Robert M. Edsel signs REMEMBER US.

Like The Monuments Men, Remember Us is an ensemble piece that follows twelve main characters over a six-year span, zeroing in on ordinary people including Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; and Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama for yet another indignity—digging graves...

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Jaz Brisack signs GET ON THE JOB AND ORGANIZE.

ell and A History of America in Ten Strikes, the leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements shares stories from the front lines to help us organize our own workplaces. Get on the Job and Organize is a compelling, inspirational narrative of the Starbucks and Tesla unionization efforts, telling the broader story of the new, nationwide labor movement unfolding in our era of political and social unrest. As one of the exciting new faces of the American Labor Movement...

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Malia Logan + Olivia Omega sign THROUGH HER EYES.

In Through Her Eyes, Olivia Omega and her daughter, Malia Logan, take readers on a profound generational journey through the intertwined narratives of their lives, offering parallel perspectives on the experiences that have shaped them as Black women. This memoir, co-written with heartfelt honesty and unfiltered emotion, delves deep into the bonds that connect mothers and daughters. As a seasoned branding expert and new college grad, it explores the unique challenges and triumphs that define their shared and individual identities...

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Nadia Alexis signs BEYOND THE WATERSHED.

A hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Beyond the Watershed explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother. Nadia Alexis crafts a moving portrayal of generational trauma, domestic violence, survival, and reclamation, using stunning imagery drawing from the body, spirit, nature, and cityscapes. Alexis traces journeys to...

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Brandall Laughlin signs DO BUTTERFLIES MAKE BUTTER.

Years ago, Brandall's young son came to her while she was working in her garden and asked, "Mama, do butterflies make butter?"And the idea for this book was born that very day. The tractor in each illustration is a nod to her son and his love of the outdoors. Do butterflies make butter? Yes, absolutely! Yes, indeed! In the spring, summer, and fall, butterflies go from place to place, gathering petals from yellow flowers-piles and piles, until they have enough....

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Kwame Alexander + Jerry Craft
sign J vs. K.

Created by real-life rivals and #1 New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft this hilarious illustrated story features two talented fifth graders going head-to-head in a competition for the ages. J and K are the most creative fifth graders at Dean Ashley Public School (DAPS). J loves to draw and his wordless stories are J-ENIUS! K loves to write and his stories are K-LASSIC!! Both J and K are determined to win the DAPS annual creative storytelling contest or at least get in the top five...

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Tom Spencer signs THE MYSTERY OF THE CROOKED MAN.

Meet Agatha Dorn, cantankerous archivist, grammar pedant, gin afficionado and murder mystery addict. When she discovers a lost manuscript by Gladden Green, the Empress of Golden Age detective fiction, Agatha's life takes an unexpected twist. She becomes an overnight sensation, basking in the limelight of literary stardom. But Agatha's newfound fame takes a nosedive when the 'rediscovered' novel is exposed as a hoax...

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Sherry Cothren signs GADFLY.

Sherry Cothren has wielded a pen since her youth, recording her thoughts and feelings, her “writings” as she calls them, in reams of yellow legal pads. A longtime musician, Cothren’s words have often been used as song lyrics in her various bands, from the Germans and Beat Temptation through the Windbreakers and others. Beyond sharing them with friends and bandmates, though, her prose has largely just existed as ink on lined paper...

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Michael Farris Smith signs LAY YOUR ARMOR DOWN.

A dark Southern tale of desperate souls who've wound up on the road of poor choices, a messianic child with untold powers, and those out hunting her for their own reward, all drawn together by Michael Farris Smith's trademark mournful, spirit-gnawing prose. An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the wood draws her to a campfire with two strange, dangerous men, one young and one old, who are there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate purpose...

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Lauren Rhoades signs SPLIT THE BABY.

In honest and captivating prose, Split the Baby chronicles the toll of divorce and family rupture from the perspective of a child who was nearly torn in two. Lauren Rhoades retells her experience of growing up caught between two homes run by equally strong women: a fervently Catholic stepmother and a deeply sensitive Jewish mother. Pulled toward radically distinct family cultures with rich but conflicting religious traditions, the young girl struggles...

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Robert Busby signs BODOCK.

In 1994, the real Mid-South Ice Storm strikes the fictitious town of Bodock in Claygardner County, Mississippi. In the wake of the storm, what is left unbroken, and what broken things can be rebuilt? Hailed by Maurice Carlos Ruffin as “leaving no feeling untouched,” Robert Busby’s debut balances grit with heart, violence with depth, and tragedy with humor. Two siblings survey the damage to their family’s orchard after the storm while their rich nephew circles in the hopes of buying up the property...

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Yrsa Daley-Ward signs THE CATCH.

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by TIME, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, We Are Bookish and Book Riot. The inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, The Catch is a darkly whimsical tale of women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and Dempsey with a sullen, unaffectionate city councilor...

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Bishop Barlow signs LOOK IN THE MIRROR.

Look in the Mirror is Bishop Barlow's story of losing his hair to alopecia in 2008 when he was nine years old and in third grade. Hair loss was a difficult challenge to overcome as a young third grader. Bishop dealt with identity and confidence issues. He even had bullies who made fun of him. Through all this, nothing Bishop did to stimulate hair growth worked. One night, Bishop looked in the mirror and conversed honestly with God. He realized mirrors...

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