Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include Final Cut by comics legend Charles Burns, whose surreal graphic novel depicts teens' creative experimentations with storytelling through film; Rift in Time by lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh, who poignantly blends family history with hope for the future of Palestine; The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel, who "paints a human portrait not of an isolated genius, but of a woman who existed in and built scientific community"; and Nose to Nose by Thyra Heder, a "smart, funny, and playful picture book" about "a massive canine misunderstanding."
In The Writer's Life, translator and novelist Anton Hur discusses his work on Korean author Sung-il Kim's epic high fantasy, a genre Hur had never worked in previously but quickly grew to adore as he "focused on creating the right author's voice in English." Plus, rediscover the late Lore Segal, "a virtuosic and witty author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America."
Today's issue of Shelf Awareness for Readers is going to 635,000 customers of more than 250 independent bookstores. Stores interested in learning more can contact our partnership program team via e-mail. To see today's issue, click here.