Staff Picks
The Dot

As a child, The Dot emerged from her public library blinking wide-eyed in wonderment and clutching piles of books to her chest. Even to this very day, she can often be found in this same pose, wandering the halls of the Hawthorne Powell's children's section.

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Alif the Unseen
by G. Willow Wilson
Staff Pick
Religion, metaphor, rebellion. The Quran and the Internet. Hackers, effrit, and sheikhs. Douglas Hofstadter shout-outs. Holy moly. Otherworldly elements swirl into the modern-day Middle East in this sandstorm of magic and mortals. The environments are... (read more)

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The Summer Prince
by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Staff Pick
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Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story
by Paul Shaw
Staff Pick
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Sinfest Volume 1
by Tatsuya Ishida
Staff Pick
One of the hardest working men in the comic business? Perhaps. All I know is that Tatsuya Ishida has been consistently turning out his high-quality, daily webcomic since, like, forever, and this book is a big ol' chunk of Sinfest goodness. The cast of... (read more)

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