Ben has been obsessed with megastar Jack Whitlock far longer than he’s worked as a paparazzo: As a teenager in Las Vegas, he went to the drive-thru theater to watch the actor, and later he got a job bussing tables at the diner where Whitlock shot scenes for his Vegas-set film Double or Nothing. Since […]
A narrator who resembles her author both in name and occupation guides readers through the sexual proclivities and shades of gender expression that populated belle epoque Paris (with a brief digression to Georgian-era Wales). In cafes, cabarets, and opium dens, she introduces us to what translator Careau calls “the sexual underworld”: lesbians and gay men, […]
In a clever combination of fiction and outright coding instruction with inset vocabulary and snatches of actual samples, high schooler and tech entrepreneur Mehta and co-author Stevens pitch fretful Sama into middle school. There, while forming new friendships and seeing old ones change, Sama also struggles for acceptance in Tech Club after finding herself odd […]
In this graphic memoir, white-presenting gay boy Damian and his older brother live with their grandmother Nanny; their mother died when they were toddlers. Nanny cared for the boys, trying “really hard to fill the mom-shaped hole” in their lives and to “be the mother who had never been there for her.” Now in eighth […]
In this world, there are the magicless and those who are part of magical society, which is itself divided into privileged, powerful Mages, discriminated-against Laborers, and violent, outcast Lawless. Hardworking Eloise Belrose hopes to become the first in her Laboring family to be admitted to the prestigious University of Magical Arts, while handsome, talented Grayson […]
If everyone in Clifton County knows everyone else, that may be because half the people in North Falls, one of the county’s four cities, are named Clifton. Det. Allison Vickery doesn’t turn up for the funeral of acting sheriff Emmy Clifton’s mother, Myrna Joy Clifton, first because she’s fleeing her abusive husband, Bill Garrison, then […]
In her introduction, editor and contributor Salazar describes this work as “a playlist of stories, about music, for music, because of music, through the music of poetry.” The collection spans a range of poetic styles, geographical locations, and time periods. The authors represent distinct cultural and ethnic backgrounds and include Indigenous and Afro-Latine writers and […]
A black-haired, peach-skinned girl visits her Grampa on the reserve. They plan to collect cedar branches to bring as an offering for drummers performing at their community feast. The young girl shares her concern that taking the branches might hurt the tree. Grandpa assures her they will snip branches sparingly and bring an offering of […]
“Mags MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. / And on that farm she had a…WHOLE LOTTA WORK TO DO!” With Old MacDonald taking a much-needed vacation, Mags decides to bring the farm into the 21st century. She begins ordering contraptions: a turbo jetpack with hose attachment to help water the crops (“with a SPRINKLE-SPRINKLE here, / […]
Wilder’s novel unfolds entirely within the uninterrupted narration of Warner Truman, an 18-year-old high school graduate whose tendency to self-aggrandize is immediately apparent: “I’m going to be president one day. No doubt about it.” Warner also announces that he is a hero, promising to eventually explain the tumultuous events that he feels have earned him […]