Books with Impact
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Hilary Leichter of Electric Lit interviews the author of Nickel on the codes, traumas & mysteries of teens: In the new novel Nickel (Leaf Storm Press 2016), we meet Coy and Monroe, two best friends with hundreds of pop culture references at their […]
About a dozen years ago, I brought the writer Tom Perrotta to the school where I teach. Tom’s novel Little Children had just been published to much acclaim so, in addition to assigning the work to my eleventh graders, I offered to lead […]
Robert Wilder talks about the different aspects of his new novel, Nickel, a BOOKLIST Best Young Adult Book of 2016 and a Top 10 Romance for Youth.
Every year, a list of books representing the literary heritage of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands is distributed by the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book during the National Book Festival. Joel Nakamura’s children’s picture […]
Robert Wilder is the author of Nickel: a novel, selected by Booklist as a Best Young Adult Book of 2016. The book launch will take place next Friday, September 16 at 6 pm, at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffehouse in Santa Fe, NM […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Santa Fe today to read Go West! to a group of children and parents. KOAT TV covered the event in the following news report, which includes a brief interview with the children’s book’s author and […]
Leaf Storm Press to publish a new novel by Stanley Crawford, the renowned author of A Garlic Testament and Mayordomo Santa Fe, NM– July 15, 2016. Leaf Storm Press announced today that it will publish Village, a new novel by Stanley […]
Joel Nakamura‘s award-winning children’s book, Go West!, has been chosen by New Mexico State Library staff as the book which will represent New Mexico in the Pavilion of the States at the 16th Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C […]
We are delighted to announce that The Maverick Cookbook has made the non-fiction shortlist for the 2015 Reading the West Book Awards sponsored by the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association. Congratulations to author Lynn Cline, and the food photography duo, Guy […]
Children’s Book Author & Illustrator, Joel Nakamura, Awarded Gold Medal in National Competition. The Leaf Storm Press children’s book, Go West! has been awarded the prestigious 2015 Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award for outstanding contributions to children’s literature (Hardcover with Jacket, $17.95, […]
