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Reading along with the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlist

Written by Sophie. Last year I wrote about reading along with the 2023 Ursula K. le Guin Prize shortlist. Reading along has become something of an annual literary pilgrimage for me since the prize's inception in 2022, so I'm writing about it again (and again as long as the ABC Blog [...]

Sophie2025-03-24T19:00:11+01:00Tags: alaya dawn johnson, alissa hattman, anne de marcken, Book review, Book Reviews, Emily Tesh, Fantasy, Fiction, micaiah johnson, Nghi Vo, premee mohamed, Prize winners, Readalong, Samantha Harvey, sarah cypher, Science Fiction, Sophie, Ursula K. Le Guin, vajra chandrasekera, Young Adult|

Book review: The Vanished Birds

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez A solitary ship captain, drifting through time. Nia Imani is a woman out of place. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. The scarred boy does not speak, his only form of communication the haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. A millennia-old [...]

Lilia2025-03-12T19:33:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Else, found family, Science Fiction, Simon Jimenez|

5 Books on Women’s Sexuality

By Lília We talk a lot about equality for women, equal pay, ownership of our own bodies, but we tend to keep sexuality apart. Maybe because in many cultures people don't discuss it in any form. But mostly because if women take over their own sexuality, they can and will ask [...]

Lilia2025-03-11T16:27:17+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Anonymous, Dossie Easton, Emily Nagoski, Female Sexuality, Gillian Anderson, Janet W. Hardy, Lília, Margot Anand, Nancy Friday, Sexuality, Women's History Month|

ABC in the Wild: Made in Asia 2025

By Else Every year, the ABC does a couple events out “in the wild”; basically setting up a pop-up bookstore on location, be it a convention, The Next Web, or at a school fair. In the middle of March, we set up a pop-up bookstore at Made in Asia 2025 in [...]

Lilia2025-03-20T10:32:42+01:00Tags: ABC in the Wild, Else, Made in Asia, Made in Asia 2025|

Spring Equinox: Blossoming Book Covers

by Damla As the weather holds the promise of getting milder (she said ever-so-optimistically), the sunshine starts to break through the clouds after a long-awaited wintery interval, and the flowers have tentatively started to bloom, we are more than ready to ring the spring in at the ABC. The spring equinox [...]

Damla2025-03-16T18:29:05+01:00Tags: book covers, Damla, seasonal celebration, Spring Equinox|

Winter Writer’s Night: A tradition is born

By Lauren Last month, ABC hosted the first of our planned Writer’s Nights, where writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, booksellers, and readers come together to share and celebrate stories, whether their own or somebody else’s they’re helping put out into the world. Our talent wall was full with snippets of novels, short [...]

Lilia2025-03-19T10:38:54+01:00Tags: ABC Events, Betty, Colleen Geske, David Allen, EBM, Lauren, Lynn, Winter Writer's Night|

Book review: The Ghost Ship

A sweeping and epic love story, The Ghost Ship is the swashbuckling third volume in Kate Mosse's enthralling series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water — its hull splintered and its sails tattered and burnt. For months the Ghost Ship [...]

Lilia2025-03-16T11:42:25+01:00Tags: Book review, Book Reviews, Fiction, General Fiction, Kate Mosse, LGBTQ+, Molly Quell|

D&D evening in Amsterdam

By Mike Scoop! D&D initiative Dobbelgangers has made history with the first ever D&D night at the ABC. Six tables spread out over the three floors of our Amsterdam store hosted over thirty first-time and experienced adventurers. Blasts were had in a diverse range of in-game settings, ranging from North African [...]

Lilia2025-03-17T16:26:56+01:00Tags: D&D, D&D evening, event report, Games, Mike|

2025’s Most Anticipated Books by Women Authors

by Damla In honor of International Women’s History Month in March, here is a list of some of our most anticipated books of 2025 by women authors. From literary fiction to fantasy, horror to sci-fi, romance to nonfiction titles, there is something for everyone. So take a look at our roundup [...]

Damla2025-03-10T14:19:53+01:00Tags: Damla, Feminism, most anticipated books of 2025, New Releases, Women's History Month|

Book review: The Luminous Dead

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck -- enough to get her off-planet and on the [...]

Lilia2025-02-20T13:51:14+01:00Tags: ABC Staff Picks, Book review, Book Reviews, Horror, Iris, IrisW, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Horror|

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