by Tassos Apostolidis, trans. by Tom Imber, illus. by Alecos Papadatos
The highly accessible Aristotle: A Graphic Biography by Tassos Apostolidis, translated from the French by Tom Imber, may well surprise even those who believe they know a great deal about the philosopher.
Aristotle's student Theophrastus narrates from Athens in 315 BCE, and Greek-born artist Alecos Papadatos (Logicomix) beautifully differentiates between Theophrastus's present and the story he recounts of Aristotle's life (384-322 BCE) by alternating between pen and inks shaded in sky blue and sepia tones.
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by Ruby Dixon
The hunt for magical artifacts turns especially horny in Bull Moon Rising, a noblewoman-meets-minotaur romantasy by Ruby Dixon (Bound to the Shadow Prince). Bookish Aspeth is desperate to replace the magical artifacts her father has gambled away over the years, so she can recover her family's standing and secure their holding. Though she has spent her life studying and successfully avoiding marriage, she travels to Vastwarren City with her lady's maid, Gwenna, to join the Royal Artifactual Guild and earn the
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by Sabaa Tahir
Heir is a complex, spellbinding YA saga of love and intrigue that is set in the familiar magical universe of the An Ember in the Ashes series, by National Book Award winning-author Sabaa Tahir (All My Rage).
"Small-boned, light-skinned" Aiz bet-Dafra, 18, is an orphaned "gutter child" in the crowded city of Kegar. The vile highborn commander of the air squadrons, Tiral bet-Hiwa, bombs and pillages other lands for food. When Aiz attempts to kill Tiral--who has murdered many of her fellow orphans--she is thrown
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by Kendra Adachi
Planners, get your highlighters ready, because The Plan: Manage Your Time like a Lazy Genius is a book that's dying to be highlighted. Kendra Adachi regularly speaks and writes about what it means to be a "lazy genius." Her podcast and first two books encourage readers to be "a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't." In The Plan, Adachi applies this approach to time management, offering a refreshing take on productivity culture that is "drenched in humanity and compassion"--a
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by H.G. Parry
A young woman's experience of building friendships and studying curses at an elite magical university sheds light on tensions between the classes, the changing face of war in the early 20th century, and the perils of empire in The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a vivid and moving historical fantasy from H.G. Parry (A Radical Act of Free Magic; The Magician's Daughter).
Clover and her brother Matthew both longed for new experiences when they were growing up in their small village in Lancashire. Clover had
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by Andrea L. Rogers
In The Art Thieves, Walter Award-winner and citizen of the Cherokee Nation Andrea L. Rogers (Man Made Monsters) returns with a stirring story about choosing to create a new future when disaster seems inevitable.
The world is ending; or at least, that's what it seems like to Stevie who, along with the rest of the planet, is experiencing "a cycle of drought and super-storms" during what she and her friends call "the denouement of the world." Stevie, a Cherokee teenager living in Texas, works at an art
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by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Does Laura Vaccaro Seeger's inventiveness never cease? In Green, Blue, and Red, the two-time Caldecott Honoree employed a die-cut technique to frame and pay tribute to, among other things, aspects of the natural world. In Animal Countdown, she uses flaps to create a peekaboo-style game that can introduce the youngest readers to counting basics while raising awareness about vulnerable animals to boot.
In the book's first spread, its left side presents the word "ten" against what looks kind of like blue-and-white
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