A pitch-perfect middle-grade graphic memoir about crushes, coming out, and finding the courage to be yourself.Eighth grade isn't off to a great start. Everyone but Rex seems to be coupling up, and he's starting to feel like an outsider... until he meets Charlotte. She's fearless, smart, pretty, and she likes him back. But as great as Charlotte is, there's someone else Rex can't stop thinking about.Drew is Rex's childhood best friend, so when he kisses Rex, ...

A humorous and heartwarming middle-grade graphic memoir about fitting in, facing bullies, and finding the right pair of glasses.Sixth grade isn't as great as Rex thought it would be. He's the only kid who hasn't had a growth spurt, and the bullies won't let him forget it. His closest friend is unreliable, at best. And there's a cute girl in his class, who may or may not like him back. With so much going on, everything is a blur -- including Rex's vision! So when he...

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONThe Bright Green Futures: 2024 anthology is a collection of short solarpunk stories from guests of the Bright Green Futures podcast, where we lift up stories to build a better world. These hopeful climate-fiction stories include clicky space centipedes, sentient trees, a flooded future Rio de Janeiro and characters trying to find their place in a climate-impacted world. Each story imagines a way for us to survive the future, together.Brigh...

Lafe Brisco had hunted buffalo, tracked killers, and survived country that buried weaker men before sundown. But when he rides into the broken grasslands beyond Red Fork, he finds more than a herd waiting for him.A ruthless hide boss has been stealing kills, threatening honest hunters, and leaving men dead where the coyotes can find them. Lafe wants no part of another man's war—until a beaten young skinner staggers into his camp with a warning and a bullet wound.Now Lafe mu...

A funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic memoir about breaking out, battling puberty, and braving complicated friendships.It's time to face facts!On the first day of seventh grade, Rex encounters a bump in the road -- a big angry pimple right in the center of his forehead. And this is only the beginning of his problems. What follows is a frustrating battle with stubborn acne, body odor, and other embarrassments of puberty. Still struggling with a home life e...

JC Bannister is a killer.He's killed for his country.He's killed for money.But now he's being asked to cross lines he never imagined.Killing a friend, a powerful US Senator. For money.A lot of money.Bannister has done a lot of questionable things for dubious reasons. Now, double-crossed and on the run, he needs to figure out what the right thing is and get it done.If he gets it wrong, he and his team could wind up in jail permanently....

Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout is a captivating installment in the Nero Wolfe series, blending sharp wit, intricate plotting, and high-stakes intrigue. When the famously reclusive and eccentric detective Nero Wolfe is drawn into a case involving personal connections and international intrigue, his methodical brilliance is put to the ultimate test.The story begins when Wolfe's quiet routine is interrupted by the arrival of a beautiful young woman seeking his help. Claiming to be his ...

Race Relations in Sociological Theory (1983) presents a clear definition of the field of race relations, and indicates how it should be systematically developed. Professor Rex argues that there are three elements in what is called a ‘race relations situation’: an extreme form of oppression; restriction of mobility between groups; and the ideological rationalisation of the system by a deterministic theory. He shows how the roots of racism emerge in colonial situations and in the tr...

Gideon Shaw was too old to chase glory and too seasoned to fear trouble.After years of wearing a badge, he had learned one hard truth: a town only stays peaceful when good men are willing to stand against bad ones. When outlaws ride into town with guns drawn and greed in their hearts, the citizens look to Marshal Shaw for protection.But this time, the danger is bigger than one robbery and meaner than one gang.With the bank threatened, innocent people hiding behind l...

This is a story of a girl that is expected to be a woman, a girl who is forced to be a woman, and a girl who doesn't want to lose the child within.

From award-winning author Rex Ogle, a mixed-format middle grade novel about three boys who skip school, told in verse, prose, and comics.With a dad in jail and a lack of teachers interested in helping him learn, Manny doesn’t see the point in anything besides skateboarding and writing lyrics. Calvin has so many responsibilities to his father and little brothers that when his bike is stolen, he can’t make it to school on time. And while Liam is studious and wants to...

Can machines rewild us?An AI breakthrough connects a team of scientists with a wild dolphin, but progress is neck-and-neck with climate breakdown. Class differences are only the first challenge when romance blooms between college girls at a soil remediation site. A forlorn drone seeks reassignment after his human companion dies—but a reckless band of rebels has other plans.T. K. Rex’s debut collection explores a turbulent timeline where the role of intelligent machines chan...