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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, February 20, 2026

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Rebel English Academy
  • ★  Cleaner
  • ★  The Astral Library
  • This Is Not About Us
  • The Secret of Snow

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Strange Animals
  • The Forest on the Edge of Time

• Romance

  • A Little Buzzed

• Biography & Memoir

  • Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour

• History

  • The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster

• Essays & Criticism

  • Artists & Authors: A Life in Good Company

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Footeprint: Eunice Newton Foote at the Dawn of Climate Science and Women's Rights
  • ★  The Great Escape
  • ★  Some of Us Are Brave
  • Serendipity
  • Sarabeth's Garage

The Writer's Life

• Shelley Puhak: Whispered Horrors

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Suzannah Lessard

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, February 25, 2026

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News

• 'Moments of Grace': A Bookselling Parable
• Wi2026: Reading Is Power
• #Wi2026: 'A Booksellers Dream'
• NAB2 Unveils State of the Black Bookstore Report, National Black-Owned Bookstore Directory
• Obituary Note: Marcella Smith

Notes

• Politics & Prose's Tribute to the Washington Post's Book World
• Snowstorm Update: 'Ski Beacon Hill'
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: The Cranford Bookstore
• Chalkboard: Anthology for Books

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Lisa Rinna on the View, Tamron Hall
• Movies: The Nightingale

Books & Authors

• Awards: International Booker Prize Longlist; PROSE Finalists
• Reading with... Gregg Hurwitz

Book Review

• Children's Review: The House

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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