FICTION
Misadventure by Nicholas Grider
“A debut that short fiction lovers shouldn’t miss- or lovers of the fringe, the darkly funny, the raw glimpses of secret and flaw. Bold readers won’t be disappointed & timid readers will be surprised.” – Ben
The latest book from Austin small press A Strange Object!
The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman’s “The Museum of Extraordinary Things” is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century.
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Sock Monkey Treasury: A “Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey” Collection
“Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey” is one of the great all-ages comics properties of the new millennium, spawning plush dolls, TV appearances, lunch boxes, Zippo lighters and more. Now, for the first time, all twelve of multiple Eisner Award-winner Tony Millionaire s acclaimed Sock Monkey comic books are collected under one cover, as well as the full-color graphic novella Uncle Gabby and the full-color illustrated storybook, The Glass Doorknob.
NON-FICTION
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band by Alan Paul
One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band’s participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long.
Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies by David Itzkoff
In Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times recounts the surprising and dramatic story of how Network made it to the screen. Such a movie rarely gets made any more—one man’s vision of the world, independent of studio testing or market research. And that man was Paddy Chayefsky, the tough, driven, Oscar-winning screenwriter whose vision—outlandish for its time—is all too real today.
Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public by Pamela Ribon
“This book is absolutely hilarious! … Ribon’s self-deprecating humor is balanced by the many hard nugget stories she tells of being an adolescent girl dealing with real feelings of depression, low self esteem, and inscrutable parents.” – Julie W
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait by Blake Bailey
Meet the Baileys: Burck, a prosperous lawyer once voted the American Legion s Citizen of the Year in his tiny hometown of Vinita, Oklahoma; his wife Marlies, who longs to recapture her festive life in Greenwich Village as a pretty young German immigrant, fresh off the boat; their addled son Scott, who repeatedly crashes the family Porsche; and Blake, the younger son, trying to find a way through the storm.
This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part critical essay, part memoir—Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own migrations and rise in the literary world.
I am enthralled by the cover of “The Museum of Extraordinary Things.”
I have been watching a lot of booktuber videos and cover art has such a huge impact on the reader. I knew that, of course, but to see someone oooh and aaah over a cover really brings it home.