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Book Clubs, Freebies, and Spectacles | What We’re Reading
As Library Journal editors scurry to read all the nominees for the best books of 2013, other staffers in the School Library Journal/LJ offices don their specs; give Dave Eggers’s fiction a try; check...
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Beatles, Bennets, Buddies and Brats | What We’re Reading
This week, the Library Journal staffers are shoplifting harmonicas with a Beatle, scrutinizing the Bennet family from below stairs, making new friends in Iowa, reading a friend’s novel on a smartphone,...
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Dressing the Part, Finding God and David Foster Wallace, and Decoding Blurbs...
This week, School Library Journal/Library Journal staffers take a break from perusing the best of the best to contemplate the existence of God, drool over iconic dresses, and dig beneath the jungle...
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Superhero Builders, Kite Runners, Nobel Winners, & More | What We’re Reading
As the cold weather circles, Library Journal and School Library Journal editors batten down the hatches and snuggle up with books set in Afghanistan, second grade, alternate fantasy worlds, Baltimore,...
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Wars, Worlds, Wonders, and Wackos | What We’re Reading
Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers selected a wide swath of reading matter this week, with books about killer scarecrows, scary clowns, not-really-new fairy tales, alternate worlds,...
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Covers, Awards, Agents, and More | What We’re Reading!
The Library Journal/School Library Journal bibliophiles are gobbling up books before the holiday and happy to share their picks of the week with fellow book devourers! Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, LJ...
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Post-Thanksgivukah Time Travels | What We’re Reading
Library Journal staffers had some time to read and re-read a few good books over the long weekend. Here’s what was on our post-holiday platters. Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, Library Journal Reviews As...
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Liars, Journalists, Swans, and Dark Defiers | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers are enjoying YA/ new adult titles, historical fiction and nonfiction, and some online comics. Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, LJ Reviews Though...
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Living, Dying, Surviving, and Striving | What We’re Reading
This week Library Journal staffers are booking travel to far-flung locales: Florida, Iwo Jima, China, England, even Omaha, NE. Francine Fialkoff, Library Consultant/Editor, LJ I’m finally reading one...
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Solstice Stocking Stuffers | What We’re Reading
This week Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers’ stockings are hung by the bookshelf with care—and they’re filled with memoirs, bookstore vacation reveries, Hollywood rebels, not-so-private...
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Last Pages of 2013 | What We’re Reading
Happy New Year—almost! The Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers are ringing out the old by perusing Christmas presents, scaring themselves silly, emulating the French, getting on board with...
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New Year, Old and New Books | What We’re Reading
This week, the Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers escape the ice and snow and read (more) about a Beatle, the Bennets’ servants, the pangs of grief, and the chicness of the French. Mahnaz...
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Rooftops, Rockers, Rah-Rah-Rah! | What We’re Reading
This week the School Library Journal and Library Journal staffers prance on Paris rooftops, sidle up to sisterhood, croon with a cult rocker, follow a fierce foodie, fish for fun facts, and navigate...
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Remembrances, Rockers, Thrill Rides | What We’re Reading
This week, Library Journal/School Library Journal editors remember friends and fun times and savor noir and semisupernatural suspense stories. Ian Chant, Associate Editor, News & Features, LJ When...
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Future, Past, Present, Perfect | What We’re Reading
Library Journal editors visit dystopias, finish a family saga, and transcribe the news this week. Liz French, Associate Editor, Reviews, LJ People, get ready, because today I’m gonna preach: Get...
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Spies, Lovers, WW II | What We’re Reading
As Valentine’s Day nears, School Library Journal and Library Journal staffers are reading about love and secrets, and secret loves. Even Rosemary’s baby boards the love train this week! Mahnaz Dar...
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Time Machines, Human Beings, Wimpy Kids, Wives| What We’re Reading
School Library Journal/Library Journal staffers confront scary monsters both real and imagined, wimpy kids, wives by the boatload, preconceptions, and murder this week. Tune in and see what we’re...
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Post–Valentine’s Day Books | What We’re Reading
Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers wear their hearts on their collective sleeves this week with love poems, historical fiction, updated Austen, married millennials, delayed Didion...
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To Protect and Serve | What We’re Reading
For Library Journal/School Library Journal staffers, it’s a week of pulling that lonesome book off the shelf and finally *reading* it, taking a chance on a novel for the younger set, being vicariously...
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Mapping Our Worlds | What We’re Reading
Library Journal and School Library Journal staffers are doing a lot of looking back, looking inward, and looking at maps this week. Mahnaz Dar, Associate Editor, Reviews, School Library Journal This...
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