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3 weeks ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
All the August 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. All the August 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. Pop FictionCitchens, Addie E. Dominion. Farrar. Aug. 2025. ISBN 9780374609337. 240p. $27. FICTIONCitchens debuts with a Black Southern family story set in Dominion, MS, which is run by Reverend Sabre Winfrey. Rev. Winfrey has five sons, including Emanuel, known as Wonderboy.
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1 month ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
All the July 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. All the July 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. Pop FictionCleeton, Chanel. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593816905. pbk. 352p. $19.
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2 months ago | 
libraryjournal.com | Neal Wyatt
Smith’s novel is a quiet triumph. Each small unfolding supports the next, characters blossom off the page, and the pitch-perfect pacing is as pleasurable as the descriptive detail. ★Smith, Sally. A Case of Mice and Murder. Bloomsbury. (The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Bk. 1). Jun. 2025. 352p. ISBN 9781639736928. $28.99. MDEBUT Smith, a barrister and King’s Counsel in London’s Inner Temple, makes her fiction debut with an Edwardian-set cozy.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
libraryjournal.com | Neal Wyatt
As LJ approaches its 150th year helping librarians curate collections, we offer modern reviews of titles published decades and centuries ago. These reviews highlight iconic works and provide professional assessments of classics that have appeared on banned-book lists. ★Austen, Jane. Emma: 200th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). Penguin Classics. Sept. 2015. 496p. ed. by Juliette Wells. ISBN 9780143107712. pap. $18.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
All the June 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. All the June 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post. Pop FictionAhdieh, Renée. Park Avenue. Flatiron. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250897954. 320p. $28.99.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
New LGBTQIA+ fiction from Joanna Lowell, Mae Marvel, Chip Pons, and Jodie Slaughter to help celebrate Pride Month along with great beach reads from Josie Silver and Alicia Thompson. Adler, Sarah. Finders Keepers. Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593817421. pbk. 368p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCEBestselling Adler (Mrs.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
Elliott, Kate. The Witch Roads. (The Witch Roads, bk. 1). Tor. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250338617. 448p. $29.99. FANTASYBestselling Elliott (The Keeper’s Six) returns with the first entry in an epic-fantasy duology featuring an arrogant prince and a courier who end up on a journey fraught with danger. Fox, Hester. A Magic Deep and Drowning. Graydon House. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781525809910. pbk. 304p. $18.99.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
Goo, Sara Kehaulani. Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai‘i. Flatiron. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250333445. 368p. $29.99. SOCIAL SCIENCESJournalist Goo writes about her family’s journey to keep their ancestral Hawaiian lands in the face of massive increases in property taxes. She traces the colonial history of the islands alongside her own efforts to reconnect with her past. Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne. Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings. Harper. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063246638. 336p.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
Arena, Brittney. A Dance of Lies. Del Rey. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593973196. 448p. $29. ROMANTASYIn Arena’s big debut, which was won at auction in multiple countries, a court dancer is framed for murder and sent to the dungeons but could earn her freedom if she spies for the king. Halle, Karina. Realm of Thieves. (Thieves of Dragemor, bk. 1). Ace. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593819821. pbk. 432p. $19.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Melissa DeWild |Neal Wyatt
Bundles, A’Lelia. Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. Scribner. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781416544425. 288p. $28.99. BIOGRAPHYBundles (On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker) is Walker’s biographer and great-great-granddaughter. She writes a biography of Walker’s daughter, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance and the United States’ first high-profile Black heiress. Gradvall, Jan. The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover. St. Martin’s. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250379856. 304p. $30.
