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Depart, Depart!, Sim Kern

Depart, Depart! grapples with intersections of social justice and climate change, asking readers to consider how they’ll react when the world changes in an instant. Who will we turn to? What will we take with us, and what will we have to leave behind? In our rapidly changing world, these […]

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Stay and Fight, Madeline Ffitch

Set in a region known for its independent spirit, Stay and Fight shakes up what it means to be a family, to live well, to make peace with nature and make deals with the system. It is a protest novel that challenges our notions of effective action. It is a […]

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Lot: Stories, Bryan Washington

Few writers have done for their city what Washington has done for Houston, which is to say, to articulate how a new generation of citizens are living, loving and struggling there with both the legacies of their shared past and the new possibilities of the present. But in writing an […]

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Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh

A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Just magnificent. -Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not […]

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Wilder Girls, Rory Power

From Hypable: Wilder Girls by Rory Power follows Hetty as she looks for her friend, braving a world outside of quarantine and discovering the truth about their story. The Wilder Girls cover, created by Regina Flath and Aykut Aydogdu, is as twisted as it is beautiful, depicting a girl literally […]

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Compass Rose, Anna Burke

This swashbuckling 26th century adventure novel is smart, colorful and quirky, yet it manages to deliver a healthy dose of heart, humor, and humility on every single page. -Goodreads Compass Rose is a dystopian high-seas adventure that examines climate refugees, changing ocean ecosystems, and ways humanity might adapt to rising, […]

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Only the Ocean, Natasha Carthew

Central to Natasha’s work as a writer and performer is talk about re-wilding the novel, getting lost in nature and writing outdoors for inspiration and freedom. Breath-takingly fierce, smart and tender, Only the Ocean is a story of survival and courage in the midst of darkness that will thrill fans […]

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Black Wave, Michelle Tea

It’s 1999 in San Francisco, and as shockwaves of gentrification sweep through Michelle’s formerly scruffy neighborhood, money troubles, drug-fueled mishaps, and a string of disastrous affairs send her into a tailspin. Desperate to save herself, Michelle sets out to seek a fresh start in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, climate-related disruptions and […]

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Garapaima: A Monster Fish Novel, Mark Spitzer

A twenty-foot-long, mutated monster-fish is loose in Phantom Loon Lake, Ontario, thanks to a top secret government conspiracy to design a Freak Species of Mass Destruction! Crabby old angler Jack Nadler is thrown together with a whacko cast of cartoony characters, including the most grizzly professor to ever wrestle alligators, […]

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Haw, Sean Jackson

Mired in a corrupt, dangerous city that is on the verge of collapse, a father and son flee to a rural village, hoping to find refuge from their violent lives. What they find is not the haunted hippie environs of local legend, but a gritty farm community that thrives despite […]

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