Author Appearance

Colin Holmes, Thunder Road and The Oxygen Farmer

 

 

Pre-Order Now Badge
The Oxygen Farmer By Colin Holmes Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780744306699
Availability: Not Yet Published
Published: CamCat Books - December 3rd, 2024

Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon.

After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret.


Thunder Road By Colin Holmes Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780744304862
Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days
Published: CamCat Books - February 15th, 2022

In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake.

When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster.


G. Neri, Safe Passage

author photoG. Neri is the Eisner-nominated, Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty, which CNN and Flavorwire hailed as one of the top 25 essential graphic novels of all-time.

Pre-Order Now Badge
Safe Passage By G. Neri, David Brame (Illustrator) Cover Image
By G. Neri, David Brame (Illustrator)
$20.95
ISBN: 9781643790343
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Tu Books - March 26th, 2024

From Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author of Yummy G. Neri comes an epic journey across the South Side of Chicago for Darius, his little sister Cissy, and his best friend Booger as they set out to find an armored truck that has lost a payload of cash.


Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty By G. Neri, Randy Duburke (Illustrator) Cover Image
By G. Neri, Randy Duburke (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781584302674
Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days
Published: Lee & Low Books - August 1st, 2010

Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)
Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee

A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his own gang members.


Chess Rumble By G. Neri, Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator) Cover Image
By G. Neri, Jesse Joshua Watson (Illustrator)
$12.95
ISBN: 9781620141892
Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days
Published: Lee & Low Books - November 1st, 2007

A story in free verse about a troubled boy who learns to use his mind instead of his fists through the guidance of an unconventional mentor and the game of chess.

Three moves
is all it takes
to change the outcome
of the game.


Grand Theft Horse By G. Neri, Corban Wilkin (Illustrator) Cover Image
By G. Neri, Corban Wilkin (Illustrator)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781620148556
Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days
Published: Tu Books - September 25th, 2018

Yummy author G. Neri returns to graphic novels with the powerful story of his cousin Gail Ruffu, who stole a racehorse in order to save it, and ended up fighting the whole racing industry for the humane treatment of animals.


Joe Jiménez, Hot Boy Summer

Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this joyful young adult contemporary novel for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.

Pre-Order Now Badge
Hot Boy Summer By Joe Jiménez Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781665932059
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: MTV Books - May 7th, 2024

Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this joyful young adult contemporary novel for fans of Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.

Mac has never really felt like he belonged.


Eddie Vega, Somos Nopales

Somos Nopales By Eddie Vega Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9781963245998
Availability: Usually Ships in to Twig 1-5 Days
Published: Flowersong Press - January 12th, 2024

Somos Nopales has been called beautiful, powerful, and ching n. It's the poetic journey of the son of a Mexican immigrant written as he navigates a world where American, Mexican, and Mexican-American cultures collide, co-mingle, and occasionally cooperate. The book serves as a tour into a Nepantlero heart, moving in and among the in-between spaces where the poet often finds himself.


Gia Gordon with Jonny Garza Villa, The Redemption of Daya Keane

 

Pre-Order Now Badge
The Redemption of Daya Keane By Gia Gordon Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063318373
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: HarperTeen - May 28th, 2024

“Emotional and empowering, The Redemption of Daya Keane is full of the kind of heart and truth that vibrates off the page.” —Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be


Diana López, Los Monstruos: Rooster and the Dancing Diablo

author photoThe magical town of Tres Leches, home to the figures of Texas–Mexico border lore, has been through a lot.

Pre-Order Now Badge
Los Monstruos: Rooster and the Dancing Diablo By Diana López Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593326527
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Kokila - May 7th, 2024

A thrilling follow-up to Felice and the Wailing Woman by Diana López that explores the Texas-Mexico border myth of the Dancing Devil.


Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Author Appearance