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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, January 27, 2023

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

Best Books Reviewed

• Fiction

  • ★  The Guest Lecture
  • Independence
  • The Seamstress of Sardinia
  • The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

• Mystery & Thriller

  • Regrets Only
  • The Widowmaker
  • The Least Among Us
  • The Other Sister: An Agent John Adderley Novel
  • Secrets Typed in Blood

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • ★  How to Sell a Haunted House

• Romance

  • Exes and O's

• Biography & Memoir

  • Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
  • The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73

• History

  • ★  Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage
  • Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

• Social Science

  • ★  Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage: Towards Egalitarian Ethics and Laws

• Essays & Criticism

  • Best Canadian Essays 2023

• Psychology & Self-Help

  • The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

• Parenting & Family

  • Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

• Art & Photography

  • ★  Tove Jansson: The Illustrators

• Now in Paperback

  • The Perfume Burned His Eyes

• Children's & Young Adult

  • ★  The Minus-One Club
  • ★  Just Like Grandma
  • ★  Border Crossings
  • Gray Fox in the Moonlight
  • Bomb: Graphic Novel

The Writer's Life

• Reading with... Denise Crittendon

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Rediscover

• Rediscover: Victor Navasky

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Friday, January 27, 2023

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News

• MacIntosh Books + Paper Opens Temporary Location in Fort Myers, Fla.
• Annabelle's Book Club L.A. Opens Physical Store
• The Nature of Reading Bookshop Coming to Madison, N.J.
• Sacramento's East Village Bookshop Looking for Buyer or Business Partner
• Obituary Note: Paul La Farge

Notes

• Cool Idea of the Day: Indie Bookstore Postcards, Notecards
• Bookseller Cat Weather Update: Samwise at Twelve Points Book Company
• Personnel Changes at Melville House
• Book Trailer of the Day: Hungry Ghosts

Media and Movies

• Movies: Caste
• On Stage: Room the Musical

Books & Authors

• Awards: National Jewish Book Winners; Dylan Thomas Longlist
• Reading with... Kathryn Ma

Book Review

• Review: Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

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Thursday, January 19, 2023: Maximum Shelf: She Is a Haunting

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Maximum Review

• She Is a Haunting

The Writer's Life

• Trang Thanh Tran: Ghosts Real and Imagined

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022: Dedicated Issue: IDW Publishing

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Editors' Note

• IDW Publishing

Books & Authors

• An Introduction to IDW from Publisher Nachie Marsham
• Stephen Graham Jones and Earthdivers
• Megan Brown Chats YA and Middle-Grade
• Exciting 2023 Titles from IDW