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Justine Chan's debut book Should You Lose All Reason(s) is a luminous triptych of poems in which she examines her experiences as a Chinese American woman yearning for genuine belonging and connection. In conversation with a Southern Paiute folktale, these poems run off the page, exploring landscapes, cityscapes, music, exile, race, family, and resilience.

Saint Maur International School has sat on the bluff overlooking Yokohama, Japan since 1872. It is Japan's oldest international school and one of the oldest of its kind in the world. Historian, teacher, and author Glenn Scoggins celebrates the school's sesquicentennial with Steadfast: Saint Maur's First 150 Years on Yokohama's Bluff, presenting the fascinating, interlocking histories of Japan, Yokohama, and Saint Maur over the centuries. With a unique and idiosyncratic approach to history, Scoggins champions feminist histories, highlighting the fierce women who were foundational to the school. In the early days, there is the hopeful, steely Mother Mathilde Raclot under whose leadership and dedication the Saint Maur sisters established Saint Maur in a country where the practice of Christianity was still illegal. We also meet funny and fearless Sister Carmel O'Keefe; assigned the daunting task of overseeing the school in the immediate wake of World War II, she revives the school from the ashes and steers it into the 21st century. Having taught at Saint Maur for forty-five years, Scoggins also brings his expatriate perspective and story to the history. With its mix of primary-source material and firsthand accounts, Steadfast is expansive and intimate in its scope.

When a little girl has to move away, her babysitter helps her feel brave through food, stories, and traditions.

Natural Consequences is a collection of forty-two environmental essays by Char Miller, Professor of Environmental Analysis & History at Pomona College in Southern California. These essays variously encourage readers to get out in nature, to take a hike and restore our relationship to the land in order to better recognize the challenges of climate change. Collected into six sections, these personal narratives explore the threats of fire, drought, development, and fracking. Char Miller is well aware of climate change and the ecological degradation developed nations are causing. From personal experiences in his Southern California neighborhood or through his travel, Char Miller explores the damage of the dominant cultures on the environment and the need to address environmental injustice. His thoughtful vignettes and fascinating historical interpretations clearly lay out our challenges. Willing to admit his own role in our worldwide crisis, Char Miller's essays offer local, regional, and global solutions to reduce the natural consequences of our actions.

In Urban Creatures, Sarah Gray's short stories shift from the unsettling to the surreal to the frightening, all cut through with her characteristic black humor. Urban survival makes creatures of us all.

Fledgling democracy and human rights movements challenge autocrats throughout Asia. What role will the US play in the region in a post-Trump world?

A multi-genre celebration of the Pacific Northwest featuring monochrome photos by Nathan Wirth and poetry and essays inspired by those photos from leading writers.

In this blend of fiction and nonfiction, two young Japanese American sisters try to make sense of a world where their government imprisons them in World War II concentration camps while some of their friends and neighbors come to their aid.

Photographer Bernstein stages "living pictures" to tell the story of Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, which was known as Film Row during the 1920s, became a haven for artists in the 1960s and 1970s, and gave birth to Grunge in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Spring is a book-length lyric essay that examines grief and transformation through the lens of mystical animal appearances following the death of the narrator's partner.

Thirty stories and 32 photos chronicle life on Seattle's No. 7 bus during the graveyard shift.

Three stories of Japanese American resistance during wartime paint a fuller picture of a dark chapter in US history.

Brimming with personality, the travel cats each have a story to tell and a journey to embark on.

A high school kid becomes Lee's youngest student, training with him in empty parking lots and forging a lifelong bond.

Inbar's translations of Heian Era (794-1185) court songs highlight their earthy, erotic nature.

Beware the trickster Yokai of ancient Japanese mythology. In these contemporary, original stories, young narrators must outfox the supernatural shapeshifters.

Inspired by personal experiences with Japan's vengeful spirits, Davisson investigates the origins and legends of yurei.