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Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is [...]
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who [...]
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged…until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, [...]
This is the story of two women who find resistance and freedom in literature.
The obstacles to a mixed-race relationship between a son of the nobility and a woman of African ancestry.
As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life--and for language--can create a space of poetic decolonization.
Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity.
De Burgos broke new ground in her poetry by fusing a romantic temperament with keen political insights.
Aloud showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had.
The narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
The relationship between Baley and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the “R” stood for robot.
A passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.
A fascinating firsthand account written by a veteran mission controller of one of America's greatest achievements.
Ortiz Cofer recalls events that led to Judith Ortiz Cofer's rise as a Latina writer who was celebratory of a Latinx identity
Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids--and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.
Works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became United States citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border
Tastes, colors, and the dreamlike lushness of childhood memories infuse this mournful and propulsive memoir of personal and natural disasters-and the self-discovery made possible only when we choose what to leave behind.
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border.
In this tender collection of letters to his son, Tomás Q. Morín meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face.
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.
Reuben Jackson's rhythmic and musical poems merge love, beauty, justice, and the lived Black experience in America.
Ruth Stone has earned nearly every major literary award for her poetry. She taught at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. Today she lives in Vermont.
Ellen Bryant Voigt takes on a monumental challenge: to conjure up the influenza pandemic of 1918-19.
A searching, startling new collection of poems from the author of The Möbius Strip Club of Grief and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows
Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today.
A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
The only comprehensive volume of Frost's verse available, comprising all eleven volumes of his poems, this collection has been the standard Frost compendium since its first publication in 1969.
Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont–a true story, as told by Tillie Walden
This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.
