From the Shelby Holmes series , Vol. 1 by Elizabeth Eulberg ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, 2016 A modern Sherlock Holmes retelling brings an 11-year-old black John Watson into the sphere of know-it-all 9-year-old white detective Shelby Holmes. John’s an Army brat who’s lived in four states already. Now, with his parents’ divorce still fresh,
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BookFest came and went and it was amazing! It was a place in which everyone loved stories and you got to geek out about them both with authors and other readers. I had never gone to an event like this and I left absolutely overwhelmed. You could choose from different panels, and I focused on
From the Six of Crows series , Vol. 2 by Leigh Bardugo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 27, 2016 This hefty sequel to Six of Crows (2015) brings high-tension conclusions to the many intertwined intrigues of Ketterdam. It’s time for revenge—has been ever since old-before-his-time crook Kaz and his friends were double-crossed by the merchant princes
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This list of LGBTQ nonfiction books for Pride month was originally published in our nonfiction newsletter, True Story. Sign up for it here to get nonfiction news, reviews, deals, and more! I feel like a queer elder, which is so weird because I literally only came out ten years ago, but things have changed SO much since
by Glennon Doyle ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 10, 2020 More life reflections from the bestselling author on themes of societal captivity and the catharsis of personal freedom. In her third book, Doyle (Love Warrior, 2016, etc.) begins with a life-changing event. “Four years ago,” she writes, “married to the father of my three children, I
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Romances with protagonists who create aren’t a new thing, but I feel like I’ve been picking up some great ones recently. These are folks who draw, paint, sculpt, or otherwise develop something gorgeous out of nothing (or maybe out of raw materials), and then we get to watch them fall in love! Sometimes, they might
by Alan Gratz ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 25, 2017 In the midst of political turmoil, how do you escape the only country that you’ve ever known and navigate a new life? Parallel stories of three different middle school–aged refugees—Josef from Nazi Germany in 1938, Isabel from 1994 Cuba, and Mahmoud from 2015 Aleppo—eventually intertwine for
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Reading comics or graphic novels has recently become somewhat difficult for me, due to what I fondly refer to as my “old lady eyes.” In physical form, sometimes the print is too small to read. And while I can zoom in digital form, sometimes you miss something important happening in the background. So I do
by Alex Michaelides ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 1, 2021 A blend of psychological mystery and gothic thriller puts a psychotherapist in pursuit of a serial killer on the campus of Cambridge University. The author’s second novel features a psychotherapist as its main character, as did his 2019 debut, The Silent Patient (whose main character makes an
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The Indigenous Voices Awards were started in 2017 to celebrate Indigenous authors in lands claimed by Canada. They originally had a fundraising goal of $10,000, but through campaigns led by Robin Parker and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (the author of Mexican Gothic), they raised over $100,000 in four months. Each year, the prizes and stipends fluctuate based
by Kat Yeh ; illustrated by Chuck Groenink ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 6, 2016 All the animals are welcome to come aboard. Hedgehog seems very lonely, “curled up in a prickly little ball in a lonely little nook of a lonely little tree.” When she overhears a sympathetic conversation about friendship “out there,” she perks
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There are few things I love more than a good fairytale retelling. Stories of Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White are such cultural touchpoints that they can be used to create really remarkable and compelling tales, just with the threads of a fairytale twisted around to create something new. Maybe it’s because
by Annette Gordon-Reed ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2021 The Harvard historian and Texas native demonstrates what the holiday means to her and to the rest of the nation. Initially celebrated primarily by Black Texans, Juneteenth refers to June 19, 1865, when a Union general arrived in Galveston to proclaim the end of slavery with
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