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| | September 11, 2017 | New Year's Titles Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert Eager to read a debut novel with a huge first printing? Or a Cormac McCarthy readalike that takes place in Australia? Would you set aside time for a 2017 Baileys Prize winner or Man Booker long-lister? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, sign up for Sleeper Hits for the New Year, a webcast featuring books you’ll need to know about come 2018. All set for Tuesday, September 19, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m–12:00 p.m. PT. And here’s your last chance to sign up for LJ’s first ever Day of Dialog Brooklyn, on September 15 at the Brooklyn Public Library–Central Library, profiling forthcoming titles through spring 2018. |
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| War, Immigration, & Top-Flight Fiction | Barbara’s Picks War remains with us as this week’s picks feature journalists Rania Abouzeid and C.J. Chivers surveying thedevastation in Syria and in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively. Outsiders, too, are at issue as Lauren Hilgers chronicles a Chinese immigrant couple in New York and NYPL Young Lion Uzodinma Iweala considers the plight of a gay Nigerian American teenager in his second, much anticipated novel. Plus, veteran award worthies Amy Bloom and Alan Hollinghurst return with new novels. |
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| | Gutcheon, Leon, Patterson, Winspear, & More | Mystery Previews Big names from Donna Leon to James Patterson to Jacqueline Winspear return with new titles, but don’t miss Cuban American writer Teresa Dovalpage’s suspenseful visit to Havana ( Death Comes in Through the Kitchen) and the second in Beth Gutcheon’s new series starring former head of school Maggie Detweiler ( The Affliction). |
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| From Chief Justice Marshall to Renoir’s Dancer | Biography Previews Big biographies in February range in subject from Founding Father John Marshall, our longest-serving chief justice, to a crusading doctor, responsible for saving millions of lives in post–World War II Africa, who turns out to have had war crimes in her past. Wallis Simpson, Pablo Picasso, and artist/model Suzanne Valadon also take bows. |
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| Sleeper Hits for the New YearNaomi Alderman’s The Power Sue Halpern’s Summer Hours at Robbers Library Jillian Medoff’s This Could Hurt Sujata Massey’s The Widows of Malabar Hill Pete Souza’s Obama: An Intimate Portrait - the Historic Presidency in Photographs SIGN UP FOR THE WEBCAST |
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| Science, Psychology, & Food | Nonfiction Previews Two books, F. Diane Barth’s I Know How You Feel and Kayleen Schaefer’s Text Me When You Get Home, examine female friendship, while Martie Haselton and Geoffrey Miller’s Hormonal puts women’s hormone-based ups and downs in evolutionary perspective. Good food, paleoanthropology, and a look at procrastination round out this section. |
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| Day of Dialog | Brooklyn Coinciding with Brooklyn Book Festival, this special-engagement event on September 15 will feature both Festival and metropolitan-area authors with panels modeled on Library Journal and School Library Journal’s long-running and annually sold-out Day of Dialog events. Get the inside scoop on the hottest new books—plus book giveaways and author signings! |
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