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Tia Williams’s Seven Days in June is getting adapted for television while films and TV shows based on comics fill this weekend and beyond. Interviews are out with Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura of We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration, Lisa Taddeo of Animal, Julianna Margulies of Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life, Tia Williams of Seven Days in June, and Kellye Garrett of Like a Sister. Huma Abedin, most well-known for being an aide to Hillary Clinton and formally being married to Anthony Weiner, is writing Both/And: A Life in Many Words with Simon & Schuster.

LJ releases the virtual galley guide for the 2021 American Library Association annual conference. Emma van Straaten wins the 2021 Discoveries Women’s Prize for Fiction. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand, Freed by E L James, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith, After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes top the best seller lists. Dave Eggers new book The Every will only be available in independent bookstores. Interviews arrive with Lisa Taddeo of Animal, Poppy Jamie of Happy Not Perfect, Alex Difrancesco of Transmutation: Stories. Adaptations are in store for Dave Hutchinson’s novels, Stephen King’s Christine, and Benjamin Black’s The Black-Eyed Blonde.

Elin Hilderbrand removes Anne Frank reference in Golden Girl after complaints. Publishing Perspectives rounds up news from the 2021 Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The Edelweiss Bookfest wraps up today, with speakers, author panels, and keynotes by Anthony Doerr and Seija Rankin. The Burning Blue by Kevin Cook gets a 4 star review from USA Today. Jessamyn Stanley's new book Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance gets a starred review. LibraryReads and Library Journal team up on read-alikes for The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Emilia Clarke’s debut comic book, M.O.M.: Mother of Madness, Volume 1 hits shelves in July. Plus, a preview and excerpt of Blood, the forthcoming memoir by Jonas Brothers.

LJ's ALA galley guide is available, featuring more than 150 titles. 

Creating the Pfizer vaccine, learning to talk about race, and investigating contemporary U.S. debtors’ prisons.

Great recipes and great insight into the confluence of food and culture.

Domestic suspense, missing persons, and contemporary global politics to keep readers thrilled during the holidays.

The Edelweiss Bookfest kicks off two days of programming today. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing finalists are announced. The 2021 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Shortlist is announced. ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer gets attention. The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler gets reviewed. Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H Mart will get a movie adaptation. Plus, Zadie Smith’s mother, Yvonne Bailey-Smith, has a debut novel, The Day I Fell Off My Island which will be published in the US in October.

The 2020 Nebula Awards were announced, with Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells winning best novel. Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark wins for best novella. Connie Willis is awarded the Kevin O’Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award. The President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson leads holds this week. There is one LibraryReads selection and four Indie Next picks publishing this week. The People "Picks" book of the week is Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. N.K. Jemisin will adapt her book series The Broken Earth Lands for Sony’s TriStar in 7-Figure Deal. And, Richard Robinson, longtime Scholastic CEO, has died.