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Booklist Review of the Day |
Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy
by Ali Velshi
Celebrated journalist Velshi is multiculturalism personified. His dramatic family history begins in India, shifts to South Africa, transfers to Kenya, settles in Canada, and ultimately includes American citizenship. Velshi shares tales of a great-grandfather who plunged into shark-infested waters to make it to another land where surely prosperity awaited.
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Current Features |
Read-alikes: Family Memoirs
by Annie Bostrom
As they chronicle rippling generational traumas and the authors’ selves past and present, these standout family memoirs also bring to life mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings.
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Top 10 New Series Nonfiction: 2024
by Julia Smith
Whether investigating broad concepts, from what comprises our world to basic life skills, or bringing specific areas of interest into focus—I’m looking at you, trains, and you, Nellie Bly—the following series are worthwhile investments.
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Episode #34: Summer Scares 2024
By Susan Maguire
This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares! The reading program, a collaboration between Booklist, the Horror Writers Association, United for Libraries, Book Riot, and NoveList, announced their title picks in February. Host Susan Maguire sat down with the folks behind Summer Scares to talk about the books they want you to read this summer, different levels of scariness, and the importance of snacks for patron engagement.
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10 Questions for Nicci French
By John Charles
Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.
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10 Questions for Sarah Zachrich Jeng
By John Charles
Sarah Zachrich Jeng grew up in Michigan and always had a flair for the morbid and mysterious (for her dad’s thirty-fifth birthday, she wrote a story entitled “The Man Who Died at 35”). She had a brief career as an aspiring rock star before she came to her senses and went back to school to become a web developer. Sarah lives in Florida with her family and two extremely hyper rescue dogs.
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10 Questions for Helly Acton
By John Charles
Helly Acton is a copywriter from London with past lives in Zimbabwe, the Middle East, and Australia. She studied Law at King’s College London before following a more creative path into advertising. At 26, she took a career break to travel in Africa and Asia, before landing in Sydney. Six years and one life-affirming breakup later, she returned home and threw herself into online dating in the city.
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