| Community Life at the Library | Editorial By Hallie Rich Perhaps one of the truest versions of life in America’s small and rural communities can found each day in their public libraries, where residents connect. |
| Call for Nominations | LJ Movers & Shakers 2025 The editors of Library Journal need your help in identifying emerging talents in the library world—both great leaders and behind-the-scenes contributors who are providing inspiration and model programs for others. Our 23rd annual round of Movers & Shakers will profile up-and-coming individuals from around the world who are innovative, creative, making a difference fighting against censorship, and helping improve their workplace. From librarians and non-degreed library workers to publishers, vendors, coders, entrepreneurs, reviewers, and others who impact the library field—Movers & Shakers 2025 will celebrate those people who are moving all types of libraries ahead. Deadline to submit: October 18, 2024 |
| Kirkus Prize Finalists Are Announced | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The Kirkus Prize finalists are announced. Tracey Slaughter wins the Moth Short Story Prize. Time previews the most anticipated books of this fall. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for Hannah Grace’s buzzy book Daydream. Leonard Riggio, founder and longtime head of Barnes & Noble, has died at the age of 83. |
| Call for Nominations | LJ Librarian of the Year 2025 The LJ editors are seeking nominations for the 36th annual Library Journal Librarian of the Year Award, sponsored by Baker & Taylor, to honor a professional librarian for outstanding achievement and accomplishments reflecting the loftiest service goals of the library profession. Deadline to submit: October 23, 2024 |
| Christianity Today Book Award Winners | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg Winners of the Christianity Today Book Awards and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards are announced. National Book Awards longlists will be announced between September 10 and 13, finalists will be announced October 1, and winners will be announced November 20. Bookshop.org launches a buy-back scheme for second-hand books that will pay royalties to the authors. Plus new title bestsellers. |
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Love Prodigal, by Traci Brimhall, is a starred poetry selection. "Brimhall follows up Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod with a deep plunge into the pain of love lost through divorce and the slow scramble to recovery.... Brimhall addresses life’s everyday suffering in astonishing language that will attract a wide range of readers. Highly recommended." The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens, by Laurent Bouzereau, is a starred nonfiction selection. "Bouzereau persuasively shows readers the substance behind De Palma’s style while revealing how he connected to these films as a young gay man." And in romance, Lightning in Her Hands, by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, is a starred selection. "This sequel to Gilliland’s first romance, Witch of Wild Things, is sure to be just as popular." See All Reviews››› |
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