Hot News This Week
July 25, 2024
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Transit Books reissued I Who Have Never Known Men in 2022, and since then it’s become a runaway hit on BookTok and a major bestseller for the press and Consortium.
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“Pick up this book and take a stroll through the fascinating history of the notebook. . . . Our brains agree: nothing beats the action of putting pen to paper. The enduring popularity of the notebook proves it.” — Alana Haley, Schuler Books (Grand Rapids, MI)
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| | French Windows
by Antoine Laurain
Gallic Books • July 2024 • 9781913547752
“Another charming Parisian novel from one of my favorite French authors! Antoine Laurain brings his signature style to a Rear Window scenario.” — Rebekah Rine, Watermark Books & Cafe (Wichita, KS)
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“What’s not to love about this middle grade graphic novel? It has adventure, funny sidekicks, spooky enchanted objects, a villain that does not like to be mistaken for a wizard and of course, our hero, Doctor Baer who is by the way a teddy bear.” — Jen Steele, Boswell Book Company (Milwaukee, WI)
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| | Little Moons
by Jen Storm, illus. Ryan Howe
Portage & Main / HighWater Press • September 2024 • 9781774921074
“Little Moons gives young people a place to learn about and understand grief, but it also gives them hope that they too can find peace. This is a beautifully told and illustrated graphic novel.” — Emily Rapp Eddy, Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT)
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★ “A companion to Wuthering Heights much in the way that Wide Sargasso Sea is a companion to Jane Eyre, this brilliant retelling from Koja whisks readers to the wild English moors. . . . Fans of the original will be thoroughly impressed.” — Publishers Weekly
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“A chronology of annotated prison writings, some famous and others less so, but all astonishing in their timelessness and seamless arrangement, illustrating the history of racial, social and political justice movements and where they intersect with law enforcement.” — San Francisco Chronicle
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| | Tropic of Orange
by Karen Tei Yamashita
Coffee House Press • September 2017 • 9781566894869
“[A] dervishlike, magical realist novel of Southern California. . . . Read if you like: The Redwall series (seriously), Something New Under the Sun, by Alexandra Kleeman, Greta Gerwig’s wig in White Noise.” — Read Like the Wind (New York Times)
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“This book astonished me. Dynamite Nashville is rigorously researched and reported, and its findings are scrupulously documented. . . . The relentless facts combined with an almost confessional narrative strategy brings history into the present moment in a visceral way.” — Margaret Renkl, New York Times
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“Shah is a wise analyst, and her pairing of immigration detention and the growth of prisons is insightful, convincing, and well-presented. Unbuild Walls is also an important organizing tool, a fierce reminder of the centrality of migrant justice in promoting peace and civil and human rights.” — The Progressive
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Eugene Lim, author of Fog & Car (Coffee House Press), was interviewed by Full Stop on July 16.
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