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Booklist Review of the Day |
Signs of Hope: The Revolutionary Art of Sister Corita Kent
by Mara Rockliff, illustrated by Melissa Sweet
This dazzling picture-book biography offers a creative crash course in the artistic and social justice teachings of Sister Corita Kent, the Catholic nun who became a pop art sensation in the 1960s.
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Current Features |
Top 10 Continuing Series Nonfiction: 2024
by Julia Smith
While certain series make a splash with their newness, others prove reliable resources with each new addition to their ranks. The following are series that have continually delivered the goods and have had installments reviewed in Booklist between March 15, 2022, and March 15, 2024.
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Read-alikes: Family Memoirs
by Annie Bostrom
As they chronicle rippling generational traumas and the authors’ selves past and present, these standout family memoirs also bring to life mothers, fathers, grandparents, and siblings.
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Episode #34: Summer Scares 2024
By Susan Maguire
This episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast is all about Summer Scares! The reading program, a collaboration between Booklist, the Horror Writers Association, United for Libraries, Book Riot, and NoveList, announced their title picks in February. Host Susan Maguire sat down with the folks behind Summer Scares to talk about the books they want you to read this summer, different levels of scariness, and the importance of snacks for patron engagement.
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10 Questions for Nicci French
By John Charles
Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.
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10 Questions for Sarah Zachrich Jeng
By John Charles
Sarah Zachrich Jeng grew up in Michigan and always had a flair for the morbid and mysterious (for her dad’s thirty-fifth birthday, she wrote a story entitled “The Man Who Died at 35”). She had a brief career as an aspiring rock star before she came to her senses and went back to school to become a web developer. Sarah lives in Florida with her family and two extremely hyper rescue dogs.
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10 Questions for Helly Acton
By John Charles
Helly Acton is a copywriter from London with past lives in Zimbabwe, the Middle East, and Australia. She studied Law at King’s College London before following a more creative path into advertising. At 26, she took a career break to travel in Africa and Asia, before landing in Sydney. Six years and one life-affirming breakup later, she returned home and threw herself into online dating in the city.
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