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Spring 2018 Announcements: Romance & Erotica
Contemporary romances and erotica are branching out in exciting ways, including choose-your-own-adventure books and some matches between royals and commoners that upend or entirely abandon the familiar Cinderella story.
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Spring 2018 Announcements: Politics & Current Events
The first anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration is coming up, and this spring’s politics books focus on America’s destructive political climate, income inequality, systemic issues within our democracy, and Russia.
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Spring 2018 Announcements: Poetry
The ways history, identity, and systematic violence shape the American experience continue to be primary themes in contemporary American poetry.
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Spring 2018 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers
Former president Bill Clinton’s political thriller, coauthored with bestseller James Patterson, is the season’s big book.
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Select Spanish-Language Titles: November 2017
A listing of select Spanish-language books that are being published in November.
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How to Head Off a Retirement Crisis: Personal Finance Books 2018
Among the proposals in forthcoming books on retirement: guaranteed retirement accounts.
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Teaching Money Skills with a Message: Personal Finance Books 2018
Generous Kids, a new children’s series from Christian publisher Sparkhouse Family, combines money lessons with moral teachings.
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Capital 101: Personal Finance Books 2018
In an age of financial anxiety, new books take consumers back to basics.
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Notable African American Titles 2017-2018
A selection of significant titles of African American interest for adults and young readers published between September 2017 and March 2018.
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African-American Interest Adult Titles, 2017-2018
A list of African-American interest books for adult readers published between September 2017 and March 2018.
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Mysteries Without Borders: Mysteries and Thrillers 2017–2018
Indie publishers see continued opportunities in acquiring international titles, and in turn, penetrating overseas markets.
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Double Identities: Mysteries and Thrillers 2017–2018
Bookseller-publishers Otto Penzler and Barbara Peters launched their specialist bookshops a decade apart, and that’s just the start of their differences.
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Crime Scene: Mysteries and Thrillers 2017–2018
Peer inside the hard-case world of independent mystery publishing.
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Consenting and Queer: Romance Publishing
How does LGBTQ romance fiction navigates questions of consent and safer sex?
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Safer Becomes Sexier: Romance Publishing
Depicting bedroom scenes in a sexy and authentic way has necessitated that authors confront certain realities.
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It’s Still Complicated: Romance Publishing
There’s a taboo that governs even the rule-breaking alphas of modern romance.
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Let’s Talk About Sex: Romance Publishing
How do romance authors and editors address tricky issues of communication and safer sex without killing the mood?
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Health & Fitness 2017: Low-FODMAP FTW
For people on low-FODMAP diets, it’s probably hard enough to steer clear of ill-tolerated foods—fruits, milk, broccoli, avocados—without trying to pronounce “fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.”
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Health & Fitness 2017: Healthy Enough
The diet and fitness shelves are lined with promises. A reader perusing them could be excused for thinking that he or she can lose a toddler’s worth of weight in 30 days or have a tortoiseshell-hard abdomen in a matter of weeks. But these claims don’t always line up with reality.
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Health & Fitness 2017: Life Support
We’d all like to feel our best, but most of us have to compromise. We can aim to age gracefully, but we can’t stave off decline entirely. We can take steps to stay trim, but for most of us, acquiring a movie star’s or pro athlete’s physique is only going to come from tremendous effort and deprivation.