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LJ Talks to Horror Writer Gabino Iglesias

By Becky Spratford

LJ talks with Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home, about publishing, reading, and book classification.

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Prepub Alert

By Barbara Hoffert

  • Fall 2022 Poetry Preview 
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Star Wars Everyday: Activities, Recipes, and Crafts

 

Ashley Eckstein offers a guide to party planning, crafting, and cooking inspired by Star Wars! Filled with fun ideas that bring the galaxy far, far away into your life everyday, like an Ewok Bird House, Yoda Punch, Death Star Pinata, and a Cloud City Dinner Party with a side of betrayal.

 

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Book Pulse

By Anita Mechler and Kate Merlene

  • Ann Shin Wins Trillium Book Award
  • The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager Tops Holds Lists
  • Ruth Ozeki Wins the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
  • James Beard Book Awards Announced
  • Manitoba Book Awards Announced; Andrew Roberts Wins the Elizabeth Longford Prize
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Read-Alikes for The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager

By Marianne Fitzgerald, Beth Mills, Kelly Verheyden, and Sandra Woodbury

The House Across the Lake, by Riley Sager (Dutton), is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

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This Week’s New Starred Reviews

By LJ Reviews 

  • Len & Cub: A Queer History by Meredith J. Batt & Dusty Green (Goose Lane)
  • Nothing But the Truth by Holly James (Dutton)
  • This Might Be Too Personal: And Other Intimate Stories by Alyssa Shelasky (St. Martin’s Griffin)
  • Girl, Forgotten by Karin Slaughter (Morrow)
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Books for Browsers | Reference Round-Up

By Etta Verma

Public and academic libraries alike can benefit from books that draw both browsers and researchers looking for quick facts. Many of the recent and upcoming titles listed offer that versatility, compellingly and factually covering everything from objects carried on the famed Silk Roads to the United States Constitution.

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Watch and Read Garden TV | The Reader’s Shelf

By Neal Wyatt

A bit oddly for an undertaking that demands working with one’s hands, gardening turns out to be a wonderful pastime on TV, and, less surprisingly, within the pages of books, where writers such as Jane Austen and William Shakespeare have set scenes in gardens. The following books celebrate the TV-ness of gardening, four written by garden TV hosts and one by a TikTok star.

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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era | Reference eReviews

By Rob Tench

This database contains thousands of primary documents from 1870 through 1920, sourced from eight archives and libraries. It is an outstanding resource for general researchers, scholars, and students of late 19th and early 20th-century American history, culture, and society.

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ProQuest Black Studies | Reference eReviews

By Michael Rodriguez

This groundbreaking research database brings together ProQuest’s rich array of African American studies content from a wide range of sources, including scholarly journals, historical newspapers, encyclopedias, dissertations, and archival materials totaling around 10 million pages. Researchers of all levels will appreciate the database’s powerful search, user-friendly design, and extensive scholarly and archival content.

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