Fiction
Alice looked at the young girl standing alone on the platform, sensing the same vulnerability she'd once felt entering the village she now called home. Then, as the child gripped her hand, the pain and sorrow Alice had held in…
The Call of the Beast summons. He fears answering. Leo Stormrider has always been an embarrassment to his family. Barely able to communicate with animals, he dreams of becoming something more than just the village disappointment. But when a terrifying…
Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism,…
Middle Grade
Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants.
Middle Grade
The first book in a new series by the author of The Frog Princess, a delightful re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty . Princess Annie is frustratingly (and luckily) resistant to magic. When her sister Gwen pricks her finger and the whole…
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
The author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family's fortunes and a young girl's journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy. The streets of New York in 1920 are most…
Cozy Mysteries
A small-town murder leads to international intrigue in this "first-class thriller" from the New York Times–bestselling master of Scandinavian crime ( The New York Times Book Review). Inspector Kurt Wallander returns in the second of Henning Mankell's award-winning, internationally-bestselling detective…
Children's
Through illustrations, text, color, and font to describe happy, disappointed, angry, jealous, and other feelings that kids experience, this book uses words and situations familiar to children to describe a wide variety of emotions, some seldom attributed to kids. The…
Middle Grade
In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt tells the witty and compelling story of a teenage boy who feels that fate has it in for him, during the school year 1968-68. Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is…
"One text message. A chilling warning. A husband's deadly secret. After a devastating house fire that's left their lives in tatters, Justin and Megan are hoping for a fresh start in Cornwall. They've lost everything and are desperate to rebuild…
