August 4, 2023
Like many teenage boys, Alex Colling views abortion as something he doesn’t need to have an opinion about—until the political gets personal. It has been a rough year for Alex. In the past twelve months, he has lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. On June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. Finally, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest lawmaker Wendy Davis’s filibuster and take a pro-life […]
August 4, 2023
The author of Ventura and Zelzah follows up that critically acclaimed debut novel with Ventura and Winnetka, a stand-alone work that furthers the adventures of Douglas and his friends as they come of age in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s. As seniors in high school, the gang spends their final year before college practicing crazy car stunts, getting high, obsessing about girls, passionately listening to the great rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s, arguing about the Dodgers and the Lakers and partying at the prom in powder blue tuxedos. From a West Hollywood porn […]
August 4, 2023
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Muhammad Ali, one of the most revered―and controversial―figures of the 20th Century, immortalized those words with the beauty, strength and originality of his boxing style. Now, his epic story is retold in this striking graphic novel. Messenger showcases exactly why Ali became celebrated worldwide as “The Greatest.” Boxer, philanthropist and activist Muhammad Ali was one of the most photographed―and photogenic―figures in the history of sports. He demanded to be looked at and seen, and this epic captures his meteoric rise from Cassius Clay to Olympian and heavyweight champion of the world with […]
July 7, 2023
Thien’s first memory isn’t a sight or a sound. It’s the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It’s the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don’t get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as Thien’s mom and dad look for work. Potato chips are an indulgence that brings Thien so much joy that they […]
July 7, 2023
After his father returns from treatment for addiction, highschooler Vish is uncertain what the future holds. It doesn’t help that everyone seems to know about the family’s troubles, and they stand out doubly as one of the only brown families in town. When Vish is mistaken for a relative of the weird local bookseller and attacked by an unsettling pale man who seems to be decaying, he is pulled into the world of the occult, where witches live in television sets, undead creatures can burn with a touch, and magic is mathematical. Vish must work with the bookstore owner and […]