Shelf Awareness - Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade

Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for May 17, 2013

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From My Shelf

• Catch a Ride on the Reading Train

Book Candy

• Literary Salons; Book Wine Glass Charms; Books About Siblings

The Writer's Life

• Dwayne Ballen: Autism's Appreciation for the Moment

Book Review

• Fiction
• Love Among the Particles
• The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
• Flora
• Is This Tomorrow
• Pacific
• Mystery & Thriller
• Silken Prey
• Murder as a Fine Art
• Biography & Memoir
• Bad Boy: My Life on and Off the Canvas
• History
• Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
• Sports
• Loopers: A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey
• Children's & Young Adult
• Odd Duck
• The Meanest Birthday Girl
• Criminal

Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for May 17, 2013

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News

• Florida Governor Rejects Amazon Deal
• DIESEL to Open New Store in Larkspur
• Community Bookstore's 'Second Outpost' in Brooklyn
• BookSmart Books and Toys Adds Second Location
• Children's Book Art Online Auction Begins Tomorrow
• Obituary Note: Geza Vermes

Notes

• Breakfast with Booksellers & Hosseini's New Book
• Cool Idea of the Day: E-Books at Author Events
• Skip Prichard New President and CEO of OCLC
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Pocket Scavenger

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Khaled Hosseini on NPR's Weekend Edition
• On Stage: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Books & Authors

• Awards: Orwell; Wolfson History; Commonwealth Writers
• Book Brahmin: Ethan Rutherford

Book Review

• Review: Bad Monkey

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: BEA Etiquette--What Would Edith Do?

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

Monday, May 13, 2013: Maximum Shelf: The Boys in the Boat

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Maximum Review

• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

The Writer's Life

• Daniel James Brown: Rowing Rivalries

Wednesday, May 15, 2015: Dedicated Issue: Algonquin Young Readers

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Editors' Note

• Welcome, Algonquin Young Readers!

Books & Authors

• 'A Well-Read Life Begins Here'
• The Art of Collaboration
• Hollis Seamon: An Extreme Coming-of-Age Story
• Praise for Sara Farizan's If You Could Be Mine
• Book Brahmin: Amy Herrick