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• Review: ‘The Mermaid of Black Conch,’ by Monique Roffey
• Review: ‘Fellowship Point,’ by Alice Elliott Dark
• Review: “George Michael: A Life,” by James Gavin
• Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77
• A Chameleon Flies From ‘The Blacklist’ to ‘The Kite Runner’
• Seeing Norma: The Conflicted Life of the Woman at the Center of Roe v. Wade
• Review: ‘Take No Names,’ by Daniel Nieh

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• New in Paperback: Susan Orlean and Brandon Taylor
• A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers
• ‘Honey and Spice,’ by Bolu Babalola
• How TikTok Became a Best Seller Machine
• New Novels That Weave Past and Present
• Review: ‘Night of the Living Rez,’ by Morgan Talty
• Review: “Mordechai Anielewicz: No to Despair” by Rachel Hausfater
• Alice Elliott Dark By the Book Interview
• Leila Mottley Graduated From High School and Wrote a Novel
• 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
• Candace Bushnell, Hanya Yanagihara and More on Their Favorite New York City Novels
• Poem: Beyond Theity, Ity Idiom/Dear Faith
• New Books to Read in July
• ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’
• Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court
• The Best Books to Take You Through Lisbon, Portugal
• Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance
• Book Review: “The Measure” by Nikki Erlick
• Newly Published, From Yan Lianke to Hurricane Maria
• The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read
• In ‘Thrust,’ Talking Animals and Others Take Aim at Humanity’s Cruelty
• Review: ‘Elsewhere,’ by Alexis Schaitkin
• Book Review: Ways of Being by James Bridle
• Book Review: ‘The Colony’ by Sally Denton
• Review: “X,” by Davey Davis
• Book Review: “Dele Weds Destiny,” by Tomi Obaro
• Review: ‘Life Ceremony,’ by Sayaka Murata

• Writers to Watch Fall 2022
• From the Archive: July 1, 1993
• Book Deals: Week of July 4, 2022
• San Diego Comic-Con Is Back
• Readying Authors for Their Close-Ups
• Buzz Bissinger Is Back at the Bowl Game
• The Past Is Never Dead: PW Talks with Orlando Figes

