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Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights book cover

Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers’ Rights
Ashley Hope Pérez

Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote book cover

Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
Michael Eric Dyson

Whose Right Is It? The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality book cover

Whose Right Is It? The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality
Hana Bajramovic

Bright Before Us Like a Flame book cover

Bright Before Us Like a Flame: Igniting a New Generation of Writers

Young Palestinians Speak book cover

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation
Anthony Robinson

An Expense of Blue book cover

An Expanse of Blue
Kauakanilehua Māhoe Adams

Just Between Us book cover

Just Between Us
Adeline Kon

Shapes of Love book cover

Shapes of Love
L.V. Peñalba

That Which Feeds Us book cover

That Which Feeds Us
Keala Kendall

Best of All Worlds book cover

Best of All Worlds
Kenneth Oppel

Queen of Faces book cover

Queen of Faces
Petra Lord

Shiny Happy People book cover

Shiny Happy People
Clay Chapman

I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends book cover

I’ll Find You Where the Timeline Ends
Kylie Lee Baker

These Bodies Ain't Broken book cover

These Bodies Ain’t Broken
Madeline Dyer

The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkein book cover

The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkein
John Hendrix

Hunger's Bite book cover

Hunger’s Bite
Taylor Robin

16 Forever book cover

16 Forever
Lance Rubin

You and I Are Polar Opposites book cover

You and I are Polar Opposites
Kocha Agasawa

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