A gender nonconforming teenager learns to eschew the “rules” and follow what’s in their own heart in the affirming novel "Uglier". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Uglier" follows a gender nonconforming junior through their first semester... Read More

"Five Hieroglyphs" is an entertaining mystery novel in which a sensitive teenager comes into his own during a fortuitous trip to Egypt. In Stephen T. Person’s engrossing mystery novel "Five Hieroglyphs", a teenage blogger who is... Read More

Kylie Flanagan’s ecological book "Climate Resilience" assembles diverse viewpoints on solving the climate crisis and on making communities more sustainable. Drawing on interviews with thirty-nine climate justice leaders and centering... Read More

Erik Reece’s memoir "Clear Creek" covers his bucolic second life in the countryside, laying forth a vision of living in and alongside nature. Reece removed himself to the woods in the style of Henry David Thoreau in Walden—while also... Read More

Black women poets matter in ways that poets of other races and ethnicities can’t: “Black girl must write poetry so other black girls can relate.” That Black girl poetry readers matter … do you understand? This debut collection... Read More

Indigenous culture is at war with imperialism in E. G. Condé’s haunting novella "Sordidez". In a future ravaged by climate disaster and biochemical warfare, Puerto Rico is caught in the new cold war between China and the United States... Read More

An unnamed narrator has a cheery conversation in the darkest depths of the sea in this humorous tale that sheds some light on the midnight zone. The brightly colored text and a parade of curious creatures stand out against dark backdrops... Read More

Olive longs to visit her friend who recently moved away; a little green envelope, languishing in a desk drawer, also longs to travel like other envelopes, but it has never been quite the right fit. When Olive’s grandfather suggests she... Read More