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A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories.
Chad T. Hanson explains how natural alarm over wildfire has been marshaled to advance corporate and political agendas, notably those of the logging industry.
The origins of natural history as a discipline, showing how early illustrated treatises reflected a vibrant exchange between artists and naturalists that contributed to the growth of natural science and sparked public fascination with the animal kingdom.
Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
Protein explores the contemporary obsession with a nutritional superstar, tracing how protein moves through food systems and fitness cultures, strengthening some bodies and environments at the expense of others.
Fifteen-year-old Will puts a gun in the waistband of his jeans and sets out to avenge his brother.
Once again, the real and the fictional worlds have become dangerously entangled. And if Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pünd’s Last Case, she could well be its next victim.
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is [...]
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who [...]
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged…until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, [...]
A brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity.
Aloud showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.
This is the story of two women who find resistance and freedom in literature.
The obstacles to a mixed-race relationship between a son of the nobility and a woman of African ancestry.
As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life--and for language--can create a space of poetic decolonization.
De Burgos broke new ground in her poetry by fusing a romantic temperament with keen political insights.
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had.
The narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
The relationship between Baley and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the “R” stood for robot.
A passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe.
A fascinating firsthand account written by a veteran mission controller of one of America's greatest achievements.
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.
Personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border
In this tender collection of letters to his son, Tomás Q. Morín meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face.
Tastes, colors, and the dreamlike lushness of childhood memories infuse this mournful and propulsive memoir of personal and natural disasters-and the self-discovery made possible only when we choose what to leave behind.
Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids--and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border.
Individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present
Works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became United States citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Ortiz Cofer recalls events that led to Judith Ortiz Cofer's rise as a Latina writer who was celebratory of a Latinx identity
Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today.
An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont–a true story, as told by Tillie Walden
A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
