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imageRead-Alikes for Sooley by John Grisham | LibraryReads
By Janet Lockhart, Rollie Welch, and Brian Renvall

Sooley by John Grisham is the top holds title of the week (4/25/21). LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting for this buzziest book.

Grisham offers steps away from thrillers with a basketball novel. It follows Samuel “Sooley” Sooleymon who travels with his fellow South Sudanese basketball teammates to play exhibition games in the U.S. That journey is overshadowed by the civil war raging at home. Sooley is determined to save his family, and basketball seems to be the way.

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SPONSORED BY MCFARLAND & CO. Children at the Border
Children at the Border: An American Human Rights Crisis

Examines the practice of family separation at the U.S. southern border and the confinement of migrant children that, in some cases, experts describe as torture. Often, the young asylum seekers have fled brutal violence in the Northern Triangle of Central America. 

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By Barbara Hoffert

imageTop Docs: Billie Holiday, Margaret Atwood, and Pepe the Frog
By Joshua Blevins Peck

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

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Astra Publishing Discover I'll Be Strong For You by Nasim Marashi

This award-winning debut novel by Iranian journalist Nasim Marashi follows the three young women in Tehran as they pursue wildly different dreams and discover how friendship, family, ambition, and love can hold them together in all their humanity and complexity.

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imageNew on DVD/Blu-ray: Mel Brooks’s 1968 The Producers; Goro Miyazaki Adapts a Diana Wynne Jones Novel
By Jeff T. Dick

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

 

imageTop Film Picks on DVD/Blu-Ray: A 1950s-Set Neo-Western; Ang Lee’s Tale of China Under Japanese Occupation
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.

SPONSORED BY BLUE STAR PRESS
Out and BackPowerful Memoir Inspires Readers to Find Untapped Inner Strength

Hillary Allen was #1 in her sport when she fell off a mountain and nearly lost her life. In Out and Back, Allen chronicles her recovery and proves that, no matter what setbacks you face, you can find the strength to rebuild your life, one day at a time.

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imageBloomsbury Fashion Business Cases | Reference eReviews
By Gricel Dominguez

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases establishes a link between education and business aspects of the fashion industry. A strong resource for business, marketing, and industry-related studies.

imageSocial Explorer | Reference eReviews
By Rob Tench

Social Explorer enables users to create maps, reports, and presentations from a wide range of national and international survey data.  An excellent resource, with customization tools that make data easy to create, and excellent visualization options for interpreting and presenting data.

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imageThe Turnout | Featured Review
By LJ Reviews

"Abbott has a top-notch ability to reveal the dark undercurrents of women’s relationships and sexuality. Her taut, unsettling writing creates tension through the slightest actions and phrases, and keeps the pages turning. This is clever, chilling psychological suspense at its best."

 

imageLinguistic Justice, How You Say It, How Dead Languages Work, and More in Language | Academic Best Sellers
By LJ Reviews

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

 

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