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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 [...]

A Sky of Paper Stars Susie Yi. Roaring Brook, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-84388-3; $14.99 paper ISBN 978-1-250-84389-0 A Korean American tween grapples with the ill-fated consequences of a wish in [...]

Customizable Pop-Up Paper Spheres: 15 Paper Projects from Novice to Advanced Seiji Tsukimoto, trans, from the Japanese by Kevin Wilson. Schiffer Craft, $29.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6617-8 Paper artist [...]

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, [...]

* The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the 'Village Voice,' the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture Tricia Romano. PublicAffairs, $35 (608p) ISBN 978-1-5417-3639-9 Former Village [...]

Paper Planes Jennie Wood, illus. by Dozerdraws. Mad Cave Studios, $14.99 paper (216p) ISBN 978-1-952303-54-8 Following a dangerous incident at a party, two 14-year-olds spend their summer at a camp [...]

Angel and the Paper Trail Makenzie Hice, illus. by Natasja Home. Clavis, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-60537-732-2 An anonymous note leads a quiet new kid to a whole ctew of pals. [...]

The Fight for the Hidden Realm (Paper Dragons #1) Siobhan McDermott. Delacorte, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-59370-6-114 Via a vividly realized plot set against a backdrop of Cantonese mythology and taking [...]

Liliane Tardio-Brise. Stackpole, $32.95 trade paper (168p) ISBN 978-0-81-177069-9 Ceramist Tardio-Brise debuts with a master class on working with paper clay. She begins with a thorough overview of the minerals [...]

The Girl from the Papers Jennifer L Wright. Tyndale, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-496-47756-9 The gritty realities of the Great Depression force a woman into a life of crime in the [...]

Soul and Substance: A Poet's Examination Papers Jay Wright. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-691-24596-6 These impenetrable reflections by poet Wright (Thirteen Quintets for Lois) meditate on the nature of [...]

Paper Roses on Stony Mountain Diana Stevan. Island House, $17.95 e-book (358p) ISBN 978-1-988180-09-0 Stevan wraps up the Lukia's Family Saga trilogy (after Lilacs in the Dust Bowl) with an [...]

A Book of Days Patti Smith (Random House) $28.99 Poet, musician, and National Book Award-winning memoirist Smith adds another line to her resume: Instagram creator. Beginning with the image from [...]

Mr. Perfect on Paper Jean Meltzer. Mira, $15.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-8616-2 Meltzer (The Matzah Ball) lovingly highlights Jewish Modern Orthodox life using rom-com tropes people of all faiths [...]

* The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change Geoff Dembicki. Greystone, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-77164-891-2 The petroleum industry is guilty of a Big Tobacco-style public [...]

* The Paper Man Billy O'Callaghan. Godine, $28.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-56792-785-6 Irish author O'Callaghan (Life Sentences) brings to life 1930s Austria and 1980s Ireland in this mesmerizing tale of love, [...]

Kate S. Simpson. Union Square Kids, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4383-9 An inquisitive 12-year-old moves into a house of antiquities after her parents disappear in this speculative middle grade fantasy by [...]

Sophie Longhurst. White Owl, $22.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-5267-8466-7 Florist Longhurst offers a first-rate guide to creating beautiful, realistic paper flowers in her standout debut. She starts by covering [...]

This riveting compendium by Gallant (1922-2014), originally published in 1988 and long out-of-print, brings together the short story writer's nonfiction from her time living as a Canadian expat in Paris [...]

In this impressive collection, Anappara and Soomro bring together deeply personal essays from authors of color on the craft of writing. The selections interrogate the ways in which the "tenets [...]

Paper & Blood Kevin Hearne. Del Rey, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-984821-28-7 With this sequel to 2020's Ink & Sigil--which also acts as a continuation of the Iron Druid Chronicles series--Hearne [...]

Miranda Cowley Heller. Riverhead, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-32982-5 In Heller's caprivaring debut, a woman's visit to her family's summer home on Cape Cod forces her to make a momentous decision. [...]

Alice Feeney. Ratiron, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-26610-1 Londoners Amelia and Adam Wright, the couple at the center of this craftily plotted if flawed domestic thriller from bestseller Feeney (His & [...]

Craig Whitlock. Simon & Schuster, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-982159-00-9 U.S. government and military officials took part in an "unspoken conspiracy to mask the truth" about the war in Afghanistan, according [...]

