counterattacks at Thirty

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Once Was Willem

• Romance

  • Our Dear Miss H. Is on the Case

• Graphic Books

  • ★  Cry When the Baby Cries

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  Sucker Punch
  • ★  Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
  • There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts
  • The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
  • How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

• Political Science

  • Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare

• Social Science

  • A Better Ending: A Brother's Twenty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death

• Science

  • Feminism in the Wild: How Human Biases Shape Our Understanding of Animal Behavior

• Nature & Environment

  • ★  Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Newborns: How Baby Animals Come into the World
  • ★  A Catalog of Burnt Objects
  • When We Ride
  • Catty Corner Lands on Her Feet

The Writer's Life

• Jeff Chu: Cultivating a Theology of Compost

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: John Feinstein

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, March 28, 2025

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News

• WH Smith Sells High Street Stores, to Be Rebranded TG Jones
• Random House's Kate Medina to Retire in June
• AAP Sales: Down 0.7% in January
• Bookworm & Vine, Myrtle Beach, S.C., Rebrands, Relocates
• In Bloom Bookery Opens in Temecula, Calif.
• Obituary Note: Margaret Taylor

Notes

• Image of the Day: Jersey Booksellers Turn Out for Coben's Nobody's Fool
• Reese's Spring YA Book Club Pick: Heiress Takes All
• Bookseller Dog: Chloe Cannoli at Bridgeside Books
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan and Holt
• Book Trailer of the Day: I See You've Called in Dead

Media and Movies

• TV: The Testaments

Books & Authors

• Awards: Dylan Thomas Shortlist
• Reading with... Dennis E. Staples

Book Review

• Review: The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success

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Tuesday March 25, 2025: Maximum Shelf: To the Moon and Back

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Maximum Review

• To the Moon and Back

The Writer's Life

• Eliana Ramage: Personhood Isn't Static

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March 4, 2025 Dedicated Issue: Sourcebooks and Jeffrey Mason Launch Hear Your Story Imprint

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Editors' Note

• Bridging Generations Through Storytelling: Jeffrey Mason’s Hear Your Story® Series Finds a New Home with Sourcebooks

Books & Authors

• A Personal Quest to Understand: How One Son’s Curiosity Sparked a Global Movement
• A New Chapter: Expanding the Mission with Sourcebooks
• The Power of Entrepreneurship and Agility
• Looking Ahead: Expanding the Vision