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Fiction Anna Bright Is Hiding Something Susie Orman Schnall. Sparkpress. $17.95 paper (344p), ISBN 978-1-68463-252-7; $9.49 e-book, ISBN 978-1-68463-253-4 Amazon Multibillion-dollar tech CEO Anna Bright has kept her fraud a [...]

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS [??] EDITOR'S PICK Black Justice: The Awakening David Washington | Washington Comix 108p, trade paper, $21.99, ISBN 979-8-218-18350-9 This rousing superhero debut and origin story boasts [...]

FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Pallbearers of Thanksgiving Milo Savich | Unwritten History, Inc. 92p, trade paper, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-7374709-3-9 'Dey're actin' like dey can get away wid anything,' a [...]

POETRY [??] EDITOR'S PICK May We Learn from the Earth: Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment Robert J. Tiess 280p, trade paper, $14.99, ISBN 979 8-986-17954-4 Tiess's second collection [...]

ROMANCE [??]EDITOR'S PICK The Christinas Letters Jenny Hale | Harpeth Road Press 264p, trade paper, $12.99, ASIN B0B9T4YTR2 Hale (The Summer House) delivers a warmhearted Christmas romance in this upbeat [...]

The article focuses on Cleaver Magazine's commitment to showcasing work by emerging writers and artists, defining "emerging" as young artists under 30 or those in the early stages of their careers. Topics include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction pieces published in various issues, highlighting the diverse voices and talents of emerging artists featured in Cleaver Magazine.

The article presents a list of books of various genre and categories including Tinderbox, The Moonstone Girls and A Dog's Devotion.

SELF-HELP The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity Artika S.Tyner | American Bar Association 122p, trade paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-1- 641-05865-0 Tyner's forward-thinking management guide encourages readers [...]

The article offers suggestions on keeping creative well filled if one is looking for personal reflection on story-starting launchpads for fiction, nonfiction or professional organization in writing life. Topics discussed include consideration of Valentine's Day meaning to one as a child, updating copyright year adding clips and re-evaluating one's rates and writing about memorable spring holiday.

Briefly Noted Elizabeth Finch, by Julian Barnes (Knopf). The title character of this cerebral novel is an enigmatic professor whose personal papers are inherited, after her death, by the narrator, [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Triumph of Elly [...]

FICTION POP FICTION Austin, Emily. We Could Be Rats. Atria. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781668058145. 256p. $27.99. POP FICTION Bestselling Austin (Interesting Facts About Space) returns with a story about the [...]

ABRAMS It's Hard to Be a Baby by Cheryl B. Klein, illus. by Juana Medina (Oct. 8, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-4197-6733-3), celebrates the challenges, changes, and cheers that come with being [...]

THE REVIEWS TEAM at SLJ is just starting to put together committees for this year's Best Books list, our annual much-anticipated selection of the titles that spoke to us, sang [...]

FROM DEBUTS BY NEW VOICES to the latest work by beloved authors, our starred 2024 books thus far offer something for everyone. There are stories of intergenerational bonds, with a […]

September's paperbacks arrive with a new-term feeling. Non-fiction dominates in the month's submissions, meaning plenty of new topics to be enthralled by. Subjects range from Bollywood cinema (Sunny Singh's A [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER The Poison Dart: A Debbie Bradley Mystery Geri L. Dreiling 314p, e-book, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-7350303-2-6 Dreiling plunges readers into the heartland fentanyl epidemic in the gripping second installment of [...]

FICTION When the Tamarind Tree Blooms Elaine Russell | Belles Histoires 398p, e-book, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-7324994-9-2 Russell (author of Across the Mekong River) gracefully captures the fraught atmosphere of 1931 [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 66 selfpublished titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER [??] EDITOR PICK. Fatal Harvest: A Hunter and Tate Mystery Brenda Chapman | Ivy Bay Press 332p, e-book, $6.99, ISBN 978-0-9784284-9-5 Chapman's gripping, emotionally resonant third Hunter and Tate [...]

