DPS Top Picks: High School

Biographies

Un libro pandémico? Sí y no. Un libro -con pandemia de fondo- sobre la manera en la que nos contamos: lenguaje y pantallas, escritura y maternidad, las nuevas vidas nuevas. Lleno de humor y asombro, bellísimo.

A memoir in verse that traces the author's journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry.

Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a 'do-nothing' because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out to do nothing. Morimoto, aka Rental Person, provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious, such as sitting with a client undergoing surgery, accompanying a newly divorced client to her favorite restaurant, and visiting the site of a client's suicide attempt. In Rental Person, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs, and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of Indigenous Nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear; honed by her experiences battling loggers, miners, oil companies, and missionaries.

Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship. It explores their work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans and the repercussions that still resonate today.

Fantasy

In this irresistibly unnerving collection of seven stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. Told with whimsy, horror, and elements of fantasy, truths about the human experience are explored. 

What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recognition when your soul remembers someone from a previous life? In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. In present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these timelines woven together by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn and are inexplicably drawn to each other lifetime after lifetime. 

In a kingdom where magic has been lost, Fia is a rare changeling, left behind by the wicked Fair Folk when they stole the High Queen's daughter and retreated behind the locked gates of Tír na nÓg. Most despise Fia's fae blood but the queen raises her as a daughter and trains her to be a spy. Meanwhile, the real princess Eala is bound to Tír na nÓg, cursed to become a swan by day and only returning to her true form at night. When a hidden gate to the realm is discovered, Fia is tasked by the queen to retrieve the princess and break her curse. 

This spine-chilling anthology of 77 spooky stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu is compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It features traditional tales of yokai, ghosts, mountain witches, demons and apparitions frequently sighted in and around the mountainous Shinshu region in central Japan.

Graphic Novels

WHO IS MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK? How did she save the world from a dimension-hopping megalomaniac? Why was her TV show canceled after only nine episodes? These are just a few of the questions that young journalist Dave Baker begins to ask himself as he unravels the many mysteries surrounding the obscure comic book Mary Tyler MooreHawk. However, his curiosity grows into an obsession when he discovers that the reclusive creator of his favorite globe-trotting girl detective...is also named Dave Baker. This mind-bending book is a thrilling tribute to the ways we build meaning out of disposable pop culture. 

Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.

Sori Lee is hoping for a fresh start at her new school—which is easier said than done when every single thing reminds her of why she transferred. As luck would have it, an anonymous letter taped to the bottom of her desk provides a perfect distraction. Little does Sori know that she's about to embark on the scavenger hunt of a lifetime! What starts as simple curiosity becomes a healing journey as Sori discovers just how far a small act of kindness can go.

Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship.

Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.

Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger makes an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends set out on a journey to forage the magical mushrooms needed to make the requested galette pastries. Along the way, Juniper and Hadley stumble across a mystery too compelling to ignore: something has been coming out of the woods at night and eating the local farmers' crops, leaving only a trail of glowy goo behind. 

It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team but her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let her anger get the best of her. With the invitation to the Canadian National Women's U18 summer camp on the line, Alix needs to learn how to control her anger, and she is sure Ezra, the popular and poised theater kid is the answer. As they hang out and start getting closer, Alix learns that there is more to Ezra than the cool front he puts on. And maybe, just maybe, this friendship could become something more.

It’s time for the annual winter camp at Anjeon University. A full weekend, deep in the mountains, with no parental supervision. But this is no ordinary getaway. It is 1980s South Korea where the police are always watching and even the slightest bit of self-expression can lead to arrest. Luckily, it’s the only night of the year when generations of Koreans had no curfew, no obligations, and no rules: Christmas Eve.

An evidence-based graphic guide for people interested in chest-binding as a form of gender-affirming care.

In the Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die before they can fully cross over. This unforgettable story of death, grief, love, and how we keep moving forward has readers travel with Kit, on her journey to the afterlife as she spends time with her family and friends left behind. 

A collection of stories by members of the trans community about their childhoods, life goals, and how they achieved them, including musicians, actors, teachers, scientists, forest rangers, and activists.

Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college, all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comic artist, Sarah Mai 

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture features the best of the magazine’s sixty-eight issue run alongside never-before-seen photographs, supplementary writing by long-term contributing journalist Claudine Ko, and tributes from now-famous fans who’ve been around since day one. Margaret Cho, Daniel Wu, and Randall Park celebrate Giant Robot’s enduring legacy alongside pioneering pro-skateboarder Peggy Oki, contemporary art giant Takashi Murakami, culinary darling Natasha Pickowicz, and critically acclaimed essayist Jia Tolentino.

