John Hennessy's Exit Garden State never strays far from family life as it ranges from childhood in New Jersey's industrial corridor to mid-life in the woods of New England, from Rahway prison's sullen grey dome, Newark's steel flyway, to Lisbon's labyrinths and miradouros, from the smooth volcanic peaks of the Cyclades to his dead in Dublin. Keenly mindful of their ancestors and the immigrations that have brought them here, the speakers of these poems, their various personae, explore the knots of familial experience, what it's like to be both parent and child simultaneously, to be embraced by family as well as to lose it, to celebrate kinship and endure its sorrows and changes. Hennessy remains rooted in the propulsive energy of his lines, the clarity of his craft, while traversing emotional territory as broad as the book's geography.

College student Rose Maraczek loves movies. Not just any movies, but sweeping period dramas that take her far away from who she is. Her obsession started in high school when a box of movies appeared on her doorstep and she discovered the relief they could give her from her debilitating OCD. What Rose hates are spoilers-especially those that ruin the escape she seeks.

Tristan Moore, Rose's former crush and her brother's best friend, is the bane of her existence. Always at their house, everything he does gets under Rose's skin, the worst of which is his consistent dropping of movie spoilers. Fed up, Rose sets out to find a new apartment, but it's while trying to distance herself from Tristan that he reveals one final spoiler-one that makes Rose realize it was Tristan who left all those movies for her years ago.

Now it's Rose's turn for revenge as she forms a movie-spoiler plan of her own:

Destroy Tristan Moore.

If I Had Said Beauty, Tami Haaland's fourth collection of poetry, is dedicated to known and unknown ancestors. It explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self--including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and dominant traits, mitochondrial underpinnings, and an intricate microbiome. Luminous and spare, the poems seek to unravel and speculate, document and lament what happens in a life and what might have been. While probing for definition in the mysteries of deep time, the poems are nevertheless grounded in encounters with wild and domestic life, intimate moments of loss and family connection, all of which intertwine to expand the meaning of autobiography.

Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2019.

Rich in detail, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's Don't Touch the Bones is a compelling collection that examines the pain of the world's, a nation's, and a family's history.

A lovely tale for readers in search of magic, adventure, and romance.- Kirkus Reviews

Deaf. Princess. Witch.

Some identities you embrace.

Others will get you killed.

Sixteen-year-old Marguerite knows her uncle doesn't like her. True, she's in line for the throne before him and he contends she's too deaf to rule, but she's known since he broke her hand to keep her from using sign language. Now, as the kingdom's Bishop-Princep, Uncle Reichard has declared war on magic and Marguerite must hide the fact that she's a witch.

While witnessing her first witch trial, Marguerite rescues a child from death with the help of a handsome, itinerant acrobat, Tys. Marguerite flees, hiding in the neighboring empire where magical gifts can flourish. Before her training is complete, war threatens. She returns home, only to witness her uncle seizing the throne. He isolates and imprisons her. Marguerite's love for her people drives her to continue defying him. But to challenge him means she'll have to rely on her homemade invisibility cloak, questionable allies, and Tys, the one boy she never should have trusted.

Gary Copeland Lilley's collection, The Bushman's Medicine Show, is a southern gothic testament delivered by an archetypical denizen of the modern south, a sort of Everyman from the Carolina low-country traversing the territories of family, the spirits, society, culture, and identity, while refusing to be eradicated. If there is some type of stigmata, a mark, some identifier of people who have transcended southern stigmas, then the personas, certainly the Bushman, surely wear such a mark. There is the sweltering of American southern heat and humidity in these poems: the dualities within nature and existence, that hard sacred and secular ride that Lilley seems very familiar with. The voice, the music of regional language, the character speech, is an essential element, the proper vehicle that drives these poems down the streets, the dirt roads, and through the piney woods. Riding with Bushman, lean forward in your seat, turn the music on.

Chinook and Chanterelle is Robert Michael Pyle's second full-length book of poetry. Rich in natural images, stories, and indelible episodes from the whole world around us, Pyle's poems also track the territory of loss and grief as it rises onto the higher ground of rediscovery, redemption, and re-enchantment. They exalt the ordinary even as they find the extraordinary in physical details that we too often look right through.

