On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to Stephanie Sendaula, librarian and memoir enthusiast, about what’s so great about memoirs and what makes a great author visit. Then Audio Editor Heather Booth shares some upcoming awards and lists that those who do collection development and listeners’ advisory will want to know about. Finally, Susan and Annie Bostrom, Senior Editor, Adult Books, chat about what they’re reading and loving.
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It, by Greg Marshall
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing, by Jen Soriano
Women We Buried, Women We Burned, by Rachel Louise Snyder
Electric Lit
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, a Memorial, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, by Jane Wong
Illness as Metaphor, by Susan Sontag
Rainbow Black, by Maggie Thrash
The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America, by Katherine Turk
Silver Nitrate, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Odyssey Award Winners
RUSA Adult Listen List
Spring Audio Preview (in Corner Shelf)
Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel
Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera
American Daughters, by Piper Huguley