When Carlos was nineteen, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador. Refusing to let her go without him, Carlos joined the journey north. Together they experienced the risks countless people face as they migrate.

Werewolf at Dusk turns its attention to the twilight of life and to aging, gracefully or otherwise. Eerily striking and mesmerizing, the three stories in this collection are linked, as Small writes, by the dread of things internal. With its sharp lines and vibrant blues and oranges, the artwork recalls Edvard Munch's anguished The Scream, likewise capturing the moment—the dread—before disaster. 

Teenager Boo has pink hair and a very vivid imagination that she has trouble separating from the real world. In her daydreams, she dances beautifully at balls or fights monsters as a magical girl. In reality, she has a complicated home life, work stress, school stress, and a wicked crush on the girl of her dreams. When a new student, Mimi, arrives at school, Boo starts exploring a side of herself that she never considered before. As she grows closer to Mimi, it may finally be time for Boo to face reality ... Who is the real Mimi? The one in her dreams? Or the one in real life?

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at college, Molly discovers that—through some horrible twist of fate—her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts of her college (AKA the dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole: If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. 

Val is ready to give up on love. It's led to nothing but secrets and heartbreak, and she's pretty sure she's cursed—no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. A chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?

Historical Fiction

Set in Jamestown in 1609, indentured servant Ellis suffers through the winter, bearing witness to the horrors committed by starving settlers.

When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, and being a good girl but in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam are to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.

This story follows the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland during the construction of the Panama Canal, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father forces Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a friend to alleviate her isolation. Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa's warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming "lion women." It isn't long before their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade until, years later, her sudden reappearance in Ellie's world alters the course of both of their lives. 

Horror

This YA anthology of short stories ranges in genres from horror to romance, features classic and original monsters and creatures, and highlights authors from the LGBTQIA+ community, including Claire Kann, Kalynn Bayron, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, and H.E. Edgmon. 

A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters—both human and supernatural—face down death, and survive.

When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts, revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives.

When a curse traps a group of friends on a barrier island, they must harness the shared power of their traumatic secrets or risk being devoured.

In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the watertank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women-these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists. 

During a Pride celebration, Wendy notices the beginning of an infection that seems to be turning people into zombies. She and others from the local queer community must team up to try and stop the outbreak, discover its source, and survive. 

When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. As each inhabitant confronts the wonder and mystery around them, they begin to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive. 

Año 5540 del calendario andino: Noa decide escaparse de su Guayaquil natal con su mejor amiga, Nicole, para asistir al Ruido Solar, un macrofestival popular que anualmente congrega, durante ocho días y siete noches, a miles de jóvenes --entre músicos, bailarines, poetas y chamanes-- a los pies de uno de los numerosos volcanes de los Andes. Atrás quedan las familias y la violencia de las ciudades, y se despliega un paisaje alucinado que tiembla al ritmo de la música y las erupciones volcánicas bajo un cielo surcado por meteoritos. Para Noa esta será la primera parada antes de ir al reencuentro del padre que la abandonó cuando era una niña y que desde hace años habita los bosques altos, un territorio donde también se esconden los desaparecidos, aquellos que una vez subieron al Ruido y nunca regresaron a sus hogares.

When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, and her brother is the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer. Unfortunately, she uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.

Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence...until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within.

Mysteries

Two teenagers investigate the strange occurrences of mass hysteria plaguing their all-girls school.

Five years after the disappearance of their friend Mallory and their memories of that fateful night, high school seniors Fern and Jaq encounter a vengeful spirit resembling Mallory, forcing them to confront their true identities and the dark secrets hidden in their past.

Nonfiction

While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir. 

Before Muslims eat, they say, "Bismillah." It means "I begin in the name of God" and it is like saying grace before a meal. In Bismillah, Let's Eat!, Zehra Allibhai shares a new way to think about family food. Her own cooking evolution started with her Indian Kenyan family, expanded through culinary adventures with her husband, and grew again as a mother and fitness influencer. She has developed a style of cooking that is flavorful, easy, wholesome-and above all-meant to be shared with joy. 

In this essay collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled—and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives, but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar; the confounding challenges of dating in a time when social media has made everything both more accessible and more unreliable; and the allure of returning home while still pushing yourself to seek opportunity elsewhere.

