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Let’s Pop, Pop, Popcorn!

Sleeping Bear Press
32 pages
$16.99


“A spirited rhyming ode to popcorn and the fun it brings to all While each line of text rarely strays from seven or eight syllables, there is great synergy between words and pictures, making it hard to sit still while turning the pages.”

–Kirkus Reviews 

Moms Don't Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology

Skyhorse
312 pages
$24.99


“The perfect reminder for every mom that none of us have it all together, all of us are doing our best and most importantly … even your worst days make a great story.”

—NORA McINERNY, author of No Happy Endings and host of popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking

The Echoing Ida Collection

The Feminist Press at CUNY
328 pages
$24.95


“A rich awakening to the revolution and evolution of Black women and nonbinary voices, and a deeply majestic tribute to the expanse of Black cultural movements—in singular reverence and collective power.” 

 —Rebecca Carroll, author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir

Terrible Sanity

Madville Publishing
294 pages
$19.95


“No book or person is a “thing of beauty or joy forever,” but some books sparkle and so entertain that they brighten the passing hours. Terrible Sanity is just such a book.”

-from the publisher

Divided We Fall

St. Martin's Press
288 pages
$28.99


“French presents a vision for how the country can come together again and embrace national unity.” 

―Mackenzie Dawson, New York Post

The River

Lake Union Publishing
43 pages
$14.95


“New hopes and dreams lie beyond the river, and as allegiances are challenged, a harmonious community finds itself grappling with inevitable cultural change—change that creates a vast, opportune, and unpredictable new beginning for generations yet to come.”

-from the publisher

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