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Multicultural and Diverse Books for Adults

Lee & Low Books has expanded its vast library to include a wide range of multicultural books for adults. We’re thrilled to further our mission to publish books about everyone – for everyone with adult works that share authentic stories about BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ people, and many more communities—all through beautifully written prose and poetry. Fans of great adult literature, especially those who seek out trailblazing books from independent book publishers, will find something to love among our award-winning and critically-acclaimed novels, memoirs, true crime accounts, short story and poetry collections, and more. 

Fiction

Lee and Low Books is proud to offer a variety of unique, captivating works of contemporary adult fiction and poetry. Whether readers are looking for thought-provoking literary fiction, gripping crime fiction and mysteries, or soul-stirring poetry, they can find them among Lee and Low’s fiction and nonfiction books for adults.

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NonFiction

Lee and Low Books offers an exciting array of eye-opening nonfiction books for adults. From rich, underground histories, to forthright memoirs by insightful authors, to fascinating true crime, these titles give readers an in-depth look into some of the most important and consistently relevant topics of our time.

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The Open Book Blog

The Meaning of Home: A Q&A with Maham Khwaja and Daby Zainab Faidhi

Graphic with the heading "A Q&A with Maham Khwaja and Daby Zainab Faidhi" that shows the cover of The Home We Make and author photos for Maham and Daby over an illustration of a refugee camp.
In this Q&A, author Maham Khwaja and illustrator Daby Zainab Faidhi share the backstory of their upcoming picture book and its many themes, including displacement, resilience, and the meaning of…

 

WATCH THE RECORDING: LEE & LOW BOOKS FALL 2024 SEASONAL SHOWCASE

Whether you’re a parent, teacher, librarian, or bookseller, this webinar will help you discover great new books to diversify your shelves for readers of all ages We especially enjoyed the excellent…

 

New Release: Pedro’s Yo-Yos

Today, we are delighted to celebrate the release of Pedro’s Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys, the backstory of the yo-yo and a colorful biography of…

 

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Ringside Seat to a Revolution

By David Dorado Romo

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Make It, Take It

By Rus Bradburd

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A Song for the River

By Philip Connors

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Letters to Goya

By James Magee

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The Last Cigarette on Earth

By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Incantations

By Ambar Past

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Folly Cove

By Kermit Schweidel

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A Tightly Raveled Mind

By Diane Lawson

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The Bird Boys

By Lisa Sandlin

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Cold Type

By Harvey Araton

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As Far As I Know

By Joseph Somoza