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| | Who doesn't love a well-crafted bookstore sandwich board? With its delicate penmanship, careful shading, and hand-selected chalk colors, the art of the sidewalk sign advertises more than what's on the shelves. It's a beacon for the brand of joy shared among book lovers all over the place. My favorites tend to feature some silly riddle or joke, a few of which I share with you here:
"Did you hear about the library that fell into the ocean? It caused a title wave!"
"What does a librarian take to go fishing? The bookworms!"
"Hey, what's in the wardrobe? Narnia business!"
Our lives only seems to be speeding up, so thank goodness for this style of slow art whose sole purpose is to bring a smile to your face. And maybe lure you inside.
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 | | Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You | | | Julián Delgado Lopera |
| | | An entrancing father-daughter saga, Julián Delgado Lopera's second novel sings a feisty yet tender torch song for a family in thrall to a legendary transformation.
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| | Turn (W)here: A Geography of Home | | | Chet'la Sebree |
| | | Award-winning poet Chet'la Sebree's essay collection is a superb, creatively structured, and often lyrical inquiry into the many facets of belonging.
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| | Wellwater: Poems | | | Karen Solie |
| | | The 42 poems in Karen Solie's intricate sixth collection gild the natural and human worlds alike with religious imagery and an environmentalist conscience.
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| | Claude | | | Phyllis Harris |
| | | Claude is a cleverly conceived, wordless picture book that encourages young readers to let go of preconceived notions and approach art with spontaneous joy.
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| | | | | | Offseason meanders perversely and rampantly across boundaries with its singular narrator, whose obsessions include Joseph Stalin, pedophilia, literature, and vomiting.
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| | | | Laura Zigman's dishy, suspenseful novel about envy in publishing sends a bestselling author and her biggest fans to an island resort for a luxury weekend that turns murderous.
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| | | | Kim Choyeop's science-fiction short stories, beautifully translated by Anton Hur, explore profound questions about the choices people make and what they mean for those they love.
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| | | | Transcendentalism's founding generation and their heady quest to reinvent U.S. society emerge vividly in this intimate history of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle of intellectuals and friends.
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| | | | Science writer and animated storyteller David Epstein makes a persuasive case for crafting useful, self-imposed constraints to promote creativity and boost contentment.
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| | | | With his signature wit and profound understanding of what young readers want, Mac Barnett issues a challenge to adults: "Kids' books merit grown-up conversation."
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| | | | Sara Nović's defiant memoir of accepting deafness and creating a multiracial family through international adoption ponders the legacies of language and love.
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| | | | In this detailed, thoughtful memoir, Patricia Cornwell sweeps readers through her journey from a challenging childhood to international fame as an influential forensic thriller writer.
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| | | | The Edge of Forever is a charming middle-grade debut about smart, caring kids confronting secrets and corruption in a tiny Texas town.
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| | | | Grief, dread, monsters, and machines plague a nonbinary teen in this ominous and intimate YA horror novel centered on a queer friend group.
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| | | | Twelve-year-old Zuzu must find a way to save a robot with a broken charger in The Second Life of Snap, a gripping, futuristic middle-grade survival story.
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| | | | In this swoony, high-energy YA rom-com, a cheer captain welcomes a straight girl into her all-queer squad after being told to "diversify"--except the token straight is definitely into the captain.
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| | |  Novelist Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of Fiebre Tropical and most recently Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You, an enthralling father-daughter saga set within a queer community in Bogotá, Colombia. In today's interview, Julián elaborates on who inspired this story's distinctive voice and the intricacies of writing in Spanglish, as well as the aspects of his childhood that he reimagined along the way. (continued)
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| | | |  Philip Caputo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist "whose bestselling, disillusioning memoir, A Rumor of War, about leading a Marine platoon through the sniper-riddled and booby-trapped jungles of Vietnam, entered the canon of wartime literature," died May 7 at age 84, the New York Times reported.
A Rumor of War (1977) sold two million copies and was translated into 15 languages. "To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it,"... (continued)
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