In this week's Unshelved Book Club you'll find books about Jesse James, alternative medicine, bookplates, a perfect girl with a controlled life who longs for a young actor she met in Europe, an orphan who discovers she has incredible powers, a Tae Kwon Do black belt who feels guilty that she froze during a shooting, Superman vs. Darkseid, Batman vs cats, and two eight graders on a mission.

Remember, when you see a sponsored book marked it means you have a chance to get a free copy. Look for the friendly yellow icon!

Lastly, a reminder about @bookblrb, our new service that gives you a teeny tiny book recommendation every day. You can sign up on Twitter or Facebook.

A few years back the fans of Unshelved got together to transcribe our entire archive of comic strips, making it possible to do a full-text search for your favorite strip. Then we redesigned our site and the "Transcribe This Strip" button got buried at the bottom of the page. As a result our index is now several years out of date. Will you help us out?

Here is the original post and a followup - between the two of them there is good advice on how to do this well. (I also moved the "Transcribe This Strip" to make it more visible in our archive.)

Thanks in advance!

Unshelved is sponsored this week by our friends at Random House Library Marketing. They've put together a free digital debut sampler of nine different books. Just click through to read on Scribd or download to your favorite device. There's a wide selection, with something for everyone!

How short can a book talk get? Let's find out.

Gene and I have spent the last few months going through hundreds of our book recommendations, turning each into a very, very short blurb. How short? Each fits in in a single tweet along with a link to find out more. In fact they're so short that even the phrase book blurb starting feeling ponderous, so we shortened it to bookblrb .

We will send a new one out every day. Twitterers can Follow @bookblrb, and Facebookers can Like our Bookblrb page. The rest of you can find @bookblrb on our home page, and we hope to add it to the email and RSS feed very soon.

We hope @bookblrb helps you find even more great books to read and share.

P.S. While we were going through all those reviews we also tagged them all.

P.P.S. There's also a Facebook page for Unshelved. Twitterers can follow me (@billba) and Gene (@ambaum) and get strip and blog updates at @unshelfeed.

In this week's Unshelved Book Club you'll find graphic novels about a cat lady, maids and butlers, kids crossing the universe to save their father, gay superheroes, fantastic hypoglycemic hallucinations, divorce, Obelix, a robotics club vs cheerleaders for school funding, and the Rocketeer.

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