A couple fights their way back to each other in a post-apocalyptic world after one gives their spot in California’s last known haven to the other, in this captivating dystopian romance about sacrifice, survival, and unshakeable love.For year, Jules and Rico have only had each other—through the burning heat, hunger, and sleepless nights together in the Wasteland. Their only hope of escape? Winning the lottery into the Oasis, the last safe haven in California.

A ruthless fortune weaver and an ambitious cave priestess enter into a cursed bargain in this queer, dark science fantasy—perfect for fans of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth and A.K. Larkwood's The Unspoken Name.A bargain with a fortune beast guarantees luck, but the price is a future devoured.Reed’s luck has run out. After causing the deaths of his fellow fortune weavers, he spends twelve years searching for atonement. His luck turns when ...

Audiobook narrated by Avi Roque and Pete CrossThe essential introduction or reconnection to the Bible for queer readers from the co-founders of QueerTheology.com.“As we dove back into the story of creation in Genesis 1 and 2, trying to look at it with fresh eyes, I realized I had visited the Garden of Eden before. It was as if, like Saul, the scales had fallen off my eyes and suddenly I could see what had been there all along. The Bible has...

The Hunger Games meets The Sunbearer Trials in bestselling and award-winning author Sonido Reyes’s YA dystopia about a boy who survives by hiding his truth until his boyfriend is sentenced to El Torneo — a brutal, fight-to-the-death game — where he must risk everything to save him.Centuries after the conquistadors claimed the Afueras for their own, Temo spends his life obeying the Holy Order’s decree, undergoing their sacraments to tame his suppos...

Espíritu is the sequel to Cemetery Boys, an LGBTQIA+ ghost story about magic, acceptance and what it means to be your true self. From the bestselling author Aiden Thomas.Ever since being sacrificed as part of a forbidden ritual, Julian has been able to see and communicate with the spirits of passed brujx. And that would be okay, if it allowed him to be part of his new boyfriend, Yadriel's, community. But Julian’s also seeing other things: shadows ...

In this extraordinary companion to Newbery Honor winner Mexikid, hilarious family hijinks, immigration patrols, and musical daydreams shape a year of growth and change for a Mexican American boy and his family.Pedro Martín is sick of strawberries. Since he was seven, he’s spent every weekend and summer picking berries with his family under the hot sun. Sometimes it’s not so bad—Pedro’s an ace at “strawberry wars” with his siblings, and when a good song com...

“These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement,” writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. “They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection.” The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of stories that refine and revitalize our relationship to taste, place, and the narratives that we build around them. From tracing the history and endurance of heirloom Laotian rice to investigating how ...

Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this “explosive prose debut for the gays and theys growing up outside of the box” (Booklist, starred review).Mac has never really felt like he belonged. Definitely not at home—his dad’s politics and toxic masculinity make a real connection impossible. He thought he fit in on the baseball team, but that’s only because he was...

A poignant, funny, openhearted novel about coming out, first love, and being your one and only best and true self.Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life.Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown—literally—out the closet. The d...

"A rockstar ensemble of narrators makes this audiobook an absolute stunner." — Booklist"The audio performances are a highlight of this collection...Dion Graham, in particular, delivers two exceptional performances among lots of great work, alongside Ray Porter, January LaVoy, Imani Jade Powers, and other narrators." — Library Journal"The narrators are impressively well matched to their roles. They offer a ...

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this third book in the middle grade Dungeoneer Adventures series following Coop and his friends as they sneak along on their professors’ quest to save Eem.Hero dungeoneer Shane Sandar has been missing for weeks, and the professors at Dungeoneer Academy fear the worst: that he’s met a terrible fate at the hands of the villainous exiles. When Coop Cooperson and his best buds on the Green Team discover their professors ar...

She deserved more. They all did. A gripping and emotional new suspense novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends**.**A terrible accident. A horrible loss. A regrettable tragedy. That's all anyone in Fenix can talk about when a fire consumes the local high school, taking the life of a student. The town mourns, except who really knew—let alone cared about—...