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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, February 27, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  With the Heart of a Ghost
  • ★  Evil Genius
  • Kin
  • The Reservation
  • The Optimists
  • So Old, So Young
  • Murder Bimbo

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Weavingshaw
  • The Red Winter

• Biography & Memoir

  • Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

• Social Science

  • ★  One Bad Mother: In Praise of Psycho Housewives, Stage Parents, Momfluencers, and Other Women We Love to Hate

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  My Language Is a Garden
  • ★  Hail Mariam
  • ★  Onward: 16 Climate Fiction Short Stories to Inspire Hope
  • Is It Spring?
  • Exca-Gator!

The Writer's Life

• Zohreh Ghahremani and Rashin Kheiriyeh: Welcoming Nowruz

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Rattlebone

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, March 3, 2026

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News

• Wi2026: Bookstores in the Time of Fascism
• Michelle Montague Joins Behrman House as Head of Sales & Marketing
• Binc Names Denver Publishing Institute Scholarship Winner
• Shelf Awareness Presents! Calling Booksellers and Publishers
• Love Y'All Book Fest: 'Romance Can Bring Us Back to a Hopeful Place'
• Obituary Note: Dan Simmons

Notes

• Image of the Day: Dual Launch at Odyssey Bookshop
• Cool Idea: Paper Plane Weekends
• Personnel Changes at Hachette; Sourcebooks
• Book Trailer of the Day: A-MAZE-ING Airport Adventure

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Annie Leibovitz on CBS Mornings

Books & Authors

• Awards: PEN/Faulkner Fiction Finalists

Book Review

• Review: Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

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Wednesday January 21, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Catching Sight

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Maximum Review

• Catching Sight: How a Guide Dog Helped Me See Myself

The Writer's Life

• Deni Elliott: Human and Canine Interdependency

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February 19, 2026 Dedicated Issue: William Morrow's 100th Anniversary

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Editors' Note

• Congratulations, William Morrow!

Books & Authors

• A Century of Publishing Influential and Popular Works
• 'Carrying on the Tradition of Exceptional Publishing'
• Q&A: The Heads of Fiction and Nonfiction on William Morrow