Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties - Florida's fifth mass shooting in as many years - in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize-winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.It...
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American...
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: Harper
A beautifully written and poignant tribute to the Earth, from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday. One of the most distinguished voices in American letters, N. Scott Momaday has devoted much of his life to celebrating and preserving Native American culture, especially its oral tradition. A member...
Ways to Say I Love You
Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: words & pictures
A sweet and lyrical picture book for younger children celebrating all the ways that creatures on our planet say "I love you." From snuggling garter snakes to big, cozy bear hugs, this book in verse shares how animals we'd expect, and some we wouldn't, express affection for each other. Each animal interaction...
One of Our Own: A Gregor Demarkian...
Author: Jane Haddam
Publisher: Minotaur Books
In Jane Haddam's One of Our Own, Gregor Demarkian, former FBI agent and police consultant, returns for his final case -- a surprising murder and an attempted murder, which threaten the safety of his Philadelphia neighborhood.A mysterious black van is spotted by several people at various times in the area around Cavanaugh...
Twenty: A Jack Swyteck Novel
Author: James Grippando
Publisher: Harper
Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties - Florida's fifth mass shooting in as many years - in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize-winner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.It...
Tertulia
Author: Vincent Toro
Publisher: Penguin Books
A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News) Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises...
Every Day We Get More Illegal
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year!A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope."Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written,...
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
Author: Felicia Chavez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was,...
Tertulia
Author: Vincent Toro
Publisher: Penguin Books
A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with [an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News) Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the "tertulia") and revises...
Every Day We Get More Illegal
Author: Juan Felipe Herrera
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Included in Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year!A State of the Union from the nation's first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant, compassionate, and filled with hope."Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art, part oral, part written,...
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
Author: Felicia Chavez
Publisher: Haymarket Books
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was,...
