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New Releases | April 15th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Honey - Lodato, Victor (Author)
The One That Got Away - Rixon, Charlotte (Author)
Arts & Entertainment
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See - Bosker, Bianca (Author)
Chapter Books
Rosey Stink Badger (Willow's Woods #2) - Selfors, Suzanne (Author) , Kaulitzki, Ramona (Illustrator)
Cookbooks
By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear - Catalano, Hailee (Author)
Graphic Novels
K Is in Trouble Again (a Graphic Novel) (K Is in Trouble #2) - Clement, Gary (Author)
Outsider Kids: A Parachute Kids Graphic Novel (Parachute Kids #2) - Tang, Betty C (Author) , Tang, Betty C (Illustrator)
Great Outdoors
Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery - Synnott, Mark (Author)
Homestead
Axe in Hand: A Woodchopper's Guide to Blades, Wood, and Fire - Coenen, Nicole (Author)
No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity - Piper, Ashlee (Author)
Local Interest
A Little Wildness: Some Notes on Rambling - Lea, Sydney (Author)
Maps
2026 Rand McNally Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Large Scale Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Easy to Read Midsize Road Atlas
2026 Rand McNally Road Atlas & National Park Guide
My First Readers
Time for Kids: Insects - Bolden, Jevon (Author)
Time for Kids: Weather - Jospitre, Sarah (Author)
Mystery & Thriller
Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery - Courage, Rachel Ekstrom (Author)
Strangers in Time: A World War II Novel - Baldacci, David (Author)
The Perfect Divorce - Rose, Jeneva (Author)
Personal Growth
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward - French Gates, Melinda (Author)
Picture Books
Little Bird Laila - Yang, Kelly (Author) , Yan, Xindi (Illustrator)
Just a Banana - Saltzberg, Barney (Author)
Lily the Pond Mermaid - Fleming, Lucy (Author) , Fleming, Lucy (Illustrator)
Warm and Fuzzy - Rothman, Scott (Author) , Won, Brian (Illustrator)
Caitlin Clark: A Little Golden Book Biography - Dinovis, Marisa (Author) , Stone, Joanie (Illustrator)
A Home for Steamboat: The History of a Famous Rodeo Horse - Pullen, Zachary (Illustrator) , Rislov, Casey (Author)
Romance
A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic (Deluxe Edition) (Adenashire #1) - Penner, J (Author)
Science & Nature
Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Animals
Wonder Wings: Guess Who's Flying (the Nature Riddles and Rhymes Series) - Hirsch, Rebecca E (Author) , Han, Sally Soweol (Illustrator)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Book of Doors - Brown, Gareth (Author)
Young Adult
Watch Me Deluxe Limited Edition (Shatter Me Series: The New Republic #1) - Mafi, Tahereh (Author)
My Return to the Walter Boys - Novak, Ali (Author)
Our Top 5 Picks
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The first novel in the all-new Golden Girls Cozy Mystery Series!
When Dorothy's obnoxious date is found dead in a hotel freezer, it not only ruins a gorgeous cheesecake but threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding Rose is hosting.
Things are heating up, and not just because of Blanche's hot flashes. Rose's cousin is eloping to Miami, and Rose is playing host. If she can't balance the groom's family's snobbery against the traditional St. Olaf wedding week guidelines, her hometown may never accept her cousin again!
Dorothy quickly realizes she needs a date with whom she can exchange wedding-related wisecracks. Turning to a newfangled VHS dating service, she believes she's found the ideal conversationalist. Unfortunately, what looks good on TV can actually be a total jerk in real life. It seems she'll just have to enjoy the company of Sophia, Blanche, and whomever Blanche has targeted for a hookup.
As the Girls all pitch in, Rose is thrilled that the tea-and-fish-themed kickoff event is perfect, not a herring out of place. That is until Dorothy's date is found dead--face-planted in an otherwise scrumptious-looking cheesecake. With every guest a suspect (especially Dorothy) and a marriage on the line, the four besties must ID the real killer, get the should-be-happy couple down the aisle, and make sure nobody from St. Olaf gets lost in the wilds of Miami. It's up to the Golden Girls to sleuth out a way for friendship and love to win the day!
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another.
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he's old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life.
Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of children to have been evacuated to the countryside Molly has been away from her home for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there.
Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his bookshop, The Book Keep. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost.
But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. And Ignatius is harboring his own secrets, which could have terrible consequences for all of them.
As bombs continue to bear down on the city, Charlie, Molly, and Ignatius learn that while the perils of war rage on, their coming together and trusting one another may be the only way for them to survive.
