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09/11/2026

Tonight with Black Walnut Books! Don't miss Amanda Peters' launch event for her new book THE BIRTHING TREE 🌳 📚

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09/10/2026

THE BIRTHING TREE is a Monthly Magic fiction pick at Books Are Magic 🌳 ✨️ Amanda Peters stopped by the store today to sign. Buy a signed copy in the store while supplies last!

09/10/2026

NYC! Join us tonight Barnes & Noble - Atlantic Avenue to celebrate the release of Amanda Peters' THE BIRTHING TREE! 🌿 📚

Details here: https://buff.ly/ysZpfOG

09/09/2026

🌹 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌹 We're thrilled to share the cover of Oksana Vasyakina's forthcoming novel ROSE (translated by Elina Alter), the final installment of her acclaimed autofiction trilogy! Designed by Nicole Caputo.

ROSE hits bookstores on 4/27 and is available to preorder now.

About the book 📚
As a young writer living in Moscow, Oksana Vasyakina attempts to solve the riddle of her aunt’s brief and apparently tragic life. Svetlana was the black sheep of a family of hard-working, hard-drinking women in Siberia. Flighty but kind, indolent but exact, she spent her teenage years minding Oksana when she’d much rather have been out partying. Her painful early death from tuberculosis seems entirely preventable—so why did it happen?

In lapidary fragments, Oksana pieces together memories of family dinners and forbidden forest excursions, Siberian funeral customs and depictions of tuberculosis from Edvard Munch to Thomas Mann. The result is a portrait of her aunt as a woman whose difficult relationship with her mother, domestic instability, and indifference to her own fate coexist with an almost childlike purity. And the further Vasyakina delves into Svetlana’s story, the more aware she becomes of her own inextricable connection to her aunt and the rest of her family, crucial for her understanding of herself and her writing.

The powerful conclusion of Oksana Vasyakina’s acclaimed trilogy (after WOUND and STEPPE), ROSE returns to the definitive relationships of our lives, echoing down the days as grief, lust, and melancholy. Heralded as a visionary among her generation of Russophone writers, Vasyakina offers an earnest and lyrical account of what happens when one loses everything—a family, a country—and what it takes to survive in darkness.

09/09/2026

🌹 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🌹 We're thrilled to share the cover of Oksana Vasyakina's ROSE (trans. by Elina Alter), the final book in her acclaimed autofiction trilogy that began with WOUND and STEPPE. Designed by the fabulous Nicole Caputo

ROSE will hit bookstores on 4/27 and is available to preorder now!

About the book 📚
As a young writer living in Moscow, Oksana Vasyakina attempts to solve the riddle of her aunt’s brief and apparently tragic life. Svetlana was the black sheep of a family of hard-working, hard-drinking women in Siberia. Flighty but kind, indolent but exact, she spent her teenage years minding Oksana when she’d much rather have been out partying. Her painful early death from tuberculosis seems entirely preventable—so why did it happen?

In lapidary fragments, Oksana pieces together memories of family dinners and forbidden forest excursions, Siberian funeral customs and depictions of tuberculosis from Edvard Munch to Thomas Mann. The result is a portrait of her aunt as a woman whose difficult relationship with her mother, domestic instability, and indifference to her own fate coexist with an almost childlike purity. And the further Vasyakina delves into Svetlana’s story, the more aware she becomes of her own inextricable connection to her aunt and the rest of her family, crucial for her understanding of herself and her writing.

The powerful conclusion of Oksana Vasyakina’s acclaimed trilogy (after Wound and Steppe), ROSE returns to the definitive relationships of our lives, echoing down the days as grief, lust, and melancholy. Heralded as a visionary among her generation of Russophone writers, Vasyakina offers an earnest and lyrical account of what happens when one loses everything—a family, a country—and what it takes to survive in darkness.

09/09/2026

Don't miss Amanda Peters in conversation with Vanessa Lillie tonight in celebration of her new book THE BIRTHING TREE! Held at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, cosponsored by Brookline Booksmith!

RSVP here: https://buff.ly/VP8b1BT

09/08/2026

Happy paperback pub day to MUSCLE MAN by Jordan Castro! 💪

MUSCLE MAN is a hilarious, suspenseful metaphysical thriller following a day in the life of an English professor who would rather be lifting weights from the author of the cult hit THE NOVELIST.

💪 "Castro’s talent lies in meticulously creating a realistic—and entertaining—portrait of one man’s compulsions, bringing individual texture to a curious social phenomenon. His books are satirical, poking light fun at the narrators and their beliefs, but also firmly empathetic . . . MUSCLE MAN is a lot of fun." — The Atlantic

💪 "This novel includes dark secrets but it also introduces a satisfying streak of humor as we follow him through one ridiculous, dangerous day." — The Boston Globe

💪 "Nearly every one of Castro’s acerbic, unfiltered paragraphs contains a bristling insight about literature, weight lifting, or academic politics." — The New Yorker

09/05/2026

"I want people to understand that traditional practices are beautiful and they’re useful and they’re important, and just to have some a little bit more respect maybe, and a little bit more curiosity.”

—Amanda Peters on her new novel THE BIRTHING TREE via The Boston Globe

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“The Berry Pickers,” Amanda Peters’s first novel, was published in 2023 to rave reviews. Her sophomore outing, “The Birthing Tree” (Catapult), once again centers its story on the Mi’kmaq people whose homelands stretch from Nova Scotia to Maine.

09/04/2026

👅 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 👅 We're thrilled to share the cover of Kathryn Crowcroft's TONGUE, designed by Victoria Maxfield and !

TONGUE will be available in bookstores on 3/30 and is available to preorder now.

About the book 📚
“As I enquire into the hidden, the taboo, the absences, there is a kind of power in making this record, in choosing what gets stored and excluded.”

Deep in the archives at the University of Cambridge, Kathryn Crowcroft is intent on discovering the untold story of the human tongue, fascinated by its integral role in defining us as a species. She explores portrayals of the organ as sacred and sinful, traces the long history of tongue removal as punishment, and reads about the tongue’s unique pattern as a potential biometric tool.

But as she delves deeper into scientific and literary documents from centuries past, they begin to conjure memories of her own, transporting her into the silence between herself and her mother, and the never-discussed events that shaped her past. Between library stacks and text messages, she begins writing a secret second manuscript, a work of personal and intellectual reckoning—a sensitive articulation of the truths we learn to lie for, as well as those we dare to speak.

The result is a hybrid of fascinating cultural history and fierce memoir that speaks to urgent conversations about gendered violence, intergenerational silence, and the politics of testimony.

09/03/2026

We're thrilled to share that Lara Vergnaud's UNTRANSLATABLE is an American Booksellers Association Indies Introduce title for Winter/Spring '27! 🥳

Each year, the Indies Introduce program brings booksellers together from across the US for conversation and connection centered around exciting upcoming debut adult, middle grade, and young adult titles.

UNTRANSLATEABLE will be available in bookstores on 2/16 and is available to preorder now! 📚

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