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Happy Monday, librarians!

Apologies for the unexpected radio silence after Wednesday of last week; I fell victim to the seasonal cold monster. I've triumphantly defeated the beast and returned only slightly sniffly to kick off the week with some great news.

- Continuing the exciting award nomination news from last week, we got the list of Macmillan books nominated for the 2012 Agatha Awards:

Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Novel of 2012:

THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
by Louise Penny

A FATAL WINTER
by G.M. Malliet

THE OTHER WOMAN
by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel of 2012:

DANDY GILVER AND AN UNSUITABLE DAY FOR A MURDER
by Catriona McPherson

Winners will be announced at the 2012 Agatha Awards banquet on May 4th, 2013, during Malice Domestic 25. See the full list of Agatha nominees here.

- A delightful review of THE MARLOW PAPERS is currently traveling all across the U.S. in American Airline's American Way magazine!

"With the screw-tightening verve of a great thriller and the romantic pull of Renaissance poetry, the novel—which purports that Marlowe is the true author of William Shakespeare’s legendary oeuvre—is a gripping, lyrical, most unlikely page-turner."

Read the super quick review here.

- Flavorwire suckered us in with another one of their bookish listicles, "The Best Fictional Libraries in Pop Culture."

- And finally, a couple of snuggly red pandas romping around in the snow!!

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We're giving you a totally exclusive, never before seen, behind the scenes look into our twitter feed this week (you lucky librarians, you!). So much good stuff is going on, so instead of paraphrasing, we're serving it all up fresh straight from the tweeters' mouths. Enjoy!

We'll start with some tweets about the 4th Annual Librarian Shout 'n Share:

Thanks to @earlyword (earlyword.com/librarians-sho…) & @LibraryJournal (lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/06/shows-…) for the Librarians' Shout & Share write ups. #BEA12

— Stephanie Chase (@acornsandnuts) June 7, 2012

Just "Pinterested" my Shout 'n Share titles w/ comments : bit.ly/Ket0OG@RHLibrary @librarylovefest @MacmillanLib @penguinlibrary

— Robin B (@robinsbooks) June 11, 2012

And here are some people we really like tweeting about books we really like:

At first I thought @Scalzi’s Redshirts was going to be lite nerdy fare, and then I found myself crying.

— Bill Barnes (@billba) June 10, 2012

S Joinson"s engaging lst novel A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: trag, & hope for 2 sets of characters living a world & many decades apart.

— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) June 8, 2012

Prize for best eye-punching title goes to My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays by Davy Rothbart (Sept., Farrar) #bea12

— Heather McCormack (@HuisceBeatha) June 6, 2012

Must Read: Ursula K. Le Guin discusses Jo Walton’s Among Others: bit.ly/LHFBXO (via @io9)

— Tor Books (@torbooks) June 8, 2012

And here are a few things to read on your lunch break:

Read an excerpt from How To Build An Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection huff.to/KDyMKT

— HenryHolt (@HenryHolt) June 8, 2012

Today's must-read:Paris Review interview with Ray Bradbury, via @jenhoward bit.ly/cU6tPp

— Bloomsbury Press (@BloomsburyPress) June 8, 2012

And, of course:

♫ Red Panda sittin' in the snow. N. A. P. P. I. N. G. ♫ twitter.com/EmergencyPuppy…

— Emergency Cute Stuff (@EmergencyPuppy) June 4, 2012

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