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Rich bonus features for the deluxe edition include:
Gorgeous full-color interior art
Beautiful sprayed edges
Additional scenes
She doesn't need to have magic in order to be magic...
In the heart of Adenashire, where elvish enchantments and dwarven delights rule, human baker Arleta Starstone works twice as hard at perfecting her unique blend of baking with apothecary herbs. So, when her orc neighbor (and biggest fan) secretly enters her creations into the prestigious Langheim Baking Battle, Arleta faces a dilemma. Being magicless, her participation in the competition could draw more scowls than smiles. And if Arleta wants to prove her talent and establish her culinary reputation, she'll need more than just her pastry craft to sweeten the odds.
Though Arleta may not yet believe in herself, she makes her way to Langheim--with the help of a very attractive woodland elf--and competes. While on a journey of mouthwatering pastries, self-discovery, heartwarming friendships, and potential romance, Arleta will have to decide whether winning the Baking Battle is the true prize after all. But win or lose, her adventure is only beginning...
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Lose yourself in this exhilarating return to the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe, the first book in a new series set ten years after the fall of The Reestablishment. This breathtaking custom deluxe edition features:
Shimmery jacket with holographic foil Gorgeous designed endpapers Foil case design with a quote from the novel Stunning holographic edges
Quantities are limited for this deluxe edition so be sure to preorder now!
James Anderson had a plan. Or half of one. All that matters is that he managed to do what his older brother, the famous Aaron Warner Anderson, never did: infiltrate Ark Island, the last refuge of The Reestablishment. In the past decade no outsider has breached the stronghold of the authoritarian regime, but James is in. In a prison cell, sure, but as far as James is concerned, a win is a win.
It's been ten years since the fall of The Reestablishment. Ten years since the notorious duo--Juliette Ferrars and Aaron Warner Anderson--led a worldwide rebellion and established the New Republic of the West. But after a decade of unsettling quiet, The Reestablishment is ready to make a devastating move, and they have the perfect person for the job.
Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. She always has a plan. On Ark Island, where constant surveillance is packaged as security, even emotions must be experienced with caution. A trained assassin, her every movement is monitored by synthetic intelligence--and when she's given an order to kill, she never hesitates.
Brimming with pulse-pounding action and torturous romance, Watch Me is an explosive journey through a dystopian landscape where enemies-to-lovers has never felt more impossible. Step into a beloved and breathtaking world that demands an answer to a desperate question--
Who are we when no one is watching?
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From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling thriller The Perfect Marriage
Till death do us part. Yours. Not Mine.
It's been eleven years since high-powered attorney Sarah Morgan defended her husband, Adam, against the charge of murdering his mistress. Sarah has long since moved on, starting a family with her new husband, Bob Miller, and changing careers. Her life is back to being exactly how she always wanted ... or is it?
After discovering Bob engaged in a one-night stand, Sarah wastes no time filing for divorce. However, amid their ugly separation, new DNA evidence is uncovered in the case against Adam, forcing the police to reopen the investigation and putting Sarah right back in the spotlight. Everyone wants to know what really happened, most of all former deputy Marcus Hudson, who is hell-bent on finding the truth.
But when the woman Bob slept with is reported missing, he and Sarah start to fight dirty, and a high-stakes game of cat and mouse ensues. Filled with page-turning suspense and Jeneva Rose's signature twists and turns, this book will have readers wondering, Can Bob and Sarah achieve the perfect divorce? Or will it be "till death do us part"?
