Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Neal Wyatt compiles LJ's online feature Wyatt's World and is the author of The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction (ALA Editions, 2007). She is a collection development and readers' advisory librarian from Virginia. Those interested in contributing to The Reader's Shelf should contact her directly at Readers_Shelf@comcast.net
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Live the creative life vicariously in three novels about artists in passionate pursuit of their callings. Then look within to discover (or recover) your own creative DNA with the help of a writer, a world-renowned choreographer, and a creative arts therapist. Cassandra Mortmain’s father, a once-celebrated author, has been stymied by a years-long writer’s block, [...]
Dogs are not just our best friends. As these books prove, they are also our saviors, traveling companions, and earnest and loving teachers. In the early 1960s, John Steinbeck took a long and winding road trip across America with his poodle, Charley, by his side. Drawing on his sardonic wit, Steinbeck recorded many keen observations [...]
Audiobook month continues celebrating best reading voices
Hidden heirs, dueling families, unfolding powers, one is closer the throne.
June is audiobook month, and Wyatt’s World is showcasing titles for listeners, beginning this week with five titles written and read by women.
This month’s RA has Brown’s Dante leading the winding path back to the original Inferno: highlights include read-arounds in science, Botticelli’s drawings, Franz Liszt’s symphonic adaptation, and Celtic folk singer/ songwriter Loreena McKennitt.
Ellis’s Revolutionary Summer, the debut of DiSclafani’s Depression era coming-of-age novel, Matthews’s first espionage thriller, and two more.
Books about new ways of looking and listening to nature.
Gardens in tiny spaces, how-tos on creating miniature worlds, arid, lush, and flower filled.
Short story collections by award-winning authors Lily Tuck and Rebecca Lee, a first by novelist Marie NDiaye, and more from talented Ethan Rutherford and Valerie Trueblood.
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