Fiction - Own Voices

Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory that the...

Welcome to "The Inclusive Parent: Raising Kids Who Embrace Diversity," your insightful guide into the journey of raising children who not only understand but fully embrace the spectrum of human differences. Penned by renowned author and advocate, Stephen Cook, this Special Report is a...

"After leaving an abusive marriage, Laura finds herself intrigued by a homeless man who she believes is not who he says he is. She becomes entranced with the Tramp and is enchanted with his caring and fondness for her. Her ex-husband, Oscar, becomes aware...

Lotus Sync is a window into one practitioner's experience of Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism via its collection of poems and is a companion book to Lotus Ink, a sonnet-rich introduction to SGI Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.The SGI is a worldwide value-creation society...

Evan is Violet's best friend and decade-long crush, but she's kept it well under control...mostly. At least that's what she tells herself when her feelings threaten to overwhelm her. Diagnosed with an auto-immune disease, she is determined to suffer both her illness and her...

"A Stoic's Guide to Grieving: Compassion, Resilience, and Inner Peace" is an enlightening compendium tailored for the ones navigating through the trials and tribulations of loss and grief. Life-change is an incontrovertible part of our journey, and within this special report, author Jean Doherty,...

Magic and madness collide in this Celtic reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart, which explores one girl's grief over the loss of a loved one and how solving the mystery of his murder may help her put it all behind her."Lir is...

He accidentally cursed himself...When the consequences get him exiled to the land he helped terrorize, can this evil wizard find redemption... and love?Orpheus can't believe it's come to this. After helping his childhood friend conquer the realm by raising an army of hell-beasts, the...

Trapped in a homeless, nomadic life, teenage Ruby lands in yet another random town-Gunpowder, Kentucky. To the real world, Ruby does not exist. Undocumented, no last name, and recording her approximate age with slash marks on her forearm, Ruby survives only with what fits...

Having recently left her homeless, nomadic life behind, Ruby adjusts to her new life as a "real" person in the unique town of Gunpowder, Kentucky. Although she now has a legal identity, the mystery of who she really is remains. Who is her mother?...

Trading her simple homeless life-where no one knew she existed-for a normal life, Ruby discovers her identity as a central figure in Gunpowder, Kentucky and in its future. Key to continuing the bloodline and name of the founding ancestors, Ruby immerses herself in her...

Fernlee is considered 'odd' by her high school peers. And she is. It shows in the way she dresses, in the way she talks, in the way she thinks-in her whole demeanor. Raised by her great Mamaw according to the old ways and the...

What if the Chosen One doesn't get chosen? Sloe Moon, youngest child of the ruler of Tall Trees, has always wanted to follow in their father's footsteps and become a famous wizard. Instead they are expected to marry for the good of the Moon...

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft.Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters,...

A young woman discovers that dancers at a local discotheque are being driven to acts of insane violence. "The place was full of swarming, pugnacious, dangerous missellneous reptile's... Teenager's everywhere pounded their way on top of each other crazily strangling, biting and slashing each...

Intimate conversations, soliloquies, patches of burned diaries, existential definitions of beauty, pain, or personal discovery come together in Music for Bamboo Strings. A subtle tapestry of music imbues the story and cinematography of each poem. This bilingual collection by Cuban-American poet Carlos Pintado has...

O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî (1899) is a novel by Simon Pokagon. Published posthumously, the novel is a semi-autobiographical story of adventure, romance, and tragedy set in the American Midwest. O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî reflects the themes and concerns that shaped Pokagon's life as a writer and activist, including...

Author: Kobby Ben BenISBN-10: 1609457560ISBN-13: 9781609457563Publisher: Europa EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2024Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.10w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/04/2023Booklist 01/01/2024 pg. 26

Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza has fallen in with a trio of veteran street...

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely...

Author: C駸ar S疣chez BerasISBN-10: 1558859802ISBN-13: 9781558859807Publisher: Not AvailLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2023Pages: 251Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.87d

A woman searching for her birth-parents unlocks the secrets of her horrific past, as she tries to stop the goblin within in this kaleidoscopic dark psychological horror about identity and belonging, with a dread-inducing climax you will never forget. Perfect for fans of Eric...

Set in the fictional former mining village of Brodworth some ten years after the closure of the local pit, SCRAP tells the story of fifty-year old former miner Phil Steele's attempt to once again earn an honest living and recover his pride and dignity....

Author: Lola Akinmade AkerstromISBN-10: 8885795420ISBN-13: 9798885795425Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2024Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print

1905 Passion and politics in London and St Petersburg. Since childhood in Kyiv, Sophia Krichevska has wanted to be a doctor but when Moscow Medical School rejects her application for being a woman and Jewish, she determines to study in NYC. Crossing the Baltic...

Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten her family, her tribe, and the land of her ancestors, in this own-voices debut perfect for fans of Winter Counts. No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There,...

