Justin Torres

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to Juan Gay. Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within...

An exquisite, blistering debut novel

Three brothers tear their way through childhood—smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn—he's Puerto Rican, she's white—and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times.

Life

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Book four in the New York Times bestselling series The 100. Now a hit TV show on the CW!
It's been a month since the new dropships landed and the rest of the Colonists joined the hundred on the ground. The teens, once branded juvenile delinquents, are now leaders among their people. It should be a time for celebration and togetherness, but a new threat appears before long: a fanatical cult determined to grow its ranks and "heal"...

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds appearing in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the 24 chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People's History is the...