Lisa Peet

Barnes & Noble names 16 finalists for Book of the Year, Shelf Awareness reports. Karen Russell's The Antidote (Knopf; LJ starred review) wins the Endeavour Award for a sci-fi or fantasy book by a Pacific Northwest author, Locus reports. The Science Fi... See more

Pip Adam's Audition (Coffee House) wins the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. The publisher Catapult is being sold and will wind down operations on October 30, Publishers Weekly and Publishers Lunch report. A survey of U.S. readers by BookInsights.ai f... See more

After 40 years at the Delaware Division of Libraries—24 of them serving as State Librarian—Annie Norman is running for election to the Delaware House of Representatives as the Democratic candidate for District 34, with an eye on supporting education refor... See more

★Landers, Ty. Baby Queen. Harper Perennial. Nov. 2026. ISBN 9780063512290. pbk. 320p. $19.99. THRILLER DEBUT When a body is found, preserved in a barrel of decades-old honey at a farm in backwoods Alabama, a grandmother and granddaughter face a come-to-ju... See more

★Brazeal, Forrest. Paradox Inc. Ballantine. Jan. 2027. ISBN 9798217094561. 384p. $31. SCIENCE FICTION DEBUT Silicon Valley just cracked time travel, or a version of it, anyway: the ability to nudge a short distance into the past. What follows isn't a triu... See more