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Black cake : a novel

Wilkerson, Charmaine.


In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.
Date Published:2022

Lunar New Year love story

Yang, Gene Luen,


Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?
Date Published:2024

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com about fate, family, and falling in love. Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed--no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?

Date Published:2024

Heart lamp : selected stories

Mushtaq, Banu.


Stone slabs for Shaista Mahal -- Fire rain -- Black cobras -- A decision of the heart -- Red lungi -- Heart lamp -- High-heeled shoe -- Soft whispers -- A taste of heaven -- The shroud -- The Arabic teacher and Gobi Manchuri -- Be a woman once, oh Lord! In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.
Date Published:2025

Stone slabs for Shaista Mahal -- Fire rain -- Black cobras -- A decision of the heart -- Red lungi -- Heart lamp -- High-heeled shoe -- Soft whispers -- A taste of heaven -- The shroud -- The Arabic teacher and Gobi Manchuri -- Be a woman once, oh Lord! In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.

Date Published:2025

A truce that is not peace

Toews, Miriam, 1964-


"Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toews--all unsatisfactory to the organizer--surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question "why I write" is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.
Date Published:2025

"Why do you write?" the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempt at an answer from Toews--all unsatisfactory to the organizer--surfaces new layers of grief, guilt, and futility connected to her sister's suicide more than fifteen years ago. She has been keeping up, she realizes, an internal correspondence with her beloved sibling, attempting to fill a silence she can barely comprehend. As Toews turns to face that silence, we come to see that the question "why I write" is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.

Date Published:2025

Freddie and Stella got hot

Horne, Maggie,


Best friends Freddie and Stella scheme to get back at Levi, their ex-friend-turned-queen-bee, by stealing a coveted award, but as their plan starts to work, Freddie realizes Stella has become the real mean girl, and only Levi can help stop her.
Date Published:2026

Scythe

Shusterman, Neal,


""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
Date Published:2016

Apeirogon : a novel

McCann, Colum, 1965-


Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, come together after each has lost a daughter, one to suicide bombers and the other to Israeli police. Parents from both sides of the conflict whose loved ones have died gather in a parents’ circle to tell their stories, to heal and to ensure that their unimaginable losses are never forgotten. Deploying myriad seemingly unrelated historical, cultural and biographical snapshots, this novel reframes the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The resulting narrative is based on true events.
Date Published:2021

Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, come together after each has lost a daughter, one to suicide bombers and the other to Israeli police. Parents from both sides of the conflict whose loved ones have died gather in a parents’ circle to tell their stories, to heal and to ensure that their unimaginable losses are never forgotten. Deploying myriad seemingly unrelated historical, cultural and biographical snapshots, this novel reframes the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The resulting narrative is based on true events.

Date Published:2021

Eve : how the female body shaped human evolution : [adapted for young adults]

Bohannon, Cat,


"Adapted for young adults." Why do women live longer than men? Why do girls score better in every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? Is the female brain 'wired differently?' These questions and common debates around scientific claims are ... examined in this adaptation [meant] for young people. ... It explores teen-related topics such as mental health and the biology behind it, including insights on how adolescent brains are going through all kinds of changes, and shifting hormones.
Date Published:2025

"Adapted for young adults." Why do women live longer than men? Why do girls score better in every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? Is the female brain 'wired differently?' These questions and common debates around scientific claims are ... examined in this adaptation [meant] for young people. ... It explores teen-related topics such as mental health and the biology behind it, including insights on how adolescent brains are going through all kinds of changes, and shifting hormones.

