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Here is the Indie Poetry Bestseller List based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 28, 2024. 

“Cactus Country is all about landscape: of Arizona and the hot desert, of childhood and its constant developments, of gender and its fluidity. Zoë Bossiere is sharing a much-needed story of a childhood outside of the gender binary in a world built to misunderstand," said Frances Metzger of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, Montana.

ABFE and a coalition of allied organizations have filed an amicus brief in the Eight Circuit Appellate Court in support of two lawsuits challenging Iowa's book ban law on constitutional grounds: PRH et al. v. Robbins and GLBT Youth et al. v. Reynolds.

 Lauren Groff is the author of The Vaster Wilds, Matrix, Florida, and others. She is also the owner of the indie bookstore The Lynx, which will have its grand opening in Gainesville, Florida, on April 28 (but will be open on April 27 for Independent Bookstore Day). Earlier this week, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2024.

Here is the Indie Cooking Bestseller List based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending April 14, 2024. 

Laney Hawes is a Texas parent and a co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project.

Here is an update on the latest book challenges for the weeks of April 3, 2024 and April 10, 2024.

“Elaine Cho articulates the delicate details of intergalactic celebrity politics and nuances of queerness and racism in this incredible space opera. We follow Ocean and her found family in the form of a spaceship crew, setting off from a distant-future Korea. The twists and turns in Ocean’s Godori will leave you breathless," said Devon Overley of Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, Ohio.