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Under the Paper Moon Shaina Steinberg. Kensington, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4967-4780-8 Screenwriter Steinberg's fizzy debut balances quick-witted romance with colorful bursts of two-fisted action. Beautiful socialite Evelyn Bishop has retired [...]

Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order Saleha Mohsin. Portfolio, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-53911-8 The U.S. dollar has become a tool for manipulating other countries, [...]

Romance and horror take center stage in this season's manga, alongside edgy action series, inspiring sports stories, LGBTQ narratives, and challenging indie titles. TOP 10 Captain Momo's Secret Base Kenji [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 50 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 83 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

Ngozi Ukazu and G. Willow Wilson headline a season full of serious and sassy offerings, including punky graphic novels, coming-of-age tales with modern vibes, and flights of fantasy--and flirtation. TOP [...]

This season's offerings investigate scriptural authorship, wrestle with Christian nationalism, and advise readers on combating racial inequality and climate change in the church and beyond. Being Muslim Today: Reclaiming the [...]

Spring's slate features big-name female artists, including Leela Corman, Emil Ferris, and Marjane Satrapi; diverse graphic memoir debuts from promising newcomers such as Tessa Hulls and Eddie Ahn; and weirdo [...]

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer join forces--amplifying the appeal of a season also marked by the return of established category stars like Vera Brosgol, Scott Kurtz, and Booki Vivat. TOP [...]

Comics about the body, mind, illness, transitions (such as pregnancy and gender confirmation), and all manner of healthcare matters flourish in the growing category of "graphic medicine." The Anxiety Club: [...]

In the wake of Lore Olympus, comics fans are all in for the escapades of gods. These comics remix ancient myths and fabled realms, or dream up brand-new deities and [...]

Launching this spring: interstellar adventures, alien invasions, and lonely heroes seeking love across the galaxy. The Asiri Roye Okupe et al. Dark Horse, June 18($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-5067-3545-0) West [...]

360 DEGREES Habitats: A Journey in Nature by Hannah Pang, illus. by Isobel Lundie (Feb. 13, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-944530-41-9). Interactive split pages spotlight six habitats around the world and the [...]

From bunk beds and bugle wake-up calls to the fast friendships that help kids find their truest self far away from home, these comics evoke the classic experiences of summer [...]

* Bibsy Cross and the Bad Apple (Bibsy Cross #1) Liz Garton Scanlon, illus. by Dung Ho. Knopf, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-5936-4441-6; $6.99 paper ISBN 978-0-593-64440-9 Ebullient eight-year-old Bibsy Cross [...]

In 1960 New York City, a curmudgeonly reporter falls for the shortstop he's been assigned to cover in Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky (Avon, May; reviewed on p. 44). [...]

From the earliest ages, kids gravitate toward comics' dynamic yet accessible layouts and often goofy humor. Here are some choice spring picks from a blossoming category. Attack of the Krill [...]

Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life Nicholas D. Kristof. Knopf, $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-53656-8 In this impassioned memoir, New York Times journalist Kristof (coauthor with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, of Tightrope) [...]

The Ex-Human: Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species Michael Berube. Columbia Univ., $26 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-0-231-21505-3 Berube (It's Not Free Speech), an English professor at Penn [...]

Living a Conscious Life: How to Find Peace, Wholeness, and Freedom in a Chaotic World Donald E. Johnson. Select, $17.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-59079-562-0 Leadership consultant Johnson debuts with [...]

Summer Punchline Betty Corrello. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-332958-4 Set in the world of stand-up comedy, Corrello's debut rom-com delivers a sturdy second-chance love story but lacks true [...]

The Wolf's Eye Luanne G. Smith. 47North, $16.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-66251-017-5 Smith's undeniable gift for description saves the day in her immersive if uneven second Order of Seven [...]

* North Wind Alexandria Warwick. Simon & Schuster, $19.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-66806-516-7 Pairing an ice-cold god in exile with an alcoholic heroine possessed of a minor martyr complex, [...]

* Ward Toward Cindy Juyoung Ok. Yale Univ., $20 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-0-300-27392-2 Winner of the 2023 Yale Younger Poets Prize, Ok in her refreshing debut uses language to [...]

Holy Winter Maria Stepanova, trans, from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale. New Directions, $14.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3514-3 This moving, polyvocal volume from Stepanova (War of the Beasts and [...]

* The New Girl (The New Girl #1) Cassandra Calin. Graphlx, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-338-76246-4; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-1-338-76245-7 With a tenderness stemming from personal recollections, as discussed in an [...]

Adversary Blue Delliquanti. Silver Sprocket, $15.99 trade paper (80p) ISBN 979-8-88620-038-6 Delliquanti (Across a Field of Starlight) delivers a thoughtful and tense graphic novella about the uneasy sexual relationship between [...]

