More Royals Please: Books on Empresses, Queens, and Kings | The Reader’s Shelf
By Jennifer Dayton

Royals. Will our hunger to know more about their lives ever be sated? Oprah’s recent interview with Meghan and Harry seemed to whet our collective appetites even more for all things monarchy. Happily, a number of books address that very need. These titles should more than fulfill a desire to learn more about what it means to live the life of a royal.

Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene & Anita Mechler

• Valeria Luiselli Wins 2021 Dublin Literary Award
• 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlist Announced
• DPLA & Amazon Publishing Agree to Ebook Library Lending
• Roth Bio Finds New Publisher
• ‘The Soulmate Equation’ by Christina Lauren Tops Holds Lists

Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

• Spotlight: Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence, Nov. 2021
• Spotlight: Ann Patchett’s These Precious Days, Nov. 2021
• Witches, Queens, Archivists, & Detectives: Mystery Previews, Dec. 2021, Pt. 1

November 2021 Prepub Alert: The Complete List
By Barbara Hoffert

All the November 2021 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a central index, a downloadable spreadsheet, and a print-ready PDF of all posts.

Top Film Picks on DVD/Blu-Ray: An Early Bong Joon-ho Police Procedural; Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland in a Foreboding Wintry Venice
By Jeff T. Dick

LJ’s film columnist picks the month’s top indie, foreign, and classic films, now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

New on DVD/Blu-ray: Dennis Hopper’s Campy Neo-Noir; Robin Wright’s Directorial Debut
By Jeff T. Dick

Ten new and classic films now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Top Docs: 21st-Century Cowboys, a Utopian Florida Retirement Village, and the Romanian Health Care System
By Joshua Blevins Peck

LJ’s documentary film reviewer picks four stirring new works, now available on DVD/Blu-ray.

Read-Alikes for Legacy by Nora Roberts | LibraryReads
By Cari Dubiel, Beth Mills, Kelly Rohde, and Allie Williams

Legacy, by Nora Roberts, is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting for this buzziest book. When celebrity fitness instructor Adrian Rizzo starts receiving death threats in the mail, she dismisses them as a consequence of fame. Only when she returns to her Maryland hometown, and reconnects with her childhood crush, does she realize that the threats might be linked to her painful past. Then the murders begin.

Counting the Collection: Conducting a Diversity Audit of Adult Biographies
By Colleen Wood

Diversity audits assess representation in library materials, but most examples focus on children’s books. One librarian shares her methods and challenges in tackling adult biographies.

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