Crow: 181 books

Drawing on research from around the world, this atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics, making it an indispensable resource for understanding global inequalities and an inspiration for social and political action. Inequality underlies many of the challenges facing the world today, and The Atlas...

You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been prized for its mutability, for the assumed instability and flexibility of the not-yet-woman. The plasticity...

Birdie Beecham’s traitorous feet seed grass and weeds everywhere she walks. The town—last in a long line of new towns where she and her mother have moved—fears her. They’re convinced she’s not human. When her best (and only) friend tries to help solve the problem, both of them get more than they bargained for. With bonus story "Ever Rose," by Leslie Claire Walker.

The world has torn itself to pieces. Only small enclaves of life remain. The people inside them tremble under the iron-fisted rule of Moms with psychic powers and Dads who enforce the law, surrounded by the terrifying, black shadowed land known as the Void. For humanity to survive, obedience comes...

The people in Diandra Brown’s town tremble under the iron-fisted rule of Moms with psychic powers and Dads who enforce the law. They’re surrounded by the deadly shadowland known as the void. The world has torn itself to pieces, they say. For humanity to survive, obedience comes first no matter...

Dante and Byron are avatars. Driven by human beings, yet still only digital representations of their ideal selves. In reality, they live far apart, but share most of their waking and working hours together in a virtual world called Synth.In Synth, like in most code, the laws are infinitely more...

Mavis is a normal teenager but with a unique connection with birds. On her 13th birthday her grandmother reveals that like each female in the generations before Mavis, it is her destiny to develop the abilities of the birds she loves. To a shocked Mavis, Grandma explains that these abilities were...

Grant Baines runs a specialty-tour company with his sister, Andie. The tour part is ushering frat boys around the Gulf of Mexico in his charter yacht. The specialty is that he's an ex-military psychologist who does favors for the government. When Grant is asked to spend a week evaluating traumatized...

The sweetest surrender is love...Fleeing from troubles at home, young Aleyn signs on to the crew of a merchant trade cog off the coast of Eire, but he has no idea what dangers await him on the open water. Viking raiders patrol the shores like hungry wolves, taking whatever they wish, and when...

Grant's new-found happiness with his submissive Matty is shaken when he learns that Jaeger Koning, fugitive assassin and Matty's ex-Dominant, has returned to America. Over Grant's objections, Matty accepts the FBI's request to assist in the capture, but Jaeger is always one step ahead of them, and Grant discovers too late that Jaeger's true goal is to reclaim Matty.

Becket Merriday is a tortured soul: abandoned at birth, abused, haunted by strange memories of a life he never lived, and marked by an uncanny ability to see into the minds of killers. After a harrowing stint in the FBI, Beck marries and tries to make a new life for himself as a small-town...

Captain Ezra Bell was just looking for some relaxing downtime while refueling his ship at Nimia, and some beautiful company to relax with. He didn't expect the brothel to have such an exquisite man like Shen available, or for Shen to unexpectedly ask for his help to escape the space station, but when you're a rogue smuggler who looks more house-cat than human, almost anything can happen.

Marion Casterline is the highwarden of Malachite, an ancient, beautiful city floating in a shallow sea. In the aftermath of a brutal gang war, there is finally peace in the city, and new life every year through the sacred ritual of Aequora. Through Aequora, exiles, outlaws, and orphans can become...

Carnival mystics. Zombie tribes. Bad magic in the Bayou. Mage-princes, alien cities, and soul-stealing priests. The grim monsters in the worlds of these dark, speculative tales are true horrors, but it’s the people you should fear the most. People like Michel, a boy pining for his best friend, Ray....