Book cover for Immortal Air by Tracey Rombough (Cape Breton University Press): Bright and promising as a student, George Cameron was sent to live with his sister in Boston while he attended a prestigious Latin school and later the Boston School of Law. It was what his mother wanted for him and his brother, Charley. It was what any well-bred family would want for an intelligent son destined for greater things than his humble New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, upbringing. On his journey to find his voice among the great poets of the 19th century, George had to leave behind his first love, a muse who haunted his thoughts and fuelled his passion for poetry throughout his life. https://nimbus.ca/store/immortal-air.html

Book cover for Every Leaf on Every Tree by Lauren Soloy (Nimbus Publishing): A tender and playful baby board book bursting with declarations of love from the bestselling author/illustrator of The Hidden World of Gnomes. https://nimbus.ca/store/every-leaf-on-every-tree.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Immortal Air (by Tracey Rombough, Cape Breton University Press) & Every Leaf on Every Tree (by Lauren Soloy, @nimbuspub.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for This Big Heart by Lindsay Ruck, ill. by Bria Miller (Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute): Dealing with the many emotions that come with grief isn’t always easy. This rhyming picture book reminds us that we feel so much because we love so much. https://dbdli.ca/resource-materials/this-big-heart/

Book cover for The Perfect Day and Other Stories by Harry Bruce (Pottersfield Press): Bruce’s writing has inspired critics to call him no less than “a consummate storyteller”; to marvel over his “magnetic style and marvelous command of the language”; to declare his prose “highly entertaining and gloriously informative”; and to insist that “only the spiritually dead or terminally obtuse could fail to come away from it richer for the experience.” And now, The Perfect Day and Other Stories offers the best of Bruce’s best essays. From the sweet pain of first love and leaving home to the horrors of killer wasps, bloodthirsty flies, and marauding mice, from the relief experienced in every outhouse in the pines to the joy resounding from neighbourhood curling on a Scottish laird’s frozen pond, from the magic mist that sneaks into a ghost village on an abandoned island off Lunenburg to the sheer glory that parades of tall ships grant to great ports around the world, from fogs, bats, cats, and coyotes to the whales, thrones, stags, and steeples that make Atlantic Canada unique…they’re all here, and more, in Harry’s latest collection. https://nimbus.ca/store/the-perfect-day-and-other-stories.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: This Big Heart (by Lindsay Ruck, ill. by Bria Miller, Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute) & The Perfect Day and Other Stories (by Harry Bruce, @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for You Are Loved by Tom Urbaniak, ill. by Tammy Krasniqi (Breton Books): Destined to become a treasured heirloom for the many families who will cherish its messages, You Are Loved is devoted to the legacy of love and service of Rev. Alison Etter, and to her vital roles as a mother, spouse, friend to many, community leader, and champion of a better world. With remarkable simplicity, Prof. Tom Urbaniak has laid out a prescription for making the world a better place. In simple sentences—freighted with meaning—he conveys the multiple avenues by which his late wife, Alison, conveyed her wealth of love to the world. Told in English, French, Gaelic, and Polish. https://nimbus.ca/store/you-are-loved.html

Book cover for Quiet Crossings by Vivi Partridge ‪(Conundrum Press): After crashing her car in the unfamiliar countryside, Selena agrees to help out at the nearby Inn in exchange for a room. Located on the edge of the world, the Inn attracts extraordinary customers from near and far. The most popular attraction is the complimentary ferry ride to the Great Unknown, a mysterious shore past the edge of the world. But when no one ever travels back, Selena begins to feel uneasy. https://conundrumpress.com/product/quiet-crossings/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: You Are Loved by Tom Urbaniak, ill. by Tammy Krasniqi (Breton Books) & Quiet Crossings (by @vividoodles.bsky.social w/ colourist @skyjanquest.bsky.social, @conundrumpress.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts #NSarts #bookish 💙📚 #BookSky

Book cover for Adventures in Bubbles and Brine: What I learned from Nova Scotia's masters of fermented foods - craft beer, cider, cheese, sauerkraut and more by Philip Moscovitch (Formac Publishing): Moscovitch demystifies the process of fermentation as he takes us on a fascinating, and often humorous, culinary adventure across Nova Scotia. https://formac.ca/product/adventures-in-bubbles-and-brine/

