February's New Releases

February, a month of love and a month of Black History, is also a great month for books. Some highlights from this month’s releases include:

Alphabetical Diaries

A little over a decade ago, Sheila Heti—the award-winning author of a string of modern classics including How Should a Person Be?, Motherhood, and Pure Colour—began looking back at the diaries she'd kept over the previous ten years, searching for signs of deeper change inside herself. She loaded all 500,000 words of her journals into Microsoft Excel, to order the sentences alphabetically and seek out patterns and repetitions. How many times had she written, "I hate him," for example? With the sentences untethered from the narrative of her diaries, she started to see herself—and The Self—in a new way: as something quite solid, anchored by shockingly few characteristic preoccupations. Returning to the project over the years, something more universal and novelistic emerged.
Alphabetical Diaries is the sublime and probing result—one that rises to the heights of artistry and insight for which Heti is rightfully acclaimed.

Wandering Stars

The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." New York Times Book Review) delivers Wandering Stars, a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.

"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." —Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez

Couplets

Out in paperback this month in rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets by Maggie Millner chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships—the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments—and how the people we love can show us who we truly are. 

The Book of Love

In the long-awaited debut novel from bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle. The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love--from friendship to romance to abiding family ties--with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot.

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Black History Month

This February, Picture Book is featuring many of the important books on Black History. Keep in mind we also have all of these amazing titles (and more!) year-round too, not just during the shortest month of the year. Click on the covers below to learn more.

NON-FICTION

FOR KIDS

Find more Black History themed books for kids on Bookshop.org, many titles are eligible for 15% off with code BHM24

BLACK ARTISTS

Find more beautiful monographs on Black Contemporary Artists on Bookshop.org

NEW FICTION BY BLACK AUTHORS

MORE KIDS BOOKS WITH BLACK MAIN CHARActers

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Read My Valentine

February is the perfect time to show love with a book! As a treat to yourself, your bff, your kids, or your romantic partner, giving books is a beautiful love language. Some special highlights at Picture Book right now include Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, an electrifying art book for your coffee table featuring photographers that photographers that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their complex and contradictory ways like Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki. Couplets: A Love Story, Maggie Millner’s captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, Couplets chronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships—the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments—and how the people we love can show us who we truly are. Click on the links below to shop and learn more about the books. And come check them out in person at Picture Book Monday-Friday and during our upcoming markets.

Find more ideas for great Valentine’s books to give your loves (little and big!) on Bookshop.org

Out Today -Come & Get It!

Out January 30th from Kiley Reid, celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age, comes a fresh and provocative University story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a visiting professor and three unruly students.


Come & Get It is a "sharp, edgy social novel. . . Reid has the very same obsessions she gives her character Agatha, and the guilty pleasure of the book is the way she nails the characters' speech styles, Southern accents, and behavior and her unerring choice of products and other accoutrements to surround them with. . . . Reid is a genius of mimicry and social observation." —Kirkus Reviews

 

FICTION

Dorm Room Revelations as Microcosms of a Culture

In her second novel, “Come and Get It,” Kiley Reid uses chatty college students to make substantive statements about consumerism.

By Julia May Jonas
Julia May Jonas is the author of “Vladimir.”
New York Times Jan. 29, 2024

Once I realized what Kiley Reid was up to, I started jotting down brand names. Papyrus, Ziploc, Zillow, Ikea, Amy’s, Red Vines, Lubriderm — these are just a smattering of the companies and products mentioned in the first few chapters of Reid’s second novel, “Come and Get It.”

Reid’s best-selling debut, “Such a Fun Age,” focused on tensions between a Black babysitter and a white mother in Philadelphia; it was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Now she turns her attention to a college campus in Fayetteville, Ark., where the story unfurls like a magic trick, its breeziness disguising an incisive and damning exploration of economics and ethics in America.

The book follows three characters: Agatha, a 37-year-old visiting professor at the University of Arkansas, who is recovering from a breakup that occurred, in part, because of different attitudes about money. Her research brings her to Millie, a 24-year-old Black R.A., who took a year off to help her sick mother and is now a senior, devoted to her job and intent on financial stability. And then there’s Kennedy, a transfer student fleeing a disgraceful incident that happened at her former college.

Reid is a social observer of the highest order, knowing exactly when a small detail or beat of dialogue will resonate beyond the confines of the scene. We first encounter Agatha when she interviews a trio of residents in Millie’s dorm. They are a recognizable type — oblivious young people convinced of their own daring and unique hilarity. One of the girls, wrapping herself in a blanket, compares herself to a refugee to the delight of her friends. It’s a testament to Reid’s gifts that, despite moments like this, she never judges her characters. Her world, like the real one, is populated by people whose shortsightedness lives alongside good intentions.

