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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, June 14, 2019

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From My Shelf

• Art in Books: I Know What I Like

Book Candy

• Roots of Some State Names

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Walt Whitman
• Father's Day: Books to Read Aloud

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Donna Has Left the Building
  • The Islanders

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Man of the Year
  • Joe Country
  • Sleepless Summer

• Romance

  • Fix Her Up

• Biography & Memoir

  • All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters
  • The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation--A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy

• Social Science

  • The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

• Nature & Environment

  • Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants

• Children's & Young Adult

  • Camp Tiger
  • Zenobia July
  • Girl of the Southern Sea

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, June 17, 2019

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Quotation of the Day

• Neighborhood Bookstore 'Is Somewhat of a Hybrid Model'

News

• Bookstore Sales Rise 6% in April
• B&N Sale: Deadline Passes Without Competing Bid
• The Bookloft in Great Barrington, Mass., Relocating
• Naomi Wolf's Outrages Postponed, Recalled
• Obituary Note: Bill Loverd

Notes

• Image of the Day: MacFarlane & Lopez
• A Favorite Bookseller Moment: Greedy Reads
• Personnel Changes at Simon & Schuster
• Bookshop Marriage Proposal: Strand Book Store
• Book Trailer of the Day: Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Louise Aronson on Fresh Air
• On Stage: To Kill a Mockingbird

Books & Authors

• Awards: Walter Scott and RSL Encore Winners
• Reading with... Susan Jane Gilman

Book Review

• Review: Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019: Maximum Shelf: The Great Pretender

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Maximum Review

• The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

The Writer's Life

• Susannah Cahalan: Misunderstanding Mental Health

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Wednesday, May 1 Dedicated Issue: Norton Young Readers

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Editors' Note

• Norton Young Readers

Books & Authors

• Simon Boughton: Creating an Identity and Telling a Story
• David Shannon: When All You Have Is a Hammer...
• Rex Ogle's Free Lunch
• Major Upcoming Titles