Book cover for Brain Storms: My Life with a Brain Tumour—A Family Doctor’s Memoir by Sharon McCutcheon (Nimbus Publishing): A poignant, darkly funny, and hopeful memoir of the psychological impact of illness from a retired New Brunswick doctor. https://nimbus.ca/store/brain-storms-my-life-with-a-brain-tumoura-family-doctors-memoir.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Adventures in Bubbles and Brine (by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social, Formac Publishing) & Brain Storms (by Sharon McCutcheon, @nimbuspub.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Hopeless by Lesley Choyce (Moose House Publications): Nicolas is headstrong, wayward teen, flailing through school with no plans for a life. His now-departed father called him 'Hopeless', and the nickname stuck. How can you make it through anything wearing a tag like that? It turns out, having a fearless older brother, Garrett, can help...until Garrett makes an unexpected friend and sort of disappears from the family. Nicholas finds a surprise in that friend of Garrett's, and gets an unexpected assignment from a teacher that may yet save his high-school career. But add in near-death experiences, cross-country journeys and reunions that are far from joyful, and why would anyone hope to be hopeful? https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/hopeless

Book cover for piyyut by Solomon Nagler, drawings by Angela Henderson (Nevermore Press): piyyut is a long-form poem assembling fables from the Jewish Diaspora in an attempt to unsettle refugee migration stories while exhuming mystical, prophetic voices in post-Holocaust Europe. Verses are titled and informed by the aleph-bet and examine the entanglements of the diasporic experience through allegorical tales and critical Jewish settler confessionals. Each verse is paired with a drawing by visual artist Angela Henderson exploring the intersections between graphic notation and lyrical, poetic form. Combining and juxtaposing digitally- and hand-rendered elements, the hybridized landscapes both respond to and reflect the complex, speculative and sometimes brutalist journey through past and present. https://www.nevermorepress.ca/books/p/piyyut

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books - from #NovaScotia publishers: Hopeless (by Lesley Choyce, @moosehousepress.bsky.social) & piyyut (by Solomon Nagler, drawings by Angela Henderson, Nevermore Press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for The Spirit of Scatarie by Lesley Crewe (Nimbus Publishing): A stunning new work of historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer, set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, following three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them. https://nimbus.ca/store/the-spirit-of-scatarie.html

Book cover for Winning Prizes: Essays by David Adams Richards (Pottersfield Press): Winning Prizes is a collection of essays dealing with topics ranging from faith, murder, love of place as well as historical and literary individuals. He writes passionately about individuality and the courage it takes to strike out on one’s own and to stand one’s ground against the odds, a critical part of living that sooner or later all of us must deal with in our own way. https://nimbus.ca/store/winning-prizes.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books from #NovaScotia publishers: The Spirit of Scatarie (by Lesley Crewe, @nimbuspub.bsky.social) & Winning Prizes (by David Adams Richards, @pottersfieldpress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for William D. Roach: Folk Artist by William Roach (Cape Breton University Press): William Roach’s interest – training, if you like – in carving and shaping wood into representations of the world around him, came naturally. When they weren’t making or repairing practical articles and tools, the older men in his life spent countless hours whittling curiosities that delighted children, neighbours and friends.After years working in Ontario, Roach and his family moved home to his Acadian birthplace, Chéticamp, Cape Breton, striving for the stability of family and community. A new life, turning a new leaf, William began expressing himself through his gift – a diversion at first, his passion for creating objects of beauty and value became an obsession and later a business.From his Sunset Gallery and studio on the outskirts of Chéticamp, Roach works tirelessly at his entertaining creations. https://nimbus.ca/store/william-roach-folk-artist.html

Book cover for Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction by Sarah Cox (Goose Lane Editions): What’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou, cormorants kill rare trees, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life, she tags along with the Canadian military, Indigenous guardians, biologists, conservationists, and ordinary people who are racing to save hundreds of species before it’s too late. Travelling across the country, Cox visits the Toronto Zoo, home of Canada’s only wildlife biobank, where scientists conserve living cells from endangered species in the event of future loss; tours Canada’s military bases, home to some of Canada’s last preserved ecosystems; and travels to Indigenous communities where land stewards are striving to restore the delicate ecological balance that has sustained people for millennia. Through the eyes and work of individuals who are bringing species back from the precipice, Cox delivers both an urgent message and a fresh perspective on how we can protect biodiversity and begin to turn things around. Winner, Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors (Non-Fiction). https://gooselane.com/products/signs-of-life

