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Shelf Media hosts the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition for best self-published or independently published book. In addition to prizes, the winner, finalists, …

Teetering On Disaster Shelf Media hosts the annual Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition for best self-published or independently published book. In addition to prizes, …

The Gnat & Corky Series

SMALL PRESS REVIEWS: Orange Hat Publishing Orange Hat is an independent, Wisconsin-based publisher that’s all about the dreamers and go-getters. Shannon Ishizaki started Orange Hat …

The Long Ride Home by Tawni Waters This story is a heart tugging one. Harley, the narrator of the story, loses her mom and then …

Nobody loves books more than us. We’re a team of readers with broad interests and strong feelings about the books on our shelves.  From the …

Review: Tentacle

Tentacle by  Rita Indiana (Author), Achy Obejas (Translator)   Rita Indiana’s Tentacle is brilliant, from beginning to end. Tentacle is a strange, beautiful book that …

Bowie: An Illustrated Life By Maria Hesse and Frank Ruiz.  Translated by Ned Sublette I grew up knowing Bowie’s music.  I remember Bowie as an …

Review: From The Shadows

From The Shadows By  Juan José Millás (Author), Thomas Bunstead (Translator), Daniel Hahn (Translator) From The Shadows is incredibly strange, truly bizarre – one of …

Review: The Wall

The Wall By Max Annas (Author), Rachel Hildebrandt Reynolds (Translator)  Set in Africa, The Wall takes off in a sprint when a young man goes …

Haruki on the Shore.

Body, Mind and Quill By Christian Adrian Brown treasures, I wanted to dedicate my article to a man as near and dear to my heart …