New Releases | March 25th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Twist - McCann, Colum
Beautyland - Bertino, Marie-Helene
Mother Doll - Apekina, Katya
Tilt - Pattee, Emma
Paradise Logic - Kemp, Sophie
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert - Bob the Drag Queen
Adult Science
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea - Ridley, Matt
Biography
Free: My Search for Meaning - Knox, Amanda
Board Books
The Going to Bed Book (Sound Book) - Boynton, Sandra
My Mama Bear and Me - Beer, Sophie
Cookbooks
Pizza from the Heart: 100 Recipes for Pies, Pasta, Salads, and More - Giannone, Paulie
You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love (a Cookbook) - Morrisey, Diane
Graphic Novels
Bad Kitty Takes the Test (Full-Color Edition) - Bruel, Nick
Great Outdoors
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map - Hutchinson, Alex
History
The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale - Albinia, Alice
Homestead
Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand - Chu, Jeff
Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Supermarket Foods - Akeroyd, Simon
Herbs in Every Season: 48 Edible and Medicinal Herbs for the Kitchen, Garden, and Apothecary - Cohen, Bevin
Horror
Blood on Her Tongue (Deluxe Edition) (Special) - Van Veen, Johanna
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Captain America: The Winter Soldier [Marvel Premier Collection] (Marvel Premier Collection) - Brubaker, Ed
Middle Readers
River of Spirits (The Underwild #1) - Targosz, Shana
Isle of Ever (Isle of Ever #1) - Calonita, Jen
Mystery & Thriller
One Perfect Couple - Ware, Ruth
Close to Death (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery #5) - Horowitz, Anthony
Nobody’s Fool - Coben, Harlan
This Book Will Bury Me - Winstead, Ashley
Home is Where the Bodies Are - Rose, Jeneva
Picture Books
Little Blue Truck and Racer Red - Schertle, Alice
This Is a Moment - Player, Micah
Nellie's Big Splash - Doerrfeld, Cori
Disney Snow White (Little Golden Book) - Martinez, Susana Illera
Llama Llama Loves His Teacher - Dewdney, Anna
Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend: A Picture Book - Shea, Bob
Signs of Friendship - Silvestro, Annie
Political Science
Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax of the Century, Its Enduring Impact, and What It Reveals about America Today - Tinline, Phil
Puzzle Books
Armchair Puzzlers: Large Print Crosswords - Games, University
Romance
Summer in the City (Deluxe Limited Edition) - Aster, Alex
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror: A Crowns of Nyaxia Novel (The Crowns of Nyaxia) - Broadbent, Carissa
The Fine Print (Collector's Edition) (Special) (Dreamland Billionaires #1) - Asher, Lauren
My Demon Hunter: Deluxe Limited Edition (Hell Bent) - Ascher, Aurora
Exquisite Ruin (Labyrinth #1) - May, Adrianne
Science & Nature
Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World about Water Pollution - Winterbottom, Julie
When Tree Became a Tree - Hodgson, Rob
Turn This Book Into a Bird Feeder!: And 19 Other Activities to Explore the Amazing World of Birds - Brunelle, Lynn
Growing Green: A First Book of Gardening - Candlewick Press
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Elphie (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Wicked Childhood - Maguire, Gregory
When the Moon Hits Your Eye - Scalzi, John
The Familiar - Bardugo, Leigh
Social Sciences
The Portable Feminist Reader - Gay, Roxane
Our Top 5 Picks
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The collector's hardcover features stenciled edges and a color illustrated map of Oz.
What happened to young Elphaba before her witchy powers took hold in Wicked? Almost 30 years after the publication of the original novel, for the first time Gregory Maguire reveals the story of prickly young Elphie, the future Wicked Witch of the West--setting the stage for the blockbuster international phenomenon that is Wicked: The Musical.
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, will grow to have a feisty and somewhat uncompromising character in adult life. But she is always a one-off, from her infancy; Elphie is the riveting coming-of-age story of a very peculiar and relatable young girl.
Young Elphie is shaped and molded by the behaviors of her promiscuous mother, Melena, and her pious father, Frex. She suffers ordinary childhood jealousies when her sister, saintly Nessarose, and brother, junior felon Shell, arrive. She first encounters the mistreatment of the Animal populations of Oz, which live adjacent to but not intertwined with human settlements, haunted by a Monkey and receiving aid from Dwarf Bears. She thrashes through her first bruising attempts at friendship, a possible lifeline from her tricky family life. And she gleans the benefits of an education, haphazard though it must be--until she arrives at the doors of Shiz University, about to meet the radiant creature that is Galinda.
Elphie is destined to be a witch; she bears the markings from childhood--most evidently in her green skin but more obscurely and profoundly in her cunning and perhaps amoral behaviors, as she seeks to make do, to slip by, to sneak out, to endure, and to aspire.
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This collector's hardcover features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork, illustrated color endpapers, and special design features on the case.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City--a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again...
Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.
In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It's the perfect place to write her screenplay...until she realizes her new neighbor is tech "Billionaire Bachelor" Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It's been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.
When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he's on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn't like leaving her emotional support five block radius.
One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company's precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.
Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It's all pretend. Promise.
Until it isn't.
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"Gothic horror for the ages...Combining shiver-inducing horror with sharp-fanged social commentary, this more that merits comparison to Dracula and other genre titans."-- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"I'm in your blood, and you are in mine..."
The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister Sarah is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries-old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary insanity caused by a fever of the brain. To protect her twin from a terrible fate in a lunatic asylum, Lucy must unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's condition, but it's clear her twin is hiding something. Then again, Lucy is harboring secrets of her own, too.
