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Activity Books
The Big Book of Adventure Mazes
Adult Science
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth - Schlanger, Zoë (Author)
Biography
Mark Twain - Chernow, Ron (Author)
Coloring Books
Creative Haven a Century of Fashion Coloring Book (Adult Coloring Books: Fashion) - Miller, Eileen Rudisill (Author)
Adult Fiction
The Emperor of Gladness - Vuong, Ocean (Author)
Run for the Hills - Wilson, Kevin (Author)
Make Me Famous - Ventura, Maud (Author), Schmid, Gretchen (Translator)
Never Let Me Go: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Vintage International) - Ishiguro, Kazuo (Author)
Speak to Me of Home - Cummins, Jeanine (Author)
All Fours - July, Miranda (Author)
Sleep - Jones, Honor (Author)
Family Issues
The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour - Patterson, James (Author)
Fun & Games
My First Day Fishing: A Beginner's Guide - Millard, Will (Author), Lisowiec, Joanna (Illustrator), Wade, Jeremy (Foreword By)
Graphic Novels
Creature Clinic - Than, Gavin Aung (Author)
History
Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives - Loxton, Alice (Author)
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties - Mcnally, Dennis (Author)
Homestead
Tree Houses Within Reach: 30 Lofty Cabins, Playhouses, and Getaways You Can Actually Build - Diedricksen, Derek (Author)
Just the Facts
Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers - Kendi, Ibram X (Author)
Middle Readers
All Ears (Funjungle) - Gibbs, Stuart (Author)
My First Readers
Uni and the Dolphin (Step Into Reading) - Krouse Rosenthal, Amy (Author), Barrager, Brigette (Illustrator)
Mystery & Thriller
Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories (Mike Bowditch Mysteries) - Doiron, Paul (Author)
Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch Mysteries #15) - Doiron, Paul (Author)
We Solve Murders - Osman, Richard (Author)
Murder in Mesopotamia: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #13) - Christie, Agatha (Author)
Nature
Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests - Holloway, Marguerite (Author)
Picture Books
The Monarch (Honeybee and Friends) - Hall, Kirsten (Author), Arsenault, Isabelle (Illustrator)
Firefly Season - Smith, Cynthia Leitich (Author), Gardiner, Kate (Illustrator)
Papa Doesn't Do Anything! - Fallon, Jimmy (Author), Ordonez, Miguel (Illustrator)
Fireworks - Burgess, Matthew (Author), Chien, Catia (Illustrator)
When You Find a Hope - Millington, Allie (Author), Lambelet, Anne (Illustrator)
Poetry
Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined (Stephen Fry's Greek Myths) - Fry, Stephen (Author)
Puzzle Books
New York Times Games Hello Spring Crosswords: 200 Easy to Hard Puzzles
Romance
A Curse Carved in Bone: Book Two of the Saga of the Unfated (Saga of the Unfated) - Jensen, Danielle L (Author)
A Simple Twist of Fate - Asher, April (Author)
Maine Characters - Orenstein, Hannah (Author)
Can't Get Enough (Skyland) - Ryan, Kennedy (Author)
Science & Nature
The Secret Life of a Sea Turtle - Bearzi, Maddalena (Author), Boersma, Alex (Illustrator)
World of Mushrooms: Discover the Freaky, Fantastic Fungi That Lurk in the Woods, Pop Up in Lawns, and Sneak Around Underground - Payen, Pauline (Author), Pressigout, Zelda (Illustrator)
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Anima Rising - Moore, Christopher (Author)
The Devils - Abercrombie, Joe (Author)
Social Sciences
No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain - Solnit, Rebecca (Author)
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America - Whitaker, Mark (Author)
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color - de Robertis, Caro (Author)
Sports
The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay - Clarey, Christopher (Author)
True Crime
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder - James, Rachel McCarthy (Author)
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers - Figluzzi, Frank (Author)
Young Adult
Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Pierce. Tamora (Author), Ayala, Vita (Adapter by), Beck, Sam (Illustrator)
When We Go Missing - Henry, April (Author)
Shampoo Unicorn - Lovett, Sawyer (Author)
Eliza, from Scratch - Lee, Sophia (Author)
This Week’s Top 5 Picks
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed-even comforted-by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood-and about their lives now.
