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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 Thursday, March 5, 2026

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News

• Wi2026: Author Events and Censorship
• Steerforth Press Now Imprint of Pushkin Press US
• Ink & Page Book Boutique, Overland Park, Kan., to Close 
• Memorial Scholarship Fund Launched to Honor Bookseller Gee Gee Rosell
• Obituary Note: Rose Lesniak

Notes

• Image of the Day: Haley Pham at the Strand
• This Week's Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers
• Bookstore Winter Weather Update: Book Shop of Beverly Farms
• Personnel Changes at Chelsea Green

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Annie Leibovitz on CBS Mornings
• Movies: Fake Skating

Books & Authors

• Awards: Ockham NZ Book, NZ Booklovers Shortlists
• Attainment: New Titles Out Next Week
• IndieBound: Other Indie Favorites

Book Review

• Review: Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: AI & Bookselling Q&A--'I Don't Know the Title, But It Has a Red Cover'

The Bestsellers

• Top Book Club Picks in February

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Wednesday March 4, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

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Maximum Review

• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The Writer's Life

• Ben Reeves: Life and Death and Empathy

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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