Love for All | Romance Preview
By Eve Stano
The coming months will see a welcome increase in the number of inclusive love stories, as #OwnVoices authors and diverse romances become a priority for many traditional publishers. And while there’s still progress to be made—2019 was the first year any African American author has won the Romance Writers of America’s RITA award, for example—romance is heading in the right direction.

Book Pulse
By Neal Wyatt

 

Today in Book Pulse: Run Your Week: Big Books, Sure Bets, & Titles Making News, Oct. 28, 2019

 

In case you missed it:

• Page to Screen and Book Awards, Oct. 25, 2019
• New Bestsellers Arrive, Oct. 24, 2019
• Anonymous Leads Forthcoming Book News, Oct. 23, 2019
• Authors Talk & More Awards Announced, Oct. 22, 2019

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A Conversation with Eve Rodsky, Author of Fair Play

Selected as a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, Eve Rodsky’s bestselling book Fair Play is a revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long. The editors at Putnam spoke to the author about her inspiration for the book, developing the principles in Fair Play, and why men should get on board.

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Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert

• Barbara’s Picks (Constantine, McCreight, King, Panowich, Pochoda, Turow), plus 13 More Bone Rattlers: Thriller Previews, May 2020, Pt. 2
• Barbara’s Picks (Suleika Jaouad, Nadia Owusu), plus More Reflections Beyond the Personal: Memoir Previews, May 2020, Pt. 2

Fall/Winter Bests | Debut Novels
By Barbara Hoffert
LJ's long-standing debut novels feature draws on news, reviews, and personal reading to determine what new works are best bets for library collections.

LJ Talks to Erik Nielson & Andrea L. Dennis
By Mahnaz Dar
In their new book, Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics and Guilt in America, Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis show how aspiring rappers have often fallen victim to a corrupt justice system, as prosecutors twist lyrics into evidence of murder, assault, drug trafficking, and other crimes.

LaGuardia | Featured Web Review
By LJ Reviews
"Speaking to the global immigration and refugee crises through the lens of Afrofuturism, this brilliant and decidedly progressive work will be an essential addition to most adult graphic novels collections."

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The first-ever full-length biography of Mister Rogers

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers traces Fred’s personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work. Listen to the New York Times bestseller — narrated by the legendary LeVar Burton — before the movie comes out next month!

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Best of the Buchmesse | Highlights from the Frankfurt Book Fair
By JL Morin and Stephan Theo
Award-winning authors and the movers and shakers of the publishing world came together for this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. Here are a few highlights.

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