Fans of Monday's Not Coming and Girl in Pieces will love this award-winning novel about a girl on the verge of losing herself and the unlikely journey to recovery after she is removed from anything and everyone she knows to be home. Moving from Trinidad...

The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire...

Blackwildgirl begins her life as a queen superpower. When she is still a child, however, her parents strike a bargain that leads to her dethronement--and sets her on a forty-five-year journey to become the warrior she was born to be: Blackwildgoddess...

Ephemeral yet tangible, bridging the delicate border between understanding and awe, Rodney Terich Leonard's poems live in the world even as they leave it, clinging like "a ribbon in the sand / Captivated by your ankle," that "Bojangles next to your chair...

In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist.Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay...

What I Should've Texted is a collection of words that have been buried. A spill of hidden thoughts that never made their way out. This collection from poet Pierre Alex Jeanty is a beautiful expression of the unspoken things that needed to be said and...

Southern Africa, 1829: Maidei, a sheltered princess, experiences a devastating loss when her uncle leads a brutal attack on her family and takes over the throne of Mwetapa. She is taken captive to be sold into the Atlantic slave trade. Maidei and a...

Southern Africa, 1829: Maidei, a sheltered princess, experiences a devastating loss when her uncle leads a brutal attack on her family and takes over the throne of Mwetapa. She is taken captive to be sold into the Atlantic slave trade. Maidei and a...

Meshel was a simple yet very smart girl who grew up in third world poverty. Her grandmother was her greatest mentor. Other children saw her as lower-class. The untimely and scandalous death of her father David forced her and her many siblings to grieve...