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Good news! We’ve got a few romances that are releasing over the course of this month that might satisfy every bookish desire. Historical and contemporary. Hating-to-dating and off-road adventures. Instant pot romances and slow burns. There’s a little bit of everything! Some books are by familiar names, while others are much anticipated debuts. You’ll notice these are almost all books that will be published by big imprints like Berkley, Avon, Sourcebooks Casablanca, and so forth....

We’ve got clothes, bookish accessories, tote bags, and more below to get you in Pride reading spirit. If you can’t wait for more queer content to help fill your bookshelves, check out lists of new LGBTQ+ books released in May, April, and March. If you want to celebrate queer love, this list of LGBTQ+ romcoms will sweep you off your feet. And if you love YA, this quiz can help you find your next queer joyful read....

I’m not sure when I got rid of my shelf of heart books. After years of carefully packing and unpacking and rearranging books in each new place, I finally stopped reassembling the shelf. In my current house, I still have a favorites shelf, but my carefully selected shelf of heart books is no more. Partially, this is because the books that matter the most to me have changed as I’ve gotten older....

The story is out of the playbook we’re seeing across the country, and it’s destroying the Anchorage Public Library. Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson won a very tight mayoral race in late May 2021. Of note were the tactics his team took to intimidate and suppress voters, including stationing people outside voting areas to watch who was going in and out of those areas. He is radically anti-LGBTQ. Among the first tasks for Bronson was appointing a new director for the Anchorage Public Library....

Growing up, I collected empty books to use as journals. Composition notebooks, yellow legal pads, and beautifully-bound tomes gifted by well-meaning adults littered my childhood bedroom. They were proof that I tried. But I never stuck with it beyond the first few pages. I kept giving up after three or four half-hearted entries, canned musings about crushes and friendship. My heart simply wasn’t in it. When I want to look back on my adolescence, I pick up my copy of Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld....

Like many printers, Englishmen Robert Barker and Martin Lucas made the Bible a major part of their business. Barker, whose father had been the royal printer under Queen Elizabeth I, was the official printer for King James I of England. In this role, he was the first to print the King’s new version of the text, now known as the King James Version (KJV) Bible. When Barker published this work in 1611, he cemented his place in Biblical printing history, and the KJV text still continues to be used widely today....

DC Kids will focus on readers ages 8–12 and offer content created specifically for the middle-grade reader. DC, focusing on ages 13+, will primarily be the current DC universe of characters. DC Black Label will focus on content appropriate for readers 17 and older. Vertigo, the venerable DC black sheep, is being sunsetted, and DC Zoom and DC Ink are being folded into the new publishing structure. “Pop-up imprints,” i.e. groups of titles curated by individual creators such as Gerard Way’s Young Animal and Brian Michael Bendis’s Wonder Comics, look to be continuing, although it’s not clear how in every case....

My love language, first and foremost, is books. Except, when I shared this with my friends, they claimed that it made no sense. “Books don’t count,” was what they said. Naturally, I was taken aback by their blunt rejection. My friends are avid book readers (we’re all publishing students: books are our jam). Obviously books should count! In fact, books are so special that they are able to provide an entire love language of their own....

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The story began on Monday via the National Review, a right-wing media machine. According to an email leaked to Consumers’ Research — a group that purposefully sounds like Consumer Reports but is instead a machine meant to generate outrage against “woke” companies — a leader in State Farm’s company reached out to Florida agents in January asking if they’d like to take part in a project to “help diversify classroom, community center and library bookshelves with a collection of books to help bring clarity and understanding to the national conversation about Being Transgender, Inclusive and Non-Binary....

These are books which are seeing a lot of interest but haven’t necessarily stayed atop bestseller lists for months and/or books with particular interest locally. The data looks at adult fiction, adult nonfiction, and young adult books (which includes fiction, nonfiction, and comics). Panorama Picks groups public libraries by coordinating American Bookseller Association (ABA) regions, which allows for a really neat way of exploring interest on a regional level. A book might be especially popular in California but less so in the Midwest, and looking at that data provides a real opportunity for local bookstores and libraries....

