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Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Book Riot’s Christmas romance prize pack giveaway! 

The best YA book deals of the day, sponsored by All Ways Black and Penguin Random House. 

After a year in the Army — he lied about his age to get in and faked a psychological illness to get out — he once again auditioned for the American Negro Theater, this time getting in. However, audiences struggled with his Bahamian accent and were displeased that he couldn’t sing, so he spent several months training his voice. He was given the leading role in a Broadway production of Lysistrata, which ran for four days, and then became an understudy for Anna Lucasta, a play by Philip Yordan that reimagined Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie....

The other great thing about socks is that everyone needs them. If worn once per week, socks should last from six months to a year. Confession: I have socks in my sock drawer that could be starting middle school this year, but socks are a thing that people actually do need more of because they wear out. Book-themed socks tell your person that you’ve gotten them a thing they need that references a thing they like, and isn’t that what love is?...

“Seavers started working for the Cairo Public Library in the 1940s, when Black children were not welcome inside its stately building on Washington Avenue. She was assigned to a branch office at Pyramid Courts, a brand new public housing complex for Black families built in the early part of the decade. ‘They didn’t have a library at all for the Black kids at that moment, so the library was started out at Pyramid Courts,’ Seavers recalled in an interview with The Southern on Wednesday....

This is just a silly way to spend a few minutes and test your literary knowledge, but it also shows just how difficult a translator’s job is. Translating the literal meaning of a word into another language is only one small part of publishing literature in another language. The connotations of each word have to be considered: a cottage in the forest and a cabin in the woods have an almost identical literal meaning, but the connotations are very different....

If you’ve seen the movie adaptations, you may have picked up on the vibe. Gene Wilder, as the original Willy Wonka, knew what was going on. And Tim Burton’s remake in 2005 was merely a ghostly apparition of the source material. The proof is smudged all over the chocolate wrapper. The fact remains: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a horror story. However, none of this is necessarily a bad thing....

“The idea is that every six weeks for one year, a group of people will read a book together,” he explained in a video announcing the project. He and Rosianna will alternate choosing the books, which will range from “YA novels to mysteries to memoirs,” says John. “We want to read broadly and celebrate lots of different kinds of books.” Discussions will take place on a Discord channel, which John explains as being “like a chatroom, except better in every way....

Of course, that would depend on how their magic operates and what type of results they want. Sometimes, they want to save their world, and other times they want to cause chaos like Wanda Maximoff. But you know what? I enjoy both and I really love books about witches that can showcase a range of emotions and of course, witchcraft. So here’s another fun quiz for you bookish types that are looking for your next witchy read....

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in this sequel to Ninth House, the smash bestseller by Leigh Bardugo. Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters. Here you’ll find unsolved murders that set a pall over the school; missing students who attempted spells in the forest at night; secret societies; supernatural serial killers; and more!...

The downside of the changeover: I didn’t get to see what some of my favorite presses who aren’t Big Two, Image, or Dark Horse, put out in the last year I might have missed nor speak with their PR folks about what’s upcoming. The upside: I focused on new-to-me publishers who were at the show that I would likely have missed if I’d been glued to my old rotation and blown my budget before I’d gotten to some really fantastic books....

But, the grilled cheese! Deliciously crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. It is a staple food to have with warm tomato soup, at the end of a long day when all that is good in this world seems to be fading away. It has been a staple food in the U.S. since 1920, when grilled cheese resurfaced on the tables of Americans everywhere during the Great Depression because of the lowered prices of bread and the growing popularity of processed cheese....

National Book Award-finalist Ibi Zoboi makes her middle-grade debut with an unforgettable character: Ebony-Grace Norfleet, the sci-fi-obsessed granddaughter of one of the first black engineers to integrate NASA. Set in Harlem in the early days of hip-hop, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich is a moving and hilarious story of girl finding a place and a voice in a world that’s changing at warp speed. In the summer of 1984, 12-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet makes the trip from Huntsville, Alabama, to Harlem, where she’ll spend a few weeks with her father while her mother deals with some trouble that’s arisen for Ebony-Grace’s beloved grandfather, Jeremiah....

Wilson was kind enough to answer some questions about her plans for Diana and company: Book Riot: Which Wonder Woman are we getting in your story? The daughter of Ares? The daughter of Hyppolita made from clay? Someone entirely new? Which origin is your favorite? BR: This story arc is called Just War. Why is it an important story to tell now? GWW: Warfare has changed dramatically in the decades since Wonder Woman was created; since WWII, the last war the U....

So several years later, when I read the 25th anniversary version, and it had all of this compelling, real-sounding information (wait, there’s a museum? they’re all real? the entire story is based on a true royal history! it is true!), I simply chose to believe it. That’s how talented an author William Goldman was. After his passing in mid-November, countless readers have posted about believing: yes, his grandfather read him the “best parts” version of an old dusty classic by S....

— Europa Editions (@EuropaEditions) September 9, 2019 Full of anger and pain—each sentence is cut down to its barest bones. Elena Ferrante has been accused by at least one male critic of being too melodramatic; her writing overwrought with stereotypes and easy metaphors. But her characters are angry. Very angry. These are books about women who have been abused, abandoned, and devastated. She writes about “women destroyed” and women vanished....

Wittlinger’s career began as a playwright in the 1970s and 80s, after she earned her MFA at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Though she continued to write plays and be active in the playwriting world, she found a true home with her writing skills and writing voice in YA. Hard Love, published in 1999 and her third novel, was a finalist for YALSA’s first ever Printz Award. It was also a Lambda Literary Award winner, and it earned starred reviews and critical acclaim from several major outlets....

High contrast board books utilize images both small and large that showcase simple but impactful contrasting shapes and colors. The majority of high contrast board books contain black and white images, but many also include spots of color or shine to add even more interest to them. Find below some of the best high contrast board books to share with your young readers or to purchase as a baby shower book gifts....

Upcoming Nonfiction By Women Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby You’ll laugh yourself sick with this one. Irby, at 40, reflects on the things she can’t do anymore – like survive on just a few hours sleep. She discusses her determination to love her body even when everyone tells her she shouldn’t — and in typical Irby fashion, she bluntly talks about sex, the disgusting details of bodies and life, and where she feels she fits in....