FICTION Marriage and Hanging Genevieve Morrissey 290p, e-book, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-7351096-9-5 Inspired by a notorious real 19th century case, Morrissey (author of the Antlands science-fiction series) delivers an engrossing murder [...]

MEMOIR EDITION'S PICK Unbroken Optimist Kofi Douhadji | FlyingWings 175p, e-book,$14.99, ISBN 978-1-7376243-2-5 This heartening memoir tells us what diligence and optimism can achieve in the face of seemingly insurmountable [...]

HERE IN THE NORTHEAST, IT FEELS LIKE IT started raining in January and never stopped--which is another way of saying summer can't come soon enough. While we wait for the [...]

MEMOIR EDITION'S PICK And Always One More Time: A Memoir Margaret Mande 11 | Atmosphere Press 146p, e-book, $16.99, ISBN 979-8-89132-149-6 Mandell stuns with a riveting debut memoir chronicling her [...]

Inclusion and play seem to be the watchwords for this roundup. Disabilities are no longer a spotlight feature in dozens of board books we combed through, but simply part of […]

FICTION EDITION'S PICK Lack of Moral Fibre Helena P. Schrader | Cross Seas Press 72kp,e-book, $1.99, IASIN B09HJ97DT2 In her Bridge to Tomorrow series, novelist and World War II historian [...]

42 Terrible Humans: The World's Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight To Bring Them Down Patrick Alley An insight into the world's worst warlords, grifters and kleptocrats who can be [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Delusion T.O. Paine | Dark Swallow Books 426p, e-book, $3.99,ASIN 80CNY7MPC9 Paine (The Abduction) spins a first-rate thriller that serves as an incisive metaphor for [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS EDITOR'S PICK Naked: The Confessions of [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. POETRY [??] EDITOR'S PICK Skies of Blur Elijah [...]

This season's slate of notable debut fiction draws on Native American and Igbo lore; Chinese numerology; class divisions in London, Rio de Janeiro, and Berkeley, Calif.; familial strife; and reparations. [...]

Almost a third of longlistees for this year's Booker Prize are Irish novelists. The reason? A strong literary tradition and an investment in literary culture, according to James Shapiro, a [...]

Over the course of 25 years, the Spirituality+Health community has gathered quite the library. Our contributors have published dozens of their own books, and we've had the opportunity to feature [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 66 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

The Call of the Wild (1903, by Jack London) Kidnapped from a comfortable life, Buck the dog is forced to labor on the trail to and from the Klondike goldfields [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt [??] indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt [??] indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK Jean Ross Justice: On [...]

MYSTERY Alexander, Tasha. A Cold Highland Wind. Minotaur: St. Martin's. (Lady Emily Mysteries, Bk. 17). Oct 2023.304p. ISBN 9781250872333. $28. Downloadable, MYSTERY/HISTORICAL Vacationing with her family at Cairnfarn Castle, the [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 91 selfpublished titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. SF/FANTASY/HORROR [??]EDITORS PICK The Way of Unity Sarah [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

ABBEVILLE Stars of Major League Baseball by Craig Calcaterra (Mar. 28, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-7892-1459-1) compiles profiles of 28 current players, action photos, and key stats. Ages 8-12. ABLAZE Family Time [...]

This announcement section offers readers a selected preview of notable new titles for young-adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring or summer 2023 seasons. [...]

In Our fourth annual books preview, LJ presents 400+ titles in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The aim is to capture top titles and top trends, and the authors here--literary stars, [...]

ANNIE ERNAUX'S LATEST Ernaux, Annie. Look at the Lights, My Love. Yale Univ. (Margellos World Republic of Letters). Apr. 2023.96p. tr. from French by Alison L. Strayer. ISBN 9780300268218. pap. [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt (*) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

This time last year I was writing about the impact of Covid, the continuing climate emergency and the fracturing of previously held ideas about how the world works, particularly in [...]