| Update on Two Lawsuits Challenging the Dismantling of IMLS By Lisa Peet UPDATE: On May 13, Judge John J. McConnell Jr. issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking Trump administration officials from acting on the March 14 executive order to dismantle the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Furthermore, the court ordered the administration to immediately takes steps to restore the agency’s employees and grant funding activities. |
| Telling Railroad Stories at the California State Railroad Museum l Archives Deep Dive By Elisa Shoenberger The mission of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, CA, is to collect, preserve, and share the deep history of railroads and railroading in California and the rest of the western United States. The organization is also home to a large 19th-century reconstruction of a railroad station and railroad depot, with a still-functional train that gives tours to patrons. |
| Nightshade by Michael Connelly Tops Holds Lists | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene Nightshade by Michael Connelly leads holds this week. Also in demand are titles by Katherine Center, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, and Rachel Gillig. Haruki Murakami wins the Center for Fiction’s Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award. The Gotham Book Prize winners are announced, including Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough by Ian Frazier and Movement: New York’s Long War To Take Back Its Streets from the Car by Nicole Gelinas. Finalists for the Orwell Prizes are announced. People’s book of the week is Whistle by Linwood Barclay. Plus, June’s LibraryReads list is out, featuring top pick The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater. |
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| Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin Wins Dylan Thomas Prize | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin wins the Dylan Thomas Prize. Carys Davies’s Clear wins the Ondaatje Prize. Paul Reitter wins the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize for his translation of Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. The Atlantic publishes its 2025 summer reading guide. Film studio Somesuch launches its own book imprint. Netflix is adapting S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed as a series. Plus, Page to Screen and a Time magazine feature on Taylor Jenkins Reid. |
| Abi Daré’s And So I Roar Wins Climate Fiction Prize | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg Abi Daré’s And So I Roar wins the inaugural Climate Fiction Prize. Winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize are announced. Don Winslow comes out of retirement to publish a new collection of crime novellas, The Final Score. Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben team up to write a thriller. Joe Sacco suggests that The Once and Future Riot could be his last work of graphic nonfiction, a genre he pioneered. Iranian novelist Nahid Rachlin has died at age 85. Plus, new title bestsellers and interviews with Prabal Gurung, Daniel Kehlmann, Wendy Corsi Staub, and Michelle Young. |
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The Medusa Protocol, by Rob Hart, is a starred mystery selection. "This new entry in Hart’s solid series is just as good as the first, with thrills, humor, and an ingenious plot. The cast of characters continues to grow, and each is fleshed out enough to lead their own book. Readers should get on the Assassins Anonymous wagon." Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive, by Deborah Farmer Kris, is a starred parenting title. "Kris provides a useful guide to incorporating awe and wonder into one’s parenting to help raise kinder and happier children." And in biography, Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, by Zaakir Tameez, is a starred selection. "An exemplary volume, well-researched and well-written and suited for anyone interested in U.S. history, the Civil War, and American jurisprudence." See All Reviews››› |
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