Thank you for visiting our booth at Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog Fall 2024! Below you will find all of the resources featured in our booth, including an ARC giveaway! Enter for your chance to receive a set of Winter/Spring 2025 ARCs here! Authors on Panels: Alex Segura, author of ALTER EGO / 9781250801777 […]
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Banned Books Staff Picks (9/26/24)
This month, we’re sharing banned books we love in honor of Banned Books Week! AMANDA’S PICK: THE TALK BY DARRIN BELL This is a graphic memoir by a Pulitzer Prize winner for Editorial Cartooning that offers a deeply personal meditation on the “the talk” parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality […]

Booklist’s Discover New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Titles Webinar Recap (7/23/24)
A big thank you to all who attended Booklist’s Discover New Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Titles webinar! In case you missed it, check out the titles we talked about below, and click on the link to watch the recording! LIGHTFALL by Ed Crocker | 9781250287731 | 1/14/25 LISTEN TO YOUR SISTER by Neena Viel | […]

UFL Virtual 2024
These books are begging for discussion–check them out for your book clubs! THE STARDUST GRAIL by Yume Kitasei DEVIL IS FINE by John Vercher MASQUERADE by O.O. Sangoyomi THE WEDDING PEOPLE by Alison Espach A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL by T. Kingfisher SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS by Kailee Pedersen […]

Jennifer Harvey’s Letter to Librarians
Jennifer Harvey’s ANTIRACISM AS DAILY PRACTICE: Refuse Shame, Change White Communities, and Help Create a Just World illustrates the many ways white Americans—those newly waking to the crisis of racism in 2020 and those already aware—can choose behaviors in our everyday lives to grow racial justice. In her letter, Harvey narrates the importance of nurturing […]

Carole Hopson’s Letter to Librarians
Carole Hopson’s A PAIR OF WINGS is a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air. In her letter, Hopson talks about how she and Coleman share a love of libraries and how […]

LJ Day of Dialog Spring 2024
Thank you for visiting our booth at Library Journal‘s Day of Dialog Spring 2024! Below you will find all of the resources featured in our booth, including an ARC giveaway! Enter for your chance to receive a set of Summer/Fall 2024 ARCs here! Authors on Panels: TJ Klune, author of SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA […]

Happy Half Hour (4/8/24)
On today’s Happy Half Hour, we’re chatting about a ghost who sets his living sister up with a ghost hunter, a young musician coming of age in the spotlight as public opinion threatens to ruin her, and a man returning home from prison to try to save his family’s butcher shop. THE GHOST OF US […]

2024 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists
Congratulations to the Macmillan finalists selected for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s most prestigious peer-juried literary prize. WITNESS by Jamel BrinkleyOPEN THROAT by Henry HokeABSOLUTION by Alice McDermott […]

Celebrating Black Voices Staff Picks
We are honoring the impactful contributions of the Black community all year long, but for February’s Staff Picks, we’re celebrating these Black voices. Amanda: THE HOUSE OF BROKEN BRICKS by Fiona Williams In this debut, Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English […]