Ride or DieAdrenaline obsessed Loli cannot help herself when it comes to chasing thrills, but when she strikes up an anonymous correspondence with X, a mysterious student at her school, he challenges her to a game that tests even her no holds barred quest for adventure.

He wants to pretend like everything is fine

In this stirring memoir

especially of African-American descent

Grana asks

In "Mash Up Love

she finds friends in elixirs teacher

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her

by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart

Black Oak includes odes to Barry Jenkins

Each has moved on

She learns that dedication and hard work are tools for gaining the confidence and courage needed to pursue her dreams

"Another world is possible