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The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson about a teenage girl moving with her newly blended family to a picture-perfect home . . . that is hiding secrets. When the Sterling Foundation offers Marigold’s mom free housing for a year, her newly blended family moves to the embattled city of Cedarville, along with Mari’s bratty stepsister, Piper. Mari wants to be back in sunny California, not this oddly renovated home in a decaying town―but it’s not like the house wants her there, either.It starts off slow. The perma-locked basement. Doors opening and closing when no one’s there. Mari’s stuff getting moved around her room. Piper makes a new friend, Ms. Suga, except no one else has seen her. But ghosts aren’t real, right? Mari and her brother, Sammy, set up cameras to investigate.The house doesn’t like that.When a fire starts across the street, Marigold becomes suspicious of Piper. After Sammy

From New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes the follow-up to Starlight Enclave and thrilling second novel in his newest trilogy, The Way of the Drow, expanding the Forgotten Realms through the adventures of Drizzt, Catti-brie, Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Zaknefein…and a society of drow unlike one any elf from Menzoberranzan could possibly imagine.There’s a lot that Jarlaxle doesn’t know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape the ice caverns and get help for his friends?However, what Jarlaxle does know is that if he plans to come back―if Catti-brie, Entreri, and Zaknafein are to have any hope of surviving―he’s going to have to bring back far more firepower. An army of aevendrow seems unlikely, so he must go home and pull together a team with great skill and unimaginable power.But how will he get home? Will such a collection of warriors and mages come

Nominated for the 2021 Norwegian Ministry of Culture Picture Book PrizeNominated for the 2021 Norwegian Book Prize (Brage Prize)It's time for bed, but little Bo isn't ready to stop playing quite yet! As his mother gamely guides him through his nighttime routine, he imitates various animals--a hibernating bear after eating a snack, a snuggling sea otter when taking a bath, a coiled python while curling up under the covers... Mommy joins in on the fun and keeps one step ahead of Bo until he falls asleep, soaring like a bird into the world of dreams. A lively and imaginative take on getting ready for bed that celebrates creative family play and the joyous love between mother and son.

臭鼬西尼與刺蝟泰勒的溫馨冒險故事。雖然性格不同，兩人卻是最好的朋友。從勇闖未知的大世界，到挑戰飛天夢想，甚至努力交新朋友，每次旅程，他們都學會了勇氣、理解與友情的真諦。故事幽默溫暖，搭配全彩插圖，內容貼近孩子生活，適合剛開始閱讀獨立章節書的小讀者，也適合親子共讀。這是一段屬於小動物，也屬於每個孩子的成長冒險。 The Sydney and Taylor series follows the heartwarming adventures of Sydney the skunk and Taylor the hedgehog—two very different animals who are the best of friends. Together, they explore the unknown, chase wild dreams like becoming the world’s first flying hedgehog, and learn the ups and downs of making new friends. Filled with humor, full-color illustrations, and gentle life lessons, these charming chapter books are perfect for early independent readers or shared reading. A delightful journey about friendship, courage, and discovering the world, one small step at a time.

Trust Exercise meets The Interestings in this story of ten teenagers brought together by a high school production of The Diary of Anne Frank―which will influence the rest of their lives.Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. They are eager for the chance to escape their difficult everyday lives. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he’ll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman―and the two are seen alone at the director’s house―a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to unfold.2016. The actors have moved on with their lives. Some are wildly successful, some never left their hometown, and some just want to be left alone. Everything changes, however, when one former cast member comes forward with an allegation dating back to the time of the play. The consequences of this public revelation will be far-reaching and c

In this small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins her investigation, Esther’s tenacious best friend, Ronnie, is determined to find Esther and bring her home.When schoolfriend Lewis tells Ronnie that he saw Esther with a strange man at the creek the afternoon she went missing, Ronnie feels she is one step closer to finding her. But why is Lewis refusing to speak to the police? And who else is lying about how much they know about what has happened to Esther?Punctuated by a Greek chorus, which gives voice to the remaining children of the small, dying town, this novel explores the ties that bind, what we try and leave beh

