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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, April 25, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Maika & Maritza Moulite and Justine Pucella Winans: Final Girls and Zonbis

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Peter Lovesey

Staff Recommendations

• Bad Nature
• Cook Once, Eat Twice: Time-Saving Recipes to Help You Get Ahead in the Kitchen
• Deadstream
• Fishflies
• Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping's China
• Meet Me at Blue Hour
• Is This My Final Form?
• Little Daylight Left: Poems

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Mỹ Documents
  • I See You've Called in Dead
  • Plum
  • The Colony

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Homicide in the Indian Hills
  • Murder by Cheesecake
  • Fair Play

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Gifted & Talented
  • Eat the Ones You Love

• Biography & Memoir

  • John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
  • Restaurant Kid: A Memoir of Family and Belonging
  • The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
  • Godstruck: Seven Women's Unexpected Journeys to Religious Conversion
  • Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer

• History

  • Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War

• Social Science

  • There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put

• Nature & Environment

  • The Trees Are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests
  • Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling

• Performing Arts

  • SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Brian Wilson

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Reel Wish
  • The Corruption of Hollis Brown
  • Plight of the Pelican: How Science Saved a Species
  • Candle Island
  • Changing Tides

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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News

• Sourcebooks' Dominique Raccah: 'We Face Existential Questions'
• New Owners at Quimby's Bookstore, Chicago, Ill.
• 'Parklet' in Front of Rough Draft Bar & Books, Kingston, N.Y., Destroyed
• Toronto's Mabel's Fables Bookstore Launches Fundraiser for Relocation 
• Obituary Note: Jane Gardam

Notes

• Cool Idea of the Day: 'Book Prom'
• Sales Floor Display: 'Gift Ideas for Moms, Dads, & Grads'
• Personnel Changes at Macmillan
• Book Trailer of the Day: Beach House Rules

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Jeremy Renner on the View
• Movies: She Started It

Books & Authors

• Awards: Oregon Book Winners
• Reading with... Patrick O'Dowd

Book Review

• Children's Review: Graciela in the Abyss

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Tuesday April 29, 2025: Maximum Shelf: Welcome to Murder Week

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Maximum Review

• Welcome to Murder Week

The Writer's Life

• Karen Dukess: Secrets and Seeing

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April 15, 2025 Dedicated Issue: Tiny Reparations Books Celebrates Five Big Years

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Editors' Note

• Tiny Reparations Books Turns Five

Books & Authors

• Executive Editor Emi Ikkanda Toasts the Fifth Anniversary of Tiny Reparations Books
• Founder Phoebe Robinson on Tiny Reparations Books
• Tiny Reparations Books Through the Years
• Tiny Reparations Books Partners with Little Free Libraries, Indie Bookstores, and Social Influencers Across the Country