Barbara Hoffert collects 37 debuts to read and share. |
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| | | | |  Top Winter Debuts | 37 Titles To Note
By Barbara Hoffert
This edition of LJ’s thrice-yearly list of top debut novels focuses on the winter season, including a few late 2021 titles and stretching to March 2022. They are all promising titles, with eight especially intriguing offerings highlighted. Highlighted works include quotes from the text except for Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark, where the author himself is quoted.
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| | SPONSORED BY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA  How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality
"Follow your passion" is a popular mantra for career decision-making in the United States. The Trouble with Passion reveals the significant downside of the passion principle: the concept helps legitimize and reproduce an exploited, overworked labor force and broadly serves to reinforce class, race, and gender segregation and inequality. Read More››› |
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| | | | | |  Classic Returns | James Baldwin Essays and Horror Titles To Note
By David Wright
Among other notable nonfiction reprints this fall, Library of America has a collection of three hard-to-find World War II memoirs specific to the Pacific Theater, and Beacon Press has brought back that landmark 1985 selection of James Baldwin’s essays, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985. Seven Stories Press continues its ambitious Robert Graves Project with his 1938 novel Count Belisarius, a Dark Ages follow-up to I, Claudius. |
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|  SPONSORED BY HARLEQUIN TRADE PUBLISHING Mastermind Mary Kubica Triumphs with Local Woman Missing Her last novel, The Other Mrs., coming soon to Netflix, was a LibraryReads pick for February 2020 and an instant New York Times bestseller. In Local Woman Missing, Kubica creates a riveting tale of a long-lost child and two missing women. Kubica sets her seventh novel in the scary suburbs for the perfect Halloween thriller. Read More» |
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| | |  SPONSORED CONTENT Books in Spanish: Meeting the Needs of a Burgeoning Demographic The Hispanic population is the fastest growing demographic segment in the United States today. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people identifying as Hispanic reached 64.1 million in 2020, an increase of nearly 1 million individuals over the previous year. Publishers have also welcomed this growing market with expanded resources and great enthusiasm. Read More» |
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| |  What You Need To Know To Help African American Patrons Start their Genealogical Research
By Nichelle M. Hayes
Genealogy is a hugely popular hobby; once people start to investigate their families’ past, unearth information, and make connections, it’s hard to stop. African American genealogy is essentially the same as research for other ethnic groups, though there are a few differences. These make it more challenging, but they are not insurmountable. |
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| |  I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness | Featured Review By Christine DeZelar-Tiedman "Watkins is fearless in her depictions, particularly of the character based on herself; she makes no attempt to help the reader sympathize with her actions, which initially feel selfish and immature. But as the layers of the past and present are peeled away, one can understand how she’s been traumatized and begin to admire her grit and determination to be true to herself. In the end, the narrative calls to mind Rabbit, Run as well as works from the Beat Generation but reflected through a feminist, millennial lens." |
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