From Breakbeats to Books: Essential Titles in Hip-Hop | Collection Development
By Tracy Crawford and A.J. Muhammad

Build collections about hip-hop, spanning scholarship, poetry, memoir, and photography, with an eye to representing national and global perspectives and an intergenerational group of authors.

Book Pulse
By Anita Mechler and Kate Merlene

SPONSORED BY SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS

A Haunting, Heroic Thriller Set in Nazi-Occupied Venice

At his beloved grandfather’s deathbed, a teenage boy receives a yellowing manuscript which reveals his grandfather’s darkest secrets from Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The Garden of Angels is a gripping tale, both for its imagining of war-torn Venice and the timeless portrait of life under Fascism.

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Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

Read-Alikes for The Red Book by James Patterson & David Ellis | LibraryReads
By Elizabeth Eastin, Sharon Layburn, and Allie Williams

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting for The Red Book by James Patterson & David Ellis.

Garden of Reading Delights: Fiction and Gardens | The Reader’s Shelf
By Andrea Tarr

Take pleasure in these fiction picks about gardens and flowers, from the likes of Virginia Woolf and Jessica Francis Kane.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw | Featured Fiction Review
By LJ Reviews
"Background tension in Jones’s latest thrums from the start—tension between Indigenous people and white colonizers, between longtime residents and incomers, between haves and have-nots—even before the meticulously crafted horror plot unfolds. Readers will be thinking about Jade long after they hurtle toward the book’s vivid, moving, gory end. This extraordinary novel is an essential purchase."

Being a Ballerina | Featured Nonfiction Review
By LJ Reviews
"Dancing “full out” means going all out during practice rather than saving energy for the performance. In this memoir Larsen is writing full out, and we are the lucky audience of her performance. Balletomanes, dance students, and aspiring dancers will applaud this absorbing account."

Land of Wondrous Cold, History of Cartography, Finding and Losing Our Way, and More in Geography | Academic Best Sellers
By LJ Reviews

Best sellers in geography, March 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

 

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