Shelf Awareness for Readers

Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly consumer-facing publication featuring adult and children's book reviews, author interviews, backlist recommendations, and fun news items, is being published today. Starred review highlights include Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku, the "sharply insightful, bitingly funny, wondrously poignant" story of a woman's search for true love and acceptance through cosmetic surgery; Beep by Bill Roorbach, the madcap adventure of a Costa Rican squirrel monkey determined to save the planet from environmental collapse; and the "mischief-rich, briskly rhyming fairy tale" picture book Into the Goblin Market, which presents a quick-thinking farm girl contending with enchanted adversaries. Also, Philip Witte and Rex Hesner offer their savvy analysis of New Yorker-style gag cartoons in Funny Stuff. In The Writer's Life, It's Elementary author Elise Bryant remembers playing Little Women with her classmates, and the YA novel that prompted her to begin writing her own. Plus, rediscover late Irish author Edna O'Brien, whose work "played an important role in transforming the status of women across Irish society."

Today's issue of Shelf Awareness for Readers is going to more than 690,000 customers of 251 independent bookstores. Stores interested in learning more can contact our partnership program team via e-mail. To see today's issue, click here.

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