Whatever your current #musicmood, we’ve got a book (and a song) for you! Feeling dark dinner party vibes? Lucky you, we’ve got you covered. Looking for quirky songs, such as a nod to a story about a heart-stealing (in a best way) automaton? Yep, got that too. Check out our latest Music Matches, unveiled at ALA Annual 2021, where our staff members match you with everything from recent Harlequin Trade Publishing (read more…)

After a helluva a year (the technical term for 2020), we were so pleased and honored to see four of our beloved titles featured in Library Journal’s Best Books 2020 Lists! Here’s hoping it’s a good omen for the promise of 2021! Now, let’s see what our friends at Library Journal had to say about their selections: LJ POP FICTION: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West: A beautiful debut (read more…)

Not bad, not bad, … and not bad. Adi Alsaid has scored a third starred review for his beautiful anthology COME ON IN: 15 STORIES ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND FINDING HOME [Inkyard Press, October 13]. Publishers Weekly states that the author-slash-editor “successfully unites 15 short stories depicting a variety of immigrant experiences” starring “a diverse group of protagonists.”  Let us recap (recrown?): 👑”Each contribution provides a snapshot of the many meanings the word (read more…)

You might know Adi Alsaid as the beloved author of books like Let’s Get Lost, North of Happy, and We Didn’t Ask for This, but he is donning a new hat as editor of the beautiful anthology COME ON IN: 15 STORIES ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND FINDING HOME [Inkyard Press, October 13]. This is an incredibly timely collection of stories written by YA writer superstars who are immigrants or children of immigrants, and we are (read more…)

The now-multihyphenate Adi Alsaid, previously known as the beloved author of books like Let’s Get Lost, North of Happy, and We Didn’t Ask for This, can now add the title of editor to his resume: he contributed to, and and edited, the poignant anthology COME ON IN [Inkyard Press, October 13]. This lyrical collection of 15 stories, written by YA writer superstars who are immigrants or children of immigrants, are as (read more…)