From the award-winning author Alan Heathcock comes an American myth of the future: a vision of civil war, spectacle, and disaster of biblical proportions.In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and political unrest, a fundamentalist faction emerges. As the Novae Terrae gain power, enticing civilians with bread and circuses, a civil war breaks out between its members and the US government.Mazzy Goodwin, a young soldier, only wants to find her little sister, Ava Lynn. One day, she wakes in a bomb crater to find wings emerged from her back. Has she died? Been gifted wings by God? Undergone a military experiment?The world sees a miracle. Mazzy is coaxed into seeing it as an opportunity: to become the angel-like figurehead of the revolution, in return for being reunited with her sister. Her journey leads her to New Los Angeles, where the Novae have set up the headquarters for their propaganda machine?right in the ruins of Hollywood. Aided by friends old and new, she must

Three dead. And more to come.A triple homicide in a small Pennsylvania town is no small event. And when one of the locals is a writer with a hefty dose of curiosity, the secrets that people have been trying their best to hide never stay hidden for long...Acclaimed author Randall Silvis pushes the boundaries of crime fiction with The Deepest Black, a gripping and twisty novel written in the style of a true crime memoir that blends fact and fiction and leaves the reader guessing every step of the way.

Celebrate your life stories and nurture deeper bonds with your family, all while finding greater joy and gratitude. Become a storycatcher!Storycatcher Katie Clemons brings a thoughtful, creative way for families to connect with one another. Through the engaging prompts, kids and parents can discover and celebrate all the unique and interesting ways they are similar and different.This engaging prompt journal is the perfect tool to strengthen mother-son relationships. Kids can record memories, swap stories, compare perspectives, and explore common and unique interests with their mom! Letters back and forth and interactive lists invite both to reflect, write, and doodle about topics timely to their lives as kids build self-confidence and improve their penmanship. Master storycatcher Katie Clemons helps daughters discover the beauty of their stories and, best of all, strengthens their bonds with their moms!

“An extraordinary novel, spiny and delicate, scathingly funny and wildly moving.” ―Lauren Groff, author of Matrix “Sarah Thankam Mathews’ prose is undeniable.” ―Raven Leilani, author of Luster From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself―a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first century AmericaGraduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women―soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rai

Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday lifeFirst published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover their ways back to recovery. Among the women we meet in Dead-End Memories is one betrayed by her fiancé who finds a perfect refuge in an apartment above her uncle’s bar while seeking the real meaning of happiness. In “House of Ghosts,” the daughter of a yoshoku restaurant owner encounters the ghosts of a sweet elderly couple who haven’t yet realized that they’ve been dead for years. In “Tomo-chan’s Happiness,” an office worker who is a victim of sexual assault finally catches sight of the hope of romance. Yoshimoto’s gentle, effortless prose reminds us that one true miracle can be as simpl

It’s aliiiiiiiive! The bestselling authors of My Lady Jane are back with the electric, poetic, and (almost) historical tale of the one and only Mary Shelley.Mary may have inherited the brilliant mind of her late mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, but she lives a drab life above her father’s bookstore, waiting for an extraordinary idea that’ll inspire a work worthy of her parentage―and impress her rakishly handsome (and super-secret) beau, Percy Shelley.Ada Lovelace knows a thing or two about superstar parents, what with her dad being Lord Byron, the most famous poet on Earth. But her passions lie far beyond the arts―in mechanical engineering, to be exact. Alas, no matter how precise Ada’s calculations, there’s always a man willing to claim her ingenious ideas as his own.Pan, a.k.a. Practical Automaton Number One, is Ada's greatest idea yet: a machine that will change the world, if only she can figure out how to make him truly autonomous . . . or how to make him work at all.When fate connects

A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protester in this atmospheric novel from the New York Times notable author of The Forgiven―soon to be a major motion picture.“There came a sound of rubber bullets being fired along Java Road and the sad crowing of sirens as if to herald a future even more unpleasant than the present.”After twenty years as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, that “most melancholy street in the city, the street where the dead congregated.” It is through these jaded eyes that Gyle watches the city around him--once overflowing with wine dinners and private members’ clubs--erupt in violence as pro-democracy demonstrations hit ever closer to home. But just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on Hong Kong, he finds one last intrigue: the alluring R

