A steampunk Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliet, The Tinderbox: Soldier of Indira is set on warring planets and propelled by a prophesy, a love story, and a series of power plays from which not every character will emerge unscathed….
In 1968, a group of new mothers started a book club in a suburb of Detroit. Fifty-three years and more than 630 books later, ten of the Lit Group’s twelve original members continue to meet monthly. Now in their eighties,…
Living Color: Angie Rubio Stories, a “portrait of the artist as a shy, awkward Mexican-American girl,” follows its indomitable protagonist from kindergarten to 12th grade. Angie defines resilience, yet Donna Miscolta manages to empower her heroine without downplaying the violence…
Furia, by Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez, is the gripping, new YA debut igniting positive reviews around the world. It introduces readers to Camila, an athletic dynamo intent on playing soccer and taking charge of her life in the face of…
When Stella, a nurse who should know better, takes an unidentified pill from her washed-up rock star boyfriend’s pocket and slips into a coma, everyone around her is changed, especially her. She wakes up from her sleep to discover that…
Into the Unbounded Night by Mitchell James Kaplan recounts the fictional tale of a girl from a British tribe. She’s brought to Rome as a slave after seeing her village sacked by General Vespasian. A “barbarian” in a “civilized” world,…