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Announcing IPG’s Fall 2023 Top Shelf

Our staff picks from the best international & indie presses

A Children's Literary Treasury
A Children's Literary Treasury Edited by Anna James

Why we love it: A magical sampler of beloved stories from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase to The Worst Witch, A Wrinkle in Time to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Because L. M. Montgomery, Roald Dahl, and Dianna Wynne Jones should totally be in the same anthology!

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Just SNOW Already!
Just SNOW Already! Illustrated by Howard McWilliam

Why we love it: Just Snow Already captures the anticipation & joy of waiting on that first snow while offering funny reminders to live in the moment. It's the first story written by Howard McWilliam, who you may recognize as the award-winning illustrator of several beloved, bestselling picture books, including the I Need My Monster series.

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Mr Impoppable
Mr Impoppable Illustrated by Brent Wilson, By Trent Jamieson

Why we love it: His head is a balloon and can’t be popped. Even ninja kittens try.

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Rising Above
Rising Above By Hayley Diep, Illustrated by Naomi Giddings

Why we love it: The true story of the first non-white athlete to play in the NBA, yet very few people, especially children, know his story.

As a Japanese American during WWII, Wat faced intense racism to become a symbol of hope for those imprisoned in incarceration camps across the US. He led his University of Utah team to the 1944 NCAA Championship and broke a color barrier when he was drafted by the NY Knicks into the NBA in 1947. The author and illustrator, herself also a Japanese American, both live in California.

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Baby Unicorns
Baby Unicorns By Anne Marie Ryan, Illustrated by Olga Baumert, Illustrated by Kristina Kister

Why we love it: All the magical, secret unicorn lore is revealed here in a very shiny, covetable, collectible package.

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Disney Manga: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - The Battle for Pumpkin King
Disney Manga: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - The Battle for Pumpkin King By (artist) Deborah Allo, By Dan Conner, By (artist) Roberto Scalia, By (artist) D.J. Milky, By (artist) Shaun McLaughlin

Why we love it: Every villain deserves an origin story. In this fully licensed Disney Manga prequel to the beloved Tim Burton cult classic, Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie were close friends. Both eager to prove themselves. But there could only be one Pumpkin King... Get it just in time for Halloween!

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All These Sunken Souls
All These Sunken Souls Edited by Circe Moskowitz, By Kalynn Bayron, By Ashia Monet, By Liselle Sambury, By Sami Ellis, By Joel Rochester, By Joelle Wellington, By Brent C. Lambert, By Donyae Coles, By Ryan Douglass

Why we love it: From Amberjack Publishing, this is the Black Twilight Zone we've all been waiting for! It's a collection from Black authors paying tribute to the horror genre, while flipping familiar tropes on their heads and offering fresh narratives that center Black characters, out just in time for Halloween! Read on if you think you're brave.

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Celtic Weird
Celtic Weird Edited by Johnny Mains

Why we love it: First, there’s front and back gold foiling. Second, it’s divided into Scotland / Ireland / Brittany / Isle of Man / Wales / Cornwall / Gaelic. Third, there are stories from Dorothy K. Haynes (Scotland’s answer to Shirley Jackson), Robert Aickman (writing about a storm hag), and Edith Wharton. Fourth and most importantly - Can the Devil take the form of a horse?

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Sadie X
Sadie X By Clara Dupuis-Morency, Translated by Aimee Wall

Why we love it: Translated from French, Sadie X is highly inventive literary speculative fiction that engages with deeply philosophical questions about the self and culture. A virus has been found and Sadie and her team must think like a virus in order to rid us of it (this is NOT a pandemic novel, but thinks about the relationship between humans and viruses). With unsettling, brilliant writing, and wholly original plot and form, this book is Proust meets Virginie Despentes.

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Beautiful Shining People
Beautiful Shining People By Michael Grothaus

Why we love it: “That Beautiful Shining People isn’t just a slipstream novel with pretensions to being literature is in great part down to the deftness and tenderness with which Grothaus draws his central relationship … to let us explore a world of robots and deepfakes that’ s just unfamiliar enough to be exotic”SFX Magazine Book of the Month

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The Forcing
The Forcing By Paul E. Hardisty

Why we love it: Climate change thriller by a leading environmental scientist. Civilization is collapsing, a government of youth has taken power in North America, those older than a prescribed age are deemed responsible and are 'relocated', property and assets confiscated. As of now, still fiction.

