Reef Mind

Hazel Zorn

The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species. It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world. We never suspected it had a plan.

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Black Aces: Essential Stories from Hockey's Black Trailblazers

Julian McKenzie

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Local Heavens

K.M. Fajardo

A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions—shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby’s frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren’t all they seem—and as a corporate- sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever. He’s the reason they don’t. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself. As Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite—and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city’s most vulnerable—he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love, or truth? Heart, or soul? A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, Local Heavens examines the guardrails of morality… and the price of desire. Publication set for fall 2025.

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Cutting Edge: Hockey as Queer Culture

Daniel Gawthrop

Heated Rivalry for realz: a fascinating and timely examination of ice hockey through a queer lens Conversations around the phenomenal success of the TV series Heated Rivalry have put a spotlight on LGBTQ+ hockey players at a cultural moment when queer and trans folk in sports are being bullied and scapegoated. When author Daniel Gawthrop laced on his first pair of skates as a twelve-year-old Peewee house league player in 1975, he never imagined he would grow up to start a gay men's hockey club. Nor that his mainstream media musings about the beauty of "Russian Rocket" Pavel Bure would prompt "straight" commentary by everyone from Don Cherry to The Village Voice. These stories and more form the heart of Cutting Edge, a fascinating probe into the role of gender, masculinity, and sexuality in defining—and too often demeaning—Canada's national sport. Examining the game through a queer lens, Gawthrop reveals how hockey has evolved from the bastion of straight white male machismo it used to be into a sport where women and players of all ethnicities are welcome and where gender-diverse people now have safe places to play. At the same time, hockey's powers that be—from scandal-ridden Hockey Canada to the overly cautious NHL—have been reluctant to embrace change, especially in light of the growing social pushback against queers in sport. And then there's Heated Rivalry, whose unexpected mainstream success has led to questions about whether it will encourage queer professional players to finally come out, all while introducing the sport to new generations of fans. With great insight and verve, Cutting Edge explores this phenomenon and more, pointing the way to a better, more modern, and more inclusive kind of hockey.

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Reef Mind

Hazel Zorn

The coral reef rose from the seas, spreading across the land with incredible speed. A rapidly evolving invasive species. It transformed the landscape. Mutated every living creature of the surface world. We never suspected it had a plan.

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Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the U.S. Government Shapes Cinematic Universes

Tricia Jenkins

Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker deliver a highly original exploration of how the government-entertainment complex has influenced the world’s most popular movie genre—superhero films. Superheroes, Movies, and the State sets a new standard for exploring the government-Hollywood relationship as it persuasively documents the critical role different government agencies have played in shaping characters, stories, and even the ideas behind the hottest entertainment products. Jenkins and Secker cover a wide range of US government and quasi-governmental agencies who act to influence the content of superhero movies, including the Department of Defense, the National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange and, to a lesser extent, the FBI and the CIA.Superheroes, Movies, and the State deploys a thematic framework to analyze how five of the key themes of our time—militarism, political radicalism and subversion, the exploration of space, the role of science and technology, and representation and identity—manifest in the superhero genre, and the role of the government in molding narratives around these topics. The book includes interviews with both producers and influencer insiders and covers a wide range of superhero products, from 1970s TV shows up to the most recent movie and TV releases, including the first major analysis of the hit Amazon show The Boys. In addition, it is the first deep exploration of NASA’s Hollywood office and the first detailed account of the role of the Science and Entertainment Exchange, which has worked on thousands of products since its creation in 2008 but is little known outside of the industry. Superheroes, Movies, and the State offers an innovative blend of research methods and interpretive frameworks, combining both production histories and deep readings of superhero texts to clearly reveal how the government-entertainment complex works in the world of blockbuster cinema to shape public perceptions of the United States, war, science, and much, much more.

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Hello Baby

Kim Eui-kyung

Sechs Frauen, ein Der große Roman aus Südkorea über den sozialen Druck, der auf Frauen lastet, Mütter zu werden. Munjeong und ihre fünf Mitstreiterinnen lernen sich in der Baby-Angel-Fruchtbarkeitsklinik in Seoul kennen. Sie alle sind getrieben von dem Wunsch nach einem Baby, der sich auf natürliche Art nicht erfüllen will. »Hello Baby« heißt der Gruppenchat, in dem sie sich gegenseitig beistehen. Bis eine von ihnen, die 46-jährige Jeonghyo, plötzlich offline geht und spurlos verschwindet. Ein Jahr später taucht sie auf mysteriöse Weise mit einem Baby wieder auf ... Sechs unfruchtbare Frauen finden sich im blinden Fleck der Gesellschaft wieder, ihr Kampf schweißt sie in einer Freundschaft wider Willen zusammen. Ein bewegendes Porträt darüber, was es bedeutet, heute Frau zu sein und sich Erwartungen in patriarchalen Gesellschaften zu widersetzen.

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A River Wide

Amanda J. McGee

Mountains have deep, dark hearts, and those hearts are carved by water. Deep in the shadowed hollers of Appalachia, Rhia Blackburn has always kept her powers and her heart buried. Around here, the river whispers dark secrets, the earth remembers every cut, and survival is a skill women pass down in blood. But when her cousin Amey is kidnapped up the mountain, Rhia is forced to confront the terror of her home and her own troubled history. To save her, Rhia must trust her powers—and herself—because in Appalachia, family comes first and water always finds a way. An Appalachian horror novella about family, grief, and the stubborn strength it takes to survive.

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