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July 19, 2023

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Read-Alikes for The Collector by Daniel Silva | LibraryReads 
By Elizabeth Eastin, Vicki Nesting, and Allie Williams 
For patrons waiting to get their hands on the top holds title of the week, LJ and LibraryReads suggest read-alikes by Grace D. Li, Lee Child, and Keigo Higashino. 
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Prepub Alert

By Barbara Hoffert

  • From Armstrong to Yamashita: Mystery Previews, Feb. 2024, Pt. 1 
  • From LatinoLand to Multiple Conversations on Race: Current Issues, Feb. 2024, Pt. 1 
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Crown, Cloak, and Dagger


Fascinating and fast-paced, Crown, Cloak, and Dagger demonstrates that the British monarch continues to be far more than a figurehead. This book will inform as well as entertain anyone with an interest in history, espionage, and the royals
 

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Book Pulse

By Kate Merlene and Sarah Wolberg

  • The 2023 New England Book Awards Finalists 
  • Barack Obama Thanks America’s Librarians 
  • The Collector by Daniel Silva Tops Holds Lists 
  • Poet Minnie Bruce Pratt Dies at 76 
  • Shortlist Announced for Waterstones 2023 Debut Fiction Prize 
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This Week’s New Starred Reviews

By LJ Reviews 

  • Eichler, Jeremy. Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. Knopf. 
  • Page, Elliot. Pageboy: A Memoir. Flatiron.
  • Wan-suh, Park (text) & Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (illus.). The Naked Tree. adapted by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Drawn & Quarterly. 
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LGBT Magazine Archive, Collection 1 | eReview

By Gricel Dominguez 
ProQuest’s LGBT Magazine Archive is ideal for researchers studying LGBTQIA+ history, for it contains well-established and hard-to-find content from significant LGBTQIA+ magazines published in the United States and the UK from the mid-20th through the 21st centuries. 

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The Rolling Stone Archive | eReview 

By Rob Tench 
The Rolling Stone Archive is for lovers of popular music, personalities, and cultural newsmakers of the last 50 years. There’s also something for researchers of non-music content that relates to history, politics, and social conditions. 

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Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics | eReview 

By Sarah Hashimoto  
Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics offers students and researchers an engaging entry into robust scholarship and innovative thinking in contemporary aesthetics. This user-friendly resource should have a place in academic libraries. 

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Revolution and Protest Online, ProQuest | eReview 

By James Rhoades 
Revolution and Protest Online provides access to excellent primary resources, but there is room for improvement in terms of usability and accessibility. 

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State Papers Online Colonial: Asia (Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei), Part 1 | eReview 

By Sarah Hashimoto 
The first installment in Gale’s four-part State Papers Online Colonial series offers researchers unprecedented access to primary-source documents that reflect Britain’s complex history of trade and governance in East and Southeast Asia. 

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Ethnographic Sound Archives Online | eReview 

By Michael Rodriguez 
ProQuest’s Ethnographic Sound Archives Online database contains more than 6,000 audio recordings that are ideal for libraries wanting to offer a vast collection of world music, oral storytelling, and ambient sound. Ethnomusicologists can utilize these materials in their college-level courses. 

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