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Shelf Awareness: Enlightenment for Readers for Friday, October 23, 2020

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From My Shelf

• Take a Seat at the Writer's Desk

Book Candy

• Speaking English, American Style

Maximum Shelf

• Tami Charles and Bryan Charles: A Gift for Those Who Come After Us
• All Because You Matter

Book Review

• Fiction

  • Plain Bad Heroines
  • Three Little Truths
  • Where the Wild Ladies Are

• Mystery & Thriller

  • They Never Learn

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
  • Attack Surface

• Romance

  • Snapped

• Graphic Books

  • We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe

• Social Science

  • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley

• Essays & Criticism

  • The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books

• Children's & Young Adult

  • The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel
  • On Account of the Gum
  • I Am a Capybara

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Shelf Awareness Pro: Enlightenment for the Book Trade for Monday, October 26, 2020

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News

• NYC's Strand Asks for Help to Stay in Business
• Diamond Book Distributors Offers Indie Holiday Incentive Program
• How Bookstores Are Coping: New Relationships; 95% Online
• International Update: #ShopEarly #Shop Local in Australia, Bookselling in Hong Kong
• Kids' Next List E-Newsletter Delivered

Notes

• Image of the Day: We Have Everything Before Us
• Jeff Kinney's The Deep End 'Drive-Thru Pool Party'
• Vox on Indies: 'How Bookstores Are Weathering the Pandemic'
• Spooky Halloween Prep at Loganberry Books
• Book Trailer of the Day: The Sentinel

Media and Movies

• Media Heat: Marcus Samuelsson on Fresh Air, GMA
• TV: Mayflies

Books & Authors

• Awards: CWA Dagger Winners; Diagram Oddest Title Shortlist
• Top Library Recommended Titles for November

Book Review

• Review: Stillicide

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Thursday, October 15, 2020: YA Maximum Shelf: The Black Friend

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Maximum Review

• The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person

The Writer's Life

• Frederick Joseph: Author, Antiracist, Accomplice to Positive Change

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Monday, October 5 Dedicated Issue: JY

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Editors' Note

• JY

Books & Authors

• A Note from Kurt Hassler, Publisher and Managing Director Yen Press
• JuYoun Lee: Defining and Nourishing Perspectives
• Who Is Svetlana Chmakova to Reject the Sirens' Call?
• A Sneak Peek of JY's Upcoming Fall Titles