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Today, from #NovaScotia publishers: William D. Roach: Folk Artist (by William Roach, Cape Breton University Press) & Signs of Life (by @sarahkcox.bsky.social, @gooselane.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline Halsey, ill. by Eric Orchard (Formac Publishing): Share in the adventure and excitement of a young boy's life aboard a working ship, the Bluenose on the Grand Banks. Here's a true-to-life adventure story. Arty is a 10-year-old boy who gets the chance of a lifetime -- he's hired to go on the maiden voyage of the famous schooner Bluenose in 1921. Young readers will delight in joining along with Arty as he learns his way around the ship amidst the dangers, excitement and intrigue of working on a fishing schooner. When Arty climbs to the top of a mast and spots another ship heading toward Bluenose on a collision course, even the captain is grateful for his help. Once he's back in Bluenose's home port of Lunenburg, Arty has a real adventure to share with his family and friends. In this story, based on the real experiences of young boys who worked on board Bluenose in the 1920s, Jacqueline Halsey has created a book that celebrates the story of the ship and her famous captain Angus Walters. https://formac.ca/product/bluenose-adventure/

Book cover for The Plot to Kill the Premier by Jeremy Akerman (Moose House Publications): Amateur sleuth Marc LeBlanc is pulled into a complex case when his friend, the Premier of Nova Scotia, starts receiving death threats. Marc's challenge is to help locate the source of the threats. Is the danger from within the Premier's closest circle? The third Marc LeBlanc Mystery. https://www.moosehousepress.com/product-page/the-plot-to-kill-the-premier

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Today, from #NovaScotia publishers: Bluenose Adventure by Jacqueline Halsey, ill. by Eric Orchard (Formac Publishing) & The Plot to Kill the Premier by Jeremy Akerman (at @moosehousepress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for In the Circle of Ancient Trees by Valerie Trouet, ill. by Blaze Cyan (Greystone Books): Nonfiction. From the Giant Sequoia to the Bald Cypress, this captivating book explores the stories of 10 species of ancient trees, their unique environments, and what they have to tell us about the history of our world. Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute. https://greystonebooks.com/products/in-the-circle-of-ancient-trees

Book cover for The Order of the British Vampire by Simon Kewin (Elsewhen Press): Fantasy. Having revealed and removed the mole in the Office of the Witchfinder General, Danesh is a hero – but also a target. The fourth story of His Majesty’s Office of the Witchfinder General. https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/the-order-of-the-british-vampire/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: In the Circle of Ancient Trees (by Valerie Trouet, ill. Blaze Cyan, @greystonebooks.bsky.social) & The Order of the British Vampire (by @simonkewin.co.uk, @elsewhen.press). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation by OmiSoore H. Dryden, winner of the 2025 George Borden Writing for Change Award (Fernwood Publishing): Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how racist and homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/got-blood-to-give

Book cover for Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse (Soft Skull): What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure. https://softskull.com/books/liquid-snakes/

Book cover for American Graphic by JoAnne McFarland (Green Linden Press): Poetry. Winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation. With candor and insight, American Graphic confronts personal and cultural pasts. Juxtaposing historical documents—recipes from the first cookbook published by a Black woman in the States, reward posters for people fleeing enslavement—with intimate moments from the present, the book's magic is to bend time so we see that the past’s rivers flow through us into the future. https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/american-graphic

Book cover for A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) by Percival Everett and James R. Kincaid (Akashic Books): This reissue of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Percival Everett and Kincaid’s classic political satire lampoons conservative hysteria for a new generation. Coming out 2/3/2026. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/a-history-of-the-african-american-people-proposed-by-strom-thurmond-as-told-to-percival-everett-james-kincaid-a-novel-2/

8/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @akashicbooks.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @kearse.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for Make Your Way Home: Stories by Carrie R. Moore (Tin House): In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. https://tinhouse.com/book/make-your-way-home/

Book cover for Policing Black Lives, Revised and Expanded Edition: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (Fernwood): A comprehensive account of policing Black life in Canada and a vision for Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives-revised-and-expanded-edition

Book cover for The Humanity of Others by Ali Benmakhlouf (Stanford UP): How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains relevant today when the need to recognize the "humanity of others"—from the cry of "Black Lives Matter" to the anonymous deaths of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea—is as urgent as ever. Forthcoming in June 2026. https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/humanity-others

