IPG: Independent Publishers Group

11/21/2024

All this ✨beautiful q***r independent lit ✨on the shelves of is incredible to see! 🙌

Add these to your :
Endpapers 9781946830234 by Jonathan Strong;

User 9781739638207 by Bruce Benderson;

With Love, Mommie Dearest 9781739638207 by A. Ashley Hoff,

This Is It 9781773371207 by Matthew Fox;

No Credit River 9781771669078 by Zoe Whittall;

When the Band Played on 9780914090304 by Michael G. Lee;

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11/10/2024

Even the littlest fans are ready for Sunday with My First Book of Football now available in both hardcover picture book AND (new! Available now!) board book!

My First Book of Football coaches young kids through the game of football with a visual retelling of an actual NFL game—from the nail-biting coin toss to the exhilarating winning touchdown! Rules, plays, and basics of the game are all explained using a fun mix of Sports Illustrated action photography, simple text with engaging graphics, and a full glossary of essential terms and phrases including punt, tackle, kickoff, end zone and more.

An illustrated rookie player character also appears on every page, providing fun facts to help the next generation of fans better understand the game. Perfect for the youngest fans, My First Book of Football is meant to be a shared reading experience between parents and their rookies before, during, and after game day.

Also out now for the newest sorts fans: My First Book of Baseball & My First Book of Basketball, including today’s biggest sports stars and favorite teams and available in both hardcover picture book and board book now too!

10/08/2024

Brave and raised their glasses & tasted the iconic, the questionable, the “downright nasty god-awful”, “what the **** was that!” Chicago/world famous at Stella’s Cocktail Dive to kick off in Milwaukee this week & to meet author who has revealingly documented the curious century-long history of this revolting and revered spirit in his new book Malört, out now from

Cheers! Show us your Malört face!

10/02/2024

✨Happy publication day✨ to so many FANTASTIC new books!! October is off to a bang y’all!

Our is about to topple and still we keep adding more goodies!

Available across North America today!
📕 Why We Sing ( )

📕 Violet Kelly and the Jade Owl ( )

📕 A Person is a Prayer ( )

📕 Scotland the Strange ( )

📕 Macbeth (& other Shakespeare with 🤩covers! )

📕 Mirabelle & the Haunted House by ( )

📕 Do-It-Yourself Dollhouse ( )

📕 Season of Secrets ( )

📕 Call of the Wild (& other 😍 classics from )

09/13/2024

“Some books stay with you long after the last page; this is one. Having already dedicated their lives and careers to the cause of reproductive freedom, Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd have given the world yet another gift with this profoundly moving and beautifully written memoir. We Choose To is a story of love, shared humanity, and the power of choosing to stare injustice in the face and do something about it.”
—Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood and bestselling author of Make Trouble

“With empathy and urgency to spare . . . this book offers an invaluably intimate glimpse at a delicate subject. It’s a must-read.”
— ⭐️ Publishers Weekly (starred review)

In this deeply personal account, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their lives in abortion care, from the childhood experiences that shaped their paths to the Supreme Court decision that forced the closure of their Dallas clinic.

We Choose To: A Memoir of Providing Abortion Care Before, During, and After Roe by Dr. Curtis Boyd MD and Dr. Glenna Halvorson-Boyd, PhD, RN. Out this week from



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08/22/2024

From “Kamala Harris’s trailblazing presidential bid advances the legacy of strong women of color standing up for the American people. Learn about Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1972 presidential campaign in ‘A Seat at the Table.’

Available wherever you buy books!”
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07/26/2024

month display is amazing!! And we spotted Love and Autism: Five true stories about neurodivergent life and love by from 💕

‘Love has always intrigued me, in part because I have carried for a long time a feeling that I am doing love wrong.’

Michael made a name for himself on the hit show Love on the Spectrum. After his televised first dating experiences, will he complete his quest to find his queen?

Chloë was always good at maths, with feelings ‘too big’ to be contained. When she reconnects with her childhood boyfriend, it must be fate.

Noor has had a lot on her plate from a young age, especially at home. People-pleasing becomes her survival mode, but Noor can’t keep her struggles inside forever.

Jess has spent a lifetime being put into different boxes. Through her strong will and creativity, can she break out and build a life that is truly her own?

Tim is a non-speaking autistic man who has been underestimated all his life. But through willpower, technology and a mother’s love, he has a chance of finding a different kind of voice.

Through the intimate writing of critically acclaimed autistic author Kay Kerr, Love & Autism presents an uplifting celebration of neurodivergent love, the search for it and a deeper look into the lives of autistic Australians.

07/11/2024

Happy month and publication week to “Beyond Inclusion: How to Raise Anti-Ableist Kids” by Carrie Cherney Hahn, MA, CCC-SLP, pediatric speech-language pathologist and mother, out now from

Parents want to be inclusive of their disabled and neurodivergent neighbors and want to pass these values along to their children. What holds them back is not having the education or experience on how to appropriately do this. Beyond Inclusion breaks down fifteen common forms of ableism, with explanations, examples, and first-person accounts. Doing better starts with knowledge.

