If that editor had read more widely in the first place, he might previously have recognized how limiting his stereotypes might be, and he could have broken free of the rigid confines of his own narrow mind. I tried, I really did, to avoid mentioning our current president, but as wicked tyrants tend to do, he poisons every day. This, too, will pass. These writers are here, their books are coming, and look how glorious. I mean, honestly, what better way to start than by reading the memoir of Black Lives Matter founders Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele?
Ijeoma Oluo, editor-at-large of The Establishment , is a trenchant, reliably insightful writer and thinker about race in America, and this collection is necessary reading. Her second novel depicts five girls at camp who take a kayaking trip and end up stranded, unchaperoned, on an island.
A woman loses her mentor and best friend, and takes on caring for his Great Dane. In this vivid portrait of the wilds of sorrow, The Friend shows two fictional creatures in their shared but separate grief becoming increasingly close, and isolated from everyone else. Song of a Captive Bird is a fictionalized portrayal of the influential Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who, in her verse as in her life, rebelled against expectations that she keep quiet. While Terese Mailhot was in the hospital, diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, she started writing in a notebook.
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Shade Mountain Press is a small, new, exciting feminist press founded by the writer Rosalie Morales Kearns. The House of Erzulie is its next release, a surreal novel that switchbacks between the present day and a s Louisiana plantation. When the visa office says one child has to be left behind, heartbreak ensues. I was utterly enthralled by this book, an unsettling, inventive debut novel about a girl and her father in an island commune. On the level of both prose and story, The Parking Lot Attendant feels startling and new. This slim volume spans thirty years and a rich variety of stories.
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Mikhail herself left Baghdad for the U. Welcome to Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of Our cover author this year is Gina Apostol, author of the novel Insurrecto. The minute our fiction editor finished reading it, he was convinced it was Best Books material. A young book editor named Alice embarks on a relationship with an older, prize-winning novelist in Manhattan; an Iraqi-American economist named Amar is detained at Heathrow on his way to visit family in Iraq.
In this searing, vividly told memoir, Westover writes of growing up in a survivalist, religious fundamentalist family in the isolated Idaho mountains. Hers is an intense story of how she went from being birthed and schooled at home to earning her PhD from Cambridge University. Novelist and English professor Laymon addresses this spellbinding, stylishly written memoir to his mother.
Within its pages, he analyzes the experience of being black in America, narrates his lifelong struggles with weight and a gambling addiction, and reflects on his relationships with his mother and grandmother, revealing hard-earned insight. Over 16 essays, he reflects on varied experiences—working as a Tarot card reader, studying with Annie Dillard, meeting William F.
Buckley at a catering job—that together illuminate the development of his craft. Two women write dueling scripts about the Philippine-American War while on a road trip to the town of Balangiga, the site of a violent conflict between occupying American forces and Filipinos in In this gothic masterpiece, translator Helen Franklin lives in Prague, attempting to atone for a wrong she committed decades earlier.
She discovers a file reporting the appearances throughout history of Melmoth, a specter who denied the sight of the risen Christ and was cursed to wander the Earth, haunting culpable individuals. Soon, Helen finds herself being followed. Its novelistic approach is backed up with deep scholarship and original research, and its prose is by turns colorful and gripping. Their stops along the way—during which the father counts individuals for the census—reveal the beautiful yet brutal range of human experience. Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton Univ.
From the award-winning team behind Last Stop on Market Street comes a story about a birthday girl on a walk with her big brother, the puffy dandelion she finds along the way, and the series of wishes she considers, all told against the backdrop of the family's Spanish-speaking community. Sensitively conceived and exuberantly executed. Larger themes about the importance of empathy add meaningful layers to each playfully juxtaposed scene.
With exquisitely rendered mixed-media collages and timely, heart-pulling text, Caldecott Honor artist Morales traces the journey that she and her young son took when they immigrated from Mexico to the United States, and the succor that books and libraries offered as the two made their way in a new place. An affectionate and informative celebration of two magnificent species. Detailed illustrations invite close inspection, and the limited color palette and multipaneled spreads evoke a graphic novel style.
The first in a comics-style early chapter series stars an animal odd couple in three short stories. Like Frog and Toad and George and Martha , one is even-tempered, and one is often a pain in the neck. The resulting hilarity will engage nascent readers.
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This graceful account celebrates a lost era and vocation—the sometimes lonely, sometimes dangerous job of keeping a lighthouse. Spreads as delicate as painted porcelain depict the lighthouse and its circular rooms, each moment like the hand on the face of a clock. A jewel of a creation. Celebrating the th anniversary of Frankenstein , this biographical account of young Mary Shelley, illustrated with breathtaking period detail, showcases how the author's life catalyzed her art and creativity—and, perhaps, the birth of science fiction.
The bike the kids have built from discarded items. Each concise vignette in this wise, gentle story brims with emotional honesty. With a cohesive visual thread and an eye toward interacting regularly with poetry and the outdoors, this hefty offering presents a nature poem for every day of the year, from a wide variety of writers including Christina Rossetti and Margaret Wise Brown.
Stumpkin is a beautiful pumpkin—all he lacks is a stem.
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Amid the subway signs and storefronts of a cozy Brooklyn block, a high-stakes ordeal closes with an inventive visual sequence in this warm, seasonal tale of hope and transformation. This story of inclusivity, gratitude, and delicious fellowship also offers a feast for the eyes. Badger climbs Sugarloaf Peak every Sunday, helping overturned turtles and speaking with acquaintances along the way. Then Lulu the cat joins her, learns the route, and, when Mrs.
Badger is too frail to make the trips, takes on her tradition of kindness. A guidebook to amity and exploration. A tall brick wall runs along the gutter in this delightful story: When a Pakistani girl who yearns for an education expresses frustration with the village's cruel overlord, he demands that she work off her family's debt.
