Aaron Gilbreath knows that you cannot understand California without understanding its interior. Thus, his travelogue "The Heart of California" explores the misunderstood, troubled, and lovely San Joaquin Valley in search of illumination.... Read More

In Francesca Ekwuyasi’s "Butter Honey Pig Bread", a Nigerian woman’s homecoming stirs bad memories, old hurts, and a chance for new beginnings. Kehinde has not seen her mother, Kambirinachi, or twin sister, Taiye, in years. After... Read More

Richard Taylor’s biographical novel "Girty" covers the terror and tragedy of the Indian Wars. Simon Girty is legendary. Called “the first American frontier villain,” Girty, who was captured by Seneca Indians as a teenager, defected... Read More

Challenging dominant narratives, R. E. Burrillo’s playful, fierce, reverent, and sarcastic book covers twelve thousand years of the history of the Bears Ears area, revealing why it has been so important to so many for so long, and why... Read More

Moving and suspenseful, "The Photographer of Mauthausen" is a based-in-truth story of survival in a Nazi concentration camp. Francisco, a Spanish photographer, is imprisoned by the Nazis because of his communist beliefs. So are many of... Read More

A boy visits his grandmother across the stars in this future-set galactic adventure. Starting at a space station that’s littered with inventive aliens of every size and shape, the boy hops on a spaceship headed to Earth, where... Read More

Regarded as the first Indigenous novel published in Canada, "Hunter with Harpoon" contains Markoosie Patsauq’s story of an Inuit boy’s treacherous coming-of-age in its original Inuktitut, as well as new English and French... Read More

In the historical novel "The Reluctant Patriot", flawed individuals strive to stay true to their values after war disrupts their lives. In Susan Lohafer’s poignant historical novel "The Reluctant Patriot", a father is accused of... Read More