Getting a healthy, homecooked dinner on the table can be one of the greatest challenges for today's hard-working famillies on limited budgets. Kids are eager to help, but what can they do? Kids Cook Dinner provides 25 easy, budget-friendly recipes selected from the best-selling Cooking Class books, specially developed for kids ages 8-12 to make, with flavors the whole family will enjoy. It's kids' cooking night―and they’re in charge of making dinner! This selection of 25 easy, budget-friendly dinner recipes from the best-selling Cooking Class series teaches kids how to make tasty, healthy meals with easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. The recipes feature a range of kid favorites, including Popcorn Chicken, Easy Cheesy Quesadillas, Pasta with Tomatoes & Fresh Mozzarella, Black Beans & Rice, Pizza, Meatballs with Creamy Sauce, Super Sliders, and Supper Salad have been specially selected for their budget-friendliness (averaging $2 a serving) and use of easy-to-find pantry staples, as well

Celebrate your life stories and nurture deeper bonds with your family, all while finding greater joy and gratitude. Become a storycatcher!Storycatcher Katie Clemons brings a thoughtful, creative way for families to connect with one another. Through the engaging prompts, kids and parents can discover and celebrate all the unique and interesting ways they are similar and different.This engaging prompt journal is the perfect tool to strengthen mother-son relationships. Kids can record memories, swap stories, compare perspectives, and explore common and unique interests with their mom! Letters back and forth and interactive lists invite both to reflect, write, and doodle about topics timely to their lives as kids build self-confidence and improve their penmanship. Master storycatcher Katie Clemons helps sons discover the beauty of their stories and, best of all, strengthens their bonds with their moms!

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Impossible First, a compelling blend of riveting adventure stories and hard-won wisdom that reveals how you can harness your inner strength, overcome your limiting beliefs, and embark on a transformative, one-day journey that will unlock your best life.Millions of people dream of living a more fulfilling life, yet many of us settle for a life of comfortable complacency and quiet desperation, allowing excuses and negative thoughts to invade our mindset. What if I fail?...I don't have enough moneyI don't have what it takeswe allow these voices to run our lives. Now, The 12-Hour Walk provides the inspiration and catalyst for getting unstuck. Featuring the hard-earned life lessons of ten-time world record breaking explorer Colin O'Brady, with captivating stories set to the most extreme places on Earthfrom Antarctica to the perilous Drake Passage to the peaks of Mt. Everest and K2this book shows us how to embrace our abilities, step out of o

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening―a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa Moshfegh NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND VULTUREEast Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are omnipresent, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick partners with Cassidy―after having been her relu

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time has come to rise again.After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation. Then one of his Neimoidian contacts disappears, and Sidious does not need his Force-honed instincts to suspect betrayal. He orders his apprentice, Darth Maul, to hunt the traitor down.But he is too late. The secret has already passed into the hands of information broker Lorn Pavan, which places him right at the top of Darth Maul’s hit list. Then, in the labyrinthine alleyways and sewers of Coruscant, capital city of the Republic, Lorn crosses paths with Darsha Assant, a Jedi Padawan on a mission to earn her Knighthood. Now the future of the Republic depends on Darsha and Lorn. But how can an untried Jedi and an ordinary man, stranger to the powerful ways of the Force, hop

In this awardwinning chapter book about prejudice and justice, an orphan girl is adopted by a gorilla who lives in a junkyard and a surprising friendship grows between them.Jonna lives in an orphanage whose manager is strict and obsessed with cleanliness. Like all the other children, Jonna has only one dream: to be adopted by a well-dressed mother who smells of perfume. But one day, a beat-up old car pulls up. The door opens and out step two thick hairy legs with muddy boots, followed by a belly as round as a barrel, and finally, a head like an overgrown pear. It’s a gorilla!Surely the orphanage won’t let a gorilla adopt a child. But, to Jonna’s horror, the gorilla chooses her…Jonna sleeps in a hammock, and in the evenings the gorilla reads Dickens in her worn armchair. It turns out Jonna and the gorilla have a lot in common. But just when they’ve started to get along, a man from the council threatens to send Jonna back to the orphanage.The Ape Star is a heartwarming and unconventional

Secrets and romance burn brightly in this steamy new historical romance set in Anna Harrington's dazzling Regency worldLady Sydney Rowland, Baroness Rowland, has spent a lifetime keeping secrets, one of them being her son. Since the husband she despised is dead, she'll do anything to get her son back and protect him the way only she can. And that includes risking her life when she's coerced into working for Scepter, a revolutionary group determined to overthrow the government.Captain Nathaniel Reed has been charged by the Home Office to determine Sydney's involvement with Scepter. Though he quickly learns that Sydney is innocent, he's determined to keep the secretive widow at arm's length despite the attraction that burns between them. But when she turns to him for help, nothing will stop him from coming to her aid and showing her exactly what she means to him...

