Publishers Weekly Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Dark Cloud: The Hidden Costs of the Digital World
Guillaume Pitron
All those “cat videos and holiday snaps” are a burden on the natural world, according to journalist Guillaume Pitron's The Dark Cloud. PW's review: https://t.co/b15yicy4gv @scribepub https://t.co/waH8FlSrHU
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Variation
Rebecca Yarros
Yarros keeps the twists coming as her complex but lovable characters find their way back to each other in the face of impossible odds. Readers who like their romance on the soapy side will be more than satisfied
Paperback, 2024
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sweet Spot
Amy Poeppel
Authors Lynda Cohen Loigman (l.) and Amy Poeppel (r.) discuss Poeppel’s new novel, ‘The Sweet Spot’ (Atria/Emily Bestler Books) during a book tour event held at P&T Knitwear in New York on January 31.(Courtesy Kathleen Carter) Submit your #PWPOTD at pics@publishersweekly.com https://t.co/fU1RSh5A9z
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
‘The Poet X’ by Elizabeth Acevedo, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, has won the 2019 Michael L. Printz Award
Paperback, 2020
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
Adam Welz
Journalist Adam Welz studies how climate change is affecting species as diverse as New England moose, Australian perch, and African yellow-billed hornbills in his "lucid" debut. PW's review of The End of Eden: https://t.co/qUG1KuxVZ9 @BloomsburyPub https://t.co/ygL5lQ67uR
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Jordan Peele
These tales are all both gruesomely imaginative and firmly rooted in the realities of anti-Black racism and brutality—and there isn’t a weak one in the bunch. This is essential reading for any horror fan.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Op-Ed: Why Are Books Banned? Here's Banned Book Author Ibram X. Kendi's Take | @TheRoot https://t.co/WMzETuA4dU https://t.co/OuLW6OfA89
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Gumbs is a master stylist with a knack for writing sentences at once direct and expansive... This is a feast for the intellect--and the soul.
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy
Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith’s 'Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy' (Abrams ComicArts, Aug.) is a graphic biography of one of the unsung heroes of newspaper comics. https://t.co/asDGRbj3ku https://t.co/r2Y9M2fkF7
Hardcover, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski
Journalist Joe Posnanski finds reason to love baseball everywhere from the MLB down to Florida Little League games in his stellar Why We Love Baseball. Read PW's starred review: https://t.co/k4s0aJFtKn @DuttonBooks https://t.co/knqnyhQ2vZ
Hardcover, 2023
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book