The Sisters of Straygarden Place / Hayley Chewins / Candlewick Press / Softcover $16.99 (208pp) / 978-1-5362-1227-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Hayley Chewins’s fantasy novel The Sisters of Straygarden Place is... Read More

Afterlife Crisis / Randal Graham / ECW Press / Softcover $17.95 (432pp) / 978-1-77041-470-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Randal Graham’s raucous, wry, and philosophical sequel to Beforelife, the divine Author’s... Read More

A Very Big Problem / Amy-Jill LevineSandy Eisenberg SassoAnnie Bowler, illustrator / Flyaway Books / Hardcover $18.00 (40pp) / 978-1-947888-11-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / With the biblical story of creation as... Read More

Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society / Ross Wilcox / 7.13 Books / Softcover $18.99 (150pp) / 978-1-73336-724-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Ross Wilcox’s offbeat, engaging short story collection, Golden Gate Jumper... Read More

The Meaning of Soul / Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s / Emily J. Lordi / Duke University Press / Softcover $25.95 (224pp) / 978-1-4780-0959-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Nostalgia-fueled interest in... Read More

This Is Not the Jess Show / Anna Carey / Quirk Books / Hardcover $18.99 (304pp) / 978-1-68369-197-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Anna Carey’s young adult novel This is Not the Jess Show starts in a familiar fashion,... Read More

Over in the Woodland / A Mythological Counting Journey / Nicole AbreuShar AbreuSusanna Covelli, illustrator / Familius / Hardcover $16.99 (32pp) / 978-1-64170-241-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / A mother griffin and... Read More

Pureland / Zarrar Said / Global Collective Publishers / Hardcover $24.95 (304pp) / 978-1-73440-190-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Zarrar Said’s epic novel Pureland, a servant turned physicist wrestles with... Read More