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PGW Books in the News

Seabird by Michelle Kadarusman (Pajama Press)

Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Books of the Year

California Lizards and How to Find Them by Emily Taylor (Heyday Press)

"Taylor packs her book with beautiful photos of coast horned lizards (aka 'horny toads,' who really can shoot blood out of their eye sockets) and fence lizards (the state’s ubiquitous 'blue-bellies'), as well as compelling stories about sighting these creatures over her years taking students out into the field." - New York Times

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)

Winner of the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction

Ours to Tell by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger (Annick Press)

Named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2025

Lullaby for the Grieving by Ashley M. Jones (Hub City Press)

"...Lullaby for the Grieving feels buoyant, luminous, bold. It is an incomparably fine meal, each poem to be savored, each so good as to make readers doubt the next poem could measure up. But it does. It always does." - Shelf Awareness, Best Books of 2025

Finding Home: A Memoir by Denise Nicholas (Agate Publishing)

"...[O]ne of the best memoirs in recent years." - Library Journal, Best Books of 2025

Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser, Translated by Hildegarde Serle (Europa Editions)

Barnes & Noble's 2025 Book of the Year

The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera Translated by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press)

Winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation

Everybelly by Thao Lam (Groundwood Books)

2025 Kirkus Prize Winner

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Europa Editions)

Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize