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The Scar
by Mary Cregan
Cregan was a 27-year-old book designer in New York when she gave birth to her first child. All seemed well until two days later, when her daughter, Anna, died, and Cregan fell into a deep depression. Things got so bad that she attempted suicide. It took her many years to confront her past, but confront it she does in this remarkable book, which goes against everything she learned as a child growing up in a large Irish-Catholic family (“It was best not to draw attention to oneself”).
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 Top 10 Health and Wellness: 2019
by Donna Seaman
From hormones to blood, influenza to opiates, rage to self-help, and running to yoga, the best health and wellness titles of the past year combine, with powerful effect, science, social concerns, and personal discoveries.
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 Spring Youth Preview: 2019
by Ada Wolin
This announcement section offers Booklist readers a selected preview of especially notable new titles for young adult, middle-grade, and young readers. All titles will be published in the spring 2019 season.
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 Writers & Readers: Breaking Boundaries
by Crystal Hana Kim
In 2015, while writing my first novel, I was also teaching academic-essay writing to socioeconomically disadvantaged high-school students, many of whom were hoping to be the first in their family to go to college. While guiding my students through the college-application process, what I noticed most was their pervasive fear that despite their stellar grades, accomplishments, and all the obstacles they had overcome, they didn’t belong in higher education.
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 Now Hear This: Soneela Nankani
by Terry Hong
She can sound like a frightened little girl on the run or a gruff old man who’s seen it all. She can talk financial crises, offer self-help guidance, embody fantasy worlds, and channel her inner Gisele Bündchen. She narrates in multiple tongues, donning accents and languages with ease as she guides headphoned listeners across borders and cultures.
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