GRACE MIGUEL-CIPRIANO

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel. "The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays...

"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down...

"The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author."-- Provided by publisher.

"From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting...

A young, impoverished woman arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin, whom she soon grows to love.