Hood Wellness is a deep exploration of people forced to overcome harrowing circumstances with little more than communal support and the will to get well. Gordon challenges everything we think we know about wellness by calling out the wellness industry's inability to include those outside the margins of white, heteronormative identities. She lays plain that self-care as we know it is mostly just surface-level "cute," and communal care is the call-to-action that America needs. Drawing on elements of memoir, self-help, humor, critical race theory, and devastatingly honest storytelling, Gordon guides readers on a transformative journey toward a new paradigm of wellness.

An account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Fort Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson recounts for us a political horror story.

Un libro para sentir de corazón, pero también con cabeza.Comprende tus emociones de forma fácil a través de la neurociencia y conoce el universo que llevas dentro.  Una tormenta eléctrica sucede cada segundo en tu cabeza mientras tú te diviertes, te aburres, te enfadas o te enamoras. Conocercómo funcionan tus conexiones neuronales te ayudará a dejar que te atraviese la emoción, a entenderla y a aprender a gestionarla. En este libro encontrarás una manera diferente de vivir la relación entre tus emociones y tu cerebro. 

Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, and beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tía loca who is shunned for defying gender roles. The pretty prima who is put on a pedestal for her European features. The matriarch who is the core of her community but hides all her pain. In Tías and Primas, a deeply felt love letter to family, community, and Latinas everywhere, Mojica Rodríguez explores these archetypes, while fearlessly grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma, centuries of colonization, and sexism.

Nagle expertly braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later.

Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood's 'XXX's and OOO's.' Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture.

The Algorithm investigates the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the world of work. AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high-stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. 

Through art photography and prose, this book addresses the fragility, beauty, and cultural value of preserving endangered languages. In a groundbreaking project turned into a national touring exhibition, endangered-language speaker, poet, and photojournalist B. A. Van Sise worked with endangered-language speakers, learners, and revitalizers across three years and an entire continent to showcase some of the natural beauties of their languages and lands, highlighting, in particular, American diversity and its many Indigenous communities. 

A beautifully photographed cookbook that celebrates the vibrant culture and community of El Salvador through eighty recipes and stories from twenty-five Salvadoran women.

Author Lee Wind takes readers across the globe to examine gender identity and representation throughout history. Learn how cultures both past and present debunk the idea of a gender binary.

Photography

As part of her coursework in photojournalism, Sarah Bird found herself drawn to the Black rodeo circuit of East Texas between the years 1977 and 1982, a time when rodeos were still largely segregated events.  In the 1980s, Bird tried to publish a book of this work but was told there was no audience, so the photos were put away and largely untouched until they were recently digitized as part of her archive. This photo series recreates a day at the rodeo; we see riders pinning numbers on one another, settling nervously into the saddle, steer wrestling, barrel racing, bronco busting, calf roping, along with lots of fans milling about. The heart of the piece is her description of a typical Juneteenth rodeo, which helps set up the sequence of images.

Poetry

This poetry anthology is a rich and abundant offering of language from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, and Nikki Giovanni. Each poet gives voice to generations of resilient joy through their explorations of love, origin, race, resistance, and praise. This Is the Honey drips with poignant and delightful imagery, music, and raised fists. Fresh, memorable, and deeply moving, this definitive collection is a must-read for any lover of language.

Woke Up No Light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. 

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced-stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of well-meaning but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. As they fill out forms in the insurance office in downtown Los Angeles or travel to therapy in wealthier neighborhoods, they begin to understand that cancer is where all forms of their oppression intersect: Disabled. Fat. Black. Queer. Nonbinary.

This collection is a powerful reckoning with violence, shame, and easy pessimism in which Smith relies on artistic resilience to envision futures that seem possible.

A collection of poems reflects the experiences of Asian Americans and the problem of creating an Asian American identity while influenced by Westerners' ideas about Asians.

Realistic Fiction

An anthology of short memoir comics about modern Indigenous life, with some fiction or fictionalized memories mixed in. 

Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.

When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States's first Black president. This is a story about David's eighteen months working for the Senator's presidential campaign, where along the way David meets a myriad of people who raise questions of history, art, race, religion, and fatherhood, all of which force David to look at his own life anew and come to terms with his identity as a young Black man and father in America.

Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother Hank and his best friend Tray. The indoor climbing accident that left Hank with a traumatic brain injury filled Molly with anger. While she knows the accident wasn't Tray's fault, she will never forgive him for being there and failing to stop the damage. But she can't forgive herself for not being there, either. Determined to go on the trio's postgraduation hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, even without Hank, Molly packs her bag. But when her parents put Tray in charge of looking out for her, she is stuck backpacking with the person who incites her easy anger.

High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning: "When the strangeness begins, come back". 

Twins Storm and Lake are separated into different foster homes and struggle to find love, hope, and each other.

Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream to open a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju, and her customers take refuge at the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, where they all learn how to truly live.

When Miami residents are ordered to evacuate before a hurricane, everyone in Luciana's family complies, except for her beloved yet batty grandmother, Abue. It turns out the storm isn't the real crisis: Abue, normally glamorous and full of energy, is given a devastating medical diagnosis. Luciana, and the rest of the family, are heartbroken, but Abue is about as interested in getting treatment as she was in evacuating. Soon, Abue moves into Luciana's bedroom to recuperate, and though their approaches to life couldn't be more different, their complicated bond intensifies as Luciana is forced to step into the role of caretaker, translator, and keeper of the generational secrets Abue starts to share. 

The three Fall siblings live in the Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head. Years ago, the Fall kids' father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame. Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls' world over. 

Spanning the 1930s to today Everything We Never Had follows four generations of Filipino American boys who grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships.

Filipina American Lucia grapples with teenage angst, family expectations, and friendship woes as she reluctantly prepares for her debutante ball.

It's March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold-anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed-has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she'd marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy is a year out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, and as she searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn, Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen. Then the hives that've plagued Poppy since childhood flare up. Jules's uterus turns against her. Poppy brings home a maladjusted rescue dog named Amy Klobuchar. The girls' mother, a newly devout Messianic Jew, starts falling for the same deep-state conspiracy theories as Jules's online mommies. A trip home to Florida ends in disaster. Amy Klobuchar may or may not have rabies. And Jules struggles halfheartedly to scrape her way to the source of her ennui, slowly and cruelly coming to blame Poppy for her own insufficiencies as a friend, a writer, and a sister. As the year shambles on and a new decade looms near, Jules and Poppy must ask themselves what they want their futures to look like, and whether they'll spend them together or apart. Deadpan, dark, and brutally funny, Worry is a sharp portrait of two sisters enduring a dread-filled American moment. 

En este volumen se recopilan los mejores relatos de Sue Zurita, extraídos de las ediciones independientes de Los pájaros que habitan mi corazón y Buenas noches, desolación, junto con algunos cuentos que nunca habían visto la luz y que la autora pone por fin a disposición de sus lectores. Algunos de ellos te proporcionarán respuestas a dudas que te persiguen, otros supondrán un abrazo al alma, y en algunos casos encontrarás la fuerza para superar los obstáculos propios de la vida y del día a día. Las historias de Sahara, Luis, Julieta, Marcela, Darisnel... nos hablan de amores y desamores, de la pérdida de un ser querido y de la fortaleza de uno mismo para superar las adversidades. Gracias a ellas descubriremos que en la vida nos sucederán cosas increíbles, divertidas y fantásticas... y también otras aburridas, menos gratas o dolorosas,pero que al fin y al cabo todas son experiencias que nos enseñarán a seguir adelante y gozar de la vida con todo su esplendor. 

Romance

Two best friends, bonded by their shared love of poetry, uncover all the different meanings of "I love you" once they begin dating their senior year of high school. 

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school's spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom's car without permission, she's grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad's game shop. Riley can't waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan--a nerdy teen employee--to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she'll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous.  Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn't require as much acting as she would've thought...

In medieval England, the bickering, bethrothed duo Arthur and Gwen find common ground in their secret romantic interests, leading them to form an unexpected alliance while navigating Camelot's summer festivities.

When Mariachi star Rafael Alvarez moves to a new school, he anticipates claiming the lead vocalist role, but instead faces a rival with a familiar face as he navigates family issues, competition, and complicated feelings for his rival.

The debut of a dynamite new voice from the South, Love and Hot Chicken is a spicy and hilarious Tennessee story about family, friendship, fried chicken, and two girls in love.

When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwind adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.

A high school stage manager has to face his complicated feelings about love when he catches himself falling for the same guy as his sister.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a 'pleasure to have in class.' It's not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course—she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings—but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for her work. And Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails because nobody will ever read them...until they're accidentally sent out. 

Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist, unravel a conspiracy, and navigate the most complicated babysitting assignment ever.