In Thomas Mitchell's new collection, paper boats drift in and out of childhood, a red bicycle negotiates the dangerous edges of a neighborhood, voices travel on the wings of swallows. Crows transform in a strange metamorphosis, assume human characteristics and emotions, create their own litany, succeed and fail in love, bemoan the onset of old age. Through an ever-widening range of vision, Mitchell chooses not to withdraw from the world, but to engage with it. Again and again, he reels us in, grounds us in reality, the authentic, as in Measuring Absence when he acknowledges the misconception that I can recreate the night by using words. These poems emerge with a musicality, a precision, that offers a persuasive affirmation of what it means to know ourselves, and to recognize the magic that appears all around us.

In the moonlit woods where the creatures play,

Colin the Fox seeks his bike today.

His friends are gathered, but none can say,

Where the missing bike might have strayed away.

Colin searches with all his might

For his bike lost in the starry night.

A tale of friendship, under the moon's soft light,

His woodland friends join the search tonight.

When a journalist arrives to investigate the role Why might play in an illegal cross-border adoption ring, she discovers that the desert community hides other secrets. An old bus depot that has been converted into a bar and a dilapidated vegetable warehouse serve as a way station for dispossessed pilgrims. One of those travelers brings deeper scrutiny to Why--and not just from the journalist.

The Why Intersection tells the story of a tiny Arizona border town in the mid-1980s grappling with the movement of people across that boundary. It is a town that the often-grumpy residents say lies at the end of the world--which is the reason they live in Why. The march of America toward a more contentious country, a more complex nation, both confuses and angers a small group of Whyans who desire a simpler time when the world's problems did not directly affect them. However, located just 30 miles north of Mexico in the Sonoran Desert, Why cannot escape the ominous and rapidly approaching 21st century.

The Why Intersection examines America's southern border issues from an earlier time, but issues that resonate still today.

Robert Michael Pyle's poems respond to details, events, and emanations from the real, physical world and its species: humans and all the rest. The poems are based on or drawn from personal experiences and perceptions, mostly out-of-doors, and will appeal to the intelligent general reader, lovers of land and literature, fans of a good poem and a good story, and naturalists--which means anyone interested in the world and its occupants beyond themselves and their immediate self-concern. Robert Michael Pyle's voice is an essential element in the culture of our literary and scientific community. His deep knowledge of the ecology of the earth and the life patterns of a wide variety of living forms, his careful attention to detail, his passion and energy and commitment to humanity that appear in his past work are present in abundance throughout the poetry in Evolution of the Genus Iris. We are fortunate readers indeed to have this new book and its poems abroad in the world.--Pattiann Rogers

Get ready for the book Kirkus Reviews calls satisfying fare for fans of romantic and family dramas. from the Texas Indie Author of the Year (2022), Haleigh Wenger.

Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can't stop self-sabotaging. 

Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well. To make things worse, her parents threaten her with boarding school in the fall if she can't prove she's changed her bad habits.

Paige's parents sign her up for a rebuilding project in Texas where her sister lives. Meanwhile, Paige reluctantly befriends her sister's straight-laced teenage neighbor, Joey, who is a frequent guest. He's so different from her, but Paige realizes that may not be a bad thing, especially since being around Joey curbs her urge to vandalize and ignore the rules. He even makes her forget about the debilitating stomach cramps she struggles to hide.

Just as Paige begins to feel settled in Texas, her dad's worsening Crohn's disease brings her home to Seattle.

When her own health fails her, she has the choice of staying at home and receiving care. Or, she could go back to Texas and prove for once and for all that she's more than her mistakes and more than a disease.

Torn between two worlds and two versions of herself, Paige must decide where, and with whom, she truly feels at home.

Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine--Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: Svetlana Lavochkina sends readers on a double odyssey with two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith Alexander and the elusive linguist Lisa, whose paths are destined to cross on the cusp of the war in the Donbas. Only one of them fathoms that their encounter goes far beyond its face-value purpose. A thriller, a romance, a CV, a rose of historical winds, a song of crafts, an ontology of Eastern-Ukrainian mind in one, Carbon is told in polyphonic verse--a prayer for the beloved, anguished city.

This collection includes Fugue by Emily Bobo, Shine Tomorrow by Joel Craig, and Return of the Fist by Amy Lingafelter.

Veganism has become a widely known lifestyle over the last years. People of all ages have been changing their lives daily to incorporate plant based meals into their diet. Caribbean Vegan, The Way of the Islands brings you popular recipes from around the world right into your kitchen. Have you ever tried vegan oxtail and...? Wait, wait, I can't tell you what other surprises are in this book, you'll just have to try it for yourself. What I can tell you is that, you won't be disappointed giving these delicious Island flavors a chance to wow your taste buds. A lot can change just by switching your ingredients, anything is possible with plant power! Be vegan. Save the animals. Save the planet. Save humanity!

