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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 Monday, June 16, 2025

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News

• Ci2025: 'Community and Camaraderie'
• Ci2025: Samira Ahmed: How Can I Be Brave?
• Tales & Tails Opens in Fredericksburg, Va.
• Obituary Note: Caroline Herter
• Shelf Awareness Delivers Kids & YA Pre-Order E-Blast

Notes

• Image of the Day: Generation Queer at the Curious Cat
• Happy 50th Birthday, Book Soup!
• Personnel Changes at Random House Publishing Group
• Book Trailer of the Day: Climate of Chaos

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Barry Diller on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Movies: Mike Hammer

Books & Authors

• Awards: Women's Fiction, Non-Fiction Prize Winners

Book Review

• Review: Extinction Capital of the World: Stories

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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