When a meme mocking her cousin’s body hair becomes the talk of the school, TJ Powar begins to wonder how and why something as natural as hair is seen as disgusting or unclean—she then decides to discontinue her shaving and waxing regimens to test just how much it affects her social status. TJ Powar Has …
If you’re looking for engrossing, high-stakes fantasy, you need this emotionally rich, gorgeously written novel. It’s about about power that winds up being about love, sacrifice, honor, and family— that we choose and are given. Raybearer is absolutely brilliant, gripping, and one-of-a-kind. I couldn’t wait to read more from this author, and luckily the sequel is …
… speaking of fantastic reads, Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So’s posthumous debut, arrives this week. Afterparties is a collection of loosely connected stories about Cambodian-Americans. They are all crafting new identities (or trying to find identities) in America, but the ghosts of the ancestors and the haunting memories of their homeland are never far away. So’s stories are both …
Wednesday, July 7th at 6pm the Country Bookshelf will be live with Catherine Raven and Tim Cahill to discuss Raven’s remarkable book Fox & I. This is an unforgettable story about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox that all our booksellers are raving about. Register here! Ariana Paliobagis of the Country Bookshelf …
This is a book that is uplifting, funny, charming, hopeful, and HELPFUL to tweens! The main character, Yumi, wants to do stand-up comedy. Her parents want her to go to SSAT tutoring to get into a private school and earn a scholarship. But when a bizarre opportunity that just requires some identity theft and a …
An Indies Introduce Q&A With Lisa Ko By Jessica Stauffer on Tuesday, May 02, 2017 on bookweb.org from the American Booksellers Association Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers (Algonquin), a Winter/Spring 2017 Indies Introduce adult debut and a May 2017 Indie Next List pick. The Leavers, a story of immigration and adoption, is “a …
I suspect that there’s almost no such thing as a book that isn’t personal to the author. I say that because I’d just been about to open this piece with something along the lines of this throwaway line: “The Honest Truth, my debut novel, is very personal to me.” Of course it is. I wrote …
The American Bookseller’s Association recently announced 10 adult titles and 10 children’s/YA titles that have been chosen by panels of booksellers from around the country to be featured as Indies Introduce Debut Authors and New Voices. Barbara Theroux of Fact & Fiction in Missoula, Montana represented our region on the adult panel, and Tegan Tigani …
At times harshly funny, at times heart-wrenching, this ultimately hopeful novel will appeal to fans of Jay Asher and John Green. — Emily Ring, Inklings Bookshop, Yakima, WA Emily was part of a panel of readers from independent bookstores around the country who chose ten debut novels to introduce at Book Expo America in New York last …
A recent email newsletter from Village Books reminded me about a program booksellers around the country are participating in to help showcase debut books: Indies Introduce. The American Booksellers Association has posted videos of debut authors introducing their own books, like actress and author Octavia Spencer, above, introducing her chapter book for kids, Randi Rhodes, Ninja …
