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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 16, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Read the World A to Z with Christine Swedowsky of World Editions

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Jeffrey Archer

Maximum Shelf

• Fortune and Glass
• John Mutter: Beyond History Books

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Every Story Is a Love Story
  • Fail Sons
  • Mother Tongue: Immersions and Other True Stories
  • Music Against the Night

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Find Me Where It Ends

• Biography & Memoir

  • Will and Attention: A Memoir
  • Death of an Ordinary Man

• History

  • The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age

• Essays & Criticism

  • The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society

• Pets

  • Animals Taught Me Everything

• Children's & Young Adult

  • Puma Concolor: In Search of Patagonia's Wild Pumas
  • Robin and the Moon
  • The House of Gardenias
  • Mia's Cheetah
  • Brontosaurus Is Back!: A Dinosaur's Name and Return to Fame
  • The Lost Three

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, October 20, 2026

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News

• PRH Two-Day Holiday Transit Plan for Indies Returns
• Parchment & Potions Opens in Prattville, Ala.
• Charlie's Queer Books, Seattle, Wash., Expanding
• New Material Books in Kansas City, Mo., Closing Next Month
• B&N Opening Stores in Mass., Ga., & Calif.

Notes

• Image of the Day: The House Built on Alligator Bones at Story & Song
• Cool Idea: 'Make Your Landlord Read for Story Club Day!' 
• Chalkboard: Bookmarks
• Book Trailer of the Day: Narcissi

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: David Treuer on Fresh Air
• Movies: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Books & Authors

• Awards: Premio Planeta Winner

Book Review

• Review: The River Drowns the Able Swimmer

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Thursday October 15, 2026: Maximum Shelf: Human Again

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Maximum Review

• Human Again: The Lost Art of Being Alive

The Writer's Life

• Dr. Chris Cleave: Regaining Our Humanity

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Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, September 8, 2026

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Editors' Note

• Celebrating Skyhorse Publishing's 20th Birthday

Books & Authors

• Skyhorse's Two Decades of Scrappy, Steady Growth
• Skyhorse and Politics
• A Big Big Book for Skyhorse: A Table for Fortune
• The Many Faces of Skyhorse
• Upcoming Skyhorse Titles