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Broken Benevolence: Dr. Naomi Alexander, Book 3 #3 (HC) (2023)
9781732722477$39.95"Well, in this case, what you don't see, is what you'll get." -Dr. Naomi AlexanderIt's hardly business as usual when cagy psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi Alexander, sleuths her way through trauma counseling in the aftermath of a patient's home invasion.After... -
Icon & Rocket: Season One
9781779520234$19.99The most famous superhero duo of the Milestone Universe returns, reimagined for a new generation! Long ago, the stranded alien known as Arnus gave up hope of returning to his home planet. Tragically, he'd also realized that his adopted home of Earth was... -
![Biographical Note:
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.
Review Quotes:
"In this modern age of madness, we're so often made to carry more than we believe we can manage. And it's this struggle--to wake up and persist in the face of promised hardship--that Jeff Boyd so brilliantly captures." --Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
"[A] delightful debut...Boyd's writing is preternaturally wise, and his characters come to life with natural dialogue and brutally honest confrontations. This pulses with the beat of life." --Publishers Weekly
" The Weight is filled with haunting observations about romance, isolation and the daunting task of believing in something greater than yourself. Boyd has a grounded and capable hand. This is dialogue that you can actually hear. Powerful, dreamy, and altogether very true." --Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize longlist selection Such a Fun Age
"Like Binx Bolling, the hero of Walker Percy's classic The Moviegoer, Jeff Boyd is on a search. And like Binx's, the object of that search is too essential and nebulous and all-encompassing to name. It has to do with love, of course, and human connection, and ultimate truths, but in Boyd's case it extends past the final limits of racism to touch upon the universal existential terrors of an Everyman. Boyd has August Wilson's scope and James Alan McPherson's human heart, but his literary touchstones are wide and catholic, and his passion and intelligence inform every page of his novel The Weight. I think of this book as the announcement of a big new talent and the start of a long and meaningful career." --Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End and A Calling for Charlie Barnes
"You've never met a fictional character quite like Julian Strickland, the soulful, searching character at the heart of Jeff Boyd's wondrous new novel, The Weight. It's a delight to watch him drum, stumble and sleep his way across the pale, smoky clubs of Portland, Oregon in this moving, comic and prodigious debut." --Jess Walter, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions
"As a reader, Jeff Boyd's writing is the kind you love: he builds a world and inhabits it with round, flawed, real people. His astute observations and wry humor pull you in but his characters make you stay. As a writer, Jeff's writing is the kind of thing that makes you bang your head against the wall wondering, 'How the F did he do that!? How did he make this insane, complicated, thing feel as easy as the riff of a jazz bass line.' In The Weight, Boyd somehow skewers liberal Portland while implicating all of us and, in a truly pertinent way, ask what it means to really be 'accepting of self.'" --Xochitl Gonzalez, author of the New York Times bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming
"Boyd writes beautifully about music and does a superb job of creating characters who love it and each other. Readers will want an encore." --Booklist
Publisher Marketing:
A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing.
Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later--pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God.
Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian's best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left--the only thing he's ever had, really--is the weight he is carrying.
Jeff Boyd's beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship--woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.
Review Citations:
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 27 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Boyd, Jeff
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-5b0svc/images/stencil/590x590/products/31802/33927/image__83480.1687882422.png?c=2 "Biographical Note:
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.
Review Quotes:
\"In this modern age of madness, we're so often made to carry more than we believe we can manage. And it's this struggle--to wake up and persist in the face of promised hardship--that Jeff Boyd so brilliantly captures.\" --Mateo Askaripour, The New York Times Book Review
\"[A] delightful debut...Boyd's writing is preternaturally wise, and his characters come to life with natural dialogue and brutally honest confrontations. This pulses with the beat of life.\" --Publishers Weekly
\" The Weight is filled with haunting observations about romance, isolation and the daunting task of believing in something greater than yourself. Boyd has a grounded and capable hand. This is dialogue that you can actually hear. Powerful, dreamy, and altogether very true.\" --Kiley Reid, author of the New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize longlist selection Such a Fun Age
\"Like Binx Bolling, the hero of Walker Percy's classic The Moviegoer, Jeff Boyd is on a search. And like Binx's, the object of that search is too essential and nebulous and all-encompassing to name. It has to do with love, of course, and human connection, and ultimate truths, but in Boyd's case it extends past the final limits of racism to touch upon the universal existential terrors of an Everyman. Boyd has August Wilson's scope and James Alan McPherson's human heart, but his literary touchstones are wide and catholic, and his passion and intelligence inform every page of his novel The Weight. I think of this book as the announcement of a big new talent and the start of a long and meaningful career.\" --Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End and A Calling for Charlie Barnes
\"You've never met a fictional character quite like Julian Strickland, the soulful, searching character at the heart of Jeff Boyd's wondrous new novel, The Weight. It's a delight to watch him drum, stumble and sleep his way across the pale, smoky clubs of Portland, Oregon in this moving, comic and prodigious debut.\" --Jess Walter, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions
\"As a reader, Jeff Boyd's writing is the kind you love: he builds a world and inhabits it with round, flawed, real people. His astute observations and wry humor pull you in but his characters make you stay. As a writer, Jeff's writing is the kind of thing that makes you bang your head against the wall wondering, 'How the F did he do that!? How did he make this insane, complicated, thing feel as easy as the riff of a jazz bass line.' In The Weight, Boyd somehow skewers liberal Portland while implicating all of us and, in a truly pertinent way, ask what it means to really be 'accepting of self.'\" --Xochitl Gonzalez, author of the New York Times bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming
\"Boyd writes beautifully about music and does a superb job of creating characters who love it and each other. Readers will want an encore.\" --Booklist
Publisher Marketing:
A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing.
Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he's still in disarray two years later--pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God.
Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian's best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left--the only thing he's ever had, really--is the weight he is carrying.
Jeff Boyd's beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship--woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.
Review Citations:
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Booklist 04/01/2023 pg. 27 (EAN 9781668007259, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Boyd, Jeff
Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner and child.")
The Weight
9781668007259$27.99Biographical Note:Jeff Boyd is a former public-school teacher from Chicago and a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received the Deena Davidson Friedman Prize for Fiction. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.99Subtotal: -
The Song of Wrath (Bones of Ruin Trilogy #2)
9781534453593$21.99Biographical Note:Sarah Raughley grew up in Southern Ontario writing stories about freakish little girls with powers because she secretly wanted to be one. She is a huge fangirl of anything from manga to sci-fi fantasy TV to Japanese role-playing games... -
Royal Holiday (PB)
9780593099049$17.00From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a "rising star in the romance genre" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance... -
Black Panther By Christopher Priest: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
9780785192671$34.99Black Panther reinvented as a sharp and witty political satire? Believe it! T'Challa is the man with the plan as Christopher Priest puts the emphasis on the Wakandan king's reputation as the ultimate statesman, as seen through the eyes of the U.S... -
Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince
9780374389949$18.99It's the weekend, first in June; speaker's blasting out big tune!Cousins, aunties, uncles, friends pack the house, and fun begins. Shane is shy but loves to dance--and all year long, he's picked up cansto earn some money toward his goal:... -
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: The Beginning (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)
9781302916541$12.99Publisher Marketing:Collects Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1-12. Lunella Lafayette is a preteen genius who wants to change the world! That job would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent Inhuman gene. Just when she thinks... -
Best of Everything,The: A Novel
9780061443077$14.99Readers who just can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black--the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The Best-Kept Secret, and other acclaimed, bestselling novels by Kimberla Lawson Roby--are going... -
Milestone Compendium Two
9781779514950$59.99Biographical Note:Dwayne McDuffie was the co-creator of the Emmy Award winning television series STATIC SHOCK and of Milestone Media, the most successful black-owned comic book company in history. In television, he was a Writer/Producer for Warner... -
Milestone Compendium One
9781779513106$59.99Biographical Note:Dwayne McDuffie was the co-creator of the Emmy Award winning television series STATIC SHOCK and of Milestone Media, the most successful black-owned comic book company in history. In television, he was a Writer/Producer for Warner... -
Marvel's Black Panther: The Illustrated History of a King: The Complete Comics Chronology
9781683831853$45.00Brief Description:"Explore over fifty years of history and art of the first mainstream black superhero, Marvel's Black Panther, with insight from those who helped create the character himself. From his first appearance in Fantastic Four #52 (1966) to his... -
The Inheritance Trilogy (Inheritance Trilogy)
9780316334006$29.99Biographical Note:N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The... -
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology (HC) (2022)
9781593767396$40.00A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seamstress, a legendary DIY project that centered the scope of Blackness outside of mainstream corporate consumerist identity In... -
House Woman (HC) (2023)
9781951213565$28.00When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos, Nigeria to Sugar Land, Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-American life: a handsome husband, a beautiful red-brick mansion, pizza parlors, and dance classes.Desperate to please, she'll happily cater... -
It's Not All Downhill from Here (PB) (2021)
9781984823755$17.00NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from Terry McMillan, the bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.00Subtotal: