"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...

"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...

Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion is a human one. It’s about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It’s about the sincere but eccentric faith and the...

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Raised in the wilderness by his survivalist father, Remy Blake is eight years old when his father dies. With little options left, he sets out to face the great unknown of civilization.

Paul Burston wasn't always the LGBTQ+ icon he is today. He came out in the 1980s, when gay felt like a dirty word. This memoir illuminates the eighties, nineties and noughties from a gay man who only just survived them.

France, 1794. After the French monarchy falls, soldier Maxence Étienne is called to settle a disturbance from a young counterrevolutionary woman named Armelle Bernard. But after years of violence, he decides to help her escape instead.

LGBTQ+ activist Brandon J. Wolf shares his transformative journey from young outsider to galvanizing activist following the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, 2016.

One year ago, Lucy's sister left and never came home. The agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands.

From debut author Jen Wheeler comes a spellbinding tale about the dangers a nineteenth-century woman encounters as she flees a tragic past to the menacing Farallon Islands. Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco lie the Farallon Islands, known to sailors as the Devil’s Teeth. Despite their fearsome reputation, their remote nature appeals to young Lucy Riley, who in 1859 seeks a new start as a teacher to the lighthouse keepers’ children. But...