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ICYMI: Our latest #ShelfCare episode is bringing you on the show floor of #ALAAC25! We're recapping big highlights from Philly including the @libraryreads.bsky.social #ReadNRave; interviews with #VictorPiñeiro, #ELockhart, and #KevinHenkes; and more! Listen now: bit.ly/4mkRU2K
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🎙️Live from #ALAAC25 it's...the #ShelfCare podcast! We're recapping big highlights from Philly including the @libraryreads.bsky.social #ReadNRave; interviews with #VictorPiñeiro, #ELockhart, and #KevinHenkes; and more! Host @booklistsusan.bsky.social is covering it all! Listen now: bit.ly/4mkRU2K
The full list is up! www.booklistonline.com/Booklist-and... #ReadNRave #alaac25 @ala-booklist.bsky.social
*A Little Holiday Fling* by @farahheronauthor.bsky.social - a meet cute between a christmas-loving heroine who drops a tree on the hero
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore* by Char Adams
*Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers* by @anthonydelaney.bsky.social
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*The Mean Ones* by @thebuffwriter.bsky.social - cabin in the woods (always ends well)
*You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom* by Vincent Tirado - locked room, family secrets, demons
*House of Smoke* by @johntedge.bsky.social - memoir
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Her One Regret* by Donna Freitas - feminist thriller that tackles regretting motherhood
*The Irish Goodbye* by @heatheroneill23.bsky.social - shared family tragedy and SECRETS, forgiveness, tragedy
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Overdue* by Stephanie Perkins - librarian main character slow burn romance
*In Deadly Company* by L.S. Stratton - workplace satire and murder mystery
*The Board* by @katyfarber.bsky.social - if you like Big Little Lies!
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Lucky Seed* by @justinianhuang.bsky.social - Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians
*Undead and Unwed* by @samtschida.bsky.social - Hallmark paranormal vibes
*Lauryn Harper Falls Apart* by Shauna Robinson - back home to run the apple festival! hijinks ensue
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
Cover of 6:40 to Montréal by Eva Jurczyk
I’m always a sucker for a story on trains! #alaac25 #readnrave
*The October Film Haunt* by @michaelwehunt.bsky.social - comp. to Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
*Deeper Than the Ocean* by Mirta Ojito - multigen
*Some Bright Nowhere* by @annpacker.bsky.social - "What if your partner's dying wish broke your heart?"
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Spread Me* by @sarahgailey.bsky.social - "weird as fuck" DO NOT BRING THAT INTO THE SHIP
*The Scald Crow* by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social - 1st person chronic illness/medical trauma told through Irish folklore
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Bog Queen* by @annanorth.bsky.social - "I love a bog body. I can't get over bog bodies, I don't know what's wrong with me." - @surlyspice.bsky.social + thriler
*A Particularly Nasty Case* by Adam Kay - hospital officials start dying, IS IT FOUL PLAY?
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Boudicca's Daughter* by @elodieharper.bsky.social historical fiction inspired by the statue that faces Parliament
*No Rest For the Wicked* by Rachel Louise Adams - mysterious deaths in a small town obsessed with Halloween
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*The 6:40 to Montreal* by Eva Jurczyk - train writing retreat on a train that breaks down
*Happy People Don't Live Here* by @ambersparks.bsky.social - haunted sanitorium has been converted to apartments
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*We Always Tender With Our Dead* by @ericlarocca.bsky.social - small town New England horror
*Every Step She Takes* by Alison Cochrun - f/f travel romance in Portugal
*You Watched in Silence* by H. Lee Justine - Pacific Northwest horror + influencers
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Human-ish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize* by @justingregg.com - some wild nonfiction from @migdali.bsky.social this morning
*I Know How This Ends* by Holly Smale - time travel romance
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*F*cked Up Fairy Tales* by @cosbrarian.bsky.social - multicultural, dark, at times comedic folklore
*How to Be a Saint: An Extremely Weird and Mildly Sacreligious History of the Catholic Church's Biggest Names* by Kate Sidley
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Ladies in Hating* by @alexandravasti.bsky.social - historical f/f romance between a pair of Gothic novelists who trade rivalry for love (definitely on my list)
*And Then There Was the One* by @marthawaters.bsky.social - 1930s romantic mystery
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Cursed Daughters* by Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of *My Sister, The Serial Killer* - family, sisterhood, superstition, and curses!
*Gabriela and His Grace* by @lianainbloom.bsky.social - 3rd in the Luna Sisters but can be read alone! Victorian romance
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*The Bear Hunter's Daughters: A Tale of Seven Sisters* by Anneli Jordahl - norse saga energy!
*Veil* by @jonathanjanz.bsky.social - family thriller mix of They Live and Taken
*Fiend* by @almakatsu.bsky.social - what if the Sackler family had a demon?
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Acquired Taste* by @claymcleod.bsky.social - chilling energy shots
*Crafting for Sinners* by @jennykiefer.com - woman must fight her way out of a craft store
*The Whistler* by Nick Medina - don't whistle at night!
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*The Unveiling* by Quan Berry - influenced by Lord of the Flies AND Beloved
*Somebody is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys* by Mariana Enriquez - personal memoir/stories
*Breathe In, Bleed Out* by Brian McAuley - for fans of Scream
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
*Why I Love Horror* ed. @raforall.bsky.social - love letter to Horror genre
*Play Nice* by @rachelharrison.bsky.social - influencer inherits demon-haunted house
*Teenage Girls Can Be Demons* by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social - "13 coming of rage stories"
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
Cover of Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson
This title has been mentioned in #ewgc this year! #alaac25 #readnrave
- *It's Me They Follow* by Jeannine A. Cook - bookish romance
- *Wolf Bells* by @lenizumas.bsky.social (author of *Red Clocks*) - intergenerational found family
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
Cover of The Glowing Hours by Leila Siddiqui
Uh oh, getting handsy on the cover of this one #alaac25 #readnrave
- *Psychopomp & Circumstance* by @edenroyce.bsky.social - reconstruction-set historical fantasy
- *The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward* - ed. @theferocity.bsky.social
- *Hole in the Sky* by @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
- *Her Wicked Roots* by @tanyapell.bsky.social - queer retelling of Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" 👀
- *Higher Magic* by @courtneyfloyd.bsky.social - cozy, witchy, academic mystery and romance
- *The Glowing Hours* by Leila Siddiqui - creepy!
#alaac25 #ReadNRave #ReadersAdvisory #BookSky
