![]() ![]() Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream Alvin Cailan, with Alexandra Cuerdo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).The impressive variety of style and tone-combined with the authors’ infectious enthusiasm for their subject-means there’s something for everyone in this magical, escapist treat. Strahan brings together some of the biggest names in sci-fi and fantasy for a blockbuster anthology of original tales of dragons, which range from high-flying adventure stories to quieter domestic fables and draw from many different cultural understandings of dragon mythology. The Book of Dragons Edited by Jonathan Strahan (Harper Voyager).Their opposite personalities play off each other beautifully, leading to moments of laugh-out-loud humor and heart-melting tenderness. Enter Oliver Blackwood, a straitlaced criminal barrister. Luc O’Donnell, the rascally son of a washed-up rock star, is tired of his messy love life serving as tabloid fodder, and so are his employers, who instruct him to improve his image with a stable relationship. Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall (Sourcebooks Casablanca)įake boyfriends catch real feelings in Hall’s flawless rom-com.This vibrant account makes a perfect companion to a rewatch of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Leerhsen, who previously rehabilitated the reputation of notorious baseball curmudgeon Ty Cobb, recasts Butch Cassidy as the Robin Hood of the Wild West in a richly detailed biography that combines outlaw exploits with the economic and social history of 19th-century America. Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw Charles Leerhsen (Simon & Schuster).Fans of high-concept feminist SF thrillers will be enthralled. A 12-year-old boy, one of the last alive, and his mother go on the run across America to avoid those who would use him as a reproductive source or a stand-in son. This literary thriller is a must-read.Īfter a pandemic kills most of the world’s men, women are in charge of running what’s left of civilization. ![]() Dimaline takes readers from Ontario to New York to New Orleans and beyond to describe Joan and Victor’s passionate courtship and his gradual acceptance by her family, informing Joan’s rabid desperation. After Joan’s husband, Victor, disappears from their First Nations community of Arcand, Ontario, Joan tracks the Rogarou in search of answers. Empire of Wild Cherie Dimaline (Morrow)ĭimaline draws on the Métis myth of the werewolflike Rogarou in this irresistible quest narrative.Schoolboy competitors Peco and Smile are faced with a new foe, and Matsumoto’s sharp, fantastic art, paired with winning characterizations and unexpectedly dramatic action makes for a genre standout for manga fans and newbies alike. Table tennis gets the full-court treatment in this snappy and distinctively drawn sports manga, a much-anticipated English edition of the quirky saga first serialized in the 1990s. Lockhart takes her penchant for plot twists to a new level with a narrative that explores the idea of the multiverse through scenes imagined and reimagined in an iterative style. Cordell creates an open, affectionate atmosphere perfectly in keeping with Rogers’s quiet strength and generous heart.Īdrift in the summer between her junior and senior years, Adelaide Buchwald navigates the aftermath of an unexpected breakup and a wrenching family situation while working to fend off academic probation. Hello, Neighbor! The Kind and Caring World of Mister Rogers Matthew Cordell (Holiday House/Porter)Ĭaldecott Medalist Cordell’s authorized picture book biography begins on the TV set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood before circling back to the television host’s youth and building to his unexpected discovery of television’s possibilities for speaking to children.Over the course of his Jewish family’s harrowing journey from Warsaw to the Soviet Union, the young Shulevitz discovers his nascent love of art. Chance: Escape from the Holocaust Uri Shulevitz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Ĭaldecott Medalist Shulevitz turns to middle grade memoir to tell his account, in words and pictures, of his childhood flight from the terrors of the Holocaust.
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