From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today “A master class in journalism as a force for change. Nico Lang cuts through the political ping-pong over transgender rights to surface the human stories that too often go ignored. Lang’s lucid and clear-eyed account of their lives offers an essential corrective, reminding us that there’s nothing more American than the freedom to be yourself.” —SAMANTHA ALLEN, author of Real Queer America   “Lang weaves this broad bleak terrain with warm insights and a clear immediacy of message. Expansive and compassionate.” ―GABE DUNN, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Everyone But You Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager paints a vivid portrait of what it’s actually like to grow up trans today. From the tip of Florida’s conservative panhandle to vibrant queer communities in California, and from Texas churches to mosques in Illinois, American Teenager gives readers a window into the lives of Wyatt, Rhydian, Mykah, Clint, Ruby, Augie, Jack, and Kylie, eight teens who, despite what some lawmakers might want us to believe, are truly just kids looking for a brighter future.

Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves. Among Gay’s funny, poetic, philosophical delights: the way Botan Rice Candy wrappers melt in your mouth, the volunteer crossing guard with a pronounced tremor whom he imagines as a kind of boat-woman escorting pedestrians across the River Styx, a friend’s unabashed use of air quotes, pickup basketball games, the silent nod of acknowledgment between black people. And more than any other subject, Gay celebrates the beauty of the natural world—his garden, the flowers in the sidewalk, the birds, the bees, the mushrooms, the trees. This is not a book of how-to or inspiration, though it could be read that way. Fans of Roxane Gay, Maggie Nelson, and Kiese Laymon will revel in Gay’s voice, and his insights. The Book of Delights is about our connection to the world, to each other, and the rewards that come from a life closely observed. Gay’s pieces serve as a powerful and necessary reminder that we can, and should, stake out a space in our lives for delight.  Preface 1. My Birthday, Kinda 2. Inefficiency 3. Flower in the Curb 4. Blowing It Off 5. Hole in the Head 6. Remission Still 7. Praying Mantis 8. The Negreeting 9. The High-Five from Strangers, Etc 10. Writing by Hand 11. Transplanting 12. Nicknames 13. But, Maybe .. 14. "Joy Is Such a Human Madness 15. House Party 16. Hummingbird 17. Just a Dream 18. "That's Some Bambi Shit" .. 19. The Irrepressible: The Gratitudes 20. Tap Tap 21. Coffee without the Saucer 22. Lily on the Pants 23. Sharing a Bag 24. Umbrella in the Café 25. Beast Mode 26. Airplane Rituals 27. Weirdly Untitled 28. Pecans 29. The Do-Over 30. Infinity 31. Ghost 32. Nota Bene 33. "Love Me in a Special Way" 34. "Stay," by Lisa Loeb 35. Stacking Delights 36. Donny Hathaway on Pandora 37. "To Spread the Sweetness of Love" 38. Baby, Baby, Baby 39. "REPENT OR BURN" 40. Giving My Body to the Cause 41. Among the Rewards of My Sloth . . 42. Not Grumpy Cat 43. Some Stupid Shit 44. Not Only . . 45. Microgentrification: WE BUY GOLD 46. Reading Palms 47. The Sanctity of Trains 48. Bird Feeding 49. Kombucha in a Mid-century Glass 50. Hickories 51. Annoyed No More 52. Toto 53. Church Poets 54. Public Lying Down 55. Babies. Seriously 56. "My Life, My Life, My Life, My Life in the Sunshine 57. Incorporation 58. Botan Rice Candy 59. Understory 60. "Joy Is Such a Human Madness": The Duff Between Us 61. "It's Just the Day I'm Having" .. 62. The Purple Cornets of Spring 63. The Volunteer 64. Fishing an Eyelash: Two or Three Cents on the Virtues of the Poetry Reading 65. Found Things 66. Found Things (2) 67. Cuplicking 68. Bobblehead 69. The Jenky 70. The Crow's Ablutions 71. Flowers in the Hands of Statues 72. An Abundance of Public Toilets 73. The Wave of Unfamiliars 74. Not for Nothing 75. Bindweed ... Delight? 76. Dickhead 77. Ambiguous Signage Sometimes 78. Heart to Heart 79. Caution: Bees on Bridge 80. Tomato on Board 81. Purple-Handed 82. Name: Kayte Young; Phone Number: 555-867-5309 83. Still Processing 84. Fireflies 85. My Scythe Jack 86. Pawpaw Grove 87. Loitering 88. Touched 89. Scat 90. Get Thee to the Nutrient Cycle! 91. Pulling Carrots 92. Filling the Frame 93. Reckless Air Quotes 94. Judith Irene Gay, Aged Seventy-six Today! 95. Rothko Backboard 96. The Marfa Lights 97. The Carport 98. My Garden (Book): 99. Black Bumblebees! 100. Grown 101. Coco-baby 102. My Birthday

1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states. Kerri, one-time kid genius and budding biologist, is bartending in New York, working on a serious drinking problem. At least she's got Tim, an excitable Weimaraner descended from the original canine member of the team. Nate, the horror nerd, has spent the last thirteen years in and out of mental health institutions, and currently resides in an asylum in Arkham, Massachusetts. The only friend he still sees is Peter, the handsome jock turned movie star. The problem is, Peter's been dead for years. The time has come to uncover the source of their nightmares and return to where it all began in 1977. This time, it better not be a man in a mask. The real monsters are waiting.

Oliver Park, a young recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's the final line. Whatever happens next, Nathan can never know. But then, everything goes wrong, terribly wrong, and Oliver barely escapes with his life. He races home in full-blown terror as the hand-shaped bruise grows dark on his neck. The truth will destroy Nathan and everything they have together, so Oliver does the thing he used to do so well: he lies. What follows is a classic runaway-train narrative, full of the exquisite escalations, edge-of-your-seat thrills, and oh-my-god twists. P. J. Vernon's Bath Haus is a scintillating thriller with an emotional punch, perfect for readers curious for their next must-read novel.

From the acclaimed author of Chef's Kiss, a groundbreaking trans Regency romance that's both delightfully witty and refreshingly iconoclastic. The notoriously eccentric Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and even more unusual habits: he prefers to live as far from the prying eyes and ears of the ton as possible, and would rather have the comfortable company of his childhood cook and his aged butler, Plinkton, than the swarm of servants and hangers-on befitting a man of his station. But Christopher's pleasant, if occasionally lonely life is upended when he receives word from his lawyers that, according to his late father’s will, he must find a wife by the end of the Season if he intends to keep his family's fortune and the Eden's End estate. Christopher cannot imagine a worse fate: as he isn't attracted to women, his chances of making a wife happy are slim. Furthermore, if his quest to marry has any hope of succeeding, he must move to London posthaste and acquire some more suitable staff. Enter James Harding, Christopher's new, distractingly handsome—if rigidly traditional—valet. After a rocky start, the two strike up a fragile friendship amid the throes of the London Season . . . a friendship that threatens to shatter under the looming shadow of Christopher’s impending nuptials—and the secrets both men are keeping. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced, complex portrait of trans identity and relationships that’s as relevant now as it was during the Regency era, A Gentleman's Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.