A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance-and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow illuminates the full, fascinating, and complex life of the writer long celebrated as the father of American literature, Mark Twain
Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn't long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.
In this richly nuanced portrait of Mark Twain, acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow brings his considerable powers to bear on a man who shamelessly sought fame and fortune, and crafted his persona with meticulous care. After establishing himself as a journalist, satirist, and lecturer, he eventually settled in Hartford with his wife and three daughters, where he went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He threw himself into the hurly-burly of American culture, and emerged as the nation's most notable political pundit. At the same time, his madcap business ventures eventually bankrupted him; to economize, Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe. He suffered the death of his wife and two daughters, and the last stage of his life was marked by heartache, political crusades, and eccentric behavior that sometimes obscured darker forces at play.
Drawing on Twain's bountiful archives, including thousands of letters and hundreds of unpublished manuscripts, Chernow masterfully captures the man whose career reflected the country's westward expansion, industrialization, and foreign wars, and who was the most important white author of his generation to grapple so fully with the legacy of slavery. Today, more than one hundred years after his death, Twain's writing continues to be read, debated, and quoted. In this brilliant work of scholarship, a moving tribute to the writer's talent and humanity, Chernow reveals the magnificent and often maddening life of one of the most original characters in American history.
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A shield maiden fights to break the shackles of prophecy--and to overcome the betrayal of the man who broke her heart--in this searing conclusion to the Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology that began with the bestselling A Fate Inked in Blood.
The stunning first edition hardcover will feature foil page edges, a custom-stamped case, and a premium dust jacket!
The secret of her divine heritage revealed, Freya finds herself on a path that will see thousands of lives lost to the magic in her blood. Desperate to avoid this dark fate, she risks an alliance with Skaland's greatest enemy to seek answers from the seer who foretold her future--the same seer who sent Bjorn to kill her.While Freya still seethes with rage over Bjorn's betrayal, the blood oaths that bind her demand that she keep him close as she hunts for a way to avert the looming war. Her magic draws her to the front lines of an old enmity, embroiling her with Nordeland's Unfated--children of the gods who serve the king she was raised to fear. The same king who, unlike Bjorn, is now willing to fight at her back. For despite the desire that burns hot between Bjorn and Freya, his growing distrust of her chosen path threatens to drag them further apart.
As war approaches, gods and mortals must choose their weapons. Yet the fiercest battle will be the one Freya wages within herself. With the magic of two goddesses burning in her veins, she must weave the threads of destiny to decide her own fate: Will she be the shield that protects her people or the curse that destroys them?
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman's trademark wit. Delightful!" --Shari Lapena
From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She's currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D'Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer?
Solving murders. It's a family business.
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The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce's award-winning Song of the Lioness quartet, adapted into a gorgeous, full-color graphic novel
In Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna, the first of four volumes adapting #1 New York Times bestseller Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness quartet, we meet Alanna of Trebond, a young noblewoman from the kingdom of Tortall.
Alanna isn't like other girls from noble families--what she really wants is to become a knight and earn her shield, something women definitely aren't allowed to do.
But Alanna will not be deterred, and she arrives in the capital disguised as a boy to begin training as a page, the first step toward becoming a knight. Despite the tough conditions and grueling work, Alanna's skills and stubbornness win her friends amongst the nobility and the denizens of the lower city. But not everyone wishes her well . . .
Filled with magic and mayhem, adventure and action, swords and spells, book one in the Song of the Lioness quartet is the ultimate introduction to Alanna and Tamora Pierce's legendary Tortall universe.