Episode 081 – New and Upcoming Books We’re Excited About

July 16, 2019

This episode we’re talking about the American Library Association’s annual conference and New and Upcoming Books We’re Excited About! We discuss LGBTQ comics, Star Trek, memoirs, and an author who we learn we went to school with.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Matthew Murray | Kelsey Ockert | Amie Wright

New and Upcoming Books We Mention

Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman – Published September 3rd 2019 (Matthew was wrong, it’s being published by Graphic Universe)
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe – Published May 28th 2019
- Spivak pronoun (including “eir”)
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix – Paperback published June 25, 2019
Angels With Blue Faces by Lyra McKee – Published late June 2019
- Lyra McKee (Wikipedia)
Guts by Raina Telgemeier – Published September 10th, 2019
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker – Published July 16th, 2019
- Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story
- Heritage Minutes: Vancouver Asahi
No Ivy League by Hazel Newlevant – Published August 20th, 2019
Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, Sanford Greene – Published May 21st, 2019
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price – Published August 20th, 2019
Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman – Published 25th, 2019
Who Says You’re Dead? Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned by Jacob M. Appel – Published October 8th, 2019
Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn and Claire Roe – Published October 8th, 2019
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender – Published November 12th, 2019
The Ghost Collector by Allison Mills – Published September 10th, 2019
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow – Published September 10th, 2019
Counterfeit Girl by Pete Milligan and Rufus Dayglo – Published June 25th, 2019
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton – Published August 6th, 2019
Magical Beatdown by Jenn Woodall
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir – Published August 6th, 2019
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir – Published September 10th, 2019
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – Published September 10th, 2019