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Peruse the forthcoming titles that are available on the platform this month:
Have You Seen Romit?
CHITAL MEHTA
Have You Seen Romit? is a story about Usha, a middle-aged mother, who sets out on a harrowing journey to find her missing son in the dense forests of southern India.
HUM
SANAM SHERIFF
The word “hum” in Urdu can mean both “we” and “I.” In English, it’s a gesture of sound—a vibration. Sanam Sheriff’s HUM is a trans call to the beauty of attempt rather than the clarity of arrival. This book seeks as the pilgrim seeks, wandering from a plural sense of self with a lyric attunement to the wound’s power.
Rare Good
STEVE EDWARDS
Rare Good offers insights into Edwards’s experience of the awe that only art, disability, and loved ones can bring.
The Beautiful Plain
JENNIFER SINOR
Immersed in the unassuming beauty of the Great Plains and following a single year of one woman’s life, The Beautiful Plain invites the reader to reconsider where beauty and grace reside.
52 Writing Prompts
SUZANNE ROBERTS
Drawing from more than thirty years of creative writing teaching experience, Suzanne Roberts offers down-to-earth, witty, and wise straight talk about writing and the writing life, accessible craft discussions, and thought-provoking twenty-minute genre-crossing writing prompts.
The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees
EDITED BY MATTHEW F. BOKOVOY, LISA GUILL, MICHELLE CARR HASSLER, JOY CASTRO, AND EMIRA IBRAHIMPAŠIC
The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees offers thirty-one essays by immigrants and refugees who now call Lincoln, Nebraska, home.
The Zoo Lady
SANDRA E. BONURA
The Zoo Lady tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose courage and compassion forever changed zoology and reshaped the way we see—and care for—the animal world.
The Quake That Drained the Desert
MARY ELIZABETH REYNOLDS
In this rigorous and gripping narrative, Reynolds unearths the aftermath of the quake, showing how it dramatically altered aquifers in southern Arizona and changed rivers that ensured the prosperity of two Mormon communities in southern Arizona and Mexico.
Striped Reckoning
CAROL BRADLEY
Striped Reckoning charts the shocking history of exotic big cats in the United States and chronicles how the struggle to drive a trio of breeders out of business and rehome their nearly two hundred captive lions and tigers led to a momentous new law protecting these majestic animals.









