A companion book to Juno Dawson’s earlier This Book Is Gay, What’s the T? takes a phrase from New York City’s 1980s drag ball scene that means “What’s the truth?” and uses it to unpack the joys, difficulties, and realities... Read More

Hermann Burger’s "Brenner" is an autobiographical novel about childhood traumas and the pleasures of smoking a cigar. Hermann Arbogast Brenner is the heir to a Swiss tobacco empire who is approaching his own end. Wrapping up his... Read More

In The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride, seventeen-year-old Taylor has all the usual senior dilemmas—plus one exceptional one: she’s a lesbian comedian who hasn’t come out as a lesbian—or a comedian. Taylor’s mother, once a rising... Read More

In the exciting alternate timeline of Alan Smale’s "Hot Moon": the Soviet Union beat the United States to the Moon; the Cold War went hot; the conflict spread to the Moon. This sets the foundation for a gripping tale of space warfare.... Read More

In Lisa Solod’s novel "Shivah", family relationships are turned upside down after an abusive matriarch is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Leah’s mother was an unpredictable presence in her life. She only cared for her children... Read More

"The Moonday Letters" wraps a lament for Earth’s damaged ecosystems into the story of lovers at an interplanetary crossroads. Lumi grew up in a resource-starved holiday village on Earth. She had few prospects before a healer, Vivian,... Read More

In Mercedes M. Yardley’s disquieting novel "Darling", a young mother fights to protect her children from the unseen evil that inhabits her hometown. Cherry returns to Darling, Louisiana, after the death of her estranged mother. It is... Read More

In Elijah Kinch Spector’s brooding novel "Kalyna the Soothsayer", the end of the world is coming. Kalyna knows that her country is about to collapse into war and destruction, but she cannot flee. She is trapped in the service of the... Read More