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| | | July 10, 2017 |  United for Libraries Author Panels | ALA Annual 2017 Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert As always, the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) annual conference featured well-attended author panels sponsored by United for Libraries, the ALA division representing library trustees, advocates, and friends groups. This year’s panels were distinguished by the ready exchange they engendered between authors and audience and among audience members as well. |
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|  Bradley, Benjamin, Finn, Johnson, Joyce | Barbara’s Picks Big hits at BookExpo, Chloe Benjamin's The Immortalists and A.J. Finn's The Woman at the Window are finally coming your way in January. Beloved British authors Alan Bradley and Rachel Joyce return with more good stuff. Also, look for a timely story collection from National Book Award winner Denis Johnson, who passed away in May. |
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| |  Worldwide Mystery | Fiction Previews Among this month's mysteries, Andrea Camilleri's The Pyramid of Mud takes us to contemporary Italy and Jessica Fellowes's The Mitford Murders to1920s Britain. Sujata Massey's The Widows of Malabar Hill also takes place in the 1920s, though the setting is Bombay. |
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|  Top Historicals, Horror from Koontz, Fashionable Steel, & More | Pop Fiction Previews Big-name authors with new titles this month include Terry Goodkind, Dean Koontz, Danielle Steel, J.R. Ward, and Laruen Willig. Intriguing new historicals range from Mary Lynn Bracht's World War II Korea–set White Chrysanthemum to Jody Shields's The Winter Station, about the plague that swept the Russian-ruled Manchurian city of Kharbin in 1910. |
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| Debut Novels on the Horizon - C. Morgan Babst's The Floating World
- S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass
- Francesca Hornak's Seven Days of Us
- Devin Murphy's The Boat Runner
- A.S. Patric's Black Rock White City
- Josephine Rowe's A Loving, Faithful Animal
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|  Cortés vs. Montezuma, Eramus vs. Luther, & More | History Previews History through multiple biography can be seen in Matthew Restall's revisionist When Montezuma Met Cortés; Michael Massing's Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Rupture of Europe, limning a contrast in personalities still reverberent today; and Catherine Kerrison's Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America, a rare perpective on one presidential family reflecting America's ongoing racial crisis. |
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| |  SLJTeen Live! Virtual Conference Join us on August 9 for SLJTeen Live! This free, entirely virtual conference will feature more than 20 YA author panelists and keynote speakers, plus two hours of panels on innovative and creative approaches to teen services and programming. Register today! No teen librarian will want to miss it. |
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