Publishers Weekly - 03 08 2020

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Don’t Miss These New Releases
from Revell Fiction This Fall

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SEPTEMBER 2020

Volume 267
Number 31
ISSN 0000-0019

August 3,
2020

F E A T U R E S
21 In the Study, with a
Typewriter
One hundred years after the publication of Agatha Christie’s first
mystery, we look at her life and legacy.
28 History Repeating
Turn-of-the-20th-century Spokane, wracked by police violence and
social unrest, feels very of the moment in Jess Walter’s new novel.

N E W S
4 Waiting Game
As Covid-19 continues to spread, many fall events have moved
online, and publishers don’t see a meaningful return of employees
anytime soon.

6 Big Changes for Publishing in the W3C
In a pair of webinars last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium dis-
cussed its plans for the future of EPUB.

6 The Print Sales Surge Continues
With double-digit increases in all but one category, unit sales of print
books rose 20.2% in the week ended July 25 over the comparable
week last year.

8 Revell Celebrates 150 Years
Originally a publisher of works by evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
Revell is now a contemporary trade house offering faithful living
advice and novels that end on an up note.

12 AAP Releases Its Final 2019 Estimates
The association said total industry sales increased 1.1% last year
over 2018, to $25.93 billion, with units up 2%, to 2.86 billion.

14 Deals
Scribner buy a book about America’s first female astronauts,
Matthew McConaughey sells a memoir to Crown, and more.

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C o n t e n t s

D E P A R T M E N T S & C O L U M N S
88 Soapbox by Laura Winnick
A middle school librarian asks what it means to be a librarian
without a library.

B E S T S E L L E R S

● Adult Hardcovers 16 ● Adult Paperbacks 17

● Children’s 18 ● Apple Books 19 ● Smashwords 20

R E V I E W S

Fiction
30 General Fiction
34 Mystery/Thriller
38 SF/Fantasy/Horror
40 Romance/Erotica
42 Comics

Nonfiction
44 General Nonfiction
49 Lifestyle
54 Religion/Spirituality

Children’s/YA
56 Picture Books
58 Fiction

BookLife
62 Fiction
77 Children’s/YA
81 Nonfiction

35
Q&A with
Ian K. Smith

42
Q&A with
ReShonda Tate
Billingsley

47
Q&A with
Pamela Fuller

31
Boxed Review
Inside Story

39
Boxed Review
We Hear Voices
57
Reviews Roundup
Dino picture books

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