Then, the worst happens. Sarah's behavior takes a turn for the strange. She becomes angry... and hungry.
Lucy soon comes to suspect that something is trying to possess her beloved sister. Or is it madness? As Sarah changes before her very eyes, Lucy must reckon with the dark, monstrous truth, or risk losing her forever.
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LIMITED EDITION FIRST PRINTING featuring sprayed edges, designed chapter headers, full color inside covers, and front cover foil with spot gloss--while supplies last!
For fans of Jenna Levine, Hannah Nicole Maehrer, and K.F. Breene, the steamy, laugh-out-loud paranormal romance about learning how to love--including the darkest parts of ourselves--complete with HEA, clothes-ripping-hot love scenes, and a crew of devilish demon brothers who are supposed to be the bad guys . . .
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of SANCTUARY OF THE SHADOW and MY FUNNY DEMON VALENTINE!
The hunter shall become the hunted . . . And the timid shall become the fierce.
Enslaved to an evil demon queen for millennia, Mishetsumephtai has only ever served one purpose. He is the Hunter, the one who drags the guilty back to Hell. But finally tasting freedom on Earth has changed him, and for the first time, Mist questions his duty. The human female who smiles at him with no idea what a monster he is, draws him in, and he'll do anything to possess her.
Lily Donovan thought the most dangerous thing about running to the corner store at night would be the aisles of junk food. She didn't bargain on encountering chaos in the form of a man with unusual tattoos and beguiling amber eyes, stalking her through the ice cream section. Since the death of her parents, Lily has tried to forget what she is. But denial is not an option when she's confronted with everything she's been running from.
Neither Mist nor Lily can ignore the burning magnetism between them. But Mist's reprieve from Hell was always temporary, and the punishment for disobedience will be worse than death. Yet he can't relinquish the woman whose scent calls to him like nothing he's hunted before.
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The TikTok sensation from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Asher. This collector's edition hardcover will feature a specially designed case, beautiful printed edges, exclusive full-color art, and foiled endsheets.
Rowan
I'm in the business of creating fairy tales.
Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.
Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.
My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.
Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.
By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.
People like me don't get happy endings.
Not when we're destined to ruin them.
Zahra
After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland's most expensive ride, I should have been fired.
Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.
The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met.
Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn't care.
At least not until I discovered his secret.
It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn't fix everything.
Especially not us.
New Releases | February 25th, 2025
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Adult Fiction
Creep: A Love Story - Van Straaten, Emma (Author)
The Blanket Cats - Shigematsu, Kiyoshi (Author) , Kirkwood, Jesse (Translator)
Long Island (Eilis Lacey) - Toibin, Colm (Author)
Crush - Calhoun, Ada (Author)
Adult Science
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe - Zimmer, Carl (Author)
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance - Black, Riley (Author)
Award Winners
Out of the Valley of Horses - Orr, Wendy (Author)
Body, Mind & Spirit
Mostly What God Does Is Love You - Guthrie, Savannah (Author) , Huff, Morgan (Illustrator)
Chapter Books
The Newshound (Dog Squad #1) - Vulliamy, Clara (Author)
The Race (Dog Squad #2) - Vulliamy, Clara (Author)
The Show (Dog Squad #3) - Vulliamy, Clara (Author)
Graphic Novels
Crumble - McClaren, Meredith (Author) , Bell, Andrea (Illustrator)
History
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - Grann, David (Author)
Homestead
The Curious Kitchen Gardener: Uncommon Plants and How to Eat Them - Ziedrich, Linda (Author)
Horror
A Night in the Lonesome October - Zelazny, Roger (Author)
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
Spirited Away Film Comic: All-In-One Edition - Miyazaki, Hayao (Artist)
Middle Readers
The Lost Library - Stead, Rebecca (Author) , Mass, Wendy (Author)
Bea Mullins Takes a Shot - Deibert, Emily (Author)
Bad Badger: A Love Story - Wood, Maryrose (Author) , Ghigini, Giulia (Illustrator)
My First Readers
Taylor Swift: Superstar! (Step Into Reading) - Corey, Shana (Author)
Picture Books
The Gift of the Great Buffalo - Lindstrom, Carole (Author) , McKnight, Aly (Illustrator)
Every Monday Mabel - Awan, Jashar (Author) , Awan, Jashar (Illustrator)
Little Freddie Two Pants: (The Dog with Too Many Pants) - Daywalt, Drew (Author) , Cummins, Lucy Ruth (Illustrator)
Political Sciences
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - El Akkad, Omar (Author)
Romance
Every Last Breath (Reissue) (Dark Elements #3) - Armentrout, Jennifer L (Author)
Wicked Pursuit & Divine Intervention (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (Black Rose Auction #1) - Robert, Katee (Author) , Virtues, R M (Author)
The Paradise Problem - Lauren, Christina (Author)
Funny Story - Henry, Emily (Author)
Book Boyfriend - Wibberley, Emily (Author) , Siegemund-Broka, Austin (Author)
Science & Nature
Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken! - French, Vivian (Author) , Regan, Nanette (Illustrator)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Swordheart - Kingfisher, T (Author)
Workbooks
Rose Signs Good Morning! - Ayling-Ellis, Rose (Author)
Young Adult
The Wildest Things - Hannah, Andrea (Author)
A Tempest of Tea (Blood and Tea) - Faizal, Hafsah (Author)
Our Top 5 Picks
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A "TOUR DE FORCE OF NARRATIVE NONFICTION" (WSJ) WITH OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NYT BEST SELLER LIST
From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture
"Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history--and imperialism--with gusto." --Time
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.
