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The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren leads holds this week. Two LibraryReads and three IndieNext picks publish this week. The June issue of Entertainment Weekly arrives with the “Summer Books Special.” People's book of the week is The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, which also gets reviewed. The Hachette Group releases a diversity update for 2020. The British Book Awards were announced with Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens winning top fiction honors. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won best overall book of the year. The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards were announced, as were the 2021 Guggenheim Fellows. Plus, the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices has launched. Finally, Evelyn Waugh’s house is on the market for $7.6M.

The 2021 African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS) Nommo Awards longlists are announced and the 2020 & 2021 Robert E. Howard Foundation Awards finalists are out. Posthumous success for Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground. Interviews with the following authors: Jon Mooallem of This is Chance!: The Great Alaska Earthquake, Genie Chance, and the Shattered City She Held Together, Nora Zelevansky of Competitive Grieving, Julian Rubinstein of The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, and Morgan Harper Nichols of How Far You Have Come. Jessica Seinfeld announces a new cookbook Vegan, At Times. Queen Latifah’s Flavor Unit Entertainment joins with Jim Henson Company on the adaptation of The Conductors by Nicole Glover.

The 33rd annual Triangle Awards winners and 2021 Firecracker Award finalists are announced and Trevor Shikaze has been named the first winner of n+1’s Anthony Veasna So Prize. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave, Project: Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, and The Premonition by Michael Lewis top the best sellers lists. Colin Kaepernick announces the Oct 12 release of a book he has edited and published, Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons and Carmen Maria Machado writes about the challenges around her latest book In the Dream House. Tawny Kitaen revealed that she was working on an autobiography in an appearance before her death.

On the morning of Monday, May 10, the three New York City library systems reopened 53 branches for computer use, limited browsing, and in-person reference. Later that day, the leaders of all three systems testified at a New York City Council executive budget hearing to call for support in the face of the $10.34 million in budget cuts to the three library systems in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed FY22 executive budget—a number that could rise to as much as $22.2 million if City Council declines to re-up its yearly commitment.

Smith College and Kansas State reopen libraries after extensive renovations and Brooklyn, East Asheville, and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburg unveil substantial remodels.

Best sellers in psychology, May 2020 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

From celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to Van Gogh's influences to illustrator Edward Sorel. 

Literary studies, top biographies, and essay collections from Lydia Davis, Padgett Powell, and Jeanette Winterson. 

Next in the popular series after a seven-year wait.