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"This book is the weird and wonderful queer-teen-investigates-money-laundering-bird-cult murder mystery I didn’t realize I was waiting for,” said Rebekah Shoaf of Boogie Down Books in the Bronx, New York.

"Combining Ghanaian pictographs with the grave result of being Black in America, Abimbola honors the victims of police violence,” said Nikita Imafidon of Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas.

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This guide includes the following categories: Dazzling Debuts, Family and Coming of Age, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction & Memoir, and Small Bites.

Here is the Indie Biography and Memoir Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 12, 2023. 

"This was the book I locked myself in my room to read because I couldn’t stop thinking about the characters and their impossible choices,” said Emerson Perper of Curious Iguana in Frederick, MD.

"Possibly the most entertaining nonfiction I’ve read in years. I guarantee a smile and/or an egg & chicken pun in every chapter,” said Tanya Mills of The Book Bungalow in St. George, Utah.

Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the April 2023 Indie Next List flier.

"A compact and powerful novel about a family torn apart by immigration...It’s a story of survival, family, ghosts, and love,” said Sara Rishforth of Roundabout Books in Bend, Oregon.