Date Published:2025

Legendary frybread drive-in : intertribal stories


Maybe it starts / Set at a classic drive-in restaurant that seems to exist in every Native community, this anthology unites the stories of teens from all kinds of backgrounds through the shared theme of Native joy, with stories and poems reflecting hope, healing, humor, love, friendship, romance, and joy. The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most. Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers, and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world's best frybread.
Date Published:2025

Maybe it starts / Set at a classic drive-in restaurant that seems to exist in every Native community, this anthology unites the stories of teens from all kinds of backgrounds through the shared theme of Native joy, with stories and poems reflecting hope, healing, humor, love, friendship, romance, and joy. The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban Native hangout. The menu offers a rotating feast, including traditional eats and tasty snacks. But Sandy June's serves up more than food: it hosts live music, movie nights, unexpected family reunions, love long lost, and love found again. That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation, often when they need it most. Featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers, and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world's best frybread.

Date Published:2025

Girl on girl : how pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves

Gilbert, Sophie (Sophie G.)


Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.
Date Published:2025

Index. Girl power, boy rage: music and feminism in the 1990's -- Show girl: overexposure in the new millennium -- Girls on film: sex comedies from the multiplex to the manosphere -- Girl fight: regression and representation in the early years of reality television -- Beautiful girl: the goldmine of impossible expectations -- Final girl: extreme sex, art, and violence in post/911 America -- Gossip girls: the degredation of women and fame in the twenty-first-century media -- Girl on girls: the confessional auteur and her detractors -- Girl boss: the making over of female ambition -- Girls on top: rewriting a path toward power. A critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other--and themselves--with disastrous consequences.

Date Published:2025

The anti-ableist manifesto : smashing stereotypes, forging change, and building a disability-inclusive world

Yu, Tiffany,


Part 1 : Anti-ableism and you -- What is disability? -- Not all disabilities are apparent -- Disability is not a bad word -- Disability is not a bad thing -- A brief history of the disability rights movement -- Models of disability -- Disability intersectionality -- What is ableism? -- What is anti-ableism? -- Why you should care about disability -- Recognize and use your privilege -- Overcome your non-disabled guilt and shame -- Accurate disability representation matters -- Diversify your feed -- Part 2 : Anti-ableism and your community -- Interrupt ableist microaggressions and harassment -- Stop making assumptions -- Don't give unsolicited advice -- Support people with non-apparent disabilities -- Don't treat disabled people as your inspiration -- Be in community with disabled people -- Ask better questions -- Treat disabled people with respect and dignity -- Exist in the contradictions -- Take accountability for ableist harm -- Part 3 : Anti-ableism and societal change -- Lower the disability tax -- Inclusive design benefits everyone -- Make public spaces accessible (in person and digitally) -- Hire disabled people -- Rethink accommodations -- Building a disability-inclusive work culture -- Cater to disabled customers -- Support disability entrepreneurship -- Advocate with disabled people -- Get civically engaged -- Conclusion : The anti-ableist manifesto. Tiffany Yu founded Diversability, an award-winning community business run by disabled people building disability pride, power, and leadership, and created the viral Anti-Ableism series on TikTok. The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microagressions, and offers actions that lead to authentic allyship. With contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives, Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been 'othered' and rendered invisible.
Date Published:2024

Part 1 : Anti-ableism and you -- What is disability? -- Not all disabilities are apparent -- Disability is not a bad word -- Disability is not a bad thing -- A brief history of the disability rights movement -- Models of disability -- Disability intersectionality -- What is ableism? -- What is anti-ableism? -- Why you should care about disability -- Recognize and use your privilege -- Overcome your non-disabled guilt and shame -- Accurate disability representation matters -- Diversify your feed -- Part 2 : Anti-ableism and your community -- Interrupt ableist microaggressions and harassment -- Stop making assumptions -- Don't give unsolicited advice -- Support people with non-apparent disabilities -- Don't treat disabled people as your inspiration -- Be in community with disabled people -- Ask better questions -- Treat disabled people with respect and dignity -- Exist in the contradictions -- Take accountability for ableist harm -- Part 3 : Anti-ableism and societal change -- Lower the disability tax -- Inclusive design benefits everyone -- Make public spaces accessible (in person and digitally) -- Hire disabled people -- Rethink accommodations -- Building a disability-inclusive work culture -- Cater to disabled customers -- Support disability entrepreneurship -- Advocate with disabled people -- Get civically engaged -- Conclusion : The anti-ableist manifesto. Tiffany Yu founded Diversability, an award-winning community business run by disabled people building disability pride, power, and leadership, and created the viral Anti-Ableism series on TikTok. The Anti-Ableist Manifesto frames context for conversations, breaks down the language of ableism, identifies microagressions, and offers actions that lead to authentic allyship. With contributions from disability advocates, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, scholars, educators, and executives, Yu celebrates the power of stories and lived experiences to foster the proximity, intimacy, and humanity of disability identities that have far too often been 'othered' and rendered invisible.