Book cover for Are You Borg Now? (2nd Edition) by Said Shaiye (Noemi Press): This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye’s cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation. https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/are-you-borg-now-2nd-edition/

7/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @stanfordpress.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for Delphinium Gospel by Denzel Scott (ELJ Editions): A triptych-structured poetry collection that explores the blessing of creation as a manifesting interplay between horrific grief and desperate longing in the aftermath of murder. https://elj-editions.com/delphinium-gospel/

Book cover for God-Damned Eden by James Daniels (Bull City Press): Selma is a community that, despite its pain, holds a depth of spirit that deserves love and care, a place where redemption is sought through the resilience of its people. God-Damned Eden speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. This Eden-like quality isn’t pristine; it’s a paradise that bears scars—a place both blessed and “damned” by the realities of history and hardship. Yet, within those imperfections lies the work of restoration, an ongoing call to see and honor the beauty that persists. https://bullcitypress.com/product/god-damned-eden-by-james-daniels-inch-65/

Book cover for BOOTless by Trace DePass (Diode Editions): BOOTless: an archaic word also meaning ineffectual, is a black poet’s psychedelic meditation on gentrification, climate change, & post-pandemic grief, pointing its arrow back at its country that has stacked colonization on genocide & monopolized colonization & genocide. The book laughs at an oppressor’s self-elected right to canonize its theft & winning rhetoric under the guise of calling it history. This book may indict Whiteness, if not English itself, as using language built on oppression (a Deleuzian desire-machine sewn together by other languages) in order to create indefinite law on stolen land with indefinite marginalization for the people on it. https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/bootless

Book cover for Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri (Akashic Books): Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/prayer-for-the-living/

6/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @bullcitypress.com ‬@tracedepass.bsky.social @diodeeditions.bsky.social @denzelscott.bsky.social @emergejournal.bsky.social @akashicbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booklovers

Book cover for American Herstory by celeste doaks (Bull City Press): Ekphrastic poems about the complicated cultural presence of Michelle Obama and the Black female body. https://bullcitypress.com/product/american-herstory-by-celeste-doaks/

Book cover for the City of Kings Trilogy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press): From the 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner. In The Theory of Flight, Ndlovu sketches decades of history in an unnamed Southern African nation through the story of Imogen “Genie” Zula Nyoni, who lies in a coma after battling a long illness. As loved ones struggle to come to terms with their impending loss, Ndlovu recounts the lives of Genie’s forebears from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle. In The History of Man, Ndlovu takes an excursion into the interiority of the colonizer. Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is left unmoored by the end of his country’s civil war. His journey from boyhood to manhood, and the changes that befall him through love, loss, and war, will leave a path of bloodshed in his wake. In The Quality of Mercy, Spokes Moloi, the first black chief inspector in the City of Kings, investigates the possible murder of Emil Coetzee, the notorious head of the Organization of Domestic Affairs. In examining Emil’s disappearance, Spokes has one last opportunity to solve the decades-old murder case that determined both the path of his life and destiny of his country. https://www.catalystpress.org/all-content/city-of-kings-trilogy-bundle

‪Book cover for The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson, ill. by Don Tate (Just Us Books): Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear is going to vote for the very first time, and the boys are coming along on this exciting day. https://justusbooks.com/978-0-59361574-4/

Book cover for The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole (Tin House): Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-edge-of-water/

5/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @justusbooks.bsky.social @dontate.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com @tinhouse.bsky.social @catalystpress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for Keep A'Livin' by Kathya Alexander (Aunt Lute Books): Kathya Alexander’s debut historical fiction novel-in-verse follows the fiercely passionate, dedicated, and cheeky Mandy as she comes of age during the height of the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. https://www.auntlute.com/keep-a-livin

Book cover for Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "We meet the protagonist as she begins her first year of OPT, a U.S. employer-sponsored work-experience visa for recent international student grads… an intimate, finely-detailed collage of voices and perspectives on difference, privilege, and belonging in contemporary America." https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/optional-practical-training

Book cover for Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Yoko Tawada (a Japanese native who now lives in Germany) explores the experience of living and writing in languages learned later in life… Personal anecdotes are mixed with broader observations on language’s intersections with status, colonization, and migration." https://www.ndbooks.com/book/exophony/

Book cover for No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher (Forest Avenue Press): Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty. https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/no-god-like-the-mother

