The October SBR Shelf
“The world belongs to those who read.” – Rick Holland
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Take silly seriously! A fall-off-your-high-chair funny picture book from Asheville resident Constance Lombardo starring a spoon, a fork, and the baby they both want to feed, perfect for fans of The Bad Seed. Anyone who has ever tried to feed a baby (and that includes older siblings!) knows it ain't easy--but does it have to be this hard?
A MILLIONS Most Anticipated Fall Book. Transporting and compelling stories of those taken, those missing, and those neither here nor gone—runaways, exiles, wanderers, ghosts, even the elusive Dame Agatha Christie.
“[An] exceptional short story and novella collection.” —Southern Literary Review
“A virtuoso collection of stories that spin around an axis of loss and rediscovery.” —Tina May Hall, The Snow Collectors
An immersive new middle grade series featuring an Italian girl who is torn between her passion for magically healing animals and her family’s desire for her to follow tradition. “Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan.”—Laura Ruby, Two-Time National Book Award Finalist and author of the YORK Trilogy
Called a “stunning” and “astonishing” debut by Alexander Chee and Cathy Park Hong, WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON poses the question of how can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism in a novel inspired by the author’s family’s roots in activism.
"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. This is where Jonathan Escoffrey's career begins. There are no limits to where he will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
"Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before." —Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King