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 Fall Preview 2021: 133 Titles To Know, Buy, and Suggest to Readers By Jennifer Dayton Much of the fall season looks like a party, with titles about music, drinks, and food claiming shelf space. But the books of autumn also grapple with profound issues and offer serious commentary. Exemplifying the dual nature of the next few months, horror and romance are genres to note, while titles on U.S. history reconsider the country’s founding and explore its longstanding myths. Also, check out Editors’ Fall Picks for 2021 |
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 Reveal Digital Collects, Digitizes American Prison Newspapers By Lisa Peet Reveal Digital, part of Ithaka’s not-for-profit digital arm JSTOR, has launched a new project, American Prison Newspapers 1800–2020: Voices from the Inside. The initiative aims to digitize newspapers published in prisons from nearly every state in the United States and make them available on an open access basis. |
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 OverDrive To Launch AI Driven Collection Management Tool By Matt Enis OverDrive is preparing to launch Readtelligence, a suite of new features for ebook selection and curation developed using artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning tools to analyze every title in the company’s inventory. |
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 SPONSORED CONTENT Library Funding: ARPA in Action
The $1.9 trillion pandemic relief legislation passed by Congress in March contains a significant amount of money for libraries to help their communities. In response, many companies are highlighting products that can be purchased with recovery funding. Read More››› |
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| "We wanted to try to do more to get the public, and people who are in the media, connected with this…underseen type of journalism." | | |
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 Vortex by Catherine Coulter Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Vortex by Catherine Coulter leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and two Indie Next selections publish this week. People's book of the week is Billy Summers by Stephen King. The Romance Writers of America rescinds the VIVIAN award for At Love's Command by Karen Witemeyer amid controversy. Profiles and interviews arrive with Leila Slimani, Wendy Dio, Deborah Copaken, and Katie Kitamura. |
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 2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Shortlist is Announced | Book Pulse By Anita Mechler The 2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Shortlist is announced, and Claire Wilcox wins the 2021 PEN Ackerley Prize for Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. Cover reveals, excerpts, and more for Start Without Me (I’ll Be There in a Minute) by Gary Janetti, Linden MacIntyre’s The Winter Wives, and The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy. |
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 Poet and Author Eloise Greenfield Remembered By SLJ Staff In the days since Eloise Greenfield died, the remembrances and stories of her impact on individuals and children’s publishing have been pouring in for the poet and author, who passed August 5 at age 92. |
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| Reviews WEB-FIRST REVIEWS OF BOOKS AND MEDIA  Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery, by Andrés Reséndez, is this week's starred history selection. "In a book that mixes stirring adventure story with inspired scholarship, Reséndez (history, Univ. of California, Davis; The Other Slavery, a National Book Award finalist) details the biracial Black mariner Lope Martín’s round-trip voyage from Navidad, on the west coast of Mexico, to the Philippines, in 1564–65.... A vivid tale of adventure and discovery that will draw in all history lovers." See All Reviews››› |
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 Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK Poudre River Public Library District (CO) seeks an Executive Director |
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