Malcolm and Me is Robin Farmer’s YA debut, an #OwnVoices historical fiction narrative rooted in the author’s personal experiences with racism as a young girl. Winner of the She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing (STEP) contest, Farmer…
Jane Gilmartin’s debut speculative thriller The Mirror Man follows Jeremiah Adams as he agrees to relinquish control of his life for one year and be replaced by a ViMed clone as a part of a secret social experiment. At first,…
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…