UNC Libraries Release Open Source 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Syllabus 
By Lisa Peet 
The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently released the syllabus of the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, focused on libraries and archives, as an open source interactive PDF. The syllabus was created as part of the multipart Reckoning Initiative at University Libraries.

The Booker Prize Announces Shortlist | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene  
The Booker Prize releases its shortlist. Patricia Smith is awarded the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The shortlist for the 2021 Polari Prize has also been announced. The Omega Sci-Fi Awards launches the Feminist Futures Award to recognize “an outstanding feminist sci-fi story," and StokerCon 2022 announces its guests of honor. 

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Explore Diversity in Religious Studies Teaching with Bloomsbury

Learn more about Bloomsbury Religion in North America, our new digital resource. 3 of our contributors discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion in religious studies as well as how to use this digital resource in courses.

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American Library Association Announces LibLearnX Will Be Virtual
Filed by Gary Price
The American Library Association’s Executive Board announced on September 15 that LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience scheduled for January 21–24, 2022, in San Antonio, TX, will take place virtually.

Literature, Language & the Performing Arts: Nonfiction Previews, Mar. 2022, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert 
Memoir and analysis lead us deeper into the arts. 

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Advances in HTR technology make handwritten documents even more accessible and discoverable

Scanning historical documents and making them available to scholars in digital format holds great promise for increasing the accessibility of primary-source materials. But until now, researchers have faced key limitations in accessing handwritten letters, manuscripts, and other materials online.

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2021 Kirkus Prize Finalists Announced; Liane Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene  
Kirkus announces the finalists for the eighth annual Kirkus Prize. Karen Tei Yamashita is awarded the National Book Foundation Medal. 

Historical Fiction Previews, Mar. 2022, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert 
Sweeping from the Mexican-American War to the Civil War era to World War II. 

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Video Streaming Service Meets Library Patrons’ Multiple Needs for Entertainment, Research, and More

Many public libraries have struggled to support their patrons’ needs with remote access to services during the pandemic. But in Ocean County, New Jersey, the library’s 600,000-plus members have enjoyed unlimited access to more than 28,000 hours of carefully curated streaming video content available on any device through a service called Access Video On Demand, from Infobase.

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HISTORY   
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
By Rebecca Frankel  
This fast-paced book will find an eager audience among readers interested in Jewish, European, and World War II history; highly recommended. 

PREMIUM
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By Mae Ngai 
Ngai’s thoroughly researched work is essential for anyone studying the Chinese diaspora in the Anglo American world, or gold rushes generally. Readers interested in Chinese immigrants in the 19th-century United States should also consider Gordon H. Chang’s Ghosts of Gold Mountain.

PREMIUM
American Revolution: The Essential Reference Guide
Ed. by Spencer C. Tucker 
A basic but lucid and effective look at the American Revolution, with an emphasis on the major personalities, military maneuvers, and events of the war. General readers and high school students will find it useful.

POLITICAL SCIENCE 
PREMIUM
Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
By Evan Osnos  
This cogently written book is a useful review of intertwined events in the early 21st-century United States.

Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy
By Martin Indyk 
Indyk’s reflective review of Kissinger’s Realpolitik negotiations can be a model for understanding how to subdue rather than settle international negotiations. Essential reading. 

PREMIUM
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came To Matter in America
By Curtis Bunn & others  
A thoughtful assessment of the Black Lives Matter movement that illuminates the work still left to do. Recommended for readers newly interested in antiracist activism. 

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix
By Howard Markel  
This enjoyable account will save readers’ time by synthesizing and supplementing information from the dozen or so memoirs and biographies of Crick, Franklin, Watson, Wilkins, and Pauling.

PREMIUM
Pump: A Natural History of the Heart
By Bill Schutt  
An engaging, often droll look at the engine of life and the long history of efforts to understand it. 

Last of the Nonfiction Previews, Mar. 2022, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert 
From history to political science to environmental and social justice issues. 

Memoir: Nonfiction Previews, Mar. 2022, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert 
Award-winning authors and journalists, soldiers and podcasters, investigators and CEOs.  

ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: U.S. History
By LJ Reviews 

A Promised Land, Four Hundred Souls, What Racism Costs Everyone, and more in U.S. History titles: September 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 

1. A Promised Land.
Obama, Barack
Crown
2020. ISBN 9781524763169. $45.00 

2. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Editor: Ibram X. Kendi
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780593134047. $32.00 

3. Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.
McGhee, Heather C.
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780525509561. $28.00 

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