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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, May 20, 2022

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  Adult Assembly Required
  • ★  Antipodes
  • This Time Tomorrow
  • The Perfect Golden Circle
  • The Lost Summers of Newport
  • Metropolis
  • All the Lovers in the Night

• Mystery & Thriller

  • My Summer Darlings

• Romance

  • Something Wilder
  • Birds of California

• Graphic Books

  • The Third Person

• Biography & Memoir

  • Reading the Water: Fly Fishing, Fatherhood, and Finding Strength in Nature
  • Coming Up for Air

• History

  • ★  Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, & Revolution in the Borderlands
  • Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex

• Political Science

  • Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War

• Health & Medicine

  • Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics

• Reference & Writing

  • ★  Translating Myself and Others

• Now in Paperback

  • Oh William!
  • Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Ghosts of Rose Hill
  • ★  Angry Me
  • I'm Not Missing
  • Big Truck Little Island
  • Alina in a Pinch

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Chantal V. Johnson

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Maximum Shelf

• With Prejudice
• Robin Peguero: Exposing What's There

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Larry Woiwode

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, May 20, 2022

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News

• Bliss Books & Wine, Kansas City, Mo., Opening Delayed By Liquor License Red Tape
• 1,300+ Children's Book Authors Condemn Book Banning
• NVNR Day 2 Author Dinner: 'Look Who's in Town'
• The SCBWI Impact and Legacy Fund Launches
• Cottonwood Books, Baton Rouge, La., Closes
• Obituary Note: Jim Murphy

Notes

• Image of the Day: 'Goodnight Moon'--in Space!
• 'Welcome, Recent Graduates, to the World of Reading for Fun'
• Personnel Changes at Hachette Book Group
• Book Trailer of the Day: Alaska Is for the Birds!

Media and Movies

• Stan Lee 'Returns' to Marvel Studios 
• Movies: Catherine, Called Birdy

Books & Authors

• Awards: Orwell Shortlists
• Reading with... Isabel Cañas

Book Review

• Review: Night of the Living Rez

Deeper Understanding

• Robert Gray: Caddie Lessons for Booksellers

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022: Maximum Shelf: One Hundred Saturdays

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Maximum Review

• One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

The Writer's Life

• Michael Frank: On Being Open to the World

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Wednesday, May 11 Dedicated Issue: Quirk Books Celebrates Turning 20

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Editors' Note

• Happy 20th Birthday, Quirk Books!

Books & Authors

• A Welcome from Founder Dave Borgenicht
• Big New Titles on the Way
• Quirk Books's All-Time Biggest Titles
• Thanking Booksellers, Librarians and Readers for 20 Great Years