Deal Alerts

Justin Haynes's IBIS, the story of a Trinidadian fishing village, its people, and the young Venezuelan refugee they take in, told by a chorus of narrators and weaving through generations of history, superstition, and magic to tell the story of the girl's search for her mother

Author/photo-illustrator of SHADES OF PEOPLE Shelley Rotner's NATURE SPY GUIDE, pairing text with photos in a multi-sensory exploration of children's discoveries in the natural world.

Erica Simone Turnipseed's AMERICAN SIBYL, weaving together the present, past, and future of a Black family's 250-year legacy as two oracles share memories across six generations, employing elements of speculative fiction and Afro-futurism to connect the characters of the past to a gender-fluid, non-binary future.

Big enough is the story about the day the Oxherd boy learns to trust his intuition and accomplish the fearful task of brining home the gigantic family ox for the first time. 

Authors of the forthcoming TRUE YOU Shelley Rotner and Gwen Agna's untitled book, featuring the words and portraits of refugee children from around the world as they talk about their families and tell their stories, expressing love, joy, empathy, and resilience as they adjust to their new homes 

Founder of the children's yoga and wellness brand Yogi Beans Lauren Chaitoff's 108 FUN YOGA POSES FOR KIDS, designed to teach children how to practice popular yoga poses, utilizing photographs with correct alignment and child-friendly cues that help get children moving efficiently through the poses 

 NAACP honoree, director, and photographer Kim Watson's TRESPASS: STORIES OF HOMELESSNESS, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING, a photo essay that dares us to confront our own biases as the author explores the lives of unhoused people in Los Angeles 

Physician and director of hospital medicine at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital Dhaval Desai's UNDERCURRENTS: MEDICINE, FATHERHOOD, LEADERSHIP, RACE, AND BURNOUT IN THE TIME OF COVID-19, melding accounts of COVID-19's impact on frontline healthcare workers and the author's personal journey as a doctor, leader, and father

 Emory University Health humanities professor and former Fulbright Scholar Chris Eagle's DWELL HERE AND PROSPER, an account of the messed-up, near-slapstick reality of our broken healthcare system and the resultant warehousing of vulnerable people 

 UK Television Producer J.A. Marley's LONDON INTERRUPTED, in which a master thief finds himself propelled into the heist of the century, masterminded by a psychotic, crooked cop; the first in the series pitched as Jack Reacher meets a grittier Danny Ocean 

Author-illustrator Regina Linke's THE OXHERD BOY, based on the webcomic of the same name, featuring a series of parables about a boy, an ox, and a rabbit who engage in the daily work of compassion, love, and community 

Journalist-cartoonist who pioneered the real-life cartooning format in his weekly Village Voice column Stan Mack's STAN MACK'S REAL LIFE FUNNIES 1974-1994, a compendium of his strips covering two rambunctious decades in the life of New York City

Ashley Wilda's RAETH, a debut that employs magical realism and a mix of poetry and prose, about a teen struggling with heartbreak and depression; when she is sent to a remote mountain retreat to recover, she soon discovers that her surreal surroundings change every time she ventures out, challenging her reality

Shauna Cagan's ADDIE AND THE AMAZING ACROBATS, in which a girl and her best buddies are sweet bat pups by day and daring acrobats by night—but she has stars in her eyes and sets out on her own to find fame and fortune, leaving her crew behind; what's more important, fame or friends?

Stephanie Sellers's SEDNA'S DAUGHTERS, uncovering the universal and dysfunctional patterns of family aggression against daughters

Jeffrey Dale Lofton's RED CLAY SUZIE, a story of a gay, physically misshapen boy of the Deep South who struggles against expectations, indifference, & rejection to find strength in lessons learned in his grandfather's garden & through his passion for the boy to whom he gives his heart,to be published by Post Hill Press

From authors Shelley Rotner and Gwen Agna, with photography by Rotner, TRUE YOU, an affirming photographic picture book of trans and gender nonconforming kids that leads with inclusivity, love, and empathy, accentuating trans and genderfluid joy, acquired by Chris Krones at Clarion Books at auction. 

Crystal Simone Smith's DARK TESTAMENT, a volume of erasure poetry drawn from George Saunders's novel LINCOLN IN THE BARDO which connects the agonized voices haunting Lincoln to the grieving chorus of protests in today's Black Lives Matter movement, acquired by Kate Farrell for Holt Children's at auction.