4/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @ndbooks.bsky.social @shubhasunder.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @auntlute.bsky.social @forestavenuepress.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for for you, this circle: collected poems by Aneb Kgositsile (Third World Press): “Her poems evoke the same Black elegance, fearlessness and clarity as they sweep across the senses rendering the reader helpless to resist the beauty of truth, its teaching pain and healing pleasure.” --Michael Simanga https://thirdworldpressfoundation.org/collections/new-authors/products/for-you-this-circle

Book cover for We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso (Haymarket): A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2519-we-are-each-other-s-liberation

Book cover for Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (Haymarket): A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2538-reconsidering-reparations

Book cover for On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia (Harry N. Abrams): When Pacy Mercado and Cecil Holloway spot each other during the first week of freshman year, it’s love at first sight. Well, more like love at first fleeting, injury-riddled glance, since the moment is ruined thanks to clumsiness and a criminal case of IBS. The laugh-out-loud YA romance by two award-winning and bestselling authors, Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbalia. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/on-again-awkward-again_9781419775635/

3/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org @thirdworldpress.bsky.social @erinentrada.bsky.social @kwamembalia.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #booklovers

Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us

Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).

Book cover for With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books): Children’s literature featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This book is a loving, sun-drenched visit to the Jewish community of Santiago de Cuba. The story is a version of the folktale “the clever tailor,” in which the hero repeatedly turns a worn-out item of clothing into something else." https://kalaniotbooks.com/with-a-needle-and-thread-a-jewish-folktale-from-cuba/

Book cover for The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media): Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. https://inhabitbooks.com/products/the-first-peoples

2/8 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @elviranavarro.bsky.social @twolinespress.com @lindamcquaig.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social @inhabitmedia.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #BooksWorthReading #bookish #booklovers

1/8 - Cleaning up my files and deleting #book covers I’ve already posted in my daily(ish) #SmallPress #BookSky #DSPBposts. Enjoy these beauties again! A thread 🧵. (Alt-text for book details.)

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Book cover for Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue by Yoko Tawada, trans. by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions): Creative nonfiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): " Yoko Tawada (a Japanese native who now lives in Germany) explores the experience of living and writing in languages learned later in life… Personal anecdotes are mixed with broader observations on language’s intersections with status, colonization, and migration." https://www.ndbooks.com/book/exophony/

Book cover for Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder (Graywolf): Literary fiction featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "We meet the protagonist as she begins her first year of OPT, a U.S. employer-sponsored work-experience visa for recent international student grads… an intimate, finely-detailed collage of voices and perspectives on difference, privilege, and belonging in contemporary America." https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/optional-practical-training

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Exophony (by Yoko Tawada, trans. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, @ndbooks.bsky.social) & Optional Practical Training (by @shubhasunder.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for The First Peoples by Maika Harper, ill. by Kaja Kajfež (Inhabit Media): Based on an ancient Inuit traditional story, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of the appearance of the first humans on earth, and how from them all the peoples of the earth emerged. https://inhabitbooks.com/products/the-first-peoples

Book cover for With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple and Libi Axelrod, trans. by Lawrence Schimel (Kalaniot Books): Children’s literature featured in 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/): "This book is a loving, sun-drenched visit to the Jewish community of Santiago de Cuba. The story is a version of the folktale “the clever tailor,” in which the hero repeatedly turns a worn-out item of clothing into something else." https://kalaniotbooks.com/with-a-needle-and-thread-a-jewish-folktale-from-cuba/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The First Peoples by Maika Harper (ill. Kaja Kajfež, @inhabitmedia.bsky.social) & With A Needle and Thread by Jennifer Stemple & Libi Axelrod (trans. by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social, @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #bookish