Agatha plans to talk with the young women about weddings, but instead becomes fascinated by their relationship with money. Eventually she sells slightly doctored versions of her interviews to Teen Vogue, changing the names of the girls and presenting their opinions in a kind of money diary. Then, to obtain more material, she returns to the dorm, where she pays Millie to allow her to eavesdrop on students. Millie is eager to make a down payment on a house, so every little bit helps — and her dogged pursuit of this goal allows her judgment to sway.

Kennedy is terrified of new relationships, and her primary forms of companionship are food, self-help books and an endless procession of sappy signs: This Must Be the Place, For Like Ever, Rise and Grind, Bloom Where You Are Planted. (A character sees this last one and jokingly mouths, “Racist.”) Kennedy’s foggy-brained pursuit of sentiment over meaning, of ideas about connection more than connection itself — and Reid’s gentle interrogation of both — provide some of the book’s bleakest truths.

With her perceptive eye and ear, Reid imbues her novel with the stuff, literally and figuratively, of life. Her characters define themselves by what they have consumed, what they covet and how they react to what other people have. Does Reid criticize them for it? Absolutely not. Her characters feel unique, often lovable — and always human. Money drives them in the way it drives us all, and that’s the beauty (and the terror) of Reid’s point. With her remarkable examination of American monoculture — from fast food to pop culture to handed-down ideals — she tells a story about economics that’s neither poverty porn nor finance fantasy. Instead, it’s about the hows and whys of everyday consumerism and the insidious toll it takes on our lives.

As I read “Come and Get It,” I found myself thinking of certain writers who have, over the years, elected themselves as “capital C” Chroniclers of contemporary America. With this book, Reid demonstrates that she deserves a place in the running.

Event Photos: Happy Plants, Happy You with Kamili Bell Hill

I’m so grateful Kamili Bell Hill aka @plantblerd joined us last September at Picture Book to discuss her book Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent. January is a perfect time to pick up this book that shows how plant-care can be self-care. Kamili is a delight and it’s always wonderful to have a fellow book addict in the shop. Here are some photos from our time together. Make sure you are on the Picture Book mailing list so you don’t miss our next fun event.

January's New Releases

Look out for these new books coming to Picture Book inside HudCo in January! The most anticipated new releases of January 2024 include Come & Get It, the latest novel by Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age; the picture book You Broke It! by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck; the debut novel The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan which follows a woman caught up in espionage in Japanese occupied Malaya in 1945; a new art book on Jonas Wood; and the paperback of New York Times Top 10 Book of 2023 Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo. Click on the book covers for more information.

More new releases available in person or through Bookshop.org

Preview all the most-anticipated books this Winter on Bookshop.org

2023 Year in Review

Thank you so much for sharing your reading life with me at Picture Book this past year! Here are some of the books that so many of you have loved. Click on the book covers to learn more.

Thank you for showing so much support for local authors, great books, and my small business!

BESTSELLING BOOKS of 2023

1. Braving Creativity
2. Scandinavian from Scratch
3. Jane Jacobs
4. Everyday Snack Tray
5. B My Name Is Boy
6. Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky
7. 20 Questions
8. Hello Beautiful
9. Weather Together
10. Tom Lake

BestSELLING PICTURE BOOKS

1. B My Name Is Boy
2. Twenty Questions
3. Weather Together
4. Something, Someday
5. Lila Greer, Teacher of the Year
6. Blurb’s Book of Manners
7. The Octopus Escapes
8. If I Was a Horse
9 Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh
10. Copydog

BESTSELLING FICTION

1. Hello Beautiful
2. Tom Lake
3. Lessons in Chemistry
4. I Have Some Questions for You
5. Demon Copperhead
6. Roman Stories
7. The Guest
8. Severance
9. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
10. The Postcard

Still need a gift for a book lover?

Picture Book’s last day open before Christmas is Friday December 22nd from 9am to 5pm. There is still a very amply stocked selection of books to pick from (1,800 in total though all may not be on display at once) so you will have many specially picked options.

If you can’t make it in to the shop on the last day, there are several options for digital gift cards so that the book lover on your list can choose their own adventure.

PICTURE BOOK WEBSITE GIFT CARD

This is a great option fo a local book lover who likes to browse online. The gift certificate works for any book on the website and all purchases can be picked up at HudCo, or delivery within Hastings, Dobbs, & Irvington.

SQUARE IN-STORE GIFT CARD

This digital gift card is perfect for the local friend that loves to browse in the shop and can come in person to our HUdCo location Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, or attends the shop’s special events. I am happy to order in special requests for this gift card.

