Guest Post: YA Books Featuring Music by Annie Cardi We always love welcoming authors to the blog, and today we’re excited to feature a special guest post from Annie Cardi, author of the powerful YA novel Red, a timely and emotional story centered on the #MeToo movement, faith, and the […]
Books on Our Radar: Breakout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon gave us a New York City blackout and then a Atlanta snowstorm, and both times they […]
Young Adult New Releases May 12th 2026 May releases are still coming in strong. Let’s wish a happiest of book birthdays to most of the YA books hitting the shelves today! If you plan to purchase any ebooks, physical, or audiobooks, we hope you check out our indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – […]
Cover Crush: The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé The cover of The Heirs by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is doing exactly what a cover should do: make you want to know everything before you even read the synopsis. Five buttons, one for each of the Button siblings, surrounded by objects that hint at […]
Author Interview: The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams by Michelle Kulwicki Michelle Kulwicki’s The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams is a portal fantasy set in Appalachian West Virginia, with three teens who are all trapped in different ways before they ever find the Labyrinth, queer love that costs something, and monsters with […]
Young Adult New Releases May 5th 2026 May is here and what a great month and a big release day to kick off with all the summery books and apparently all the thriller books too! If you plan to purchase any ebooks, physical, or audiobooks, we hope you check out […]
Author Interview: Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider There is something quietly devastating about growing up inside a world that has already decided who you are supposed to be. Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider follows Meg, a pastor’s kid navigating two weeks at a strict Christian sleepaway camp where first love […]
Young Adult New Releases April 28th 2026 One last New Release Tuesday for April… so let’s congratulate today’s Young Adult New Releases. May is literally around the corner which I think is a bigWe hope you check out our indie bookseller affiliates Bookshop or Libro.fm – if you plan to purchase & all sales […]
Cover Crush: Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy follows Katie Rose Waters, a rich Texas girl who can literally get away with murder, until her estranged sister comes home with a fiancé and steals all of Mother Dear’s attention, at which point things get genuinely unhinged. […]
Author Interview: The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels Being xennial/elder millennial queers, we grew up on the edges of the AIDS crisis, old enough to feel its shadow but young enough that much of what happened was filtered through adult commentary, news […]