Grow Damn It! is a captivating work by Cheryl Oreglia, who uses uncommon honesty and arresting humor to draw you into her cantankerous life, forty-year marriage, and revolving empty nes...więcej »
"An uplifting middle-grade story that meets sadness head-on and cuddles up to what's important in life." -Kirkus ReviewsTwelve-year-old Georgia believes her toot...więcej »
Unexpectedly finding her German father's World War II memoirs in an old suitcase, transports author Helga Warren to romantic Paris in wartime, surrender from inside a German bunker on the beache...więcej »
Jacobine Flaa and her increasingly unrealistic friend Cinda are approaching retirement in the Midwest in the age of Trump and climate crisis. Both want to move back to the western US, but can th...więcej »
"Gripping and unforgettable suspense-think North Country, New York noir laced with dark humor. Don't plan on setting this fast-paced thriller down until you read the last page!" -Ca...więcej »
In histories of enslavement and in Black women's history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality. At a time when sexual violence against Black women was virtually unregulated&m...więcej »
Discovering who you are can be dangerous - even deadly.Twyla's been living in hiding on Earth, hoping to leave her past behind. But when her mother, Madam Cassiopeia DeCo...więcej »
Caleb's finest hour is his deepest secret. Not even his parents knew what really happened after three nights in the wilderness. Now another school, another class, and another group of ki...więcej »
This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white ...więcej »
A heartwarming, coming-of-age debut YA novel with plenty to entertain both young and adult.Divided Berlin is the face of the Cold War in the 70s. Kate is new at Berlin Am...więcej »
When sixteen-year-old Vernadine Dawn Turnipseed is asked to join the boys' basketball team for Buford County High School in 1943, shock waves, riots and anger roll through her hometown of Spit's...więcej »
Prepare to laugh, cry, and be discombobulated as Steve Laughlin dramatizes an eight-year-period in his life that is filled with a series of quirky, desperate, and joyful experiences... events th...więcej »
This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississ...więcej »
Sometimes home in Alabama is not so sweet...A passing train pulling two yellow cabooses guarantees a promising future. So says the local legend. Though Mickey's mom witne...więcej »
"Jett is no frozen victim: she's a fighter, a detective, and when it counts the most, a trailblazer..." -J.R. Potter, award-winning teen mystery author of Thomas Creeper and the Gloo...więcej »
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it foll...więcej »
"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, and wildflower-studded meadows." -Barbara Olson Lawrence, author of the forthcoming D...więcej »
This concise and revealing history reconsiders the Civil War era by centering one Native American tribe's encounter with citizenship. In 1837, eleven years before Wisconsin's admission as a state, ...więcej »
"My favorite part was when his wingmen told him he was trailing smoke, that somewhere in his airplane, there was a fire. 'Paul and Russ agreed to do the radio work just when my radio die...więcej »