BOOKSHOP.ORG GIFT CARD

Bookshop.org is a B-Corp that handles direct nationwide shipping for independent bookstores. These gift cards go directly to Bookshop and can not be redeemed in person at Picture Book. It’s the perfect gift for a local bookstore lover who can’t make it into the shop easily during business hours

LIBRO.FM GIFT CARD

Gift a Libro.fm audiobook credit bundle instantly to anyone in the world and support us at the same time. You choose the credit bundle, your gift recipient picks their own audiobooks. Send your gift instantly or schedule your gift delivery It’s an eco-friendly gift with a low carbon footprint!

November's New Releases

Look out for these books new books coming to Picture Book inside HudCo in November

Preview all the most-anticipated books of the Fall on Bookshop.org

October Newsletter


Spooky Trolley Ride
Wednesday October 18th

The Rivertowns Chamber of Commerce presents a ghastly gathering of historical haunts and local legends. Join us for an eerily entertaining evening filled with the ghostly tales as told by Ghastly Grinn, your trolley guide through the spine-chilling streets of Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, and Dobbs Ferry.

Picture Book will be open late inside HudCo with special spooky books for the occasion, and HudCo’s bar will be open. Tickets required for the trolley, but it’s free to browse the bookshop and open to all to imbibe inside HudCo.

Family Fun Tour - 4:30 pm, Ghostly Tours (12+) - 6:00 pm & 7:30 pm

PB Book Club is the relaxed meet up hosted by Sara of Picture Book and Stephanie of Parson Brown at HudCo. Our next selection is Tom Lake by beloved author Ann Patchett. Tom Lake is a novel about youthful love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. For a limited time, get the PB Book Club Bundle with the novel and the Parson Brown Candle, the signature scent of HudCo, as a discounted package. Book Club will meet on November 14th.


Local Authors

Tuesday October 24th, 12-2pm -Jessie Kanzer
Come celebrate local author Jessie Kanzer's new book release Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader. Books are available for purchase from Picture Book, and Jessie will be available to sign them on release day at the shop.


Friday November 3rd, 12-2pm - Rebecca Pitts
Rebecca Pitts new book Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People is out on October 31st! Books are available for purchase from Picture Book, and Becky will be available to sign them on Friday November 3rd at the shop.

Check out all the books from our talented Rivertown authors online.

Sta tuned for more great events in November, with local author/illustrator Heather Ross leading a workshop on Sunday November 5th during River Arts Studio Tour, and Frances Largeman-Roth, RDN’s new cookbook release.

October New Releases

Don’t miss the new October releases on the table at HudCo this month. Including the latest from cookbook queen Molly Baz, short stories from Jhumpa Lahiri, and the latest First Cat in Space graphic novel! Preview all the most-anticpated books of Fall on our Bookshop.org website.

Thank you!

Ending the newsletter with a quick note of gratitude to Picture Book’s community on the third (!!!) anniversary of the bookshop inside HudCo this month. I am so grateful for your support and to have gotten to know you all through books. -Sara

Find Picture Book inside
HudCo - Dobbs Ferry, NY
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
& other special programming:
-Wednesday October 18th 9am-8pm
-Sunday November 5th, 11am-3pm
Coffee weekdays until 3pm

Pick-up also available at
Yellow Studio, Cross River, NY

October's New Releases

Look out for these highly anticipated October’s releases at Picture Book this month!

10/3

Our Strangers: Stories From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, deft, and inventive; Lydia Davis’ newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis’ sincere love and mastery of the form. Only available at independent bookstores like Picture Book and libraries, by request of the author.

In Begin Again, his first illustrated book created specifically for readers of all ages, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity and shares his dreams for where we go from here. A must-have for anyone who wants the next generation to inherit a world to be proud of--and a perfect gift to share with those you care about.

Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists offers teachings on collaboration, decoloniality, nonlinearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death and being nonbinary, while also examining the world of fungi. Let’s Become Fungal! shows how fungi can inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policymakers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community leaders, farmers and others to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.

The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom (First Cat in Space #2) Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris are back with the second volume in the bestselling The First Cat in Space graphic novel series! Secret tales of woe, hilarious new characters, and dangerous plans of sabotage will keep readers delighted and laughing until the thrilling climax.

Monica, the long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World, is a genre-bending thriller from one of the defining voices of the genre. "Daniel Clowes is the rare cartoonist whose graphic novels become cultural events." —New York Magazine

Stacey's Mistake: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #14) is a brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by National Book Award finalist and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ellen T. Crenshaw following the Baby-sitters Club visiting Stacy in New York City for the weekend. (Ages 8-12)

10/10

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri is the first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth. Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories. These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri's adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz.