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• After the Untouchables: PW Talks with Daniel Stashower
• Outside of Society: PW Talks with Ernesto Mestre-Reed
• Macmillan Slowly Bringing Systems Back
• Franklin Fixtures Owners Open Bookstore in Tennessee
• Print Unit Sales Fell 9.4% in Late June
• This Week's Bestsellers: July 04, 2022
• The ALA Annual Conference Returns with Solid Attendance
• PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 4, 2022
• Cardinal Rule Press Acquires Bucket Fillers
• Comics/Graphic Novel Sales Jumped 62% in 2021
• S&S Launches Banned Books Promotion for Bookstores
• Print Book Sales Dropped 9% Last Week
• AAP Seeking $300K in Legal Fees After Winning Maryland E-book Case
• 2022 In Memoriam: Children's Book Creators Remembered
• In Brief: June 30, 2022
• Children's Institute 10: Around the Panels
• Close-Up on: Svetlana Chmakova
• New Kids' and YA Books: Week of July 4, 2022
• Close-Up on: Ryan T. Higgins
• Barnes & Noble Education Sees Improvement
• Macmillan Shutdown Spreads to U.K.
• Seven Seas Voluntarily Recognizes Union
• Post-Roe, Publishers Scramble to Meet the Political Moment
• Shutdown Leaves Macmillan Unable to Handle Book Orders
• Apple Books Category Bestsellers, June 26, 2022
• Close-Up on: Austin Macauley
• Rights Report: Week of June 27, 2022
• Four Questions for Eileen Grimes
• Q & A with Lora Senf
• When Authors Play the TikTok Game
• Middle Grade Writers Promote 500 Indie Bookstores
• Apple Books Bestsellers: It's Jenny Han's 'Summer'
• ‘Humility, Responsibility, and Prioritizing Community’: Native Authors at Ci10
• Q & A with AASL President Kathy Lester
• ALA Annual Conference Has Busy In-Person Return
• New and Noteworthy Children's and YA Books: June 2022
• Diving into Summer Reading: How Four Teachers/Librarians Help Readers Take the Plunge
• Bookstores Respond to Demise of Roe v. Wade
• Q & A with JaNay Brown-Wood
• PW Picks: Books of the Week, June 27, 2022
• Murder in the Heartland: PW Talks with John Galligan
• Book Deals: Week of June 27, 2022
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Camille Gomera-Tavarez
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Judy Lin
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Andrew Joseph White
• Bookselling Spotlight: Skylark Bookshop
• This Week's Bestsellers: June 27, 2022
• Helena Andrews-Dyer's Mother ­­­­Lode Memoir
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Chioma Ebinama
• Print Unit Sales Fell 4.8% in Mid-June
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Julian Randall
• Fiona McCrae Retires from Graywolf Press
• Spring 2022 Flying Starts: Carl Joe Williams
• From Shelf to Shining Shelf
• Spring 2022 Children’s Flying Starts
• Spiritual Books for Death’s Aftermath
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Activist: PW Talks with Prince Shakur
• New Books Find God Amid Grief
• From the Archive: July 2, 2012
• Indie Spotlight: End of June 2022
• Register Today for AAPI Communities in Conversation #7, Featuring Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Author of 'Finding My Voice'
• Amid 'Roe' Protests, ALA Annual Conference Gets Underway in Washington, D.C.
• Digging Deeper into Hemingway
• Rights Report: Week of June 20, 2022
• New Kids' and YA Books: Week of June 27, 2022
• Soapbox: Show Me the Funny Girls
• Print Book Sales Declined 5% Last Week
• PRH and OddFellows Partner for Books and Ice Cream
• Four Questions for Juliana Goodman
• Gordon Korman's 100th Book Rolls Off Press
• Just Announced: Week of June 20, 2022
• Four Questions for Melanie Crowder
• In Brief: June 23, 2022
• Children's Institute 10: Charlie Jane Anders Says ‘Magical Portals Exist, and Adults Aren’t Real’
• Taylor Norman Joins Holiday House's Neal Porter Books
• Clarion Launches New Imprint Headed by Linda Sue Park
• Toronto Comic Arts Festival Makes In-Person Return
• New Report Assesses Global Trends in Digital Book Sales
• Children’s Institute 10 Celebrates Community
• Lawyers Say ‘Defective’ Virginia Obscenity Claims Should Be Tossed
• New Kids’ Book Says It’s OK to Ask for Help—Even If You’re a Rabbi
• Fame and the Evangelical Church: PW Talks to Katelyn Beaty
• From Pediatric Cancer to Outer Space: PW Talks to Hayley Arceneaux
• Religion and Spirituality Books Preview: July 2022
• Apple Books Category Bestsellers, June 19, 2022
• Religion Book Deals: June 22, 2022
• 10 Essential Works of Fabulist Fiction
• 'Welcome, Lightmakers': Ci10 Opens with Keynote by Karen Walrond
• David C Cook Turns to Comics for Expansion
• Apple Books Bestsellers: Hilderbrand Hits #1, But Hoover and Han Are the Real Winners
• Author William MacAskill on 'What We Owe the Future'
• How Big Can the Fall Regional Bookselling Conferences Get?
• A Literary Mirror (shelftalker)
• Bookstores in the Crosshairs (shelftalker)
• Not The Best Day Ever (shelftalker)
• Tackling the Inexplicable (shelftalker)
• Battle of the Magical Horses (shelftalker)
• Beyond the Kindness Curriculum (shelftalker)
• What Austin Teens Want Publishers to Know, 2022 Edition (shelftalker)
• Danger at the Iditaread (shelftalker)
• Books That Help Us Talk with Children About War (shelftalker)
• The Fallacies of Applying the UN Hate Speech Definition to Literature (shelftalker)

Books : NPR

• 'Night of the Living Rez' chronicles one tribe's struggle with poverty and addiction
• Here are the 14 books that NPR staff and critics are loving the most so far this year
• What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing
• 'Noir Alley' host celebrates cinema's double crosses and doomed characters
• 8 books to enjoy at the beach this summer
• Travel the world without leaving your home with these 10 books
• 'Tahrir's Youth' follows the trajectories of some young revolutionaries in Egypt