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The Final Witness
The Final Witness By Paul Landis

Why we love it: After 6 decades, Special Agent Paul Landis reveals a stunning story that shakes the foundations of all the JFK assassination theories. The author is charming and affable, and his story is heartbreaking.

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Out at the Plate
Out at the Plate By Lynn Ames

Why we love it: The biography of Dot Wilkinson, who Billie Jean King called “the greatest female catcher ever to play softball.” Dot played for the Arizona Ramblers during WWII like the women in A League of Their Own. The result of over a decade’s worth of conversations and interviews with author and close friend of Wilkinson’s, Lynn Ames, Out at the Plate tells the amazing story of a true trailblazer who lived life on her own terms.

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When Harry Met Pablo
When Harry Met Pablo By Matthew Algeo

Why we love it: Intertwines the biographies of Truman and Picasso, the history of modern art, and twentieth-century American politics. Postpresidency, Harry Truman went on a cruise around Europe; at the same time, McCarthy in the US was trying to ban modern art. Truman abhorred censorship and McCarthy more than he hated modern art so he visited Picasso and modern artists all over Europe to make a point.

This is full of funny stories about Truman crashing weddings, walking the decks of the boat, and generally fighting fascism on his great vacation, from the author of the bestselling The President is a Sick Man and Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure.

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Soul Survivor
Soul Survivor By P.P Arnold

Why we love it: Do you know of another memoir by a former Ikette who sang background vocals on Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” and KLF’s “What Time Is Love” and had a threesome with Mick and Marianne?

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Black Lives, American Love
Black Lives, American Love By D.B. Maroon

Why we love it: This collection of essays delivers relentless truth-telling on some of the country’s fiercest debates and most profound challenges while meditating on how we can all do more to secure America’s vastly beautiful possibilities for all its citizens, rather than a few.

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Prince in Comics!
Prince in Comics! By Nicolas Finet, By Tony Lourenco

Why we love it: Continuing NBM’s series of graphic anthologies about prominent musicians, each chapter is done by a different graphic artist so you get to see Prince's life story as interpreted in a variety of styles.

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Queer Chameleon and Friends
Queer Chameleon and Friends By Amee Wilson

Why we love it: It’s super funny, honest, and welcoming.

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Persephone Made Me Do It
Persephone Made Me Do It By Trista Mateer

Why we love it: The third volume of bestselling and award-winning author Trista Mateer’s goddess-themed poetry collection. Weaves together mythology, tarot, poetry, and conversation to reveal a new side of a very old story. Alternating between the perspectives of poet and goddess, Persephone’s lore is explored, related to modern issues, and ultimately reclaimed.

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Friday Night Lies
Friday Night Lies By Andrew King, By Ben Ferree

Why we love it: If you watched HBO's 'BS High' with fascination, shock, and disbelief, read this next! Friday Night Lies, the author of which appears numerous times in HBO's documentary, is the absolutely wild true crime story of a sham high school and football program that somehow ended up on ESPN in a high school matchup they never should have been in. Things blew up spectacularly and the Bishop Sycamore team were decimated 56-0, and that stunning loss started to unravel the con.

A book about the exploitation of the high school football and educational system, racial inequities, and vulnerable young people, that culminated in a series of lawsuits and criminal charges. A stunning story.

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On Censorship
On Censorship By James LaRue

Why we love it: A call to action for all. Book banning and censorship in our public and educational spaces continues to rise. This is essential reading for all those who believe in free expression, who support libraries, and who cherish the central freedoms that American democracy represents.

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Whose Samosa is it Anyway?
Whose Samosa is it Anyway? By Sonal Ved

Why we love it: The author is the content director at India Food Network and the food editor at Vogue India, and she simply wants to find an answer to the most basic questions about Indian food…

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The Mighty Goddess
The Mighty Goddess By Sally Pomme Clayton, Illustrated by Sophie Herxheimer

Why we love it: Mighty Goddess intertwines well-known stories from Egypt, Greece, and Christianity with less widely-known myths from Inuit, Aztec, and Norse lore. With papercut illustrations!

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Mindful Microdosing
Mindful Microdosing By Lauren Alderfer, Illustrated by Mariana Juarez

Why we love it: Ideal for both beginners and seasoned microdosers, this distinctive journal and guide not only enhances the psychedelic journey but also doubles as a resource and creatively designed self-reflective space—complete with illustrations for adult coloring!

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