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On Second Thought
by Kristan Higgins

Uplifting and sweet may seem like strange words to describe a novel that begins with a death, but mega-best-selling Higgins pulls it off in her return to the fictional Cambry-on-Hudson, the setting for If You Only Knew (2015). Kate, a wedding photographer, has been married only a few short months when she and her husband, Nathan, attend the party thrown by her half-sister Ainsley’s long-term boyfriend, Eric, to celebrate his recovery from cancer.

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top-10-Diverse-Audios_f1.jpgTop 10 Diverse Audios: 2017
by Joyce Saricks

These youth and adult fiction titles and memoirs on audio, reviewed between February 1, 2016, and January 2017, offer insights into diversity.

top-10-Diverse-Nonfiction-adult_f1.jpgTop 10 Diverse Nonfiction: 2017
by Donna Seaman

The most compelling books about issues pertaining to diversity reviewed in Booklist between February 1, 2016, and January 2017 cover a range of personal experiences as well as new historical disclosures.

top-10-diverse-fiction-youth_f1.jpgTop 10 Diverse Fiction for Youth: 2017
by Ilene Cooper

These outstanding books feature stories about young people both far away and close to home. All were reviewed in Booklist between February 1, 2016, and January 2017.

column_back-page_f1.jpg The Back Page: Best Personal Reading, 2016
by Bill Ott

Trends, you ask? Sorry, but I’ve found over the years that it’s nigh on impossible to find anything like a trend in the personal reading choices of my Booklist colleagues.

column_carte-blanche_f1.jpg Carte Blanche: Happy Anniversary
by Michael Cart

Happy anniversary, old friend. You’re doing great and looking fine. Yes, young adult literature, that lively and dynamic genre, is now celebrating its golden anniversary, having come into existence in that portentous year 1967. Or did it?

column_every-book_f1.jpgEvery Book Its Reader: Resolve to Reach More Readers
by Neil Hollands
There’s a gap in almost every field between the articles in professional or scholarly writing and actual daily practice. On one level, that’s great: we need ideals that show what we value.
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