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• Here are the Books We Love: 160+ great 2022 reads recommended by NPR
• Real life or satire? Novelist Mat Johnson says it can be hard to tell the difference
• Hadero's stories feature immigrants, refugees and others struggling to belong
• In Ian Falconer's new book, 'Two Dogs' cause mischief after being left home alone
• 'X' looks at a subculture that mainstream American art has frequently shied away from
• A novelist's time in the MMA cage informed his book on memory loss and identity
• The strange underground economy of tree poaching
• A public library in Maryland held a fundraiser that left a lasting impression

Author Interviews : NPR

• 'Night of the Living Rez' chronicles one tribe's struggle with poverty and addiction
• 'Noir Alley' host celebrates cinema's double crosses and doomed characters
• 'Tahrir's Youth' follows the trajectories of some young revolutionaries in Egypt
• Real life or satire? Novelist Mat Johnson says it can be hard to tell the difference
• Hadero's stories feature immigrants, refugees and others struggling to belong
• In Ian Falconer's new book, 'Two Dogs' cause mischief after being left home alone
• A novelist's time in the MMA cage informed his book on memory loss and identity

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• 'The Last Resort' unveils the destructive reality of beachside destinations
• 'The Tomorrow Game' depicts the violent results of systematic oppression in Chicago
• Fasten your seat belts, flight attendant-turned-novelist shares stories from the sky
• Why overturning Roe isn't the final goal of the anti-abortion movement
• The human sensory experience is limited. Journey into the world that animals know
• Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensive
• Humans have 5 senses, but there's 'An Immense World' of experiences for animals
• Ellyn Gaydos tracks her life in 'Pig Years'

GANNETT Syndication Service

• 'The Church of Baseball': New 'Bull Durham' book gives inside story on making of unlikely classic
• Climate disaster blockbuster 'The Displacements,' Joan of Arc epic: 5 new must-read books
• Book bans are on the rise. What are the most banned books and why?
• Book about WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans blocked in Wisconsin: 'A hard book to read'
• Juicy revelations from celeb tell-alls including Kenny Loggins and Zachary Levi
• 'Handmaid's Tale' is a post-Roe v. Wade bestseller, Jenny Han's YA dominates summer sales
• Zachary Levi had a mental health 'breakdown.' Here's how 'Radical Love' helped him heal

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• George Michael biography, Lidia Yuknavitch's 'Thrust': 5 must-read new books this week
• The best rom-com reads of 2022: Which books got perfect scores from our critics?
• Elin Hilderbrand's 'Hotel Nantucket,' 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' are summertime bestsellers
• June's top rom-coms: Jenny Colgan's 'An Island Wedding' and Lucy Score's 'Maggie Moves On'
• The best books of 2022 so far: How many of these perfect 4-star books have you read?
• USA TODAY's bestselling books of the last 10 summers: How many have you read?
• Here's how to start an online book club that's as fun as meeting in real life
• What's really going on in 'The House Across the Lake'? Riley Sager thriller keeps readers guessing
• The best books of 2022: What USA TODAY's critics loved reading so far
• Kenny Loggins talks 'Top Gun,' the return of 'Danger Zone' and writing his new memoir
• James Patterson said white men face 'racism' in publishing. What do book sales say?
• 20 summer books: 'Woman of Light,' Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Mann's 'Heat 2'
• Ottessa Moshfegh's dark 'Lapvona,' Riley Sager thriller: 5 must-read new books this week
• Wondering how to teach your kids (and yourself) about Juneteenth? These 28 books can help
• 10 new LGBTQ books to celebrate Pride Month: 'I Kissed Shara Wheeler,' 'Queer Ducks,' 'Fire Island'
• Colleen Hoover, James Patterson and a pug with 'No Bones' are among this week's best selling books
• LGBTQ book sales soar, led by titles 'They Both Die at the End' and 'Heartstopper'
• All the new cookbooks (and easy recipes) we're looking forward to this summer
• 20 sizzling summer books: Jennifer Weiner, David Sedaris, Michael Mann's 'Heat 2' and more
• 50 AAPI authors, including Ali Wong, 'The Rock' and Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri
• 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston
• The best books of 2021 so far: What USA TODAY's critics loved reading
• USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list

