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Flo,
Greetings from beautiful Cincinnati, Ohio, where I’m attending the American Bookseller Association’s annual gathering. Over 900 independent booksellers from across the country are gathered here for education sessions, workshops, publisher presentations, author dinners, and shop talk.
One of the highlights (pictured) is the Galley Room, which contains several long tables filled with advance reader copies (ARCs) of upcoming books from publishers big and small. I’m bringing home a (very heavy) suitcase full of books from Cincinnati.
One I’ve already started is Chanel Miller’s delightful chapter book Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All, about a 10-year-old who sets out from her parents’ laundromat to reunite abandoned socks with their owners. Meanwhile, I was a huge fan of Robin Sloan’s book Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and just picked up his new book, Moonbound. It’s a fantasy epic about the aftermath of an interplanetary war, set 13,000 years in the future–and narrated by a sentient fungus. Can’t wait!
See you at the store,
Chris
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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic
In Conversation with Joanna Ho
Thursday, February 15 at 6pm
Remember those early days of shelter-in-place where we didn't get out of our pajamas all day and adults started baking all the things?
Well, that's the theme for our book launch this Thursday at 6pm for Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic’s Hummingbird Season: getting as cozy as possible while talking about this wonderful middle grade verse novel about how Archie finds hope during shelter-in-place amidst the frustrations and loneliness of distance learning and the weirdness of home haircuts.
So come show us your cozy couture (and there might actually be some baked things to nosh)! Stephanie will be joined in conversation with another of our favorite local authors, Joanna Ho.
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Traci Chee
With Parker Peevyhouse, Randy Ribay, and Emily Skrutskie
Friday, March 1 at 6pm
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We’re excited to welcome author Traci Chee to celebrate the launch of her thrilling new YA novel, Kindling. Join Traci and her fellow local YA authors Randy Ribay, Parker Peevyhouse, and Emily Skrutskie for an evening of conversation, trivia games, and snacks! RSVP now »
Once, the war was fought with kindlings—elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives. Now, the war is over, and kindlings have been cast adrift—their magic outlawed, their skills outdated, their formidable weapons prized only as relics and souvenirs. Violence still plagues the countryside, and memories haunt those who remain.
When a village comes under threat of siege, it offers an opportunity for seven kindlings to fight one last time. But war changed these warriors. And to reclaim who they once were, they will have to battle their pasts, their trauma, and their grim fates to come together again—or none of them will make it out alive.
Pre-order Kindling and receive a signed bookmark and faux Polaroid prints!
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Misa Sugiura
In Conversation with Joanna Ho
Saturday, March 2 at 11am
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We’re thrilled to welcome back author Misa Sugiura to celebrate the launch of the second book in her Momo Arashima series: Momo Arashima Breaks the Mirror of the Sun! Misa will be in conversation with fellow local author Joanna Ho. RSVP now »
After vanquishing a demon king, saving her mom, and reconnecting with her friend Danny, Momo ought to be living the life she's always wanted. But lately, Danny has been ditching her to hang out with mean-girl Ryleigh—and kids have begun vanishing without a trace. Then a whole backyard full of cool kids at Ryleigh's exclusive birthday party becomes the latest to disappear, leaving Momo, Ryleigh, Danny, boy band superstar Jin, and Momo's old friend Niko the fox to fight a dangerous new enemy from Shinto legend.
This time they are up against Tamamo-no-mae—beautiful, bloodthirsty, and manipulative, she's the ultimate mean girl of the Kami-verse. To defeat her, Momo must travel to the Sky Kingdom and steal the legendary Mirror of the Sun. But if she’s going to survive monster ambushes, escape giant snakes, and pull off the heist of the millennium, Momo will have to find a way to work with her team (even Ryleigh), and grapple with the growing power that connects her with her storm god grandfather, Susano'o', and her greatest foe—Izanami the Destroyer.
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