Ferrante’s first novel L’amore Molesto came out in Italy in 1992 (translated by Ann Goldstein into English as Troubling Love in 2006) and her next, The Days of Abandonment, was published ten years later in Italy. These short earlier works shocked and captivated when they were first published in Italy. And it’s no surprise, as they are fiercely intelligent and beautiful novels — utterly enthralling and written with a rare intensity....

Bush leaped to fame in 2003 thanks to her role as Brooke Davis in the teen drama One Tree Hill. Among other noteworthy roles, she’s also starred as Detective Erin Lindsay in Chicago P.D. and Dr. Sam Griffith in the recent Good Sam. Her filmography includes book adaptations: she played Veronica in the ongoing Love, Victor, the TV adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Bush has also done voicework: she narrated several essays in the audiobook of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, a compilation edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K....

The Stubborn Archivist by Yara Rodrigues Fowler is a daring debut novel, when the narrative is a mix of stunning prose and poetry. Fowler tells the story of three generations of Brazilian women, focusing on the perceptions and conversations with the youngest of the three, who lives her life between London, UK, and São Paulo, Brazil. The fractured and uneven structure of the novel illustrates how first-generation immigrant children experience life in-between cultures, in-between languages, in-between families....

Capsule Books started as a subscription service, but customers are now able to purchase one box at a time without future obligations. For readers who prefer the passivity of a subscription service, you can also purchase through Cratejoy and receive each theme spread out across 12 months. Earlier this year, Capsule Books grew their offerings with the launch of Capsule Stories, a quarterly literary magazine. As with the boxes, each issue follows an emotional theme that each short story or poem fits into....

Self-help might seem like a strange thing to call a category that requires you by definition to seek help from a book that is your non-self, but the idea is that if you just follow these smart/wise people’s advice, you’ll be able to help yourself.Sounds great! I have read a whole heck of a lot of these. Have they helped me help myself? Sure, in some ways. And of course, in some cases they have aggravated me and some have made me laugh in an out-loud style....

— Oxford Languages (@OxLanguages) November 14, 2018 The runners up for 2018 are “gaslighting,” “incel,” “Techlash,” “Gammon,” “Big Dick Energy,” “Cakeism,” “Overtourism,” and “Orbiting.” For the curious, “Big Dick Energy” means “an attitude of understated and casual confidence.” Twitter user @imbobswaget is credited with coining the phrase in relation to a memorial for Anthony Bourdain. Moreover, Ariana Grande used the phrase in a now-deleted twitter exchange with her then fiancé Pete Davidson....

The special edition of the book has a cinefoil dust jacket, white heat shield foil pages, fire resistant ink, and is held together with nickel wire and high temperature adhesive. Its design comes as a result of a collaboration between Atwood, PEN America, the Rethink Creative Agency, and The Gas Company, Inc. A video was made of Atwood taking a flamethrower to demonstrate the book’s resistance to flames. The author hopes the unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale “raises awareness and leads to reasoned discussion....

One of the places you can see this most clearly is in superhero team books. While every team is different, there are certain requisite roles that have to be filled: the near invulnerable one, the genius billionaire playperson, the spy, the reformed criminal, the morally ambiguous one, etc. And then there’s the unpowered one. They’ve maybe mastered a skill that makes them useful, but when you get down to it they’re a mortal among gods and no one is 100% sure how they ended up in the big league or how they keep up or what, exactly, they’re meant to be doing—but hey, there they are and they are in the big league and they do keep up and none of those crazy, dumbass plans would work without them so respect....

Instead of fully spiraling about this staggering loss, I decided to read about the patterns of forgetting. One interesting tendency, as laid out by literature scholar Lise Jaillant, is that middlebrow literature tends to be forgotten more than highbrow or lowbrow literature. I recognize the terms for these distinctions are rooted in phrenology, a troublingly racist pseudoscience. But the terms are still in use, unfortunately. See, for example, this recent article asking where all the middlebrow culture has gone....