2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall - Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

A useful and touching guide on gender identity - what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere

An unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal.

The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others

“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).

An anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought.

Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther King, black radicalism, and his experience in an interracial family.

A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple narratives, and imagination that touch on struggles for justice everywhere

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him

The lives and writings of six leading Black Buddhist women - Jan Willis, bell hooks, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, angel Kyodo williams, Spring Washam, and Faith Adiele - reveal new expressions of Buddhism rooted in ancestry, love, and collective liberation.

Imani Perry is the 2023 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.