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Day’s YA: THE QUINCE PROJECT

THE QUINCE PROJECT by Jessica Parra 9781250888518 (Trade Paperback) 9781250862778 (Hardcover) 5/28/2024 Wednesday Books Ages 12-18 E-galley available on Edelweiss and NetGalley Castillo Torres is a planner. She loves helping others achieve their HEAs (Happily Ever Afters) by being a fairy godmother-esque party planner extraordinaire. So far, her experience has consisted of planning school events […]

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For Your Consideration: May 2024 LibraryReads Titles

Download, read, and vote for your favorite May titles for the May 2024 LibraryReads list! Votes due April 1st! ONE LAST SHOT BY BETTY CAYOUETTE | 9781250291103 | 5/7/24REQUEST ON EDELWEISS AND NETGALLEY “Cayouette crafts an engaging story that jumps back and forth between the protagonists’ high school days and the present. The emotional aspects […]

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Celebrating Black Voices Staff Picks

We are honoring the impactful contributions of the Black community all year long, but for February’s Staff Picks, we’re celebrating these Black voices. Amanda: THE HOUSE OF BROKEN BRICKS by Fiona Williams In this debut, Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English […]

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Voices from the Screen and Stage (2/28/24)

These actors and musicians bring these novels to life on audio–from a famous opera singer and her relationship with a wealthy Greek shipping magnate, to a woman who has spent her career defending others but now must defend herself, to an art history student whose life eerily mirrors that of a deceased artist! DIVA BY […]

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Hear These Debuts (2/27/24)

These debuts are excellent on audio–from a teen preparing for her sister’s Shaadi, to a ’70’s rock band riddled with drama, to a woman exploring her voracious appetite! ARYA KHANNA’S BOLLYWOOD MOMENT BY ARUSHI AVACHAT; READ BY NIKHAAR KISHNANI | 9781250331243 | available now Excerpt from the audiobook! THE LAST DAYS OF THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLERS […]

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New Edelweiss E-galleys (2/27/2024)

LOUD: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo9780374614058 | 8/30/24 Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. LOUD is part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir. It makes it clear that behind her fearsome laugh […]

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Gretchen Sisson’s Letter to Librarians

Gretchen Sisson’s RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood is a powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Gretchen is joining us today to celebrate her pub day with a heartwarming family […]

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Happy Half Hour (2/26/24)

Today, we’re chatting about a beautifully wrought novel on the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse, a sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient, and a YA contemporary fantasy duology in which a teen finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world. THORN TREE by […]

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Register Now! Booklist Matchmaking Webinar

Join us for a Spring 2024 Preview as we match Adult + YA books with new readers, and hear from Casey McQuiston, author of THE PAIRING! Tune in Thursday, March 7th at 2pm EST / 1pm CST! Register here. […]

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2024 Best Fiction for Young Adults

We’re over the moon to have four titles on YALSA’s 2024 Best Fiction for Young Adults list!! ANDER & SANTI WERE HERE by Jonny Garza Villa DIVINE RIVALS by Rebecca Ross (in the top ten!) ALWAYS THE ALMOST by Edward Underhill GOING BICOASTAL by Dahlia Adler You can view the full list here. […]

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