Spring 2025 Frontlist Scanbook

ADULT: Literature & Storytelling / Nature & Gardening

9781797228563 Chronicle Prism $17.95 • March 2025

MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS A Memoir in Essays BY NICOLE GRAEV LIPSON

Paperback 248 Pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women

In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives. What does it take to escape the plotlines mapped onto us? Searching for clues in the work of her literary foremothers, Lipson untangles what it means to be a woman and more.

9781646145164 Levine Querido $20.00 • April 2025

DREAM BOY BY JIM GRIMSLEY, FOREWORD BY JUSTIN TORRES Charting one boy’s search for companionship amidst violence and isolation in the mid-century rural South, with a new foreword from National Book Award-winner Justin Torres. Nathan’s used to being alone. Drifting from town to town following his salesman father, he seeks solace in his studies when he can’t find understanding in his own home; his father is abusive and an alcoholic and his mother would rather disappear into the background than protect him. Enter Roy.

Flexibound 200 Pages 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay

9781761451027 Hardie Grant Books $27.99 • October 2024

KASEY CHAMBERS JUST DON'T BE A D**KHEAD And Other Profound Things I've Learnt BY KASEY CHAMBERS

Paperback 288 Pages 9.2 in H | 6 in W Biography & Autobiography / Music

Kasey Chambers Just Don't Be a D**khead is a whirlwind of great stories and rock-solid life lessons, Just Don’t Be a Dickhead is Kasey Chambers at her most heartfelt and honest. From her childhood in the Australian outback to the heights of her chart-topping international success as a singer/songwriter, Kasey has trusted her gut, stuck to her values and learned some hard truths. BLACK GIRLS GARDENING Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom for Healing and Flourishing in Nature BY AMBER GROSSMAN A visual celebration of Black women and their gardens, filled with inspiration, stories, and the healing magic of gardening, based on the popular Instagram account BlackGirlsGardening. Through first-person narratives and arresting photography, this unique gardening book profiles women who demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect.

9781797228242 Chronicle Books $26.95 • March 2025

Hardcover 240 Pages 9.3 in H | 7.2 in W | 0.8 in T Gardening / Pictorial

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