Family Meal by Bryan Washington, the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.

More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen by Molly Baz It's time to crank up the heat and lose the measuring spoons because the secret to cooking is hiding in one simple motto: MORE IS MORE. In her bestselling debut cookbook, Cook This Book, Molly Baz taught the cooking essentials and put her love for mortadella and dill on blast. In More Is More, she's teaching cooks how to level up their cooking, loosen up in front of that ripping hot pan, and seek deliciousness at all costs.More Is More is a philosophy that encourages more risk-taking, better intuition, fewer exact measurements, and a "don't stop 'til it tastes delicious" mentality.

The Puppets of Spelhorst is an original fairy tale by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo with enchanting illustrations by Julie Morstad, in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning, and high spirits.

End of October:

Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature shows how Lindsey Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art, riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles.

Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People by local author Rebecca Pitts is the first biography for young people of Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker who transformed the way we inhabit and develop our cities. (grade 7+)

Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader by local author Jessie Asya Kanzer examines the words of the leader of Ukraine as a spiritual leader for our times.

 

Preview all the most-anticipated releases this Fall on Picture Book’s Bookshop.org website

October 3rd New Releases

Out and available from Picture Book on October 3rd:

Our Strangers: Stories From one of the most accomplished writers of our time comes another brilliant collection of short fiction. Artful, deft, and inventive; Lydia Davis’ newest collection of stories delves into topics ranging from marriage to tiny insects. These stories are a celebration of language and careful observation that once again confirms Davis’ sincere love and mastery of the form. Only available at independent bookstores like Picture Book and libraries, by request of the author.

In Begin Again, his first illustrated book created specifically for readers of all ages, Oliver Jeffers shares a very brief history of humanity and shares his dreams for where we go from here. A must-have for anyone who wants the next generation to inherit a world to be proud of--and a perfect gift to share with those you care about.

Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists offers teachings on collaboration, decoloniality, nonlinearity, toxicity, mobilization, biomimicry, death and being nonbinary, while also examining the world of fungi. Let’s Become Fungal! shows how fungi can inspire artists, collectives, organizations, educators, policymakers, designers, scientists, anthropologists, curators, urbanists, activists, gardeners, community leaders, farmers and others to become more fungal in their ways of working and being.

The First Cat in Space and the Soup of Doom (First Cat in Space #2) Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris are back with the second volume in the bestselling The First Cat in Space graphic novel series! Secret tales of woe, hilarious new characters, and dangerous plans of sabotage will keep readers delighted and laughing until the thrilling climax.

Monica, the long-awaited new graphic novel from Daniel Clowes, author of Ghost World, is a genre-bending thriller from one of the defining voices of the genre. "Daniel Clowes is the rare cartoonist whose graphic novels become cultural events." —New York Magazine

Stacey's Mistake: A Graphic Novel (the Baby-Sitters Club #14) is a brand-new Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by National Book Award finalist and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Ellen T. Crenshaw following the Baby-sitters Club visiting Stacy in New York City for the weekend. (Ages 8-12)

 

Preview all the most-anticipated releases this Fall on Picture Book’s Bookshop.org website

New Releases -September 26th

C. Pam Zhang, the award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with the rich new novel, Land of Milk and Honey, about a young chef and the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite

Diner: Day for Night is the new cookbook from Andrew Tarlow of Brooklyn's restaurants Marlow & Sons, Roman's, and Diner, a farm-to-table restaurant in a repurposed dining car under the Williamsburg bridge.

Something, Someday is the beautiful new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson that shows how even small gestures can have lasting impact.

The Wild Robot Protects, the thrilling third installment of the Wild Robot series takes readers on a new adventure through the ocean and to the frigid northern waters where Roz may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her island. Recommended for ages 8-12 and younger readers with their parent's help.

September New Releases

September is full of amazing, highly-anticipated new releases. You can find the brand new books below on the Picture Book table this month: The Fraud, the highly anticipated new novel by Zadie Smith set in Victorian England.  Living Upriver: Artful Homes, Idyllic Lives showcases the beautiful homes and lifestyles of creatives who have left the city fto live surrounded by nature by Barbara de Vries with a foreword by Emma Austen Tuccillo of And North. In Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent author Kamili Bell Hill shows us that plant care can really be self-care.  Get tickets for the author event with Kamili on September 19th! The latest volume in the hit graphic novel series Witches of Brooklyn is out to delight your 8-12 year olds with a fun read to kick off the school year.   

