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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 [...]

If only geopolitical events and market forces had the push-button simplicity of a CtP imagesetter or a printing press for a quick reset, do-over, or finish. Print manufacturers, particularly export [...]

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 [...]

Many handicrafts require special equipment or expensive materials. Not so with papercraft. "You really only need three things to create these beautiful objects: scissors, paper, and glue," says Elysia Liang, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"All my calls arc screened--people wanting to buy us," quipped a busy executive at a Midwest printing company when PW finally caught up with him. Perhaps he wasn't joking, given [...]

* 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, [...]

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Get swept away on beachy vacations, sink into fantasy worlds, and peek behind the scenes of Hollywood glamour in spring's romance offerings. TOP 10 Beautiful Villain Rebecca F. Kenney. Sourcebooks [...]

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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 [...]

Paper Joy for Every Room: 15 Fun Projects to Add Decorating Charm to Your Home Laure Farion, trans, from the French by Simulingua. Schiffer, $21.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-7643-6055-8 [...]

Adorable Animal Quilting: 20+ Charming Patterns for Paper-Pieced Dogs, Cats, Turtles, Monkeys and More Ingrid Alteneder. Page Street, $21.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-64567-058-2 Alteneder, who blogs about crafts at [...]

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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 [...]

The Paper Garden Caitlin Vance. 7.13 Books, $19.99 trade paper (170p) ISBN 978-1-73617-670-2 Vance's intense if slightly undercooked debut collection explores the impact of mental illness on relationships. Most of [...]

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Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 84 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

The Weaving Explorer: Ingenious Techniques, Accessible Tools & Creative Projects for Working with Yarn, Paper, Wire and More Deborah Jarchow and Gwen W. Steege. Storey, $29.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-63586-028-3 Dedicated [...]

For Paper Merchants, Tough Times Ahead Citing the current recession and Persian Gulf crisis, book paper manufacturers report availability at an all-time high and competitive prices. Since publishers are not [...]

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America's Big Five trade publishers have found themselves in the middle of a long-running battle between Greenpeace and Resolute Forest Products over the forest company's logging practices in Canada's boreal [...]

Paper Joy for Every Room: 15 Fun Projects to Add Decorating Charm to Your Home Laure Farion, trans. from the French by Simulingua (Schiffer) ISBN 978-0-7643-6055-8, $21.99 * Crafter Farion, [...]

Victoria and Albert Museum. Thames & Hudson, $29.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-50029-418-5 This beautiful collection of old and modern paper crafts belonging to London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and the accompanying [...]

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The Paper Boat Thao Lam. Owikids, $17.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77147-363-7 In wordless cut paper and mixed media collage, Lam (My Cat Looks Like My Dad) fictionalizes her family's escape from [...]

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 [...]

Paper Mills Open a Floodgate for New Products The world has changed for book and publications publishers as paper mills are becoming cornucopias of new products. The tight paper supply [...]

Paper Planes Jim Helmore, illus. by Richard Jones. Peachtree, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-68263-161-4 Mia and Ben, best friends who live "side by side on the edge of a great, wide [...]

Paper Hearts Steven L Hawk. Hawkmark, $2.99 e-book (192p) ASIN B07RXNLBFF A depressed man travels through the American West on a bicycle in this compassionate story from Hawk (Peace Warrior). [...]

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 [...]

Memory serves as a bridge to the past and an entry point for thinking about countries and conflicts, in this season's poetry collections. TOP 10 Another Day: Sabbath Poems 2013-2022 [...]

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Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 66 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

This season brings a crop of bold manga, including alternative classics, historical fiction, LGBTQ stories, and outings from indie creators. Light novels--serialized prose stories with manga-style illustrations--are a growing category. [...]

The Pelton Papers Mari Coates. She Writes, $16.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-63152-687-9 Coates's stirring debut imagines the life of painter Agnes Pelton (1881-1961). Set up as a memoir Agnes wrote in [...]

Strike up the band! The age of high-quality, environmentally sound paper is here! Or is it? And if it's not, what's holding it up? Between late 1989 and early 1991 [...]

