A gay high school senior confronts the tragic murder of his beloved in Mason Stokes’s novel All the Truth I Can Stand. Ash, still grieving his deceased mother, joins the backstage of his local college’s Oklahoma! production. He... Read More

A white dwarf rabbit brings a refugee family together in Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman’s novel "Mishka". Roya and her family are refugees from Afghanistan. When they learn that they have been permitted to stay in the... Read More

Celebrating inquisitive childhood exchanges, "Little-Princess" is an edifying and delight-filled picture book about a new and fruitful friendship. A boy’s horizons widen after he befriends a magical girl from the skies in Marie-Paule... Read More

In the captivating fable "Journey to Layamon", children in a magical land prepare to face a threat to their environment. In Stephen Curtin’s enchanting fantasy novel "Journey to Layamon", a magical setting’s powers are put in danger... Read More

An affecting bildungsroman, "The Summer Between" is about personal discovery in a period of historical tumult. In Robert Raasch’s novel "The Summer Between", a college-bound man navigates his gay identity amid the upheavals of the... Read More

In Jordan Ifueko’s novel "The Maid and the Crocodile", an orphaned girl fights to make a home for herself while contending with a cursed god. In Oluwan, while trying to find employment as a maid, Sade accidentally binds herself to the... Read More

In Torben Kulhmann’s novel "The Gray City", a determined girl seeks out color in a desaturated world. After moving into a new home, Robin realizes that her new city is absent of all colors but gray. In defiance, she resolves to always... Read More

"Now You Are a Missing Person" is an intricate, poetic memoir that touches upon personal and universal concerns of womanhood. Spanning girlhood and widowhood, Susan Hayden’s poetic memoir "Now You Are a Missing Person" contemplates... Read More