Reviews of One Place, Jonathan Goldberg’s Strangers on a Train, and Elizabeth Winder’s Pain, Parties, Work, plus full list of arts and humanities reviews from the Apr. 1 issue.
Audio Reviews | April 1, 2013
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Reviews of Terry Brooks’s The Annotated Sword of Shannara, Peter Høeg’s The Elephant Keepers’ Children, and Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone, plus a full list of audio reviews in the Apr. 1 issue.
Time-Traveling Tales | April 1, 2013
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Reviews of Lauren Beukes’s The Shining Girls and Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return.
Crafts & DIY Reviews | April 15, 2013
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Reviews of Paul Scheckel’s Homeowner’s Energy Handbook, Judith Durant and Edie Eckman’s Crochet One-Skein Wonders, Alison Dupernex’s Knitting for the Absolute Beginner, plus a full list of crafts & DIY reviews from the Apr. 15 issue.
Fiction Reviews | April 1, 2013
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Reviews of Deanna Raybourn’s A Spear of Summer Grass, Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and Charlotte Link’s The Other Child, plus a full list of fiction reviews from the Apr. 1 issue.
Arts & Humanities Reviews | April 15, 2013
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Reviews of Reiner Stach’s Kafka: The Years of Insight, Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and Tom Dunkel’s Color Blind: The Forgotten Team That Broke Baseball’s Color Line, plus a full list of Arts & Humanities reviews from the Apr. 15 issue.
Social Sciences Reviews | April 15, 2013
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Reviews of The Road Out: A Teacher’s Odyssey in Poor America, Frozen in Time, and A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel, and other Social Sciences titles from the Apr. 15 issue.
Professional Media | April 1, 2013
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Reviews of Dictionary of Information Science and Technology and Andrew Walsh’s Using Mobile Technology To Deliver Library Services.
Following the Digital Clues: Mystery Genre Spotlight
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The world of mystery is ever-popular and ever-evolving. Whether a classic “whodunit,” a cozy, a police procedural, or something in between, crime fiction still draws readers nationwide. In a brief survey of 232 public libraries conducted by LJ, 55% of respondents reported that mystery continues to be the most popular genre in terms of circulation. The survey also found that in print fiction collections, 24.1% of materials are mysteries.
What is new this year is that mystery titles make up over 20% of library ebook collections. And like their print counterparts, the highest circulating subgenres in mystery ebooks are police procedurals and cozies. However, 57% of the survey respondents do not purchase e-original mysteries (perhaps owing to a lack of review coverage and issues of discovery?); chief e-mystery purchase influencers are high-demand titles, user requests, and cost.
Reference: Short Takes | April 1, 2013
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Reference short takes from the Apr. 1 issue.
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