In Betty G. Yee’s historical novel "Gold Mountain", a young Chinese girl poses as her brother, going to work on a US railroad in his place. Ling Fan’s father is in prison for a crime he did not commit, and her aunt is plotting Ling... Read More

In R. Cathey Daniels’s harrowing novel "Live Caught", a young man confronts his troubled past. In the 1970s, Lenny set out for the Atlantic from his North Carolina farm. He washed up on an unrecognized shore, his boat lost. He was... Read More

"Rebel Speak" records searing, insightful dialogues between Bryonn Rolly Bain and activists dedicated to police abolition and fighting mass incarceration. Bain speaks with activists at all stages of their careers, from relative newcomers... Read More

London’s antiquarian book world, its purveyors, and their charming, sometimes eccentric proclivities fill Marius Kociejowski’s droll memoir "A Factotum in the Book Trade". The son of a Polish father and English mother, Kociejowski... Read More

In her lyrical memoir, L. M. Browning “shatters the window of the white picket dream,” making her way West to reclaim herself. Moody black-and-white photographs accompany the book’s poems, adding resonance to claims of freedom or... Read More

Brimming with positive ideas for environmental action and communicating a wealth of accessible scientific information, this climate change primer delivers. Zippy illustrations and a humorous, conversational tone make it a smashing... Read More

John Weir’s short story collection reflects upon being a “cisgender gay white guy” from the 1970s to the present, through decades of liberation, devastation, and gradual progress. Narrated like a memoir, the stories begin in a New... Read More

Ellery Adams’s cozy mystery novel "The Vanishing Type" is a testament to women’s friendship—with sides of murder, romance, coffee, and baked goods. Nora is the owner of Miracle Books in North Carolina, in a town where visitors come... Read More