Hot News This Week
June 24, 2025
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With “operatic wit and pathos,” Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (Theatre Communications Group) “not only gave universal themes of hope, loss, progress and redemption an explicitly queer context, it put queerness itself at the center of the American story.”
The “sweeping scope” in Jericho Brown’s The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press) “encompasses themes of racism, sexual violence, HIV and police brutality,” and Brown “draws on mythology and history to dissect a world that often devalues the voices of Black gay men.”
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| New Imprint Alert: OR Books x The Nation
As reported in Publishers Weekly, OR Books is joining forces with The Nation on a new imprint, Nation Books, with the aim to widen the impact of the voices in The Nation’s flagship magazine, which has published progressive journalism since 1865. Read the announcement for more on their new publishing partnership, and browse forthcoming Nation Books titles on Edelweiss.
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“This book will be a great addition to my middle school library collection, especially for my students that love aviation. The illustrations are beautiful. . . . I foresee this title staying checked out for most of the school year!” — Katie M., Litchfield Middle School
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| | Meep
by Máire Zepf, illus. Paddy Donnelly
Little Island Books • June 2025 • 9781915071668
“There’s a lot to love in this humorous tale of a beleaguered robot sent to Mars to look for evidence of aliens. From the dramatic blastoff to the cute, potato-shaped aliens with three eyes that are everywhere, but that Meep doesn’t see, young readers will be enthralled.” — Stephanie T., retired librarian, via Youth Services Book Review
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“A perfect debut novel, explicit in its excellence! . . . It handles topics of universal interest—identity formation, alienation, power, loneliness—with daunting originality. Unlike a lot of so-called psychological thrillers, it is psychologically thrilling.” — Molly Young, Read Like the Wind (New York Times)
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“In these poems, Kuipers gives her own wonderfully fresh take on sex, marriage, parenthood and, yes, even rodents.” — Ron Charles, Book Club (Washington Post)
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“[A] memorable portrait of the mad hunger of corporate toil . . . superbly committed to its own beliefs—truthful, dryly funny and often subtly moving.” — New York Times Book Review
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| | Eden’s Clock
by Norman Lock
Bellevue Literary Press • July 2025 • 9781954276383
“A thrilling, episodic novel of big ideas and national traumas.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Lock’s final title in his resplendent American Novels series. . . . Rich in period detail and memorable characters, this is a fitting conclusion to the series.” — Booklist
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“By turns bracing and delicate as gossamer . . . monet’s quietly insistent collection gracefully demonstrates that love can be the most radical political act, particularly for a marginalized person in a hostile environment.” — Publishers Weekly
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“[A] polished, entertaining, and richly informative tribute. . . . Every well-designed page of this handsomely produced volume offers fascinating archival images or radiant contemporary photographs.” — Booklist
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| Headed to Philly this week for ALA? We’d love to see you.
Consortium will be posted with Ingram at BOOTH #1432 during the conference—swing by for choice giveaways, cool swag, and a nice chat about books.
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| | GALLEY GIVEAWAYS + FREEBIES
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| Join us at Booth #1432 throughout the show to snag copies of these titles—and many more!—while supplies last.
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| | | Megan Okonsky
Saturday, June 28
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Ingram Library Services (Booth #1339)
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| | | Andrew Katz
Saturday, June 28
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Ingram Library Services (Booth #1339)
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| | | Hayden Casey
Saturday, June 28
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Ingram Library Services (Booth #1339)
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Author Hayden Casey will be signing galleys of A Harvest of Furies (Lanternfish Press, October 2025), a gothic horror retelling of The Oresteia.
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| | | Diane Stevenson, James Berger, and Geri Lipschultz
Saturday, June 28
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Ingram Library Services (Booth #1339)
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Author-illustrator S.E. Case will be signing copies of her coming-of-age comic, Foothold: Rigsby WI (Iron Circus Comics, March 2025).
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| | | Edward J. Delaney
Sunday, June 29
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Ingram Library Services (Booth #1339)
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Author Edward J. Delaney will be signing copies of Hard Margins (Turtle Point Press, July 2025), his novel about culture clashes in the American West.
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| LGBTQ+ and Free: Queer Publishing in 2025
Sunday, June 29
2:30 – 3:20 PM
Diversity in Publishing Stage (Booth #2411)
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| “How the World Might Be”: Mystery, Horror, and the Endless Possibilities of Genre Fiction
Monday, June 30
10:30 – 11:20 AM
Chapter One Stage (Booth #112)
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| ¡En Español, Por Favor!: Building Your Spanish Kids’ Language Collection
Monday, June 30
12:30 – 1:20 PM
Diversity in Publishing Stage (Booth #2411)
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Moderated by Consortium’s own Kristina Hall. Learn more.
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| Read Wide! The Indie Kids’ Titles Your Collection Needs
Monday, June 30
12:25 – 12:55 PM
Book Buzz Theater (Booth #138)
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Featuring Inhabit Media sales manager Rachel Gamble and others. Learn more.
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ABA, PNBA, SCIBA, GLIBA, MPIBA, and MIBA Bestseller
I Who Have Never Known Men
by Jacqueline Harpman, trans. Ros Schwartz
Transit Books • May 2022 • 9781945492600
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Told through journal entries, this novel about love and mourning finds a woman in a French psychiatric ward, trying to write her way through grief.
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Restoration
by Ave Barrera, trans. Ellen Jones and Robin Myers
Charco Press • August 2025 • 9781917260022
This contemporary fairy tale of a novel is about the forgotten women and bad men that haunt an abandoned family home.
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Helen of Nowhere
by Makenna Goodman
Coffee House Press • September 2025 • 9781566897358
In this novel about the delights and dangers of starting over, a disgraced professor becomes transfixed by an idyllic country house and the stories of its enigmatic former owner, Helen.
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Happy New Years
by Maya Arad, trans. Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press • August 2025 • 9781954404342
From the award-winning author of The Hebrew Teacher, this epistolary novel follows the highs and lows of one woman’s life in the decades after she emigrates to the US.
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Love working with small presses, indie books, and sales reps? Come work with us! Consortium is hiring a full-time Sales Specialist to join our Minneapolis team.
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