“A fragment defies the mind’s impulse to make things whole. Defies it, and entices it,” and from just such fragments, Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton cobble together a hybrid work—parts travel journal, memoir, lyric essay,... Read More

In Krista Van Dolzer’s dystopian novel, "Earth to Dad", the world has been razed by climate change, and humanity’s best option is to colonize Mars. But eleven-year-old Jameson O’Malley just wants his dad to return from the red... Read More

When a member of her family receives a terminal diagnosis, fourteen-year-old Claire Fairchild suddenly questions her every action, wondering what remains important in the face of the challenge. This novel written in verse sticks close to... Read More

Borders both real and imagined, dystopian futures caused by catastrophic climate change, and devastating alterations of the past vivify the twenty-one stories of Shades Within Us. In the tradition of speculative and science fiction, the... Read More

In the opening scene of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s "Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones", the author and her mother comb Rose Hill Cemetery in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, searching for family graves. Hoffman’s mother carries a... Read More

Detailed and devastating, Kim Lefèvre’s intimate memoir "White Métisse" introduces American audiences to the brutal lived experiences of biracial children in Vietnam during its years as a French colony. In Lefèvre’s intimate... Read More

From Montaigne to Auden to Sir Mix-A-Lot, Martinez pulls from a broad swath of influences to tell his story of moving into adulthood and measuring what makes a man. For him, the answer is as varied as his influences, which include... Read More

Loaded with action and intrigue, "The Ways of Heaven" fields multiple stories at once—an engaging secondary love story, a murder case, a love triangle, and the racism of the West in the late 1800s. Rose Walker defies convention when... Read More