But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024
Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman's World and more!
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic--with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads--Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it's all just for show, of course, because there's no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex . . . right?
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DELUXE EDITION--a beautiful hardcover edition featuring turquoise sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and custom endpapers.
The delightful charm of The Princess Bride meets the delicious bodyguard romance of From Blood and Ash in this cozy fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling author T. KingfisherHalla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her.
While locked in her bedroom, Halla inspects the ancient sword that's been collecting dust on the wall since before she moved in. Out of desperation, she unsheathes it--and suddenly a man appears. His name is Sarkis, he tells her, and he is an immortal warrior trapped in a prison of enchanted steel.
Sarkis is sworn to protect whoever wields the sword, and for Halla--a most unusual wielder--he finds himself fending off not grand armies and deadly assassins but instead everything from kindly-seeming bandits to roving inquisitors to her own in-laws. But as Halla and Sarkis grow closer, they overlook the biggest threat of all--the sword itself.
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An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
"Brewed to perfection." --Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine RivalsNow available in a deluxe paperback edition with gorgeous stenciled edges, Hafsah Faizal's deliciously propulsive vampire-fantasy teems with slow burn romance, found family, and revenge, led by an orphan girl willing to do whatever it takes to save her self-made kingdom.
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by night, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it--she can't do the job alone.Calling on some of the city's most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate the sinister, glittering vampire society known as the Athereum. But not everyone in her ragtag crew is on her side, and as the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it. Dark, action-packed, and swoonworthy, this is Hafsah Faizal better than ever.
VAMPIRES AND VENGENANCE ARE BREWING...
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For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a gull and a badger.
Septimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He's not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he's even a badger at all.
When a gull of very few words lands on the windowsill, Septimus leaps at the possibility of friendship. However, his new confidant soon goes missing and Septimus is bereft. Determined to find his best--and only--friend, he ventures into new territory and encounters a cast of surprising characters. Can Septimus be as brave and bighearted as he'll need to be to find Gully? Or is he really a bad badger after all?
Bad Badger is a young middle-grade novel about badgers, gulls, and learning that staying true to yourself means knowing who you are to begin with.
