With the same masterly touch that made The Last Station so powerful, Jay Parini penetrates the mind and soul of another literary titan.   Through the eyes of his long-suffering wife, Lizzie, we are introduced to an aging, angry, and drunken Herman Melville. He is decades past his flourishing care...

In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to ...

The New York Public Library Best Book for Kids 2024 ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List “Liniers’ comics are funny and fanciful and whimsical and philosophical in the best sense.” — Matt Groening, The Simpsons Classic Latin American folktales get an update in this new coll...

Thrilling tales, lighthearted twists! Eisner Award winner LINIERS brings his exuberant cartooning style and irrepressible sense of fun to the spooky folktales of his childhood, telling three from across Latin America: the Iara , a mermaid who lures her love to her underwater domain; La Lechuza ,...

Mystery and magic--can you feel it? Adventure--are you ready for it? A forest that's dark and mysterious, with colorful lights that shoot into the night sky. Talking animals standing straight and tall. An enchanted house swirling with magic and mystery. And finally a rabbit and a squirrel who guide...

"Dreams and reality bleed into each other in this dangerous and edgy romance!" – Justine magazine Fate has bound them together―and torn them apart. Now, in Horizon , Daire and Dace face one final fight that will seal their destiny forever. Daire Santos is the last of the Soul Seekers, and ...

From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station , a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror. Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying. In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether . Astrophysicist Cammie S...

An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller! The Hunting Moon is the highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Time s bestselling author Susan Dennard Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family has ...

WHAT IS MONEY BECAME WORTHLESS? The classic novel about hyperinflation is back WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT NOAH'S CASTLE Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Foreign Influence The ultimate 'what if' for right now. Terrifyingly realistic and powerfully thought provoking. John Rowe...

An INSTANT New York Times bestseller! An INSTANT USA TODAY bestseller! An INSTANT Sunday Times bestseller! A modern-day YA romantic fantasy series opener about a glamorous magical world of social elites, forbidden love, and a dark magic that could destroy it all. Now in Paperback! "Dazzling ...

The forest is more dangerous than ever in this highly-anticipated, pulse-pounding, and swoon-worthy conclusion to the bestselling Luminaries trilogy. Winnie Wednesday’s future is looking bright. Hemlock Falls is no longer hunting the werewolf, she and Erica Thursday are tentative friends, and Wi...

From Susan Dennard, the New York Times bestselling author of the Witchlands series, comes a haunting and high-octane contemporary fantasy about the magic it takes to face your fears in a nightmare-filled forest and the mettle required to face the secrets hiding in the dark corners of your own fami...

Kara Thomas meets Twin Peaks in this supernatural thriller about one girl's hunt for the truth about her mother's disappearance. In 1973, the thirty-one residents of Bitter Rock disappeared. In 2003, so did my mother. Now, I've come to Bitter Rock to find out what happened to her--and to me. Be...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • American Library Association • Kirkus Reviews A stunning allegorical novel about one man’s enduring love for his daughter Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning deb...

A leading theologian’s concise guide to the beliefs, commitments, and practices of Christianity.   What do Christians believe? But also, what do they  do ? And  feel ?  With decades of experience teaching the essentials of Christian faith, Douglas Ottati still finds these questions—and more ...

A true-crime thriller -- the first book for teens to tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover. The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of ma...

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violence All parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to beli...

“Explodes into a wild fantasy adventure. . . . Cody has begun what promises to be an epic trilogy.” — Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm   It is said that in the thirteenth century, in a town called Hamelin, a piper lured all of the children away w...

The forest is more dangerous than ever in this highly-anticipated, pulse-pounding, and swoon-worthy conclusion to the bestselling Luminaries trilogy. Winnie Wednesday’s future is looking bright. Hemlock Falls is no longer hunting the werewolf, she and Erica Thursday are tentative friends, and Wi...

"...The writing is excellent, and the plotting is first rate, and I give the author extra kudos for originality." -Amazon Top 1000 Reviewer Loyalty beyond life itself... Desire that whispers to defy an oath... At risk is all they've ever shared and a future they hope to keep. Sara Forrester is ...