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August 7, 2018 | 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. |
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"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." | |
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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. |
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From the Pages of infoDOCKET ... |
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Xpress Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA 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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Speaking Truth to Power Join thousands of librarians on August 15 for our seventh annual SLJTeen Live! virtual conference without leaving the comfort of your home (or reference* desk). This year’s theme, “Speaking Truth to Power,” centers around the exciting and impactful role that young people have in the world today and how the library is a place where they can be inspired to effect change. Register for free... |
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