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Biography ..................................22 Talking Blindness and Physical Disabilities .................................23 Business and Economics ............24 Book Cooking ......................................24 Crime .........................................25 Topics Diet and Nutrition ......................25 Education ...................................25 Family ........................................25 July–August 2020 Government and Politics ............26 Volume 86, Number 4 Journalism and the Media ..........26 Contents Literature ....................................26 Medicine and Health ..................26 Music .........................................27 In Brief ........................................... iii Philosophy .................................28 Books for Adults ..............................1 Poetry .........................................28 Adult Fiction...................................1 Psychology and Self-Help .........28 Adventure.....................................1 Religion ......................................29 Classics ........................................2 Science and Technology ............30 Family ..........................................2 Social Sciences ..........................30 Fantasy .........................................2 Sports and Recreation ................31 General .........................................4 Stage and Screen ........................31 Historical Fiction .........................4 Travel .........................................32 Human Relationships ...................6 U.S. History ...............................32 Humor ..........................................7 World History ............................32 Literature ......................................8 Books for Children ........................33 Mystery and Detective .................8 Children’s Fiction .........................33 Psychological Themes ...............11 Adventure...................................33 Religious Themes ......................11 Animals and Wildlife .................34 Romance ....................................12 Family ........................................34 Science Fiction ...........................14 Fantasy .......................................34 Short Stories ...............................16 Friendship ..................................36 Spies and Espionage ..................17 Growing Up ...............................37 Sports Stories .............................17 Historical Fiction .......................37 Suspense ....................................17 Humor ........................................37 War .............................................21 Mystery and Detective ...............37 Westerns .....................................21 Religious Themes ......................38 Adult Nonfiction ...........................22 Scary Stories ..............................38 Adventure...................................22 School ........................................38 Arts ............................................22 Science Fiction ...........................39 Astronomy .................................22 Continued on the next page i Children’s Nonfiction ...................40 Animals and Wildlife .................40 Biography ..................................40 Cooking ......................................40 Government and Politics ............40 Holidays .....................................40 Medicine and Health ..................41 Music .........................................41 Poetry .........................................41 Religion ......................................41 Science and Technology ............41 You and Your Body ....................41 Foreign Language .........................42 Español .........................................42 Audio Magazines ...........................45 Order Forms: Books for Adults ...........................47 Books for Children .......................51 Foreign Language Books..............53 Library Phone List ........................55 Note: See Library Phone List for the telephone number and email address of your regional cooperating library. To cancel your subscription to Talking Book Topics, contact your local cooperating library ii In Brief How NLS can help Library of Congress and Do you need help learning how to use Smithsonian host online events BARD or BARD Mobile for quick, easy and exhibits access to NLS books and magazines? A new NLS factsheet, available online as a PDF The Library of Congress buildings may at https://go.usa.gov/xwZPV, walks patrons be closed to visitors, but its cultural through the steps of registering for BARD resources remain on full display online. service and acquiring material. Visit https://loc.gov/engage for regularly updated videos, blog posts, and webinars, from creative writing prompts for teens to Minibibliography on cats now highlights from previous National Book available Festivals. Animal adoptions are on the rise throughout This year’s National Book Festival will America. Patrons thinking about making be held entirely online. Follow the National space in their homes for a cat may find Book Festival blog, at https://blogs.loc.gov/ useful resources in the new NLS minibibli- national-book-festival, for further updates ography Cats: Care and Feeding, available about the virtual festival, which will feature at https://go.usa.gov/xwZP7. Other minibib- authors including Jared Diamond, John liographies, including a similar collection Grisham, Ibram X. Kendi, Ann Patchett, of resources for dog owners, are available and Colson Whitehead. at https://go.usa.gov/xwZP6. Looking for more cultural resources? The Smithsonian is hosting a number of online exhibits and events, including EveryBody: Other braille books available An Artifact History of Disability in America, through NLS available at http://everybody.si.edu. Visit Patrons who subscribe to Braille Book www.si.edu for more information about Review may be interested in other braille their offerings. books available through NLS BARD but not traditionally announced in this publication. Newsstand These include more than one thousand braille The following announcement may be of books produced by local network libraries, interest to readers. The National Library which can be found on BARD by searching Service for the Blind and Print Disabled for the book number prefix BRC, and almost reserves the right to publish announcements one hundred books acquired from CNIB, an selectively, as space permits. The item organization that offers special-format library mentioned below is not part of the NLS services for Canadian citizens who are blind, program, and its listing does not imply which use the book number prefix BRE. endorsement or support. We have included an appendix listing CNIB books available on BARD in the July/August issue of Braille Book Review to help increase patron awareness of available titles. iii In Brief Braille discussion group available from Hadley Patrons with a passion for braille may enjoy the weekly Embracing Braille discussion group offered by Hadley, a free distance- learning institution for individuals who are blind or have low vision. Transcriptions and audio of past discussions, covering topics from braille technology to