New Releases | February 18th, 2025
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Activity Books
Sticker Jigsaw: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Baum, L Frank (Author) , Odd Dot (Author) , Mirtalipova, Dinara (Illustrator)
Adult Fiction
The Turtle House - Churchill, Amanda (Author)
The Dressmakers of London - Kelly, Julia (Author)
The Nightingale Deluxe Edition - Hannah, Kristin (Author)
King Nyx - Bakis, Kirsten (Author)
Adult Science
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them - Kang, Lydia (Author) , Pedersen, Nate (Author)
Arts & Entertainment
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live - Morrison, Susan (Author)
Biography
Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe - Guy, John (Author) , Fox, Julia (Author)
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - Romney, Rebecca (Author)
Board Books
Spring Blooms - Elys, Dori (Author) , Dulieu, Fiona (Illustrator)
Coloring Books
Creative Haven the Four Elements Coloring Book - Adatto, Miryam (Author)
Picture the Past(tm) Western Pioneers: Historical Coloring Book - Copeland, Peter F (Author)
Current Events & Politics
The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place #5) - Marshall, Tim (Author)
Family Issues
The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans - Pressman, Aliza (Author)
Graphic Novels
Halfway to Somewhere - Pimienta, Jose (Author)
Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase - Green, John Patrick (Author) , Hastings, Christopher (Author) , Lewis, Pat (Illustrator)
Cassi and the House of Memories - Stuart, Dean (Author) , Stuart, Dean (Illustrator)
Almost Sunset - Algarmi, Wahab (Author) , Algarmi, Wahab (Illustrator)
History
Golden State: The Making of California - Hiltzik, Michael (Author)
Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush - Gillon, Steven M (Author)
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts - O'Reilly, Bill (Author) , Dugard, Martin (Author)
Horror
The Gwendy Trilogy (Bind-Up): Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy's Magic Feather, Gwendy's Final Task (Bind-Up) (Gwendy's Button Box Trilogy) - King, Stephen (Author) , Chizmar, Richard (Author)
Just the Facts
Revolutionary Mary: The True Story of One Woman, the Declaration of Independence, and America's Fight for Freedom - Blumenthal, Karen (Author) , McCartney, Jen (Author) , Baddeley, Elizabeth (Illustrator)
Literary Collections
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry - Plunkett, Adam (Author)
Treenotes: A Year in the Company of Trees - Nadkarni, Nalini (Author)
Mystery & Thriller
A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon #24) - Silva, Daniel (Author)
The 24th Hour: A Women's Murder Club Thriller (A Women's Murder Club Thriller #24) - Patterson, James (Author) , Paetro, Maxine (Author)
Picture Books
Good Golden Sun - Wenzel, Brendan (Author)
Night Walk - Cockcroft, Jason (Author) , Cockcroft, Jason (Illustrator)
Worm Makes a Sandwich - Farley, Brianne (Author)
Puzzle Books
Sudoku Rush: Test Your Skills and Beat the Clock with 175+ Easy to Hard Challenges - Timmerman, Charles (Author)
Romance
The Fox and the Falcon (Deluxe Edition) (Special) (No Other Gods #2) - Cj, Piper (Author)
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com - Lemming, Kimberly (Author)
Social Sciences
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority - Arana, Marie (Author)
Who's Afraid of Gender? - Butler, Judith (Author)
Disposable: America's Contempt for the Underclass - Jones, Sarah (Author)
True Crime
The Serial Killer's Apprentice - Ramsland, Katherine (Author) , Ullman, Tracy (Author)
Our Top 5 Picks
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The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America's most beloved comedy show
Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He's a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys--and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him. He's "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (Tracy Morgan), the "great and powerful Oz" (Kate McKinnon), "some kind of very distant, strange comedy god" (Bob Odenkirk).Lorne will introduce you to him, in full, for the first time. With unprecedented access to Michaels and the entire SNL apparatus, Susan Morrison takes readers behind the curtain for the lively, up-and-down, definitive story of how Michaels created and maintained the institution that changed comedy forever.
Drawn from hundreds of interviews--with Michaels, his friends, and SNL's iconic stars and writers, from Will Ferrell to Tina Fey to John Mulaney to Chris Rock to Dan Aykroyd-- Lorne is a deeply reported, wildly entertaining account of a man singularly obsessed with the show that would define his life and have a profound impact on American culture.
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National Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, W, and Esquire.
"A profoundly urgent intervention." --Naomi Klein"A timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity." --Claudia Rankine
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic bookGender Troubleredefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed "anti-gender ideology movements" that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization--and even "man" himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.
The aim ofWho's Afraid of Gender?is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of "gender" collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of "critical race theory" and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.
An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment,Who's Afraid of Gender?is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. Imagining new possibilities for both freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.
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A FEBRUARY LIBRARYREADS PICK!
A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a strange planet only to fall for not one, but two, aliens, from the author of I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf.
Dorothy Valentine is close to getting her PhD in wildlife biology when she's attacked by a lion. On the bright side, she's saved! On the not-so-bright side, it's because they're abducted by aliens. In her scramble to escape, Dory and the lion commandeer an escape pod and crash-land on an alien planet that has...dinosaurs?
Dory and her new lion bestie, Toto, are saved in the nick of time by a mysterious and sexy alien, Sol. On their new adventure, they team up with the equally hot, equally dangerous Lok, who may or may not be a war criminal. Whether it be trauma, fate, or intrigue, Dory can't resist the attraction that's developing in their trio....
As this ragtag group of misfits explore their new planet, Dory learns more about how and why they've all ended up together, battles more prehistoric creatures than she imagined (she imagined...zero), and questions if she even wants to go back home to Earth in this hilarious and steamy alien romance adventure comedy romp.
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The complete omnibus collection of the New York Times bestselling trilogy from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar!