Book Reviews, Excerpts, Audio Books and Reader Exclusives - HuffPost Books

• How 'Jennifer's Body' Bewitched 2 Queer Writers
• Twitter Users Mock Peter Navarro's Desire To Postpone Trial Because Of Book Tour
• James Patterson Apologizes For Saying Older White Male Writers Face Racism
• Critics Blast James Patterson For Saying White Writers Are Struggling To Get Work
• LeVar Burton Describes Book Bans With A Not-Safe-For-'Reading Rainbow' Word
• James Patterson Once Spotted A Woman Stealing One Of His Books
• 'Unburnable' Copy Of 'Handmaid's Tale' Sells For $130,000 At Auction

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• Stephen King Loves New ‘Stranger Things’ Season, But Says 1 Thing Is ‘Kind Of Lame’
• Kellyanne Conway Isn't Wearing Wedding Ring, Says Husband George Isn't Either
• SuChin Pak Is Not The Coward She Once Thought She Was
• Kellyanne Conway Finally Admits Marriage With George Conway Is On The Rocks
• Burn-Proof Edition Of 'The Handmaid's Tale' Up For Auction
• Jimmy Kimmel Spots Most Awkward Part Of Kellyanne Conway's Book Release
• 101-Year-Old Baseball Writer, Editor Roger Angell Dies
• Colin Firth Once Wrote 'Fan Letter' To 'Favorite Darcy' Matthew Macfadyen
• Kellyanne Conway Accuses George Conway Of Cheating On Her — With Twitter
• 'The Office' Stars Name The Guest Director Who 'Almost Murdered' Entire Cast
• In Jan. 6 Audio, Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Biden Will Be 'The Best Person To Have' In Charge
• Esper Says Trump Asked About Shooting Missiles Into Mexico To Target Drug Labs
• Rep. Lauren Boebert Says She Wrote A Book And Twitter Users Are Absolutely Baffled
• Jared Kushner's White House Memoir Slated For August Release
• Trump’s Surreal White House Stash Room Detailed In New Book
• Tennessee Republican Suggests Books Deemed Inappropriate Should Be Burned
• I'm An Author And A Trans Woman. Here’s Why I Won’t Stop Telling Our Stories.
• Florida Atheist Uses State's New Book-Banning Law To Object To The Bible
• Stephen King's ‘Scariest Work Yet’ Might Be This Ridiculous Microwave Recipe
• GOP Lawmaker's Basic Numbers Gaffe Reignites Mockery Of Math Book Bans
• Jennifer Grey Opens Up On Nose Job That Made Her ‘Completely Invisible’
• Queen Elizabeth's Longtime Dresser Reveals How She Reacted After Prince Philip's Funeral
• Marvel’s 'All-Out Avengers' Series Is Coming This Fall. Here’s What Fans Should Know.
• 'It's Okay To Be A Unicorn' Comes Under Fire In Ohio School District
• Treva B. Lindsey’s ‘America, Goddam’ Explores How State And Sexual Violence Impact Black Women

Good e-Reader

• The best sites to download free e-books and audiobooks
• Spotify confirms they are adding a Freemium Model to Audiobooks
• Amazon unveils Kindle Epic Summer Challenge
• Best Tools That Will Help Improve Your Writing Strategy
• First Look at the Boyue Meebook P10 Pro e-note
• NASA’s releases new free ebook called Strange New Worlds
• Nanov introduces solar powered E Ink system to display bus transit and other info

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• Etulipa introduces first full color e-paper display based on second-gen electro wetting tech
• E-books for gamers: what to read if you are into gaming?
• Audiobook and ebook piracy is on the rise in Italy
• Rakuten Kobo Expands further into Italy with audiobooks and new partnerships
• JDI in Japan introduce transparent display
• Bookwire GmbH to launch WAY service for audiobook publishing using TTS tech