Cherry Blossom and Paper Planes Jef Aerts, trans, from the Dutch by Polly Lawson, illus. by Sanne te Loo. Floris, $17.95 (48p) ISBN 978-178250-561-7 Quiet, polished gouache-and-pen spreads of cherry [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

D. Eric Maikranz. Blackstone, $15.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-09-415495-4 Maikranz's spellbinding dark fantasy debut offers a fresh take on the concept of reincarnation. Professional arsonist Evan Michaels has vivid, [...]

Edited by Andrew Blauner. Library of America, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59853-616-4 The 3.3 essays, poems, and cartoons in this book, most original to the volume, are affectionate valentines to Charles [...]

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Scripting the Life You Want: Manifest Your Dreams with Just Pen and Paper Royce Christyn. Inner Traditions, $16.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-64411-019-5 Actor Christyn (Eigengrau) argues that "you really [...]

Former molecular biologist Holm imagines a pandemic much worse than Covid-19 in Child Zero (Mulholland, May; reviewed on p. 37). Was this book conceived before the current pandemic? Yes. I [...]

* Tomoko Fuse's Origami Boxes: Beautiful Paper Gift Boxes from Japan's Leading Origami Master Tomoko Fuse. Tuttle, $12.99 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8048-5006-3 Origami master Fuse's brilliant book is an [...]

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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 Paper Kingdom Helena Ku Rhee, illus. by Pascal Campion. Random House, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-64461-3 "Mama and Papa were night janitors," writes Rhee (The Turtle Ship), who bases this [...]

Paper Chains Nicola Moriarty. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-241354-3 The lives of two women intersect in Moriarty's heart-tugging story (following Those Other Women) of confronting questionable choices. Twenty-eight-year-old [...]

Through stories of suffering and survival, these collections explore desire, healing, the vulnerabilities of the body, the command of desire, and the impact of history. TOP 10 A "Working Life" [...]

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With industry sales largely flat, one way publishers have maintained their profit margins in recent years is by operating more efficiently and taking costs out of the supply chain. But [...]

Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis Jeffrey H. Jackson. Algonquin, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61620-916-2 In this intriguing and carefully documented account, Rhodes College history [...]

Irene Schlesinger. C&T, $21.95 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-1-61745-884-2 The worlds of canvas art and embroidery merge in this thorough debut guide from Schlesinger, a Bay Area artist. Beginning stitchers [...]

This fall the bursting-at-the-seams middle grade comics category is fueled by a diverse cast of debut authors--plus plenty of returning favorites, including Ben Hatke and Nidhi Chanani. TOP 10 Alterations [...]

Paper: Paging Through History Mark Kurlansky. Norton, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-393-23961-4 Kurlansky (Salt: A World History) yet again tackles world history via another object often taken for granted in modern [...]

Elisa Shua Dusapin and her translator, Aneesa Abbas Higgins, won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature with Dusapin's debut, Winter in Sokcho. The novel "follows a young French [...]

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 [...]

The Paper Girl of Paris Jordyn Taylor. HarperTeen. $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-293662-2 Taylor's suspenseful debut tells the story of Adalyn Bonhomme, a teenage French Resistance worker in Paris during WWII, [...]

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Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 79 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-18542-8 UCLA professor Stein (Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost [...]

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Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 90 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 55 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

Book manufacturers and paper suppliers, still recovering from a difficult 2009, are sticking with sustainability, accelerating the use of proven conservation measures while devising newer practices. But the newer efforts [...]

Girls of Paper and FireNatasha Ngan. Little, Brown/Patterson, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 9780-316-56136-5In this rich fantasy from Ngan (The Memory Keepers), the citizens of Ikhara comprise three castes: the oppressed, fully [...]

* Girls of Paper and Fire Natasha Ngan. Little, Brown/Patterson, $18.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-56136-5 In this rich fantasy from Ngan (The Memory Keepers), the citizens of Ikhara comprise three castes: [...]

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Riffs and retellings rule the day in this highly referential romance season, which also sees many authors making the switch from YA to adult romance. TOP 10 Bookshop Cinderella Laura [...]

Paper Mice Megan Wagner Lloyd, illus. by Phoebe Wahl. Simon & Schuster/Wiseman, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8166-3 "With a snip and a clip,/ and a clip and a snip" an elderly [...]

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 [...]

With major players including Kate Leth, Meg Medina, Neal Shusterman, and Gene Luen Yang delivering comics across genres from horror to romance to history, this season has something for every [...]

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 [...]