The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and controlIn 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is...

2023 Christopher Award Winner 2024 Excellence in Religion Reporting Award Winner for Nonfiction from Religion News Writers Association Paperback with New Afterword from AuthorEggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an embroidered dress.

A 2024 National Book Award for Non-fiction FinalistA 2024 Publisher's Weekly best Religion book of the year.A New York Times Notable book of 2024.A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.Americans have been leaving their churches. Some...

From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each otherWe sign, write, clap! We tap, stim, scream! So many ways to talk and joke, play and learn and dream.

Warm, witty poems by the acclaimed Allan Wolf bring mindfulness to the younger set—one simple, nurturing practice at a time.An om is a poem without any words. It acts as a voice so the heart can be heard.Have you ever let your thoughts just float into the sky?

A joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection of letters and art for young people, You Were Made for This World brings together celebrated Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island.Every young person deserves the chance to feel like they belong, that they are recognized, that they matter.

New York Times bestselling author and Scripps National Spelling Bee champ Zaila Avant-garde encourages young readers to embrace what makes them different in this vibrant and uplifting new picture book.We are the weird. The wonderfully weird, that is.

A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left.At the heart of this funny, acerbic, and bravely honest book of essays is Maris...

A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive lonelinessyes, everyone is struggling right now so please be gracious be kind & patient, but subvert every institution that relies o...

A poignant wordless picture book about a homeless boy and his mom, by Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner James RansomeWhen a little boy’s mom picks him up from school, his day seems a lot like any other kid’s. He and his mom go out for some fast food and then head to the library. But...

Discover your next read with this carefully curated list from We Need Diverse Books.Check out 100 must-read books to try before you’re 12! Packed with reviews, recommendations, and exclusive author interviews, The Reading Adventure: 100 Books To Check Out Before You’re 12 will inspire young

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From We Need Diverse Books, comes an inspiring middle-grade anthology that follows the loosely interconnected lives of multigenerational immigrant families, the residents at the Entrada apartment building. Edited by Ellen Oh, a founding member of WNDB.“The beauty of their...

Available for pre-orderThe life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality.#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs’s...

Available for pre-orderA searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of colorFor over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability

Available for pre-orderThe story of factory farmers, rescued farm animals, and rural communities standing up to big corporations and constructing their own new world that will change the way we eatIn Transfarmation, president and CEO of Mercy For Animals Leah Garcés explains how food and farming...

A truly inspiring book for parents and caregivers, and for the kid inside us all.What if helping boost kids’ mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, and support their curiosity and internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe? Through research, interviews, and

Available for pre-orderA bold takedown of the ways women are terrorized about fatness, and a treatise on the revolutionary power of fat fury.Anti-fatness and fat-shaming are used most often as a way to inspire fear in others about being or becoming fat....

Available for pre-orderAn award-winning environmental science teacher’s actionable roadmap for educators interested in making the world a classroom, even in the city.Join award-winning New York City educator Dr. Jared Fox in—and out of—his classroom on an excursion that goes beyond books and...

Available for pre-order4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great DepressionDrawing on little-known stories of working people, What Can We Learn from the Great Depression? amplifies voices that have been long omitted from standard...

Available for pre-orderSpotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwideTime and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a...