In Gwendy's Button Box, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson's life is forever changed when she is given a mysterious wooden box by a stranger for safekeeping. It offers enticing treats and vintage coins, but he warns her that if she presses any of the box's beautifully colored buttons, death and destruction will follow.
Years later, in Gwendy's Magic Feather, she's a successful novelist with a promising future in politics. But when the button box suddenly reappears in her life, she must decide if she is willing to risk everything for its temptations.
And in the thrilling conclusion Gwendy's Final Task, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them at all costs. But where can one hide something so destructive from such powerful entities?
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THE MEGA-BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES CONTINUES!
More than three million copies in print!
InvestiGators fans, get ready to dive into the third volume of Agents of S.U.I.T. with the weirdest mystery yet!
New S.U.I.T. recruit Zeb the sheep joins the flock to help crack the greatest mystery of all! But, uhh...just what is the greatest mystery of all?
That's the question that's kept the dearly departed General Inspectre haunting Earth long after he should have moved on to the great super-spy base in the sky. Having a ghost in the halls of S.U.I.T. wouldn't be so bad...except he's possessing agents! Zeb -- along with Cilantro, Bongo, Marsha, and everyone's favorite Gators -- must decipher the series' biggest mystery EVER. They've got to free their pal and finish the Inspectre's unfinished business!
New Releases | September 24th, 2024
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Adult Fiction
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
Playground - Richard Powers
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio
Hard Copy: A Story of Girl Meets Printer - Fien Veldman (Author), Hester Velmans (Translator)
Julia - Sandra Newman
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk (Author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
Arts & Entertainment
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire - Ashley Spencer
Biography
Romney: A Reckoning - McKay Coppins
Board Books
Indestructibles: Sesame Street: Time for Bed!: Chew Proof - Rip Proof - Nontoxic - 100% Washable (Book for Babies, Newborn Books, Safe to Chew) (Indestructibles) - Amy Pixton (Created By)
Body, Mind & Spirit
Occult: Decoding the Visual Culture of Mysticism, Magic and Divination (Religious and Spiritual Imagery #3) - Peter Forshaw
Business
For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It - Mark Pendergrast
Coloring Books
Brambly Hedge: Festive Coloring Book - Jill Barklem
Cookbooks
The Artful Way to Plant-Based Cooking: Nourishing Recipes and Heartfelt Moments - Chloe Crane-LeRoux (Author), Trudy Crane (Author)
The Chinese Way: Classic Techniques, Fresh Flavors - Betty Liu
Pass the Plate: 100 Delicious, Highly Shareable, Everyday Recipes: A Cookbook - Carolia Gelen
The Mediterranean Dish: Simply Dinner: 125 Easy Mediterranean Diet-Inspired Recipes to Eat Well and Live Joyfully: A Cookbook - Suzy Karadsheh
Current Events & Politics
Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House - Dana Milbank
The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands - Amir Tibon
Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation - Aaron Zebley (Author), James Quarles (Author), Andrew Goldstein (Author)
Early Readers
Ms. Rachel and the Special Surprise: Encouraging Speech and Learning Through Play and Music (Books by Ms. Rachel) - Ms. Rachel (Author), Monique Dong (Illustrator)
Field Guides
Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism Volume 2 (Hidden Languages) - Jessica Roux
Fun & Games
What Do We Know about the Yeti? - Ben Hubbard (Author), Manuel Gutierrez (Illustrator)
A Field Guide to Autumn: Play and Learn in Nature - Gabby Dawnay (Author), Dorien Brouwers (Illustrator)
Graphic Novels
Investigators: Class Action (Investigators #8) - John Patrick Green
Happy Narwhalidays (a Narwhal and Jelly Book #5) - Ben Clanton
History
History of North America Map by Map - DK
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War - H.W. Brands
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II - Elyse Graham
Horror
Graveyard Shift: A Novella - M.L. Rio
The Angel Maker - Alex North
Manga & Adult Graphic Novels
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Complete Box Set: Includes Volumes 1-11 with Premium - Akira Himekawa
Marvel Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Marvel Comics Universe - Tim Leong
Middle Readers
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess - Rick Riordan
Spy School Goes North - Stuart Gibbs
Spy School Goes Wild - Stuart Gibbs
Spy School Entrance Exam: A Spy School Book of Devious Word Searches, Clever Crosswords, Sly Sudoku, and Other Top Secret Puzzles! - Stuart Gibbs (Author), Jeff Chen (Author)
From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure (A Nico Di Angelo Adventure) - Rick Riordan (Author), Mark Oshiro (Author)
My First Readers
Curious George: Scavenger Hunt (I Can Read Comics Level 2) - H.A. Rey
The Berenstain Bears: Five Away We Go Adventures! (I Can Read Level 1) - Mike Berenstain (Author & Illustrator), Jan Berenstain (Author)
DK Super Readers Level 4 History of Jazz - DK
Mystery & Thriller
Locust Lane - Stephen Amidon
Brooklyn Crime Novel - Jonathan Lethem
