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The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of The One, Book 3 by Nora Roberts leads holds this week. More best-of booklists for the decade, year, and week are out. The Walking Dead, Frozen 2, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker all make news.
Barry takes us on a wild ride with her second novel, while Connolly explains how his enduring Charlie Parker first got into the game. Hart exhibits his usual moral rigor in a thriller involved a Vietnam vet and his brother, accused of murder. Jones introduces two sisters to their half-sister, while in Mina’s new work, a woman seeks out her biological mother only to find that she was murdered. Plus a James Patterson doubleheader, veterans like Johansen and Woods, three high-print-run debuts, domestic suspense, and more.
David Adjmi considers growing up a gay Syrian Jew in Brooklyn before the borough got cool, journalist Diane Cardwell finds a new life and a new community by surfing at New York's Rockaway Beach, and linguist Deborah Tannen reconstructs the life of her inspiring father. In contrast, Hayden Herrera recounts a neglectful upbringing by art-besotted parents, and Dan Mathews examines life with an off-kilter mother only recently diagnosed with mental illness. Other stories of difficult parents come from Sara Faith Alterman, Stephanie Danler, and Vicki Laveau-Harvie. Finally, among top memoirs, former Navy SEAL Douglas Michael Day communicates a story of service and survival.
A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame—as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash—in Ann Napolitano’s Dear Edward. Jen Dayton, Reference Librarian at Fairfield Public Library, spoke with the author about her inspiration for the novel, the fascinating characters we meet throughout, and the central message of the book.
Each week, the hardworking editors of LJ scour the web for the best library and book news and views. This week saw an uneven Twitter battle, Brooklyn Library's Cookmobile, two top-ten-of-the-decade lists (one from LJ Best Books 2019 short-story writer Bryan Washington, and stickers!
Frozen returns to the movies and The Irishman finally opens in wide release. The Washington Post picks the best books of the year. There are reports on the public memorial for Toni Morrison.
Boost your displays with these 20 diverse graphic works across genres.
On November 20, the National Book Foundation offered five book awards and two lifetime achievement awards in an evening that celebrated what books can accomplish.