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NYT > Book Reviews

• Review: ‘The Mermaid of Black Conch,’ by Monique Roffey
• Review: ‘Fellowship Point,’ by Alice Elliott Dark
• Review: ‘Take No Names,’ by Daniel Nieh
• ‘Honey and Spice,’ by Bolu Babalola
• New Novels That Weave Past and Present
• Review: ‘Night of the Living Rez,’ by Morgan Talty
• Review: “Mordechai Anielewicz: No to Despair” by Rachel Hausfater

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• Leila Mottley Graduated From High School and Wrote a Novel
• ‘Why We Did It’ Is a Dark Ride on the ‘Republican Road to Hell’
• Book Review: “The Measure” by Nikki Erlick

Salon.com > books

• "We all keep the same kinds of secrets": An expert on what our secrets mean and why we carry them
• 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now
• "The Winds of Winter": George R.R. Martin “wrestling with Jaime and Brienne” chapters
• Is James Patterson's claim that white men face racism an enraging PR stunt from a former ad man?
• James Patterson laments white male writers are facing racism, and then receives immediate backlash
• Cult expert Steven Hassan sees 95% chance of worsening pro-Trump violence
• How "Fire Island" puts the Pride in "Pride & Prejudice"

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• Is our child welfare system "broken"? Or is it ripping apart Black families by design?
• Donald Trump, criminal mastermind: Scholar Gregg Barak on the supreme con artist of our time
• Merrick Garland "fears no person," says legal scholar Norm Eisen — and he's coming for Trump
• "Alternative facts": Harsh book reviews for Kellyanne Conway's new memoir
• Will no one think of the tweens? Kids need more queer stories than just "Heartstopper"
• Bethenny Frankel on success built on authenticity: "Not everybody likes me, but people trust me"
• The world, with or without us: Increasing gas and oil production is a disastrously bad idea
• Buffalo, Jan. 6 and the rise of partisan violence: These scholars saw it coming
• Author Marc Lamont Hill on George Floyd, America, "telling the truth and fighting for freedom"
• "You couldn’t buy your way in": Anna Wintour biographer on her power, from the Met Gala to Wimbledon
• Has Russia been beaten? This military expert says that moment is coming soon
• Misogyny and "male supremacism": Central driving force in the rise of the far right
• Meghan McCain’s latest book “Bad Republican: A Memoir” is a massive flop
• George R.R. Martin: "The Winds of Winter" may be “the longest book…in the series”
• Inside the untold story of John Lennon's legal war with a Mafia-connected label owner
• Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power
• From the Pilgrims to QAnon: Christian nationalism is the "asteroid coming for democracy"
• Not everyone has the luxury to leave Twitter
• Crime novelist Don Winslow: Trump belongs behind bars — but that won't happen in this America
• The problem with positive psychology: When the pursuit of happiness turns toxic
• Historians' first verdict on Trump: You're fired! But there's more to it than that
• Francis Fukuyama on Putin, Trump and why Ukraine is key to saving liberal democracy
• A bolder than "Bridgerton" reading list: Regency books with a twist Eloise would love

The Barnes & Noble Review

• The B&N Podcast: Holly Jackson on A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
• The B&N Podcast: Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
• The B&N Podcast: Jeanine Cummins on American Dirt
• Abigail Hing Wen on How One Summer Can Change a Lifetime
• The B&N Podcast: Ann Napolitano on Our January Book Club Pick
• Still Good to Him: Robert Christgau on a Life of Writing about Listening
• A Year in Reading: A Reviewer’s Favorites from 2019

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• The B&N Podcast: Alice Hoffman on the Stories We Need to Survive
• American Science Fiction: Eight Classic Novels of the 1960s
• The B&N Podcast: Charlie Mackesy on our Book of the Year
• The B&N Podcast: Brian K. Vaughan on his Galactic Imagination
• The B&N Podcast: Michael Eric Dyson on an American Icon
• The B&N Podcast: Bill Bryson on the Universe We Walk Around In
• Didion, Revisited
• The B&N Podcast: Eva Chen on Raising Readers (in Style!)