Also: Q&A with Andi Cloud, Madison Public Library’s First Native American Storyteller-in-Residence |
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| | |  Best Media 2021: Top Audiobooks and DVDS By LJ Reviews In a year that has seen reader, listener, and viewer engagement soar, these picks provided vehicles for escape, moved us, and made us think critically and reflect upon the society in which we live. We hope these lists provide a means for readers’ advisory and conversation. |
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|  50 Stellar Titles By LJ Reviews Essential titles reviewed in our January 2022 print issue, spanning audio, mystery and suspense, SF/fantasy, social sciences, reference, and more. |
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| | | | "Everything we think about when we think of the library—what are the people making that possible up to, and how can we recognize the immense stress and levels of work that have been going into that the past couple years?" | | |
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|  Honoring the Core | Editorial By Meredith Schwartz The field needs to support innovation to meet our changing communities’ needs—but focus on invention can lead to taking essential duties, and the people who do them, for granted. |
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| |  Five Podcasts Discussing Book Banning By SLJ Staff As we head into the new year with heightened concerns about books being removed from classrooms and libraries, listen to these five podcast episodes that discuss censorship and book banning historically and now. |
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|  Invisible by Danielle Steel Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Invisible by Danielle Steel leads holds this week. Four LibraryReads and twelve Indie Next picks publish this week, including top LR pick, The Maid by Nita Prose. The current issue of People features beloved icon and author Betty White and the book of the week, The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan. AudioFile announces the January 2022 Earphones Award Winners. |
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| |  Will & Jada Pinkett Smith Partner with Oprah To Launch Reading Conversations | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Will and Jada Pinkett Smith partner with Oprah Winfrey to launch new book club, “to curate conversations centered on the themes in Smith’s autobiography,” Will. More Best of the Year book lists arrive, along with interviews from Rax King, Faith Jones, Lily King, and Sabina Murray. NPR’s Short Wave offers a beginner’s guide to reading Sci-Fi/Fantasy. |
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| | Starred Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain, by Sara Manning Peskin, is a starred sciences selection. "A captivating and convincing study that should bring hope and confidence to general readers as well as general practitioners, and to the millions living with neurodegenerative illness and their families." Also in sciences, Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, by Jennifer Raff, is another starred selection. "A thorough yet conversational outlining of the peopling of the Americas that will update any anthropology or world history collection." Daniel Talbot's memoir, In Love with Movies, is a starred performing arts selection. This "extraordinary memoir, edited by his wife Toby Talbot...[is] a tale of his lifelong love affair with movies and the people who make them.... Cinephiles will be captivated by Talbot’s insights and passion." The Naked Don’t Fear the Water, by Matthieu Aikins, is one of this week's starred social sciences titles. "This is a beautifully written individual story made more meaningful by thoughtful and well-informed insights into a country ravaged by war and undermined by foreign powers. Highly recommended." And What My Bones Know, by Stephanie Foo, is another starred social sciences selection. "Foo’s writing is shrewdly insightful. In telling her story so compellingly, she joins authors such as Anna Qu and Ly Tran in adding nuance to the 'model minority' myth, if not actively subverting it. Highly recommended." See All Reviews››› |
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