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by Isaac Randel
What if I own more paperclips than I’ll ever use in this lifetime. My other possessions are shabby: the house half painted, the car with no muffler, one dog’s got bad eyes and the other dog’s a horny moron, even the baby has a rash...
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by Kathy Young
Heaven, West Virginia / Ravi Teixeira / Oni Press / Softcover $19.99 (172pp) / 978-1-63715-874-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s...
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In this interactive, rhyming picture book that plays snippets of classical music from composers including Gustav Holst, Johannes Brahms, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as it goes, a big mouse family in a cozy, tchotchke-packed den prepares...
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In Russia, in a time of increased persecution, Jewish communities heard stories about America, with its “sweet air to breathe and wide open space.” A brave few boarded boats, promising to send for their loved ones when they were...
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Feeling lonely, “at exactly 7:26—a pretty number, a pretty hour—Re mounted a beam of light and sailed into space,” traveling at the “speed of dreams” in search of something cozy. On the Moon, Re finds not only a place to...
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A writer searches for her vanished cousin in "The Year of the Wind", Karina Pacheco Medrano’s unforgettable novel about the personal and generational costs of political chaos. As a girl in Peru, Nina thrilled in stories of mythical...
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by Meg Nola
We’re always keen to discover fantastic true crime books, especially when the writing pushes beyond journalism’s who, what, when, where, and why and proceeds to deliver all the atmosphere and elegance of great storytelling. No, it...
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