Haunting yet full of humor and self-effacing wisdom, Notes After Midnight is a story of the invisible binding thread connecting each of us to one another—the thread that helps us find our way along even the most difficult of paths.
Owen Egerton's The Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia.
Throughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the universe, diverse life forms, and one another. Over the last two centuries, science has delivered a bold new creation story full of immense time and space, extraordinary objects, and powerful natural forces. Science ideas can seem mere abstractions, but at the Grand Canyon, better than anywhere else on Earth, our new creation story is manifested physically and powerfully. Order here.
It was tricky working on a cover where I was explicitly told not to show any part of a woman, and still suggest sexuality and love. This simple solution was both beautiful and suggestive, and using a type that felt appropriate to match made this covers one of my favorites.
By Nura Maznavi and Ayesha Mattu, in Love, InshAllah, this groundbreaking collection, 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes to share their search for love openly for the first time, showing just how varied the search for love can be--from singles' events and online dating, to college flirtations and arranged marriages, all with a uniquely Muslim twist.
2022 USA Today Best Seller
A 2021 Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Book of the Year
2021 Reader's Favorite: Gold Medal, Fiction
SheReads 2021 Book Awards: Best Book Club Pick
Carrying a Big Schtick dissects notions of Jewish masculinity and its perception and practice in America in the twentieth century through the lenses of immigration and cultural history. The cover wasn't chosen in the end, but it was too fun not to share.
In No Spring Chicken: Stories and Advice from a Wild Handicapper on Aging and Disability, Francine Falk-Allen—a polio survivor who knows a thing or two about living with a disability—offers her own take on how to navigate the complications aging brings with equanimity (and a sense of humor).
Shooting Out the Lights is a real-life mystery that explores the challenges faced in a loving marriage, the ongoing, wrenching aftermath of gun violence, and the healing that comes with confronting the past.
The Girl Who Ruined Christmas is a tween holiday novella about a girl who set off a string of events by accident, wreaking havoc in a small town. A Christmas tree was central to the disaster (shhh…no spoilers), so broken ornaments creating a texture felt like a perfect fit.
Swimming For My Life is a peek into the dark side of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life’s toxic and lifesaving waters.
This incredibly moving memoir by Victoria Slaughter about being abducted by her father was an INCREDIBLE read and a very moving story. Four young children caught between love and hate—hostages to the cruelty of revenge. A deceitful American father and a naïve decision by a Filipino mother transformed their lives forever.
Available later this year, Have You Seen These Children uses pictures from Slaughter’s childhood, overlayed with images evoking the journey of her family.
Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, climate fiction—or cli-fi—has concerned itself as much with economic injustice and popular revolt as with rising seas and soaring temperatures. Indeed, with its insistent focus on redressing social disparities, cli-fi might reasonably be classified as a form of protest literature. As environmental crises escalate and inequality intensifies, literary writers and scholars alike have increasingly scrutinized the dual exploitations of the earth’s ecosystems and the socioeconomically disadvantaged. Available from the University of Virginia Press.
