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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, August 21, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Afsheen Farhadi

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Keigo Higashino

Book Review

• Fiction

  • The Song of Stork and Dromedary
  • Sea of Charms
  • Queen Mab
  • Runner

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Freyja

• Romance

  • The Roman Holiday Rule

• Graphic Books

  • The Nightingales

• Biography & Memoir

  • Unsayable: A Life in Writing

• History

  • Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Created Europe
  • Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir

• Nature & Environment

  • I Have This Thing for Flowers: Essays on the Roots of Relationships

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Hungry Forest
  • Still Water: The Wonders of Ponds, Pools, Wetlands, and More
  • All the Queens' Curses
  • Outline
  • Just Another Summer

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, August 21, 2026

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News

• Whispering Pines Bookstore Opens in Pennington, N.J.
• Society House Books and Cafe Debuting This Fall in Valdosta, Ga.
• Kinokuniya Adding Bookstore in Haltom City, Tex
• Gwaltney Named Exec Director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center 
• Obituary Note: Eddie Bell 

Notes

• Image of the Day: Tayari Jones at Story & Song
• Bookseller Dog: Hollie at Pig City Books
• Personnel Changes at HarperCollins
• Bookshop Delivery Guy Shoutout: Janke Book Store

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Naima Coster on Good Morning America
• TV: The Ministry of Time

Books & Authors

• Awards: New Adult Book Shortlist
• Reading with... Archer Sullivan

Book Review

• Review: Château Reverie

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Monday August 17, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Fortune and Glass

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Maximum Review

• Fortune and Glass

The Writer's Life

• John Mutter: Beyond History Books

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July 2, 2026 Dedicated Issue: Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating VIZ Media's 40th Anniversary

Books & Authors

• VIZ Media: The Gateway to the West for Japanese Storytelling
• The VIZ Media Timeline: 40 Years of Shaping Global Pop Culture
• Upcoming VIZ Media Titles