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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, June 13, 2025

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From My Shelf

• In This Issue

The Writer's Life

• Mae Marvel: Tender, Loving Spies

Book Candy

• Book Candy

Great Reads

• Rediscover: Frederick Forsyth

Staff Recommendations

• The Woman in Suite 11
• Finding Grace
• Vera, or Faith
• Hot Girls with Balls
• Peculiar Gift of July
• Mean Moms
• Wayward Girls
• Italopunk: 145 Recipes to Shock Your Nonna
• Terror at the Gates
• Karen's Ghost: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #11)
• Daybreak Volume One

Book Review

• Fiction

  • The Listeners
  • Mansion Beach
  • So Far Gone
  • Food Person
  • The Girls of Good Fortune
  • Flashlight
  • Only Smoke
  • Notes on Infinity
  • Cat Fight
  • Far and Away
  • Aftertaste

• Mystery & Thriller

  • One Final Turn
  • My Father Always Finds Corpses
  • The Backwater

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me

• Romance

  • Battle of the Bookstores
  • If I Told You, I'd Have to Kiss You
  • It's a Love Story

• Social Science

  • Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder

• Health & Medicine

  • How to Sleep Like a Caveman: Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night's Rest

• Children's & Young Adult

  • Dream for the Land
  • Amelia, if Only
  • The Village Beyond the Mist
  • This Moth Saw Brightness

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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News

• Book Love Bar Building Community in Ypsilanti, Mich.
• Golden Hour Books in Newburgh, N.Y., Relocates
• Dennis Lloyd New Association of University Presses President
• Ci2025: Children's Bookselling 101
• Obituary Note: Norma Swenson

Notes

• Image of the Day: Green Apple Hosts Ocean Vuong
• Bookshop Video: 'By Popular Demand, Our New Sections!'
• Bookseller Moment: Rakestraw Books 
• Book Trailer of the Day: Qreative Evolution

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Larry Charles on Fresh Air
• Movies: The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Books & Authors

• Awards: Walter Scott Historical Fiction Winner

Book Review

• Review: The Grand Paloma Resort

The Bestsellers

• Top-Selling Self-Published Titles

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Tuesday June 10, 2025: Maximum Shelf: I Am You

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Maximum Review

• I Am You

The Writer's Life

• Victoria Redel: Our Obsessions Reveal Themselves

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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