Uncommon Sense is a book about changing your perspective. While most of us are intelligent, we’re simply used to thinking in familiar, knee-jerk ways that feel natural — even when those ways aren’t serving us particularly well. Over time, our habits of thought become automatic. They shape how we react ...

Summary: In “Past Tense: Portraits and Poems of Suicides,” twenty-three lives — spanning more than a century, some world-famous and some known only to the few who loved them — are given voice through poems shaped to match their subjects. Virginia Woolf, Kate Spade, Aaron Swartz, Jim Morrison, and Diane ...

Since childhood, Lirisi’s mother warned her that the life of a changeling was one of danger and secrets. But she could have never imagined the death and betrayal that awaited her in the sprawling kingdom of Freeden. On the run from the people she once considered family, and from a ...

In her debut short story collection, Myths & Monsters, Emma Steel takes the familiar scaffolding of fairy tales, folklore, and myth and dismantles it from the inside out. From a darkly reimagined Pinocchio haunting the Black Forest to a tooth fairy whose ambition curdles into something grotesque, Steel’s stories inhabit ...

The old order is starving.Greater Aeltheria’s gold is failing, its supply lines are fractured, and the dragons now sharing its lands eat more than struggling kingdoms can afford to spare. Princess Elaria Rosalini and Stelaria Sterling Rosalini turn to the buried ruins of a forgotten civilization for answers, uncovering technologies ...

Leaves are curling, streams are drying up, and nobody in the forest knows what to do. When a heatwave sweeps through, Leo Lion Paws shares his shade with a stranger — and one small act of kindness leads him somewhere extraordinary. Guided by his new friend Mira, Leo ventures into ...

Every great lion starts somewhere. For Leo Lion Paws, it all begins with one tiny, brave step beyond the safety of home — into a river, a meadow, a forest full of things worth investigating. He learns that courage doesn’t mean being fearless. It means taking the next step, even ...

In the summer of 1935, Madeline Watson—a sharp-minded scholar descended from Haitian revolutionary Sanité Bélair—and Nathaniel Jacobi, a South Asian and Indigenous American archaeologist with a knack for tinkering and trouble, embark on a ten-week work-study under the androcentric Professor Ronan Strickland, traveling from New York to London and onward ...

Julietta Milard’s life had been rather mundane up until a few years ago, when she found herself in the small town of Waterwealt. Though she had intended to move on to bigger and better things, a beautiful museum preserved in time had her sprouting roots rather than traversing the Wastes ...