The Bump Sidney Karger. Berkley, $18 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-43950-0 Karger's sweet sophomore novel (after Best Men) follows a gay couple preparing for parenthood. After actor--turned--food writer Biz and [...]

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places Claire Kann. Berkley, $18 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-33665-6 Lucky Hart, the protagonist of this endearing rom-com from Kann (The Romantic Agenda), [...]

Akmaral Judith Lindbergh. Regal House, $19.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-64603-469-7 Lindbergh (The Thrall's Tale) draws on Herodotus's Histories for a crackling novel focused on the lives of ancient Central [...]

Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home (Hocus and Pocus #1) A.R. Capetta, illus. by Charlene Chua. Candlewick, $16.99 (96p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2492-4; $5.99 paper ISBN 978-1-5362-3672-9 When ebullient, bohemian [...]

Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama Edited by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue. Univ. of Mississippi, $30 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4968-5056-0 SUNY Potsdam English professors Maus and [...]

Unladylike Rules of Attraction Amita Murray. Avon, $18.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-329652-7 Murray's rousing second Marleigh Sisters Regency (after Unladylike Lessons in Love) finds Anya Marleigh, Queen Charlotte's court [...]

The Vacancy in Room 10 Seraphina Nova Glass. Graydon House, $18.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-525-80980-4 Two women face violent relationship troubles at a seedy apartment complex in the entertaining [...]

Why Did You Come Back Every Summer Belen Lopez Peiro, trans, from the Spanish by Maureen Shaughnessy. Charco, $16.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-1-913867805 Lopez Peiro documents in her potent [...]

Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal Robert Shaplen. McNally, $18 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-946-02291-2 First published in 1954, this droll and waggish chronicle of an American [...]

Swan Songs W. Maxwell Prince, et al. Image, $16.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-5343-9828-3 Horror comics trendsetter Prince (the Ice Cream Man series) branches out for a decently written and [...]

Fake Flame Adele Buck. Afterglow, $12.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-335-04161-6 Buck (Fast Acting) brings the heat in this scorching rom-com. After professor Eva Campbell's ex, Darren, stages a ridiculous [...]

* A Kind of Madness Uche Okonkwo. Tin House, $16.95 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-959030-38-6 Okonkwo explores in her agile debut collection the private feelings of her characters and the [...]

Bitter Water Opera Nicolette Polek. Graywolf, $16 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-64445-283-7 A woman adrift is visited by the spirit of a reclusive dancer in Polek's enchanting debut novel (after [...]

Asterism Ae Hee Lee. Tupelo, $19.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-1-961209-01-5 Lee articulates the joys and alienations of being an outsider in her contemplative debut. Born in South Korea, Lee [...]

Land Marks Maryann Lesert. She Writes, $17.95 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-64742-646-0 A group of anti-fracking activists face off with oil and gas executives in this energizing offering from Lesert [...]

Buns Gone Bad (Ruffle Bunnies #1) Anna Humphrey, illus. by Irma Kniivila. Tundra, $13.99 (176p) ISBN 978-1-7748-8126-2; $9.99 paper ISBN 978-1-77488-132-3 According to the narrator--a tough, unnamed moth who speaks [...]

The Lady He Lost Faye Delacour. Sourcebooks Casablanca, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-72829-063-8 Estranged friends struggle to move past their fraught history in Delacour's jam-packed debut. In 1839, naval [...]

The Heart of Winter Shona Kinsella. FlameTree, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78758-830-1 Despite a fiercely independent heroine and a fascinating pantheon of gods, Kinsella (The Flame and the Flood) [...]

Young Rich Widows Kimberly Belle et al. Sourcebooks Landmark, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-72829-401-8 Belle (The Personal Assistant) teams up with Layne Fargo (They Never Learn), Cate Holahan (Her [...]

An Enemy Like Me Teri M. Brown. Atmosphere, $ 18.99 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-63988-545-9 In the stimulating if uneven latest from Brown (Sunflowers Beneath the Snow), a German American's [...]

Lost & Found Mel Yu. Union Square, $16.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4547-5; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-1-4549-5264-0 Vivacious, art-focused Mei Yu could not be more excited to move to Canada from China [...]

Kilt Trip Alexandra Kiley. Canary Street, $19.88 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-335-00929-6 Kiley debuts with a winning romance that doubles as a vivid travelogue through Scotland. Logan Sutherland is satisfied [...]

A Governess's Guide to Passion and Peril Manda Collins. Forever, $16.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2560-3 A governess reunites with her former crush in Collins's addictive fourth Ladies Most Scandalous [...]