Saeed's eloquent, suspenseful tale provides a window into contemporary gender inequalities and indentured servitude. In a picaresque work set in medieval France, Secundus, a scoundrel posing as a pilgrim, drafts oft-ridiculed "Boy," who can communicate with animals, for a transcontinental quest: By turns darkly grim and wonderfully funny, this action-packed tale with a luminous central character carries a strong message about how appearances can deceive.
In this fast-paced, memorable series opener, Older weaves historical facts with dinosaur-inspired fancy to fashion a Civil War—era New York City, rooted in real events and attitudes, in which dinosaurs still roam and a diverse band of orphans resists corrupt authorities during the Draft Riots of Mia works at the front desk of the California motel her parents manage and writes letters to aid others, including an African-American victimized by racial profiling and a Chinese immigrant abused by his boss.
Artist Hockney and art critic Gayford take a conceptual approach to art history, moving between topics rather than presenting a linear overview. This is an uncompromising portrait of a superheroine who learns to wield divine power while coming to understand what it means to be mortal. After seventh grader Theo's self-portraits are vandalized with homophobic slurs, a teacher calls all of the incident's bystanders to a five-day restorative justice circle. Peppered with laugh-out-loud and somber moments, the novel traces the group's emotional transformation from loneliness, anger, and suspicion to friendship, vulnerability, and trust.
After year-old Candice begrudgingly moves to a small Southern town for the summer, she stumbles on a puzzle with links to her family's history. Johnson's gripping mystery, replete with Westing Game references, shifts smoothly between past and present as it explores both the powerful legacy of discrimination and the rewards of friendship. Sanity and Tallulah may be the literal ruin of their space station when Sanity uses unstable technology to engineer a three-headed cat and Tallulah abets. When year-old Ollie comes into possession of a book of local history, she reads about a family's pact with a demonic figure known as the smiling man.
On a class trip to a dairy farm, Ollie and two classmates stumble into an alternate world populated with scarecrow minions, and they learn that the smiling man is very real, indeed. A spooky atmospheric thriller with a strong heart and a stronger heroine.
Following a brutal fire, chimney sweep Nan Sparrow discovers that the bit of charcoal she carries has become a golem—and that he has saved her life. Mason Buttle may be slow to understand some things, but he knows how to be a good friend. Ever since his best friend Benny died in an accident, Mason has been suspected of having done something to cause his death.
Aiming to calm, sustain, and inspire children, the collaborators offer this empowering anthology for children of varying ethnicities, faiths, identities, and abilities, presenting 30 illustrated pieces from more than 50 diverse children's book creators. In this haunting modern-day epic loosely inspired by Beowulf , four resourceful young women who have devoted their lives to ritual mercy killing decide to give it up in favor of more satisfying pursuits, and swear a blood oath to slay the fabled Blue Vee Beast. In this well-researched history, Partridge evokes the political controversy and intense emotions triggered by the Vietnam War.
She skillfully interweaves original interviews and black-and-white photos with narrative to follow the daily lives of soldiers, a medic, a field nurse, and a Vietnamese refugee, examining their loyalties and moral sensitivity to the unending war. In this wickedly entertaining ride, an Argentinian sanitarium conducts a disquieting experiment: Suffering from bullying and depression in the U. Neal Shusterman and son Jarrod create a thrilling climate change dystopia in which California's denizens muddle through life during a drought—until the last of the water runs out.
Core character relationships and an escalating, palpable desperation pervade the plot. In a graphic memoir that tells a story of finding identity, Krosoczka conveys the joys and complications of his young life in Worcester, Mass. A stark, loving portrait of a real family.
In this smart love letter to portal fantasies, two sisters struggle with reacclimating to the modern world after spending years in a magical realm. A successful mix of wartime England and Narnia-like worldbuilding.
An all-female and gender-nonbinary cast embarks on a dangerous mission in this sprawling space jaunt, a masterful blend of science fiction—inflected school drama, road trip, and adventure. Distinctive layers of flat color create temporal cohesion and emphasize themes of memory and chosen family in this graphic novel. A contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love. Fifteen Asian authors share short, genre-spanning retellings of myths and legends traditional to their own cultures in this outstanding anthology edited by Chapman and We Need Diverse Books president Oh.
An author's note follows each dazzling tale, offering context on creative choices and changes. Johnson kicks off a new series with this deliciously atmospheric mystery set at a prestigious Vermont academy. True crime—obsessed Stevie Bell, 16, hopes to solve the kidnapping and murder case surrounding the school's industrialist founder, and the school's deadly past resurfaces when a student from her dorm is killed.
As violence spreads, a funerary shop owner and his year-old son attempt to pull off a near-mythical plan to save the town. This is a riveting, powerful reading experience. Although the two groups in the Texas camp rarely mix, the young women, drawn realistically and sympathetically, find their friendship intensifying. In , a Nigerian tribe called the Menai are subjected to drug tests by a pharmaceutical company, resulting in the deaths of thousands—by , only a few dozen Menai remain.
An unnamed narrator in exile from the former Yugoslavia struggles with the complications of 21st-century writing in this soaring, wondrous novel.
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In this momentous, incisive collection, Adjei-Brenyah dissects the dehumanizing effects of capitalism and racism: This luridly propulsive novel centers on a depraved love triangle: This hypnotic fever dream follows three governesses and the sensuous education they provide while roaming the country estate of a staid married couple. Kushner sets her brilliant and bracing latest in a California prison, where single mom Romy is serving a life sentence for murdering her stalker. But after his wife leaves him, the home—and his mind—begin to change.