Date Published:2024

We survived the night

NoiseCat, Julian Brave.


Julian Brave NoiseCat traces his fragmented upbringing and Indigenous identity while traveling across North America to confront the erasure of First Peoples. Blending memoir, history, and mythology, he revives traditional storytelling to explore generational trauma, cultural resilience, and the Indigenous movements shaping the future.
Date Published:2025

Wild dark shore

McConaghy, Charlotte,


On a remote island guarding the world’s largest seed bank, a mysterious woman washes ashore during a storm. As secrets unravel and tensions rise, the island’s caretakers must decide if they can trust each other to protect what matters most.
Date Published:2025

Worst-case scenario

Stoeve, Ray,


Sidney has one goal for their junior year. Well . . . two, if they're being honest. Number one - become president of their school's Queer Alliance club. And number two - keep their self-diagnosed anxiety in check so their grades don't tank like they did last year. But when the election results in a tie with none other than Sidney's arch nemesis, the class clown Forrest, the two are forced to share the presidency until a revote at the end of term. Sidney expects Forrest to be insufferable, but it turns out that working together is . . . kind of nice? As surprising feelings for Forrest emerge, Sidney's techniques for managing their anxiety stop working. With the reelection approaching and assignments starting to pile up, will all this pressure be too much for Sidney to handle on their own?
Date Published:2026

Sidney has one goal for their junior year. Well . . . two, if they're being honest. Number one - become president of their school's Queer Alliance club. And number two - keep their self-diagnosed anxiety in check so their grades don't tank like they did last year. But when the election results in a tie with none other than Sidney's arch nemesis, the class clown Forrest, the two are forced to share the presidency until a revote at the end of term. Sidney expects Forrest to be insufferable, but it turns out that working together is . . . kind of nice? As surprising feelings for Forrest emerge, Sidney's techniques for managing their anxiety stop working. With the reelection approaching and assignments starting to pile up, will all this pressure be too much for Sidney to handle on their own?

Date Published:2026

King of the neuro verse

Goodwin, Idris.


Stuck in summer school, seventeen-year-old Pernell navigates life and the challenges of ADHD while battling to become the Cypher King, leader of the lunchroom's impromptu rap circles.
Date Published:2025

The wedding people : a novel

Espach, Alison, 1984-


It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.
Date Published:2024

It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other.

Date Published:2024

Trickster drift

Robinson, Eden


Sequel to: Son of a trickster. In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. Even though he's got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking. And he's got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn't involve weed cookies, and somehow live peacefully with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to "rescue" him as a baby from his mother. An indigenous activist and writer, Mave smothers him with pet names and hugs, but she is blind to the real dangers that lurk around them...
Date Published:2018

Sequel to: Son of a trickster. In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And his mother, Maggie, a living, breathing badass as well as a witch, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved away from Kitimat to Vancouver for school. Even though he's got a year of sobriety under his belt (no thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom), Jared also struggles with the temptation of drinking. And he's got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn't involve weed cookies, and somehow live peacefully with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to "rescue" him as a baby from his mother. An indigenous activist and writer, Mave smothers him with pet names and hugs, but she is blind to the real dangers that lurk around them...

Date Published:2018