The Blue Bloods are back…more fanged and fabulous than ever.After defeating Lucifer and sacrificing the love of her life, Jack, Schuyler wakes up back in New York safe and sound. Only it’s not quite the New York she knows, and she’s not in her regular body. She looks different and feels different and so does everyone else. Schuyler soon discovers that in this world, her best friend has a different last name, her parents are both alive and well and one of them is an entirely different person, and the love of her life? Not so dead after all. The catch? Jack has no idea who she is.As it turns out, Schuyler is not in her New York. She’s not even in her universe. This is an alternate reality. One where Lucifer is alive and well and acting as mayor of New York, Blue Bloods are luring humans to clinics to drain their blood, and Jack is Lucifer’s right hand man. Just when she thinks all is lost, Schuyler is contacted by a familiar friend―the Silver Blood, Kingsley. The Kingsley from her world.

This complete (and completely gross) guide to the human body is the hilarious debut nonfiction children's book from world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay! Do you ever think about your body and how it works? Like really, really think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well...pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your math teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:Are boogers safe to eat? Look, if your nose is going to all that effort of creating a snack, the least we can do is check out its nutritional value. (Yes, they're safe. Chew away!)And how much of your life will you spend on the toilet? About a year―so bring a good book. (I recommend this one.)Sit back, relax, put on some rubber gloves, and let a doctor take you on (slightly repulsive) tour of your insides. Welcome to Kay's Anatomy*. *A fancy word for your body. Se

A probing and illuminating analysis of current state of American politics, focusing on Donald Trump's lie about election fraud, by the White House Correspondent for the Associated Press Donald Trump first tried it out in 2016, at an August rally in Ohio. He said that perhaps he wouldn't accept the election results in his race against Hillary Clinton, that the election was "rigged." He then mentioned it at more rallies and even at one of the fall debates. He didn't have to challenge the result that year, but the stage was set. When he lost in 2020, he started the lie back up again and to devastating results: an insurrection at the Capitol in January 2021. In the more than five tumultuous, paradigm-shifting years of Donald Trump's presidency and beyond, his near-constant lying has become a fixture of political life. It is inextricably linked with how his party behaves, how the Democrats respond to it, and how he remains relevant, even after a decisive loss in 2020. Jonathan Lemire brings

The next two novels in the #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton.In E Is for Evidence, P.I. Kinsey Millhone finds herself taking on a case that places her career on the line. And if that isn't enough to keep her busy, her ex-husband, who walked out on her eight years ago, pops back on the radar.It all begins with a $5,000 deposit made into Kinsey's bank account. Problem is she's not the one who deposited the money. But when she's accused of being on the take in an industrial arson case, Kinsey realizes someone is framing her. But with new evidence—and corpses—surfacing around her, she's going to have to act quickly to clear her name before she loses her career, her reputation—and quite possibly her life…In F Is for Fugitive, the escaped suspect of a teen murder resurfaces after seventeen years in the seemingly-idyllic Floral Beach, California. Believing in his son's innocence, Bailey's father wants Kinsey to find Jean's real killer. But most of the residen

A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant ';beach read to end all beach reads' (Entertainment Weekly) about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all of life's ups and downsfrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever.Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this timeshe doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social mediaso when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always the one who had everythingexcept the ability to hold onto friends. Meanwhile, Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The must-read Black mermaid fantasy series that #1 NYT bestselling author Nicola Yoon calls “epic and original,” in which one mermaid takes on the gods themselves. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Beasts of Prey.“Riveting.” ―NPR“Evocative.” ―Entertainment Weekly“Remarkable.” ―BuzzfeedA way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save.Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata―a mermaid―collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home.But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi does the unthinkable―she saves his life, going against an ancient decree. And punishment awaits those who dare to defy it.To protect the other Mami Wata, Simi must journey to the Supreme Creator to make amends. But all is not as it seems. There's the boy she rescued, who knows more than he should. And something is shadowing Simi, something that would rather see her fail. . . .Danger lurks at every turn, and

A romance of convenience between two college women soon becomes the real thing. Shy Miwa has always dreamed of finding love, but living in small-town Japan made finding the right match difficult--especially since she likes girls! Even going away to college didn't seem to help, until one day her outgoing classmate Saeko suggests they might as well start dating each other since it's not like either of them has other options. Miwa's trip to Okinawa didn't go as hoped, and now she's back home, alone and heartbroken in her small, messy apartment. When Saeko stops by to check in on her, Miwa looks to her ex for more than just emotional comfort. But will a friends-with-benefits situation really benefit either of them?

