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First Few Pages: The Son of Good Fortune

Posted on July 1, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager. When he’s not working at The Pie Who Loved Me (a spy-themed pizza shop) or passing the time with his girlfriend Sab (occasionally in one of their town’s seventeen cemeteries), he carefully avoids the spotlight.

But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima’s lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago, on Excel’s tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever. “We are ‘TNT’—tago ng tago,” she told him, “hiding and hiding.” Excel is undocumented—and one accidental slip could uproot his entire life.

Casting aside the paranoia and secrecy of his childhood, Excel takes a leap, joining Sab on a journey south to a ramshackle desert town called Hello City. Populated by drifters, old hippies, and washed-up techies—and existing outside the normal constructs of American society—Hello City offers Excel a chance to forge his own path for the first time. But after so many years of trying to be invisible, who does he want to become? And is it possible to put down roots in a country that has always considered you an outsider?

First Few Pages: How Democracies Die

Posted on June 25, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved.

TRESE — U.S. Edition Coming September 2020

Posted on June 23, 2020| Posted in Book News

Original TRESE Netflix anime series, based on the Filipino comic book series by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo, in the works with Jay Oliva attached as Director & Exec Producer.

First Few Pages: Party of Two

Posted on June 17, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her office with the cutest message, she can’t resist—it is chocolate cake, after all.

Reads for Dad

Posted on June 16, 2020

If you're still thinking about what to get, a great read or two is always a good idea. We've picked out selections of reads for all kinds of dads, whether he's a new father trying to figure out the toddler years or the dad who's looking for a new adventure in between pages.

A Bookworm's Guide to Becoming a Better Reader

Posted on June 14, 2020| Posted in Featured

A few tips and stories on how our resident bookworm became a better reader over time.

First Few Pages: The Mirror & the Light

Posted on June 10, 2020| Posted in First Few Pages

Boundless Worlds: Junior Book Crew 2020

Posted on June 4, 2020| Posted in Events

We’re taking JBC to your homes! The program will run every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday from June 25- July 16, 2020, 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm and will be conducted on Zoom.