Ari Silverman’s violent encounter with a neighborhood boy leaves him questioning himself in Aaron Hamburger’s "Nirvana Is Here", a coming-of-age novel set outside Detroit amid the rise of grunge. It is a nostalgic, wrenching... Read More

Delving deep into the psyche of teenage pain and identity-building, Aimee Herman’s "Everything Grows" turns dark circumstances into an encomium to the adults who help teens grow. Eleanor has trouble from all sides: she is still reeling... Read More

The twenty-one authors who contributed to "Becoming Dangerous" are witchy and wise, “a coven of weird women playing and sharing with one another.” This essay collection describes the many ways that women, femmes, and non-binary... Read More

Brian Adams’s charming and heartfelt young adult novel "Offline" explores the harm that comes with trading the real world for an online one. Meagan has a real problem. She’s not addicted to drugs or alcohol or gambling, but she... Read More

“Human diversity is neither a weakness, a threat, nor a fiction. Our diversity is a gift, and it is an undeniable reality,” writes Joshua Ferguson, an activist who is the first person to receive a non-binary birth certificate with an... Read More

Edited by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, "LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia" is an immersive exploration of queer life within the confines of a conservative American subculture. When combined with the experience of growing up in... Read More

Adam Truman is overwhelmed by a shift that he’s perceived within himself, and he’s spent the long winter unable to identify what’s going on. Desperate to break free of his internal and external monotony, Adam takes drastic action,... Read More

In Michael Carroll’s Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories, Key West is “a beautiful town … the last bastion, the place of the just-misfits.” This collection of eight short stories follows the people who go there looking to... Read More