Chasing Normal

Based on Disney's latest animated movie, Tangled, this activity book features 48 pages to color—plus over 30 shiny stickers!

An entertaining and thought-provoking look at the dietary habits of everyday Americans examines the collective idiosyncrasies, tastes, myths, and eating behavior of members of our food-obsessed societ

In the 1940s an adventurous youth flees New England for Los Angeles, a city vibrating with wartime energy and sex. Beach culture and a pretty girl captivate him, but he leaves to tramp alone far into

Restless souls and empty hearts Brooklyn can't sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca, died only a year ago, and now her friend Gabe has just died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost i

Monsieur Degas likes to paint the students while they practice in ballet class?they’ve inspired many of his beautiful paintings. But one day he mistakenly leaves his bag of paints in the dance studio

*“An excellent read.”—School Library Journal, StarredIt's true: After 17-year-old Ben’s father announces he’s gay and the family splits apart, Ben does everything he can to tick him off: skip school,

See how it all began for one of literature?s most famous P.I.s?Spenser! For almost forty years, Robert B. Parker?s inimitable private investigator Spenser has been solving cases and selling millions o

Best Friends Forever?that's Anjenai, Kierra and Tyler. Growing up together in an Atlanta housing project, the girls have always been there for each other. But high school is a whole new world, and the

Professional hockey player Jason Mitchell is thrilled when he's traded to the New York Blades-the team of his dreams. There's just one problem: his pooch isn't adjusting to city life too well. Good th

“Must the end of life be the worst part?Can it be made the best?”At 53, Eugene O'Kelly was in the full swing of life. Chairman and CEO of KPMG, one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, he enjoyed a s

Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison -- unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence. The problem? Right now the

When a book of unexplainable occurances brings Petra Andalee & Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their compan

As a fourteen-year-old boy from a small Midwestern town, Charles Mee believed in God, family, and his future, which, at the very least, included girls and a long spell as a hometown football hero. But

In her first book, Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams gave readers an incredible and unprecedented guided tour of the world of autism--a mysterious and little-understood condition.??From her earliest years, Donna's world was dominated by disembodied patterns, sound, color, and movement.??Cut off from her emotions and unable to make any true connections with other people, Donna lived largely in isolation, avoiding the incomprehensible actions of others yet yearning to be normal.??After she endured twenty-five years of imprisonment, a diagnosis of autism enabled her to take the first steps toward freedom, to begin the arduous trek from her "world under glass" to the real world.Somebody Somewhere chronicles the four years since Donna's diagnosis and continues the journey she began in Nobody Nowhere.??Certain that she can no longer survive by straddling two opposing worlds, Donna vows to abandon entirely the comforting isolation of her universe of one.??The decision has brought both agonies an

Mum's dead. Killed in a car crash. Her last words, a message to someone I've never even heard of. All I've got left is a trail of secrets and lies that lead to a locked up house. I tell you now, I'm n