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| | |  57 Romances for Fall and Beyond | Romance Preview
By Eve Stano
LJ spoke to industry experts and looked at upcoming releases from publishers of all sizes, noting that witches, reality TV plots, and books featuring food competitions are trending upward. Contemporary-set romances featuring a wide range of lived experiences are available both as stand-alone novels or as part of continuing series, while a variety of historical settings mean that readers who want love stories set in the past will have plenty to choose from.
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| SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS  A Lavish Compendium of Butterflies and Moths William Jones’s Icones is one of the most scientifically important and visually stunning works on butterflies and moths ever created. Icones contains finely delineated paintings of more than 760 species of Lepidoptera, many of which it described for the first time, marking a critical moment in the study of natural history. Learn More››› |
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|  Chencia C. Higgins Talks with LJ about Writing Romance
By Stephanie Klose
Popular self-published romance novelist Chencia C. Higgins (“The Vow” and “Wolves of West Texas” series, among others) makes her trade debut with D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding (Carina Adores, Jan. 2022). LJ talks to Higgins about Texas, coming-out stories, reality television, and her research process.
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SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS  The Story behind Jane Elliott’s “Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment” A schoolteacher in Iowa, Jane Elliott introduced to her all-white third-grade class an experiment to demonstrate the impact of racism. Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes documents small-town White America’s reaction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the meteoric rise of diversity training that flourishes today. Learn More››› |
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|  Collecting Indie Romance
By Robin Bradford
Indie books are here to stay, and that’s a good thing. Not only are they often the trendsetters, they are also a big driver of diverse materials. If you want to diversify your collection or if you want to buy backlist of some of your patrons’ favorite authors, chances are good you’ll be diving into the indie waters.
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|  Hailey Piper on Combining Romance and Horror | Behind the Book
By Hailey Piper
Horror is often about monsters, but it’s also about surviving or standing up to them. Which is part of why I find horror to be fundamentally queer, like me. We queer folk have been made out as monsters in the past, which we nowadays like to have fun with, and we’re used to escaping, surviving, and sometimes battling monsters too. |
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SPONSORED CONTENT  New Mysteries Offer Comfort Through Crime and Cozies This year, publishers are finding that more readers than ever are seeking comfort from great stories, in particular mysteries. The titles featured here cover a wide variety of subgenres within the category, like psychological suspense, police procedural, romantic, and cozy mysteries. Read More››› |
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|  Your Basic Witch Reading List | 17 Titles To Read and Share
By Emma Carbone
With The Book of Magic, Alice Hoffman's sequel to Practical Magic, coming out in October, now is the perfect time to round up some witchy fiction to get readers in the Halloween mood. Read on for both adult fiction and young adult works with crossover appeal. |
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| "This is a fun page-turner on its surface, but as soon as readers pause for breath, the real-world issues at play will wrap their tentacles around them. Readers who like old school science fiction dystopias (à la Philip K. Dick), with a healthy dose of cosmic awe (as in Caitlin Kiernan’s “Tinfoil Dossier” series) and a few dashes of kaiju mayhem, will be in horror heaven with this mesmerizing, original, and breathtaking debut." |
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