Make the most of your Windows 11 laptop or desktop computer--without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable, get productive, get online, get started with social networking, make more connections, and have more fun! Even if you've never used a Windows computer before, this book shows you how to do what you want, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Computer basics have never, ever been this simple! Who knew how simple using computers could be? This is today's best beginner's guide to using your computer or tablet with the Windows 11 operating system...simple, practical instructions for doing everything you really want to do! Here's a small sample of what you'll learn: * Set up your computer and personalize the Windows 11 Start menu and desktop * Connect to the Internet and browse the Web with Microsoft Edge * Get started with social networking on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn * Video chat with Zoom and Microsoft Teams * Use

英國幽默科學老師亞當·凱（Adam Kay）全新力作，繼《Kay的身體百科》後再掀熱潮！由喜劇演員亨利·帕克（Henry Paker）精心插畫，這本充滿歷史趣味的兒童書帶你探秘人體奧秘！古代醫生對人體一無所知，治病方法千奇百怪：用尿液漱口、為放屁領酬、甚至用洗衣機和香腸救命！準備好鼻夾、雨鞋，跟隨這本搞笑又知識滿滿的書，一起踏上惡趣味的醫學歷史之旅！The hilarious history book for kids, all about the human body, from bestselling, record-breaking author and illustrator Adam Kay and Henry Paker. The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off. But there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then .. . doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked.It's time to delve into history and get some answers to some big questions, like:Why did patients gargle with wee?Why did people used to get paid for farting? (Unfortunately that’s no longer a thing – sorry.)How did a doctor save people's lives using a washing machine, a can of beans and some old sausages?What was the great stink? (No, it's not what doctors call your bum.)If you're sure you're ready, then pop a peg on your nose (there was a lot of stinky pus b

INTRODUCTION Today, the interest in BBQ is growing like never before, with local competitions springing up all over and slow-cooked, smoked meats making their way from hard-to-find back-woods shacks into manicured suburban neighborhoods. People love barbecue and are expressing that love by learning how to do it. If you've decided to learn the craft, or even if you have cooked a few butts in your day, you've probably come across the million blogs, forums, books, and magazines that are available to those that want to perform carnivorous alchemy, and you've likely been overwhelmed by it all. I know I too was.Nowadays, the word barbecue is synonymous with outdoor grilling but for a long time they were considered very different. The history of grilling and barbecue and how they're connected can be at times confusing but the one thing that historians agree on is that barbecue derived from the Native American word "barbacoa," which was the word for a raised wooden rack that was used, among ot

She may have escaped from the cult, but how does she free herself from the trauma of her past?One night, Avery is awoken by a fire consuming her family's compound; she runs away with her cult brother Cole, hiding in the woods and then in a school gym for weeks. After police apprehend them for shoplifting, a horrific discovery is made―their entire lives have been a lie and they were actually kidnapped as children, taken by the cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad.Cole is quickly reunited with his family and permanently separated from nineteen-year-old Avery, who is taken to a women's shelter when no family comes forward. Avery isn't certain who survived the Bakelite cult fire or, more importantly, who set it. As she tries to move past the lies and the emotional and physical trauma of her childhood, the events of that fateful night come bursting back into the news, and a police investigation throws Avery back into the spotlight. The memories of that night and her former life threaten to

An ALA Morris Award Finalist ! In this "equal parts heartbreaking and joyful" (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father. Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it's clear that's not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself-so that she can become one and then save her father. Armed with research, speculations, and desperation-and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry-Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle. There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. But first, he needs

