From Marginalian Editions comes a profound meditation on our capacity for connection with other creatures. In the savage winter of 1962—Europe's coldest in eighty years—a blackbird began roosting in the elderberry tree in Hockley Clarke's overgrown garden. Clarke, a retired headmaster and lifelong birder, named him "Blackie" and began bringing the bird food every morning and evening. Soon, the blackbird was flying down to greet him with "a few glad chuckles," and a quiet and extraordinary friendship began. First published in 1978, Blackie & Co. is Clarke's engaging chronicle of the blackbird family that took up residence in his backyard. What starts as a record of daily feedings and weather reports deepens into a lucid, moving reflection on attention, connection, and the limits of empathy across species. "I spoke to him; he knew my voice and I am sure that he answered in his own language," Clarke writes. "There was...

Told from dual perspectives, this remarkable true story for YA readers recounts the tale of two individuals—a Ukrainian teen in the early 2010s and a Jewish boy in hiding during WWII—whose lives are entwined through a box of letters.When Nataliia, a teenager in Ukraine, uncovers a mysterious box of letters written during the Holocaust, she is drawn into the story of Eliezer, a Jewish boy in hiding during World War II. As Nataliia reads, past and present begin to echo each other in unexpected ways. The letters raise questions her family has never fully answered and point toward a history that feels strangely close to home.Told through dual perspectives, Honor is a true story of resilience, moral courage, and the quiet choices that shape generations. As the world once again faces conflict, Nataliia’s search for understanding reveals how the past can resurface when we least expect it and why remembering matters.

Karnali Blues, by Buddhisagar, is the most widely read Nepali novel to have appeared in the last twenty years. As it recounts the evolution of a father-son relationship-a son's search for approval, a father's small acts of kindness and forgiveness, a son's fears for his father's dignity as his fortunes and faculties begin to fail-the reader is deeply drawn into young Brisha Bahadur's world. His father is kind and idealistic; his mother, though she is kind too, is often frustrated and irascible. The characters in this book are some of the most carefully drawn and authentic in all of Nepali literature.In a backwater district of a country about to undergo radical social, political and cultural change, Brisha's dreams, his games and his mischief, his loves, his hopes and his fears come alive. Translated from the Nepali by Michael Hutt, this highly original piece of work, with the simplicity of its language and its emotional range, holds the power to take your breath away. Its...

A magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world. Don't you want to help them?A Ms. Magazine May 2026 Pick • A them Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2026 • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Queer Book of 2026 • As heard on Gender Reveal"Astounding." —Charlie Jane Anders, author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster"Will leave readers clamoring for part two." —Booklist (starred review)"This Is How You Lose the Time War but on crack." —Jace MolloyAcrasia is in the ultimate long-distance relationship: with Opus Zhao, a man from another universe. She was a trans girl who was also an intergalactic moth-goddess. He was a trans guy who piloted a giant robotic tiger. They hated each other, then fell in love, then their universes moved...

Reese Keller is golden.He's an engaging and charismatic NHL player who makes me, a woman with jagged edges and combat boots, believe in rainbows and sunshine.At least, he did. Until he rejected me.For the past year, I've been dodging Reese. I ignore the things I feel when he's close by. I block out the humiliation of his letdown.When he asks me to be his plus-one to a destination wedding, I'm prepared to laugh it off.He cuts me off with the words, "what if?"Deep down, I've wondered. What if this thing between us is real?What if I allow myself one weekend with Reese, if only to stop fantasizing...What if I'm truly charmed by the ultimate charmer?***The Charmer is a novella set in the Boston Hawks Hockey world.