Sometimes the past just won't stay gone. When dark influences from Psilyria Kensy Frost's past intersect with the Vagabond's insidious plots, it threatens everything. Commander Jackson Gabel and Graven Neira Cross must figure out how to work together and launch a daring rescue in the heart of Aepexia, the capital city of the galactic community. Amid the chaos, they will need help from a host of allies, new and old, if everyone is going to make it out alive.

What dark secrets will be revealed in the shadowy back alleys of the Glittering Pillar of Civilization? Will Kensy be able to hold on to her life and her loved ones? When the truth comes out, what will it cost them?

Refugees Among the Lines tells the story of two remarkable Americans who, after their college choices failed them, set out to reclaim their lives by rebuilding others' lives, to move past guilt and regret to purpose. Paul Garrity and Abby Archer serve as refugee workers in the most wretched and dangerous camps in the world between 1978 and 1985. Both former prisoners--Paul in Vietnam and Abby in California--they attempt to make sense of a conflicted world and repay a debt, one not necessarily of their own making.

Volunteering with Catholic Relief Services to aid Vietnamese Boat People at the squalid refugee camps in Malaysia and Indonesia, Abby and Paul take on greater responsibilities and are hired by the United Nations HCR to help build and supervise camps along the perilous Thai-Cambodian border. Cambodians are desperately trying to survive a decade that began with an American bombing campaign and concluded in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. From Southeast Asia, their journey takes them to Central America where right-wing death squads are slaughtering Maya and Moskito Indians, to the Gaza Strip where Palestinians are controlled by decades-long Israeli occupation, and back to Chicago's poorest neighborhoods.

In the harsh world of Cold War regional conflicts that are unconcerned with the lives of the powerless and vulnerable, Paul's and Abby's commitment to ease the suffering of the unending lines of forgotten, desperate people is a tale of courage and inspiration.

A tale of courage, love, and self-discovery in a frozen kingdom, perfect for fans of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik.

In the village of ice and darkness, Dira Cloon's entire existence relies on her ability to pull the trigger. But when she faces a majestic white bear, her resolve falters. The bear's presence stirs something deep within her - a force stronger than her love for her family, who believe that the only safe polar bear is a dead one.

It goes beyond the village legends of a lost world and a vanished civilization, the whispered tales of magic, and the ursine king's enchantment. This force resonates with Dira's heart, shattered and lonely. If she shoots the bear, her life will continue as it always has, with a piece of her soul and dreams forever lost. But if she lays down her weapon and follows the bear into the vast, frozen realm of snow, she may transform her people and their bloodlust.

Embark on a breathtaking journey with Dira as she uncovers a cursed life more beautiful than the one she leaves behind. In Kyra Whitton's mesmerizing novel, A Burden of Ice and Bone, readers will find a gripping tale of self-discovery, courage, and love in the heart of a magical, frozen world.

Don't miss out on this captivating adventure. Immerse yourself in the world of A Burden of Ice and Bone today!

Rock, Love, and Betrayal: Dive into the High-Stakes Shakespearean World of Tomorrow and Tomorrow

In a tale of friendship, ambition, and dark secrets, join the journey of an all-female rock band as they navigate the treacherous world of music and uncover the chilling truth that threatens to tear them apart.

New Beginnings and Unbreakable Bonds

When Duff O'Brien moves to Hiawassee, Georgia to escape her traumatic past, she finds solace in her friendship with the ambitious and fierce Marian Mac Shepherd. Together with the enigmatic Quincy Banks, they form The Scottish Play, North Georgia's hardest-rocking all-female band.

Rising Stars and Shrouded Secrets

Five years later, the band is living their dream in Athens, Georgia, playing gigs and enjoying their newfound fame. When the captivating Lawrence MacLaren enters their lives, love blossoms between him and Mac, and he envisions even greater success for the band. But when tragedy strikes, and two of their closest allies die under mysterious circumstances, Duff and bandmate Ross begin to suspect that Mac and Lawrence may be involved.

A Journey to Unveil the Truth

As The Scottish Play embarks on a trip to Scotland's historic Glamis Castle for the performance of a lifetime, Duff must confront the prophecies of The Hecks, a trio of bewitching witches from her past-one of whom she is now dating. With danger lurking around every corner, she questions if she ever truly knew her best friend Mac and wonders if she could be the next target.

Immerse yourself in Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a gripping story of rock, love, and betrayal, as Duff and her bandmates unravel a twisted mystery that could change their lives forever.