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August 7, 2018
Fall Editors' Picks Fall Editors' Picks
By LJ Reviews
Sifting through catalogs and websites, listening to podcasts and Internet chatter, reading blurbs, and more, our staff searched for the big titles of fall.
Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Project Visualizes the Impact of Family Separations
By Lisa Peet
A team made up of digital humanities librarians and other academic partners has developed an interactive website that visualizes the impact of the Trump administration’s family separation policy’s enforcement and the emerging humanitarian crisis it has engendered.
Rural NM Libraries Artist, Senator Propose $50M Endowment for Rural NM Libraries
By Lisa Peet
Legislation to be put forward in January, 2019 proposes a $50 million permanent state fund to provide some $50,000 per year for more than 40 rural community libraries across New Mexico.
Maxwell King Maxwell King Explores the Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers | Fall Editors' Picks
By Kiera Parrott
Maxwell King, CEO of the Pittsburgh Foundation and former editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, began fundraising for the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, in 2008.
"We live in an age of so much tension and anger—I sometimes call it the Age of Incivility—and I felt Fred has so very much to teach us about kindness, consideration, and respect."
Donation drives pop up across the country to give children separated from their parents a book of their own, as REFORMA continues its efforts and builds relationships to support the migrant youth.
John N. Berry III & Rebecca T. Miller

Introducing Our New Web Platforms: The Next Digital Era
By Rebecca T. Miller
On July 15, we released new websites for LJ and sister publication School Library Journal (SLJ) in a soft launch encouraging feedback and constructive criticism. If you haven’t seen them yet, please check them out (libraryjournal.com;slj.com).

Can We Talk Can We Talk? Librarians Lead New Push for Civics Education, Focusing on Discourse
By Brenda Iasevoli
Librarians are helping to foster a productive exchange of ideas among students.
Tailspin Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News, Aug. 6, 2018 | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
Tailspin by Sandra Brown leads holds this week, with the newest by Stuart Woods not too far behind. Ruthanna Emrys appreciates the horror genre for NPR. There is adaptation news regarding both James Clavell and Ken Liu and plenty of suggested reads.
image A New Hemingway to the Page & James Baldwin to the Screen | Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt
A new Hemingway story is published, details are leaking from Omarosa's Trump book, and a trailer is out for If Beale Street Could Talk, the next movie by Barry Jenkins based on a James Baldwin novel.
Watcher in the Woods From Armstrong to Todd: Mystery Previews, Feb. 2019, Pt.1 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
With her second mystery, romance novelist Jude Deveraux joins a host of big-name mystery writers continuing popular series.
The Death of Captian Marvel “Graphic Medicine” Comics & Graphic Novels Explore Illness and Healthcare
By Brigid Alverson
A growing number of works use the graphic format to portray the experience of illness and explore medicine.
Xpress Reviews
WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA
Let Me Be Like Water S.K. Perry's Let Me Be Like Water is this week's starred fiction selection. "Written as a long goodbye love letter by Holly to her beloved Sam, Perry’s sure-handed debut is an extraordinary atlas of heartbreak, hopelessness, and the herculean strength required to power through despair to survival into recovery. Hard to put down; impossible to forget." Donald Hall's A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety is one of three starred nonfiction selections this week. "The literary insights will be useful to scholars, but the beautiful recollections and the joyful and vital vision Hall offers are gifts to us all. Highly recommended." About Betty's Boob, by Vero Cazot with illustrations by Julie Rocheleau and Deron Bennett, is this week's starred graphic novel. "Winsome, erotic, and hilarious, Betty’s adventures break the mold for cancer stories in pulling art and beauty out of tragedy. Women college age and up will adore it, and many fem-friendly male readers will also. Note nudity and occasional sexual episodes, always plot anchored and nicely done." And in Free Fall, the e-original by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner, "high drama, both orbital and domestic, is leavened by discreet eroticism to make this a simmering and satisfying summer read. The combination of space-based suspense, the historical 1965 setting, and dynamic characters make this highly recommended."

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