Personal Growth
Trust: Knowing When to Give It, When to Withhold It, How to Earn It, and How to Fix It When It Gets Broken - Henry Cloud
Picture Books
Best in Show - Elliott, David (Author) , Espinosa, Leo (Illustrator) , Santoso, Charles (Illustrator) , Mora, Oge (Illustrator) , Chien, Cátia (Illustrator) , Raúl the Third (Illustrator) , Bay, Elaine (Illustrator) , Derby, Cindy (Illustrator) , Green, Rebecca (Illustrator) , Glenn, Ebony (Illustrator) , Flett, Julie (Illustrator) , Portis, Antoinette (Illustrator) , Stein, David Ezra (Illustrator) , Hughes, Emily (Illustrator) , Cordell, Matthew (Illustrator) , Pak, Kenard (Illustrator) , Figueroa, Raissa (Illustrator)
Construction Site: Garbage Crew to the Rescue! - Rinker, Sherri Duskey (Author) , Ford, Ag (Illustrator)
Grumpy Monkey Play All Day - Lang, Suzanne (Author) , Lang, Max (Illustrator)
Winter Magic - Burleigh, Robert (Author) , Minor, Wendell (Illustrator)
The Most Boring Book Ever - Sanderson, Brandon (Author) , Kibuishi, Kazu (Illustrator)
Romance
Counting Miracles - Nicholas Sparks
The Slowest Burn - Sarah Chamberlain
Pucked - Helena Hunting
Hunting Adeline - H.D. Carlton
Rachel Weiss's Group Chat - Lauren Appelbaum
All I Want Is You - Falon Ballard
Kiss Me at Christmas - Jenny Bayliss
A Fire in the Sky - Sophie Jordan
Promises and Pomegranates (Monsters & Muses #1) - Sav R. Miller
One on One - Jamie Harrow
The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness #1) - Sarah Morgenthaler
Science & Nature
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet - Geo Rutherford
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Sapling Cage (Daughters of the Empty Throne #1) - Margaret Killjoy
A Tide of Black Steel (Age of Wrath #1) - Anthony Ryan
Wicked Collector's Edition: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
Social Sciences
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" - Hector Tobar
I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America - Little, Rebecca (Author) , Long, Colleen (Author)
Young Adult
The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig
Overview (Our Top 5 Picks)
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From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change--or even make our peace with--the path we've taken.
Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew--and where to find him.
Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He's been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting--and possibly leaving in just a few weeks.
Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest--a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather--he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers.
As these characters' fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle . . . but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever.
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In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could go wrong?
Rick Riordan's newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and treats.Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede's chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another "opportunity"--all he has to do is pet sit her polecat, Gale, and mastiff, Hecuba, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?
Percy, Annabeth, and Grover settle into Hecate's seemingly endless mansion and start getting acquainted with the fussy, terrifying animals. The trio has been warned not to touch anything, but while Percy and Annabeth are out at school, Grover can't resist drinking a strawberry-flavored potion in the laboratory. It turns him into a giant frenzied goat, and after he rampages through the house, damaging everything in sight, and passes out, Gale and Hecuba escape. Now the friends have to find Hecate's pets and somehow restore the house, all before Hecate gets back on Saturday. It's going to take luck, demigod wiles, and some old and new friends to hunt down the animals and set things right again.
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Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity's next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island's residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
Set in the world's largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
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DING DING DING!! Is that the school bell, or is it three million readers ringing in the return of V.E.S.T.-wearing case-busting secret agents Mango and Brash for another hilarious adventure? (It's the latter, we'll solve that mystery for free.)
The InvestiGators are back...to school?! Mango and Brash have always been a class act but can these alligator detectives convincingly go undercover as average middle-school students? Why has the super-spy organization S.U.I.T. been assigned protection detail for a small-town team mascot? Is it a coincidence that the school happens to be the same one that Agent Mango (just barely) graduated from? Is Mango's family in danger? Will Brash pass home economics? Is Friday still pizza day? Find out in Class Action, the A+ return of the New York Times bestselling series by John Patrick Green! Read up, because there just might be a pop quiz later!
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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women--his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude--a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.