Author Carrie Cherney Hahn offers activities and perspectives that help parents understand the ableism that exists within them and supports their ability to process and dismantle it so that they can model anti-ableist practices for their kids. Each chapter offers children’s resources that parents can use to nurture informed and anti-ableist ideals in their kids.

06/26/2024

Happy to pick Finding Your Third Place: Building Happier Communities (and Making Great Friends Along the Way) by Richard Kyte from 🥳!

Do you have a third place?
Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize and build friendships. Yet, for several reasons, many people today find themselves without a third place of their own.

At a time when our nation is facing an epidemic of loneliness and communities are suffering from a loss of trust, low levels of engagement, despair, and political polarization, what if the answer to many of our problems lies in a simple idea?

What if we just need to pay attention to the places where we find ourselves?

Richard Kyte, PhD combines storytelling, social science, and philosophy to explore:
✨What makes a third place
✨What it takes to find and create a third place of your own
✨Factors that create and support vibrant communities
✨The role of hospitality in creating belonging and social connection
✨How third places foster friendships and bind us to others in our community

COMMENT with your third place (hint:bookstores and libraries make phenomenal ones!)

05/10/2024

Celebrate the coolest moms you know with My Extraordinary Mom (finally back in stock just in time for Mother’s Day!)

“A joyful read, radiating the love, positivity and magic of extraordinary [moms] everywhere.” — .cosgrove , author of Macca the Alpaca

Read aloud this book to an EXTRAORDINARY mom in your life!

04/28/2024

Happy (and in lots of cases, FIRST!) Independent Bookstore day to all of the most amazing indies all over the US and Canada 🎈🥳🎈!! Our teams had tons of fun visiting some of our favorite stores and welcoming new bookworms to the lauded club of book lovers and celebrating new bookstores near and far!!

Wishing everyone a whirlwind weekend followed by days of rest to recover from all the love coming your way!

Happy opening weekend to and and many more!

And happy 3rd birthday to our hometown heroes 🥳🥳🥳!

06/17/2023

A great recap from Publishers Weekly of American Booksellers Association in photos that includes our own Senior Director of Marketing Lauren Klouda talking about the growing demand for Spanish language books (and that IPG is one of the largest distributors of them into the US) with the incredible team from La Revo Books in Milwaukee 🤩!

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/92558-children-s-institute-2023-in-photos.html

This year's Children's Institute took place June 5–7 in Milwaukee, bringing together roughly 360 booksellers from nearly 240 bookstores for a slate of educational programming, author signings, karaoke, and more ways to connect with colleagues.

06/15/2023

From (if you’re not already following them, what are you even doing with yourself on here??!):

“This June, we're continuing to celebrate all the wonderful LGBTQA+ authors and stories that we've had the pleasure of publishing at Central Ave. We've highlighted some of our favourites here in this post, as well as on our website, so come check it out! And while you're at it, you can tell us down below what these authors and their stories have meant to you, too!

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06/13/2023

We’ve uncovered a clue to cracking the case of the middle grade summer reading slump 🔎!

Get your paws on this punny and delightfully clever new series, the Adventures of Sherlock Bones from and 🐶

"A variation on the Choose Your Own Adventure format of stories. The book is scattered with diagrams, mazes and spot the difference picture puzzles, which all enhance the excitement of the story. . . . This is a good romp of a mystery." —

Holmes’s canine counterpart may chew meditatively on a bone rather than a briarwood pipe, but Collins (the Zero to Hero series) remains largely faithful to the source material’s spirit, serving up an energetic introduction to classic literary characters via a cunning, fur-raising adventure.” —

What case would you like to see our furry detectives solve next? Help name the next book in the series - fill in the blank “Sherlock Bones and the ______________” the punnier the better!

06/09/2023

For the die-hards and dads that bleed Cubbie blue, The Franchise: Chicago Cubs by veteran sportscasters Jesse Rogers and Bruce Miles with a foreword by the one and only Grandpa (turned Cubs current Manager) David Ross from is a must-have 🐻💙

Out now (just in time for Father’s Day in case you’re on the hunt for something Dad will *actually* like), this thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history of the franchise, going beyond well-worn narratives of yesteryear to uncover the less-discussed moments, decisions, people, and settings that fostered the Cubs' one-of-a-kind identity.

Through wheeling and dealing, mythmaking and community building, explore where the organization has been, how it got to prominence in the modern major league landscape, and how it’ll continue to evolve and stay in contention for generations to come.

Cubs fans in the know will enjoy this personal, local, in-depth look at baseball history.

Go Cubs Go!! 🏳️💙🐻

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02/27/2023

Black History Month reading recs from featuring Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur from 🙌

"A compelling tale of the impact of white racism on a sensitive and powerful young black woman." —

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.

This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou.

Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.