Silver Star Laboratory

Retail $10.99
ISBN 978-1945681905

“Mama, what if butterflies loved snow?” So begins a story of the conversation between little Liza and her mama. Cozy and imaginative, this beautiful debut book by Jessie Stevens is illustrated by the gifted and versatile Madhawi Karaya. Mother and daughter snuggle in to talk about what would happen if those beautiful little creatures did in fact bring their color and cheer to the cold, white, winter world in a warm, whimsical chat that carries the two of them right up to dreamland.

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ISBN 978-1945681028

Some things stay still, and others move forward, and all things do both. Listen to the little flower and the big star learn how to gently say goodbye. This book about difficult but necessary transitions is written by Ra Avis and illustrated by Joshua P. Stroder.

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ISBN 978-1945681424

boy, the debut poetry collection by Donny Jackson—veteran poet, clinical psychologist, and Emmy Award-winning documentary television producer—is an awakening on an ocean floor of othering, be it color or gender or place, and rise from personae, to unflinching eyewitness, to a devastatingly personal emergence in a cultural tsunami, the swimmer gasping for air.

Retail $14
ISBN 978-0692701591

A Death on Skunk Street, by William S. Friday, is both a remembrance, and a look forward, at what Bernard Malamud (“The Natural”) called, “The life we learn with… and the life we live after that”. Skunk Street is a work of visions, written by a blue-collar college dropout with the eloquence of an angry Psalmist. Parts neon and noir, full moon and sunsets, and the words that come from feelings too often unexpressed. From loneliness in a sea of humanity to, comfort in the company of self. There’s blood, and brains, printed on every page.