After some two years of legal wrangling, Amanda Jones will finally get her day in court after the Louisiana Supreme Court ...

His lessons became Grammy-award winning audio books he personally narrated: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for ...

Seventeen-year-old Pittsburgh native Lucia is heading to Nantucket with her mother to spend the summer with her mother’s wealthy boyfriend, Todd. Troubled by the recent death of her best friend ...

Zarin’s fine-tuned seventh collection (after Orbit) visits and revisits familiar themes of love and loss, regret and acceptance, childhood and motherhood. The poems are laced with references to ...

In this propulsive and shocking mystery from Callender (Infinity Alchemist), a boarding school’s brutally enforced social hierarchy crumbles following a student’s death. Returning to Yates ...

The gauntlet is thrown from the start of this chilling, not-so-hyperbolic picture book. Text that channels a round-headed, wide-eyed baby’s bedtime intransigence begins, “Sleeping is for ...

This reflective debut collection from Humienik begins with a letter to the reader introducing the writer as “the queer daughter of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants, from a country that ...

This unabashed love letter to independent bookstores traces the crucial role they play. “Dear Bookstore, I remember the first time I ever visited you,” Arrow’s narrator intones as Godbout ...

In this vibrant debut manual, Mul, founder of the quilt retailer Webfabrics, shows how to design quilted collages without using written patterns. She recommends using cotton fabric scraps ...

Near the end of this exuberant sophomore collection, Chapman (Delinquent Palaces) offers herself a divine pardon: “Thus the Lord showed me both ways,/ the austere and the hospitable, are good.” ...

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