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Music Is in Everything

A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ziggy Marley!

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Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.

Providential

Best-selling writer Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.

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Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)

6/11/26, 7:00pm

Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About, in conversation with Kurtlan Massarsky.

Jesse Malin — Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club (London, UK)

6/14/26, 2:00pm

Jesse Malin presents Almost Grown, in conversation with Allan Jones.

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