The Vaster Wilds by three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff. The captivating novel starts off running with a young girl escaping a colonial settlement in early 17th century Virginia into the wilderness with just the clothes on her back and her will to survive. Lauren Groff is one of my favorite writers, but you don't have to take my word for it as the New York Times Book Review boasts, “I know of few other writers whose sentences are so beautiful and so propulsive.” Any new release of hers is a must-read for me, and this one is particularly exciting as The Los Angeles Times declares, “Lauren Groff just reinvented the adventure novel.”

New cookbook, I Could Nosh: Classic Jew-Ish Recipes Revamped for Every Day by Jake Cohen is the follow-up to his beloved bestseller Jew-ish. I Could Nosh brings Jake's signature modern flair to traditional Jewish recipes that are soon to become everyday favorites and new holiday traditions. with creative, must-cook recipes, including: Jake's famous Challah recipe, now with new variations like Chall-zones, Pletzel, Babka, and Sufganiyot, & a whole chapter dedicated to Schmears to up your bagel game.

And new to the Bloomy bookshelf, Madame Fromage’s Adventures in Cheese, a charming, witty, deeply knowledgeable and, above all, passionate book here to teach us pretty much everything we need to know about choosing cheese, tasting it, pairing it, and sharing it. Pick it up from Bloomy on Cedar Street and you get to support two small local women-owned businesses at once!

C. Pam Zhang, the award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with the rich new novel, Land of Milk and Honey, about a young chef and the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite

Diner: Day for Night is the new cookbook from Andrew Tarlow of Brooklyn's restaurants Marlow & Sons, Roman's, and Diner, a farm-to-table restaurant in a repurposed dining car under the Williamsburg bridge.

Something, Someday is the beautiful new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Christian Robinson that shows how even small gestures can have lasting impact.

The Wild Robot Protects, the thrilling third installment of the Wild Robot series takes readers on a new adventure through the ocean and to the frigid northern waters where Roz may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her island. Recommended for ages 8-12 and younger readers with their parent's help.

 

Preview all the most-anticipated releases this Fall on Picture Book’s Bookshop.org website

New Releases - September 12th

New releases this week include The Vaster Wilds by three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff. The captivating novel starts off running with a young girl escaping a colonial settlement in early 17th century Virginia into the wilderness with just the clothes on her back and her will to survive. 

And a new cookbook, I Could Nosh: Classic Jew-Ish Recipes Revamped for Every Day by Jake Cohen is the follow-up to his beloved bestseller Jew-ish. I Could Nosh brings Jake's signature modern flair to traditional Jewish recipes that are soon to become everyday favorites and new holiday traditions. with creative, must-cook recipes, including: Jake's famous Challah recipe, now with new variations like Chall-zones, Pletzel, Babka, and Sufganiyot, & a whole chapter dedicated to Schmears to up your bagel game.

And new to the Bloomy bookshelf, Madame Fromage’s Adventures in Cheese, a charming, witty, deeply knowledgeable and, above all, passionate book here to teach us pretty much everything we need to know about choosing cheese, tasting it, pairing it, and sharing it. Pick it up from Bloomy on Cedar Street and you get to support 2 small local women-owned businesses at once!

New Releases - September 5th

We're kicking off the school year with a whole new selection of books on the table! New releases this week include The Fraud, the highly anticipated new novel by Zadie Smith set in Victorian England.  Living Upriver: Artful Homes, Idyllic Lives showcases the beautiful homes and lifestyles of creatives who have left the city fto live surrounded by nature by Barbara de Vries with a foreword by Emma Austen Tuccillo of And North. In Happy Plants, Happy You: A Plant-Care & Self-Care Guide for the Modern Houseplant Parent author Kamili Bell Hill shows us that plant care can really be self-care.  Save the date for an author event with Kamili on September 19th! And last but not least, the latest volume in the hit graphic novel series Witches of Brooklyn is out to delight your 8-12 year olds with a fun read to kick off the school year.   

New Art Books - Summer 2023

I’m thrilled to share the latest art books out this summer and available at Picture Book inside HudCo. All art book titles in stock on the website are available for pick up at Yellow Studio in Cross River, New York as well after purchase. My favorite new art books out this summer include the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition catalogue for Cecily Brown’s first full-fledged (and long overdue) museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home, an unsettling but also charming collection of photographs by Finnish photographer Iiu Susiraja on view this summer at MoMA PS1, the newly reprinted definitive book on James Turrell that every Contemporary Art book collection needs, and the deluxe, oversized monograph on LA-based painter Jonas Wood.

In addition to the latest releases, I’ve recently added some more beautiful art books on important artists to Picture Book’s offerings. Click on the cover images below to learn more

 

View all of the best new art books available this summer to be shipped through Bookshop.org