Book covers for: Misplaced by Brittni Brinn (Little Ghosts Books): In an alternate reality where body parts are as easily changed as clothing, what happens when things go missing? Nan chases down a stranger to return a missing mouth and finds themselves in the coat-strewn apartment of a makeshift family: Jessica, a charismatic older woman, her adopted son Adam, and Reena, the icy-eyed enigma Nan does their best to avoid. As rumours of stolen parts and illegal brain tampering hang over the city, Nan and Jessica investigate the origin of the disembodied fingers left at their doorstep. The more they uncover, the more Nan realizes that their body and their memories might not be their own- and Reena's mysterious past may be the key. Will Nan be able to figure out which bits of themselves to trust, or will it all go to pieces? https://www.littleghostsbooks.com/product/misplaced/2296 Five Seasons of Charlie Francis by Danica Roache (Vagrant Press): Charlie Francis's five-year plan has gone to shit. She was supposed to greet the new millennium by diving head-first into a master's degree, but her thesis has ground to a halt, Y2K was a bust, her rambunctious family and claustrophobic hometown are driving her around the bend, and the maybe-love-of-her-life, Adam, keeps joking about her moving home to marry him and have his babies. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she has to navigate being a (mostly) single mother on top of everything else. Charlie finds herself at a crossroads. Maybe it's time for a new five-year plan. https://nimbus.ca/store/five-seasons-of-charlie-francis.html

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Misplaced (by @brittnibrinn.bsky.social, @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social) & Five Seasons of Charlie Francis (by Danica Roache, Vagrant Press, imprint of @nimbuspub.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks (Dundurn): Nonfiction. A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754836-cancelling-billionaires-before-they-cancel-us

Book cover for The Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro, trans. by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press): Literature in translation reviewed by Catherine Parnell ("Divided into three sections, each with mini-chapters or narratives, the novel wends its way through Adriana’s life as she struggles with Lady Death and Lady Manipulator—the death, that of her mother and maternal grandmother, and the manipulator? Who’s to say." -- https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september/voices-adriana-elvira-navarro) for 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 (https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/).

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us (by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social & Neil Brooks, @dundurnpress.bsky.social) (yes please) & The Voices of Adriana (@elviranavarro.bsky.social, trans Christina MacSweeney, @twolinespress.com). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

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Book cover for The Comfort of Distant Stars by I O Echeruo (Canongate Books): Ezeani is no ordinary child. He sees things others don’t. Despite the burden of these visions, his precocious nature blossoms into genius and Ezeani grows up to be a gifted mathematician and physicist. When he leaves Nigeria and his adoring family behind to study at Cornell in the US, he remains haunted by his most persistent vision, Anyanwu, the Sun God. While Ezeani is adjusting to his new life in America, Anyanwu’s presence takes on an increasingly sinister and malevolent form – and chaos reigns. https://canongate.co.uk/books/5349-the-comfort-of-distant-stars/

Book cover for The Ex Dilemma by Elle Wright (Kensington Books): "Marry or lose your inheritance." A commitment phobic heir in Detroit, Michigan faces the ultimate challenge from his powerful grandmother and family company CEO in this charming, irresistibly fun and flirty new contemporary romance from award-winning author Elle Wright. https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781496752307/the-ex-dilemma/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Comfort of Distant Stars (by I. O. Echeruo, @canongate.co.uk) & The Ex Dilemma (by @ellewrightauthor.bsky.social, @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Are You Borg Now? (2nd Edition) by Said Shaiye (Noemi Press): This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye’s cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now? blends nonfiction and poetry in an experimental interview the author conducts with his younger self, rejecting the conventions of memoir and what is expected of who writes them, specifically when that writer is an immigrant. Are You Borg Now? cyphers with trauma through a poetics of refusal via hard and beautiful language. Finding vigor in Islam and mirrors in Star Trek: Voyager, Shaiye shifts achingly between memory and improvisation. https://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/are-you-borg-now-2nd-edition/

Book cover for Make Your Way Home: Stories by Carrie R. Moore (Tin House): In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. https://tinhouse.com/book/make-your-way-home/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Are You Borg Now? (Said Shaiye, @noemipress.bsky.social) & Make Your Way Home: Stories (Carrie R. Moore, @tinhouse.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Prayer for the Living by Ben Okri (Akashic Books): Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/prayer-for-the-living/

Book cover for Delphinium Gospel by Denzel Scott (ELJ Editions): A triptych-structured poetry collection that explores the blessing of creation as a manifesting interplay between horrific grief and desperate longing in the aftermath of murder. https://elj-editions.com/delphinium-gospel/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Delphinium Gospel (by @denzelscott.bsky.social, ELJ Editions) & Prayer for the Living (by Ben Okri, @akashicbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Policing Black Lives, Revised and Expanded Edition: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard (Fernwood): A comprehensive account of policing Black life in Canada and a vision for Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement. https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives-revised-and-expanded-edition