There's nothing four best friends with a magical spyglass can't handle...well, except maybe a lost dog, a school election, and overprotective parents.Book Two of the Spyglass Sisterhood finds Ellie, Rachel, Kiara, and Alyssa back for another adventure. When the spyglass reveals an image of Rachel walking a dog, she knows it's pure fantasy. Her overprotective moms would never let her walk a dog alone, much less own one! To the dismay of her Spyglass Sisters, Rachel would rather avoid the whole thing all together. However, she can't avoid it for long when a lost dog follows her home.Meanwhile, Kiara has secretly nominated Rachel to run for class president. In order to win, Rachel must find her voice to advocate for the change her classmates deserve--and maybe even the changes at home she deserves.The New York Times best-selling author behind the Gifted series and the Replica books, Marilyn Kaye delivers a story filled with light magic and heart in this first book in the Spyglass Sisterho

童年時期因遊戲結緣的Sadie和Sam，長大後再次相遇，攜手投身電玩創作，讓玩家能暫時遠離現實，投向數位虛擬世界的懷抱，兩人合作設計出的遊戲一舉獲得空前成功，但隨之而來的金錢與名利浪潮，是否已準備將兩人沖散？'A gem of a novel' ERIN MORGENSTERNThis is not a romance, but it is about loveTwo kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there.Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view.When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives.Their collaborations make them superstars.This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Dupli

The creators of Pick a Pine Tree are back with a joyful, energetic celebration of a Halloween tradition.Pick a pumpkin from the patch. Tall and lean or short and fat. Vivid orange, ghostly white, or speckled green, might be just right.Pairing a wonderfully rhythmic read-aloud text with expressive retro illustrations, author Patricia Toht and illustrator Jarvis capture all the excitement and familial feeling of a favorite holiday tradition. Readers will be happy to follow along with each step, from picking out the perfect specimen at the pumpkin patch (be sure to stop for cider and toffee apples) to carting it home, scooping out the insides, carving a scary face, and finally lighting a candle inside ― savoring the familiar ritual of transforming an ordinary pumpkin into a one-of-a-kind glowing jack-o’-lantern.

One of HONY's most followed stories, the tale of Stephanie Johnson, better known as Tanqueray.1970s New York City: Go-go dancers, The Peppermint Lounge, gangsters, Billy’s Topless, and Stephanie Johnson…In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she’s better known to HONY followers as “Tanqueray,” the indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Brandon Stanton chronicled her life in the longest series he had yet posted on HONY, but, now, Stephanie Johnson—a woman as fabulous, unbowed, and irresistible as the city she lives in—tells all in Tanqueray, a book filled with never-before-told stories, personal photos from her own collection, and glimpses of New York City back in the day when the name “Tanqueray” was on everyone’s lips.

An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation―and fears that all of humanity may be next―in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion“You are the next step in human evolution.”At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him―even those he loves most―in whole new ways.The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large―at a terrifying cost.Because

“Readers of Jane Austen and fans of Bridgeton will swoon and fan themselves as they devour this fun, frolicking romp.”―Nita Prose, New York Times bestselling author of The Maid“A sassy, witty, delicious tale.”―Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party CrasherA whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love…Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father’s massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season. Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel―but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and ingenuity, she knows that risk is just part of the game. Th

Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her collection of stories, Personal Velocity, with the arresting, darkly prescient Total. But to get back to my subject. Of the little moment when I went the wrong way, from promising young woman to flotsam, to extraneousness--like the strands that rub off a ribbon and that you cut away. Each of the seven stories in Total is a full world, painted with vivid strokes, one whose people and questions stay with the reader long after the story has ended and the book has been closed. Joad, one of the first characters we meet, finds onionskin pages crammed in a locked desk drawer while refurbishing a Hudson Valley farmhouse with her husband; the terrifying words on the fragile paper haunt Joad and their home, the woman who wrote them looming over them like a malevolent spirit. Innate in her words is the power of the act of creation and the ability of language to link people across time. Rebecca Miller, the author of The Private L

By turns painful and soaring, an ambitious memoir debut from one of Irish literature's rising stars, Se嫕 HewittALL DOWN DARKNESS WIDE is a perceptive and unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender and honest portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's deep depression. As lives are made and unmade, this memoir asks what love can endure, and what it cannot. When Se嫕 meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story, but they soon come face-to-face with crisis--Elias sets out on the path to suicide, then turns back. Hewitt wrestles with the aftermath, confronting a profound rupture, endeavoring to mend and to understand it. It is a journey of lonely discovery followed by the light of community. Delving deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures before him, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of answers. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to a sac