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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, July 18, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • Room on the Sea
  • Cheesecake
  • Off Menu
  • If You Love It, Let It Kill You
  • Blowfish

• Mystery & Thriller

  • ★  History Lessons
  • ★  El Dorado Drive
  • Don't Let Him In
  • Shaw Connolly Lives to Tell
  • Death of an Ex

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • The Unkillable Frank Lightning

• Romance

  • When Javi Dumped Mari
  • Let's Make a Scene

• Food & Wine

  • Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from My Palestine

• Biography & Memoir

  • ★  The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris
  • Daughters of Palestine: A Memoir in Five Generations
  • Crossing: A True Story
  • The Place of Tides

• Social Science

  • ★  Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

• Nature & Environment

  • A Field Guide to the Subterranean: Reclaiming the Deep Earth and Our Deepest Selves

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  Spark
  • ★  Millie Fleur Saves the Night
  • ★  Jazzy the Witch in Broom Doom
  • Tyger
  • Beinoni

The Writer's Life

• Delia Pitts: The Power of Listening

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Martin Cruz Smith

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, July 18, 2025

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News

• Liberation Station Bookstore, Raleigh, N.C., to Reopen Next Year
• Spellbound Books Arrives in Eagle Mountain, Utah
• B&N to Open New Bookstore in Abilene, Tex.
• Michelle Aielli Named AWP Executive Director
• Obituary Note: Leah Jordan

Notes

• Image of the Day: Michael Ansara at Harvard Book Store
• Notes from the American Booksellers Association: Wi2026 Planning; Q4 Marketing Calendars
• Bookseller Cat: Coal at From My Shelf Books & Gifts 
• Next Page Books, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mentioned in Stephen King's New Novel

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Aisling Rawle on Good Morning America
• Movies: The Things We Leave Unfinished

Books & Authors

• Awards: George Washington Finalists; Branford Boase Winner
• Reading with... Susan Wiggs

Book Review

• Review: No Ordinary Bird: Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter's Quest for the Truth

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Monday July 14, 2025: Maximum Shelf: The New Age of Sexism

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Maximum Review

• The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

The Writer's Life

• Laura Bates: AI's Dehumanization of Women

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May 14, 2025 Dedicated Issue: The Next Chapter: The Expansion of Poisoned Pen Press Under Sourcebooks

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Editors' Note

• Sourcebooks Expands Poisoned Pen Press

Books & Authors

• How Sourcebooks Built on a Beloved Mystery Imprint and Carried Forth Its Founders' Mission
• Author Spotlights: Fan Favorites and Fresh Voices
• The Next Wave: Bold Voices and Genres
• Looking Ahead: Innovation, Talent, and an Expanding Universe