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Remarkably Bright Creatures is a novel by American author Shelby Van Pelt. It was published in May 2022 by Ecco Press. It has been on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times. [1] It was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize by the Writer's Center. [2]
Author Shelby Van Pelt talks about her octopus narrator, character and inspiration before the finale event for 14th Read Together Palm Beach County.
Her debut novel Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) [2] has been on the New York Times hardcover fiction best-seller list multiple times. [2] She was awarded the 2023 McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize and $3000 by the Writer's Center for Remarkably Bright Creatures. [3]
The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
“Remarkably Bright Creatures,” Van Pelt’s debut novel, was released in 2022 and became a best-seller. The story follows a lonely widow’s unlikely friendship with a giant octopus.
The library where he worked as a children's librarian, Fairfield Civic Center Library, a branch of the Solano County Library in Solano County, California, is the same library he grew up patronizing. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] In 2013, Threets began working there at age 23, shelving books, and worked his way to becoming supervising librarian of his branch in ...
Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. [1]
The 1926 American Library Association "book-length" commission report Libraries and Adult Education placed high importance on readers' advisory services in Adult Education. Judson T. Jennings provided a summary of the work, observing that the "library's contribution to adult education resolved itself into three major activities:" [12] 1.