Sending a virtual high-five to Kelly for assembling these essays and illustrations. I feel like Leslie Knope from Parks & Rec would appreciate this book. Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen features pieces from 44 different contributors, including illustrators, musicians, novelists, dancers, and leaders. If you like Mignola's collaborative works with Christopher Golden, like Baltimore and Joe Golem and the Drowning City, check out Grim Death and Bill.

Mignola, famous for creating Hellboy, among other things, teams up with my pal Tom Sniegoski for an illustrated pulp novel about two unusual heroes fighting evil and seeking justice. Three February titles are attracting my attention: the illustrated novel Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal by Mike Mignola and Tom Sniegoski, the anthology Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen, and the novel We Are Okay by Nina LaCour.

'I really hope she finds her,' I said to myself when I read the book summary I am also simultaneously steeling myself for something akin to As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway, just in case.

Snowbirds by Crissa-Jean Chappell, coming out first thing in January, follows Lucy as she searches for her best friend Alice, who has disappeared in the middle of Rumspringa. I have always been fascinated by Rumspringa, a rite of passage for teens in some Amish communities. Here are seven titles coming out in 2017 that may appeal to this blog's readers - and to this blog's writer, too! :) Now, Lucy plunges into a search for her best friend-while also hiding her own secret, which could put her in even more danger.2017 is merely days away, and if you recently received gift cards to your favorite local bookstores or online bookshops, you may be anxious to redeem them. Wracked by guilt, Lucy knows that she should have been watching out for Alice, but instead, she was kissing Faron, an Older Order boy shunned by his society. Then, one night after just such a party, Alice vanishes. Lucy is part of a different sect, in which teens aren't allowed such bold experimentation, and she's fighting to keep up as Alice races from one wild party to the next. At sixteen, Alice is in the middle of 'Rumspringa,' a season in which Amish teens try out forbidden temptations, in order to get them out of their system. Lucy will grab your heart and run away with it.' - Robin MacCready, winner of the Edgar award for BuriedĮvery year, Lucy waits eagerly for the arrival of the 'snowbirds,' the Old Order Amish who come trundling into Florida on buses from the north, bringing Lucy's best friend Alice, with whom she's spent every winter she can remember. ' Snowbirds will turn your image of the Amish upside down.