“I’m kind of pathetic, as vampires go. I don’t make for a dramatic, mysterious predator. I’m like the grimy sewer variety of a vampire that you shoo off your lawn with a broom.” Wesley Garcia has been waking up with fang marks. Lucky for him, he needs a vampire—to use as bait. He’s certain Vitalis-Barron…
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Toxic: A Tour of the Ecuadorian Amazon by Amelia Fiske and Jonas Fischer
“I just want people to know what happened here and help us get justice. To help us get this place cleaned up and to learn from our struggle, so that it doesn’t happen anywhere else.” Alright, I literally just finished reading Crude: A Memoir by Pablo Fajardo, one of the lead counsels involved in UDAPT…
Moonflower by Kacen Callender
“Our bodies are borrowed from the earth, like plants growing from the ground, walking and talking and moving around. And when we die, our bodies go back to the earth again.” Moon has been plunged into a swill of uncertainty and confusion. They travel to the spirit realms every night, hoping never to return to…
Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole
“Sometimes femininity feels like a maze with nothingbut dead ends. Don’t know how I got in.Don’t know how to get out.” Ariel is afraid of her own mind. The thoughts of pushing someone in front of a bus at the bus stop. The idea that she’ll drop her baby cousin down the stairs. These are…
Corregidora by Gayl Jones
“I am Ursa Corregidora. I have tears for eyes. I was made to touch my past at an early age. I found it on my mother’s tiddies. In her milk. Let no one pollute my music. I will dig out their temples. I will pluck out their eyes.” Here is Gayl Jones’s classic novel, the…
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
“You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I’ve never been more in love with you.” From Goodreads: Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. A competitive figure skater since she was five…
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
“This war of ours, the one between the Vampyres and the Weres, began several centuries ago with brutal escalations of violence, culminated amid flowing torrents of varicolored blood, and ended in a whimper of buttercream cake on the day I met my husband for the first time. Which, as it happens, was also the day…
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
“I do so look forward to tidying here. Sorting. Organizing. It gives me great peace. I wonder, what do you discover when you bring order to things?” Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned. Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to…
Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
“When my great-grandmother handed the composer the tape that held Chief Seattle’s voice, she was asking the whole world to listen. She was asking us to consider something better, something stronger. I am asking you the same thing. Are you listening yet?” In this heartbreaking and riveting collection, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe recounts different parts of…
Relit edited by Sandra Proudman
A few disclaimers so people don’t come for me: I am not latinx and I am not a teenager. I am an English teacher, teaching in a Spanish speaking country, always looking for things to share with my students because reading is one of the best ways to improve a language. I also read quite…
The Great Book Wyrm 