The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known—and pits Mare against the darkness t
Featuring Danny and the Dinosaur and seven other most beloved I Can Read characters together, this collection of favorite easy-to-read I Can Read stories is full of familiar faces—and comes with a fre
Charlie is the lovable basset hound of the Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond, and the star of the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book Charlie the Ranch Dog. Now our favorite bacon-loving dog is back
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Everyone has something fun, from Squeakers the mouse to a pair of false teeth, to share at Show-and-Tell! Even Miss Plum shares something—a sparkly new engagement ring! But when the ring goes missing,
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For Tamara Chalabi, Iraq is more than a country of war and controversy; it is a place of poignant memory. For much of the twentieth century, the Chalabis were among the most influential families in Ir
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From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous d
Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shriver?s resonant story of a mother?s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son?s deadly violence, h
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, "A People's History of the United States" is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words
Beautiful, devastating and complex. Chicago Tribune The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, J
The sheltered son of a Jewish mobster, Art Bechstein leaps into his first summer as a college graduate as cluelessly as he capered through his school years. But new friends and lovers are eager to g
Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black? What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common? Is it good to praise a child's
This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay. Washington Post Book World Bracingly honest.
The daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes presents a collection of works that breaks past silences to reveal her experiences of losing her father to cancer, fighting bulimia, weathering the legacy o
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ -- known as TÉtÉ -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage.
As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir?and introduced Patrick Ken
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When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fierce
In Shell Games, journalist Craig Welch delves into our nation's waters and wildlands in search of America's most unusual criminals. The resulting detective story is filled with butterfly thieves, bear
To ten-year-old Suse Hansen, the fighting in Europe seems far away from the blue skies and quiet streets of her Bay Area home in Mendoza, California?despite newspaper war photographs and the tense rad
"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." Time Out New York "[Butler's] sentences. . .
A groundbreaking and accessible history of heavenfrom the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings to the convictions and perceptions of e
In nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads, Pulitzer ushered in the modern mass media. James McG
Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern-day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love
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From the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling, richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II.
From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize?winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outs
On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison. The int
A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed author of Soul Catcher World War II seems lost for the beleaguered Soviets as they strugg
What happens when two New Yorkers (one an exdrag queen) do the unthinkable: start over, have a herd of kids, and get a little dirty? Find out in this riotous and moving true tale of goats,
Kasischkes writing does what good poetry doesit shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence, one of fa
From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground?from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions?MariNaomi lays her
From the author of The Children's Blizzard comes an epic story of the sacrifice and service of an immigrant generation. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, one-third of the natio
Definitive and unsurpassed, The Confederate Nation is the renowned history of the Confederacy by Emory M. Thomas ("one of America's most eminent Civil War historians"?Richmond Times-Dispatch). Thomas'
Shortlisted for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize, this "profoundly humane novel" (Vancouver Sun), wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between
Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell? Though there are no witnesses and no clues, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed Burdells house and his servants. Rumo
