Read-Alikes for Vortex by Catherine Coulter | LibraryReads
By Stacy Alesi, Sharon Layburn, Robin Nesbitt, and Jennifer Winberry

Vortex: An FBI Thriller, by Catherine Coulter (Morrow), is the top holds title of the week (8/9/21). LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book. In Coulter's 25th book in the "FBI Thriller" series, agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich investigate two seperate cases, but are they as unconnected as they seem? Coulter offers a fast pace, plenty of suspenseful plotting, and characters readers have followed for years. 

Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene & Anita Mechler

• 2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award Shortlist is Announced
• 2021 Age Book of the Year Shortlist Announced
• We Were Never There by Andrea Bartz & The Turnout by Megan Abbott Are August Book Club Picks
• The Husbands by Chandler Baker & The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones Are August Book Club Picks
• Stephen King’s Billy Summers Tops Library Holds Lists

Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

• International Settings: Literary Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 3
• Women in the World: Literary Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 3
• Spotlight: Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, Fiction Previews, Feb. 2022, Pt. 3
• Rebuilding Family/Finding Home: Literary Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 3
• One-of-a-Kind Writing: Literary Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 3
• Women Make Their Way: Contemporary Pop Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 4
• Spotlight: Marlon James’s Moon Witch, Spider King, Feb. 2022, Pt. 4
• Black Civil War Soldiers & Three Intriguing Women: Historical Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 4
• SF/Fantasy/Dystopian/Horror: Speculative Fiction, Feb. 2022, Pt. 4
• Reconstructing a Life: Memoir Previews, Feb. 2022. Pt. 4

2020: The Year of Government Information | Government Documents
By Bryan Fuller

In hindsight, 2020 will be remembered as a year of many challenges and changes. The consequences of the pandemic on personal life, health, commerce, and the transition to exclusively online work and learning environments paralleled a broad and nearly unrelenting upheaval centered on renewed attention to perennial social disparities, environmental disasters, and a contentious election. Through it all, government information resources became a regular part of the media and research landscape and librarians helped to make these resources responsive to the needs of their communities.

Top Film Picks on DVD/Blu-Ray: Shaka King’s Oscar-Nominated Judas and the Black Messiah; Plus Dramatizations of a Guantánamo Memoir and the Border Crisis
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.

New on DVD/Blu-ray: Laurence Fishburne’s 1992 Thriller Deep Cover; Otto Preminger’s Pearl Harbor Drama
By Jeff T. Dick

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

Top Docs: Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President; Residents’ Activism in Oakland, CA; and an American Masters profile of Flannery O’Connor
By Joshua Blevins Peck

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

Bombshell | Featured Review
By Heather Miller Cover

"MacLean’s dedicated fan base will be eagerly awaiting this novel, but it will also appeal to other romance readers who are unfamiliar with her body of work. Highly recommended for general purchase."

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