AVIVA VS. THE DYBBUK, by Mari Lowe. (Levine Querido, ages 8-12, $17.99.) Lowe’s mystical debut novel about the psychic struggle betwee...
AVIVA VS. THE DYBBUK, by Mari Lowe. (Levine Querido, ages 8-12, $17.99.) Lowe’s mystical debut novel about the psychic struggle between a grieving 11-year-old girl and a mischievous ghost boy who awakens repressed memories of the “accident” that caused the death of his father. death offers a rare and sensitive portrait of a contemporary Orthodox Jewish community.
OLU & GRETA, by Diana Ejaita. (Rise x Penguin Workshop, ages 3-5, $17.99.) Although they’ve never met, two cousins — a boy in Lagos and a girl in Milan — celebrate the many things they have in common in this bubbling picture book from the Nigerian Italian illustrator, textile designer and New York cover artist.
BLUE: A history of color as deep as the sea and as wide as the sky, by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Illustrated by Daniel Minter. (Knopf, ages 4 to 8, $18.99.) This poetically written and beautifully painted picture book, about our quest to replicate the color of the ocean and skies, encompasses joy and sorrow.
THE LEGEND OF GRAVITY: A Great Basketball Story, by Charlie Palmer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ages 4-8, $18.99.) Acclaimed artist slams his solo picture book debut, in which rapid vernacular wordplay and thick, inflected in perspective tell a whopper of a hoop dream tale.
WHEN I’M GONE, LOOK FOR ME IN THE EAST, by Quan Barry. (Pantheon, $27.) The relationship between a young Buddhist monk and his identical twin, who has renounced monastic life, is tested when the two are tasked with traveling through Mongolia in search of a spiritual teacher. reincarnated.
THE CRYPTONIANS: Idealism, greed, lies and the creation of the first big cryptocurrency craze, by Laura Shin. (PublicAffairs, $18.99.) A former Forbes editor tells the story of the founding of Ethereum, a new cryptocurrency network that allowed users to toss their own coins, and how it fundamentally changed the crypto landscape.
WHY ARGUMENTS ARE IMPORTANT, by Lee Siegel. (Yale University, $26.) This story examines the role this argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence.
THE EARLY KENNEDYS: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty, by Neal Thompson. (Mariner, $28.) A journalist traces the Kennedy dynasty to two struggling Irish immigrants who arrived in America during the Great Famine and tells the story of Bridget Murphy, who, after her husband’s untimely death, raised to she alone the first Kennedy to be elected to public office.
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