Ben Barnz’s partner has a theory that there is a major generational shift for gay people every five years. This book, then, is a memoir from almost four zeitgeist changes ago. Beginning in the week of the 9/11 attacks, "We" is a taste... Read More

In 1939, a team from Garfield, New Jersey, traveled to Miami for the high school football championship. The event drew wide attention. The upstart Garfield Boilermakers came from an immigrant-heavy northern city to face the perennial... Read More

David Stubbs’s "Future Sounds" takes on the gargantuan task of providing an overview of the entire history of electronic music, from the influence of English philosopher Francis Bacon back in 1626 to the smashing success of electronic... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, "Look Both Ways" traces the long path that sent Katharine Coles’s grandparents across the world, searching for oil and a resolution to their untenable marriage. Both trained geologists, Walter Link and... Read More

Thirteen-year-old Silke is the heroine of her own story—a girl who knows that you “never, ever let a dragon handle diplomacy,” since a dragon’s idea of diplomacy is to point out that dragons don’t eat humans…anymore. She... Read More

Mardi McConnochie’s middle grade, cli-fi dystopia is a wild adventure across a wildly different Earth. In the world before the flood, human beings tried to correct their own folly by adding to it, hoping to counteract a climate... Read More

The gift of a pot of hot, nourishing soup; a loaf of bread still warm from the oven; a salad of bright, crisp greens; or a rich chocolate pudding says “I care” in a way that words cannot. Written for those for whom cooking is an act... Read More

Connie King Leonard’s emotional and intense "Sleeping in My Jeans" is led by Mattie, a determined sixteen-year-old who wants to go to college and get a good job so that she can help her six-year-old sister, Meg, do the same. Her plans... Read More