Books on Our Radar: Adam, Mine. by K. Ancrum Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at eighteen, surrounded by queer writers and thinkers, and her own letters after Percy’s death suggest romantic attachments to women that scholars have been debating ever since. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula with a queerness so clear that […]
Young Adult New Releases August 25th 2026 Summerween is not done with us yet! Check out most of the YA books releasing today below! We work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate alternatives. Libro.fm for all your audiobooks and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions and the great thing is […]
Event Recap: For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun This weekend, CML Reynoldsburg hosted the launch event for For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun, moderated by local author and all things library events, Elisa Stone Leahy. The SPARC Diversity Dialogues book club met […]
Author Interview: Dead Girls by Beck Kubrick Dead Girls, out September 22nd, is a feminist slasher graphic novel following Ash Hargreeves, the teenage daughter of an infamous serial killer, who gets blamed for a new wave of copycat murders in her town and decides to hunt down the actual killer […]
Book Recs: The Season of Light and Darkness by Jillian Cantor & a New Generation of Dystopian Earlier this year, we wrote about how a generation of YA dystopian fiction spent a decade warning us and we filed it under entertainment while the conditions those books described quietly took root. […]
Young Adult New Releases August 18th 2026 Time to celebrate most of today’s YA new releases! And if any of these are intriguing to you we work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate alternatives. Libro.fm for all your audiobooks & ebooks (NEW!) and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions and […]
Blog Tour & Review: Dungeons & Dimwits by James Mascia We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for Dungeons and Dimwits Vol. 1 by James Mascia out now. If you have ever watched Jumanji and thought the concept of getting sucked into a game and having to survive […]
Author Interview: Little Monsters by Maire Roche Little Monsters is a middle grade retelling of Little Women with a twist: the March sisters are actual monsters. Meg has teeth that are a little too sharp. Jo goes full werewolf under the full moon. Beth takes flight on wings she has […]
Blog Tour & Review: Hollow Magic by Mars Lauderbaugh You may recognize Mars Lauderbaugh’s art style, since they illustrated the cover of Cemetery Boys! Hollow Magic, their debut graphic novel, is out now. Check out our thoughts below! Review Rosefinch is a seventeen year old witch raised in the fey realm […]
Young Adult New Releases August 11th 2026 Happiest of book birthdays to the YA new releases hitting the shelves today! Most of today’s new releases can be found below. We work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate alternatives. Libro.fm for all your audiobooks and Bookshop.org for all your digital or physical editions […]