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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, December 27, 2024

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet
  • The Memory Library
  • The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt
  • The French Winemaker's Daughter
  • I Made It Out of Clay
  • The Champagne Letters
  • All the Other Me
  • On the Wrong Side

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  Gabriel's Moon
  • Knife Skills for Beginners
  • Alter Ego
  • Against the Grain

• Romance

  • ★  The Jewel of the Isle

• Biography & Memoir

  • Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust

• History

  • Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
  • The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

• Social Science

  • ★  Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
  • Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

• Essays & Criticism

  • Vita Nuova

• Philosophy

  • Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story
  • ★  Rocket Puppies
  • The Band in Our Basement
  • Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds: How Plants Made Our World
  • This Is My Brain!: A Book on Neurodiversity

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Nalo Hopkinson

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Nikki Giovanni

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, December 23, 2024

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Editors' Note

• Happy Holidays!

News

• Lovestruck Books Debuts in Cambridge, Mass.
• Hey Darling Romance Bookstore Opens in Austin, Minn. 
• Swoon Books & Wine Opening in Oakwood, Ohio, Next Year
• B&N Opening New Stores in Stamford, Conn., & Naperville, Ill.; Closing in Spartanburg, S.C.
• Veronica Liu Reports on the Guadalajara International Book Fair

Notes

• Image of the Day: Act 4 Books Now Has Three Partners
• POTUS44's Reading List: Obama's Favorite Books of 2024
• Bookstore Marriage Proposal: Red Balloon Bookshop
• Bookseller Dog: Tommy at Epilogue Books
• Bookseller's Christmas Moment: White Whale Bookstore
• Holiday Season Chalkboard: Bards Alley Bookshop

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Ina Garten, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Cher, Venus Williams, Pamela Anderson, and More
• Movies: Wuthering Heights

Books & Authors

• Awards: Order of Canada Appointees
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

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Monday December 16, 2024: Maximum Shelf: Kills Well with Others

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Maximum Review

• Kills Well with Others

The Writer's Life

• Deanna Raybourn: Death Becomes Her

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August 13, 2024 Dedicated Issue: Abrams Celebrates Three Milestone Anniversaries

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating Three Milestone Anniversaries at Abrams

Books & Authors

• Abrams CEO McAveney: 'We Honor Our Legacy and Look Forward to the Future'
• Abrams 'Essentials' and a Visual History
• Abrams: 75 Years of Perfecting 'The Art of Books'
• Abrams Children's Books: 15 Years Old and Still Growing
• Abrams ComicArts: Continuing to Expand the Genre
• New Titles for Fall '24