title: The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (ALA Readers' Advisory)
author:  Joyce G. Saricks 
description: &#34;That infectious pleasure in discovering interesting books and sharing them with readers is one of the deepest satisfactions of readers' advisory work. My goal with this book is that it might provide enough background in a genre to give a glimpse of what it is about those authors and their books that fans love.&#34; --Joyce G. Saricks, from Chapter One<br /><br />This book is brilliant, accessible, and quite useful ... for librarians and readers alike. --American Reference Books Annual<br /><br />This book is brilliant, accessible, and quite useful ... for librarians and readers alike. --American Reference Books Annual<br /><br />This book is brilliant, accessible, and quite useful ... for librarians and readers alike. --American Reference Books Annual
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  > BOOKS BY CHRIS BOHJALIAN
  
  
  > NOVELS
  
  
  > Secrets of Eden (2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Skeletons at the Feast (2008)
  
  
  
  
  
  > The Double Bind (2007)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Before You Know Kindness (2004)
  
  
  
  
  
  > The Buffalo Soldier (2002)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Trans-Sister Radio (2000)
  
  
  
  
  
  > The Law of Similars (1998)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Midwives (1997)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Water Witches (1995)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Past the Bleachers (1992)
  
  
  
  
  
  > Hangman (1991)
  
  
  
  
  
  > A Killing in the Real World (1988)
  
  
  
  
  
  > ESSAY COLLECTIONS
  
  
  > Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town (2003)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > FROM THE PREFACE TO A SACRED WHILE BY HEATHER LAURENT (P. VI)
  
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  > The host of a radio show once asked me point-blank, “Do you really believe
  > in magic? Honestly?”
  
  
  > “Honestly,” I said. “Really and truly.”
  
  
  > “Do you think the people who have bought your book do, too?”
  
  
  > I told him I couldn’t speak for the people who had bought my book. But it
  > was clear both to me and to his listeners that this radio personality
  > th