Book cover for The Humanity of Others by Ali Benmakhlouf (Stanford UP): How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us why the sixteenth-century author remains relevant today when the need to recognize the "humanity of others"—from the cry of "Black Lives Matter" to the anonymous deaths of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea—is as urgent as ever. Forthcoming in June 2026. https://www.sup.org/books/theory-and-philosophy/humanity-others

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: The Humanity of Others (Ali Benmakhlouf , @stanfordpress.bsky.social) & Policing Black Lives (Robyn Maynard, @fernpub.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for God-Damned Eden by James Daniels (Bull City Press): Selma is a community that, despite its pain, holds a depth of spirit that deserves love and care, a place where redemption is sought through the resilience of its people. God-Damned Eden speaks to the tension within a place that is both deeply flawed and deeply loved. Like the fallen earth in scripture, Selma is marked by human shortcomings and struggles, yet it remains beloved, resilient, and layered with beauty. This Eden-like quality isn’t pristine; it’s a paradise that bears scars—a place both blessed and “damned” by the realities of history and hardship. Yet, within those imperfections lies the work of restoration, an ongoing call to see and honor the beauty that persists. https://bullcitypress.com/product/god-damned-eden-by-james-daniels-inch-65/

Book cover for BOOTless by Trace DePass (Diode Editions): BOOTless: an archaic word also meaning ineffectual, is a black poet’s psychedelic meditation on gentrification, climate change, & post-pandemic grief, pointing its arrow back at its country that has stacked colonization on genocide & monopolized colonization & genocide. The book laughs at an oppressor’s self-elected right to canonize its theft & winning rhetoric under the guise of calling it history. This book may indict Whiteness, if not English itself, as using language built on oppression (a Deleuzian desire-machine sewn together by other languages) in order to create indefinite law on stolen land with indefinite marginalization for the people on it. https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/bootless

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: BOOTless (by @tracedepass.bsky.social, @diodeeditions.bsky.social) & God-Damned Eden (by James Daniels, @bullcitypress.com). See alt-text.

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Book cover for the City of Kings Trilogy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press): From the 2022 Windham Campbell Prize winner. In The Theory of Flight, Ndlovu sketches decades of history in an unnamed Southern African nation through the story of Imogen “Genie” Zula Nyoni, who lies in a coma after battling a long illness. As loved ones struggle to come to terms with their impending loss, Ndlovu recounts the lives of Genie’s forebears from colonial occupation through the freedom struggle. In The History of Man, Ndlovu takes an excursion into the interiority of the colonizer. Emil Coetzee, a civil servant in his fifties, is left unmoored by the end of his country’s civil war. In The Quality of Mercy, Spokes Moloi, the first black chief inspector in the City of Kings, investigates the possible murder of Emil Coetzee, the notorious head of the Organization of Domestic Affairs. In examining Emil’s disappearance, Spokes has one last opportunity to solve the decades-old murder case that determined both the path of his life and destiny of his country. https://www.catalystpress.org/all-content/city-of-kings-trilogy-bundle

Book cover for The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole (Tin House): Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-edge-of-water/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: City of Kings Trilogy (by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, @catalystpress.bsky.social) & The Edge of Water (by @ogracebankole.bsky.social, @tinhouse.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for American Herstory by celeste doaks (Bull City Press): Ekphrastic poems about the complicated cultural presence of Michelle Obama and the Black female body. https://bullcitypress.com/product/american-herstory-by-celeste-doaks/

‪Book cover for The Day Madear Voted by Wade Hudson, ill. by Don Tate (Just Us Books): Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear is going to vote for the very first time, and the boys are coming along on this exciting day. https://justusbooks.com/978-0-59361574-4/

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: American Herstory (celeste doaks, @bullcitypress.com) & The Day Madear Voted (Wade Hudson, ill. @dontate.bsky.social, @justusbooks.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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Book cover for Keep A'Livin' by Kathya Alexander (Aunt Lute Books): Kathya Alexander’s debut historical fiction novel-in-verse follows the fiercely passionate, dedicated, and cheeky Mandy as she comes of age during the height of the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century. https://www.auntlute.com/keep-a-livin

Book cover for No God Like the Mother by Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher (Forest Avenue Press): Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty. https://www.forestavenuepress.com/bookshop/p/no-god-like-the-mother

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Keep A'Livin' (Kathya Alexander, @auntlute.bsky.social) & No God Like the Mother (Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher, @forestavenuepress.bsky.social). See alt-text.

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