Cobalt Chronicles is a story about a delightful child who, at a tender age, faces the harsh realities of survival in the Congo. Destined to a life of servitude and hard labor, Esynama with her mother's blessing, challenges this foregone conclusion. Her father drags...

Melissa MuranoAge: 24Looks: Bite-sized, bleach blonde, and curvaceousFavorite Food: Hot CakesStatus: Single, but secretly in love with the cook at work Mason HadleyAge: 30Looks: Lanky, sandy brown, and athleticFavorite Food: Pot RoastStatus: Single, but secretly in love with the waitress at work Mel and...

Thomas Simmons nearly died when a rocket-propelled grenade threw him ass over teakettle while flanking insurgents in Mosul, ending his military career. Recovery's rough and gives him all the time in the world to face the question he's avoided all his life: Why does...

Three kohkums, a man named Crow, two best friends, and a drug dealer . . . twelve-year-old Hunter may be getting out of Red Rock sooner than he hoped. For Hunter Frank, the summer of '79 begins with his mother returning home only to...

Ruby used to be a fiery, sexy, musical genius. But when she got pregnant as a teenager in the 90s, her life took a turn into banality. Now a middle-aged Indo-Canadian woman, she feels unseen and unheard by her white husband and struggles to...

The Roll Models Saga-A journey where even the smallest things in life cannot be taken for granted. Eighteenth birthdays only occur once in one's lifetime and they are supposed to be life changing-fate had a grim sense of humor when she attended Steven's Maxwell's...

A gifted young surgeon. One of the twentieth century's boldest inventions. And the unconquerable, fragile, and amazing human heart.As one of two dozen teams worldwide performing congenital heart surgeries in the middle 1950s, Alec Serafeim and his best friend, Pete O'Neill, excel in an...

"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--Author: Brando SkyhorseISBN-10: 1982177861ISBN-13: 9781982177867Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

Welcome to a world of horror viewed through a kaleidoscope lens. Embark on a journey to untangle the writhing tendrils of human terror in a dimension where the possible and impossible blend-an unstable realm where comfort can be found in the coldest pits, and...

The Book of Conjurations, Irizelma Robles's fourth poetry collection, transforms poet, reader and language through its conjurations. Among these pages, we find all forms of material existence transmuted. Barbwire, rain, soul, sugarcane, scream are all raw materials for alchemy, or poetry. Drawing from the...

Sundial House is proud to present a stellar collection of poetry and prose by contemporary Latin American voices. The selected pieces have been thoughtfully translated from Spanish into English by renowned literary translators, ensuring that the essence and beauty of the original excerpts shine...

Dive headfirst into the captivating world of the ancient Paracas civilization with The Paracas People: Exploring the Palpa Lines and the Nazca Enigma! This comprehensive and meticulously researched special report is the brainchild of world-traveler and noted storyteller, Kate Booth. Known for her knack...

Welcome to a world of horror viewed through a kaleidoscope lens. Embark on a journey to untangle the writhing tendrils of human terror in a dimension where the possible and impossible blend-an unstable realm where comfort can be found in the coldest pits, and...

A Kiowa woman faces new threats to her tribe and identity while struggling to keep her Silicon Valley business afloat. She must search deep within herself to find answers--and a murderer--in Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist D. M. Rowell's thrilling sequel, perfect for fans...

Fans of Finley Fenn, Zoe Ashwood, Tolkien, and Ruby Dixon will love this epic sci-fi fantasy monster romance series!"My soul ached and bled and tore at seeing my other half so hurt. There was nothing I could do for him right now. And it...

What does your hair say about you?Exhumed from that shadowy place between dark and dawn, this connected story collection takes us on a stumbling scavenger hunt to examine fragmented memory and embodied artifacts of identity - like hair - to re-member the inner and...

Author: Manuel RamosISBN-10: 1558859926ISBN-13: 9781558859920Publisher: Not AvailLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2024Pages: 188Format: Paperback

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . .In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours...

Family therapist Jackie Kessler, the child of Korean refugees, works mostly with minorities, a clientele many of her colleagues avoid. 15-year-old Amy Nguyen, the child of Vietnamese refugees, reluctantly enters Jackie's office after a suicide attempt. Their relationship grows and nurtures them both. At...

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death...

A smart, sexy "perfect romance" about mistaken identities, a no-strings fling, and the way one night--and one person--can change your life forever from the bestselling author of Darius the Great Is Not Okay (Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, bestselling co-authors of A Merry Little...

Inspired by a true storyDaughterMidwifePrincess'A fascinating story reflecting the past moving alongside the present day' USA Today Bestseller Glynis PetersBorn Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when...

Grieving in Love explores the many ways we mourn the loss of loved ones, dreams, hopes, expectations, and relationships. Each poem challenges us to face the pain of our grief while remembering that pain sits side-by-side with the love for those people and things...

Josie has felt invisible for most of her life-first as the only lesbian at her high school in the '90s, then in a secret relationship with her closeted girlfriend, and now in a closet of her own as an English teacher at a suburban...