Sean Ferrell, Harper Perennial, $13.99 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-194650-9
In Ferrell's offbeat debut, an amnesiac joins a Texas circus where his inability to feel pain makes him a big-top hit and earns him the name Numb. After a haunting experience wrestling a lion, Numb and his best friend, Mal, give up the circus for...
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Sean Ferrell. Soho, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61695-125-2
In this literary excursion into sci-fi, a time traveler has celebrated his birthday every year for almost two decades with past and future versions of himself in an abandoned Manhattan hotel in 2071. What makes his 39th birthday different is the...
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Sean Ferrell, illus. by Charles Santoso. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-0068-8
Koala, a limp and shaggy stuffed animal, receives dismissive treatment at the hands of a child named Adam. From the boy’s perspective, “Koala is the most terrible terrible. He has terrible eyes that follow Adam everywhere he goes,” and indeed Koala’s
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Sean Ferrell, illus. by Charles Santoso. S&S/Atheneum, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5656-2
Everyone has his or her demons. Ruthie’s is called the Snurtch, and he’s orange, scrawly like a crayon drawing, and resembles a cross between a lion, raccoon, and dinosaur. “The Snurtch is grabby and burpy and rude,” writes Ferrell, who, along with...
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Sean Ferrell, illus. by Graham Carter. Pixel+Ink, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-6459-5183-4
A boy’s determined search for his father lends emotional heft to this steampunk-inflected series starter, a middle grade debut from Ferrell (The Snurtch). Long overseen by distant mother Marie and robot caretaker Elijah, 11-year-old Noah isn’t...
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