In an uplifting tale from Galligan (the Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel series), the Eight Bitz dance crew seeks to make the most of their eighth grade year before splitting up [...]

Corobca frames her hilarious and poignant Englishlanguage debut as a series of letters regarding a notebook kept over the course of five months in 1974 by a Romanian bureaucrat. A [...]

Beck (Courage. My Love) delivers a bittersweet tale inspired by two women who helped rescue Jewish refugee children from the Nazis and the French police. In 1942, Swiss nurse Rosli [...]

Kim excavates the complexities of a mother and daughter's relationship in her excellent debut. The unnamed narrator, a widow who works at a nursing home in South Korea, expresses a [...]

The marriage of convenience trope gets a fresh spin in Riley's outstanding final Rogues and Remarkable Women Regency romance (after An Earl, the Girl and a Toddler), which sees a [...]

"The worst single day in the history of life on Earth" came 66 million years ago when a space rock slammed inro Earth and subsequently wiped out about 75% of [...]

The surprising and provocative works of Brazilian cult favorite Abreu (1948-1996) appear in English for the first time in this vivid translation from Lobato. Chronicling the counterculture scenes of the [...]

This hypnotic, riveting collection of new and previously published stories from MacArthur Fellow Rivera Garza (Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, essays) takes on love, migration, and violence. The narrators [...]

With this stellar debut, de Cadenet thoughtfully explores the complexities of interracial dating and the impact of mental health on relationships. When Black app developer Vanessa Noble walks into white, [...]

Share Your Joy: Mixed Media Shareable Art Sarah J. Gardner. Walter Foster, $22.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-0-7603-8309-4 "When you share what you create, you're sharing the joy that you [...]

The Big Book of Happy Crafts: 24 Creative Projects to Infuse Your World with Style, Personality & Fun Lucia Mallea. Better Day, $29.99 (200p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6711-3 Crafter Mallea's ebullient debut [...]

If you're looking to understand today's puzzling economy, reading about its roots in history might pay dividends. This season brings books that take the long view on finance, inflation, and [...]

Parents love to share their hobbies with their children, and that goes double for geeky parents, so it's not surprising that many make attending comic cons a family tradition. Like [...]

Lonely Bird Ruth Whiting. Candlewick, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-536-22618-8 Lonely Bird, an ephemeral pencil sketch on white paper, steps off the page and explores a suburban home in this quiet [...]

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 [...]

I Wish Christoph Niemann. Greenwillow, $19.99 (80p) ISBN 978-0-0632-1979-3 Coming upon a gift box wrapped in yellow paper and a purple ribbon, a round-headed child with paper-white skin and two [...]

* 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 [...]

Radiant Blocks for Endless Quilts: Designing with New York Beauties Linda J. Hahn. Landauer, $12.99 trade paper (48p) ISBN 978-1-63981-044-4 In this winning volume, Hahn (New York Beauties Electrified) shares [...]

When Pamela Paul stepped down as editor of the New York Times Book Review in April 2022, the news came as a shock to many of her colleagues. Paul had [...]

Helen Hiebert. Storey, $24.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-63586-265-2 Paper artist Hiebert (The Paper-maker's Companion) offers a first-rate guide for all manner of paper crafters. A little creativity can "transform [...]

The #5 book in the country is The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller. "In Heller's captivating debut, a woman's visit to her family's summer home on Cape Cod forces [...]

Pale Shadows: A Novel of Emily Dickinson Dominique Fortier, trans, from the French by Rhonda Mullins. Coach House, $18.95 trade paper (186p) ISBN 978-1-55245-468-8 Canadian writer Fortier returns (after Paper [...]

Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy Margot Susca. Univ. of Illinois, $24.95 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-252-08756-1 This damning debut from American University communications [...]

Sewing Perfect Little Bags and Totes: Fine-Tuning Essential Techniques from Cutting Out to Hardware Carolina Moore. Landauer, $19.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-63981-042-0 In this appealing if somewhat daunting guide, [...]

Wings of Red James W. Jennings. Counterpoint, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-59376-709-9 Jennings debuts with a gritty yet hopeful novel centered on June Papers, a 28-year-old Black man and [...]

Mattie and the Machine Lynn Ng Quezon. Santa Monica, $12.99 paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-5958-0118-0 Nineteenth-century inventor Margaret "Mattie" E. Knight (1838-1914) struggles to win legal rights to her invention, which [...]