Nazis threaten to take over America in Danny Goodman’s poignant alternate-reality novel "Amerikaland". The world’s eyes are on New York City, where World Day, the global celebration of peace, is set to take place, featuring baseball... Read More

Downtrodden heroes are the focus of "Prairie Edge", an intimate, unsparing novel about the lives of Indigenous people in Canada. Ezzy is an aimless young man of Métis descent who has been scarred by stints in prison. He struggles to... Read More

Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker’s expansive book "Sad Planets" contemplates humanity’s troubled perception of climate change and perhaps diminishing cosmic presence. The book sprawls across a captivating informational universe... Read More

Christine M. Larson’s "Love in the Time of Self-Publishing" uses the romance writing realm as a case study for how informal labor networks and mutual aid improve conditions for isolated workers. Guided by a survey of thousands of... Read More

A recovering alcoholic considers what to do about his family’s secrets in Morgan Talty’s affecting novel "Fire Exit". Charles was raised on the Penobscot Island Indian Reservation by his Native American stepfather, but that doesn’t... Read More

A determined, empathetic woman works to preserve the stories that others dismiss in Valérie Perrin’s scintillating novel "Forgotten on Sunday". Orphaned as a toddler and raised by her grandparents, Justine could be cynical at... Read More

In Molly Ringle’s intoxicating fantasy novel "Ballad for Jasmine Town", humans and fae band together to save their mystical island. In Miryoku, known as Jasmine Town, Rafi feels like two halves of a whole: half human and half fae,... Read More

An origin story for the Pansy Project, a movement that plants pansies at sites of homophobic acts around the world, this picture book follows an unnamed boy as he struggles through and rises above homophobic bullying. The gentle boy... Read More