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SORCELINE BOOK 2Sorceline begins the second installment of her titular series in an incapacitated dream state, while eccentric Professor Balzar recounts the...
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FRANCES AND THE WEREWOLVES OF THE BLACK FORESTForced to flee into the Black Forest when her train to Brussels is diverted, 12-year-old Frances goes from hunter (in the opener) to hunted for...
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ACCOUNTABLELiberal Albany, California—where over half the residents are White and most are college educated—was the site in 2017 of a shocking discovery. A...
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THE PERENNIALSGuillén is a professor of management at the Wharton School, and his book 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future...
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SAVI AND THE MEMORY KEEPERLonely Savi is just shy of 14. Her older sister escapes into social media. Mom is withdrawn, cleaning obsessively. Leaving polluted Delhi, the...
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HALLOWEEN CUPCAKE MURDERO’Connor’s American heroine Tara Meehan’s search for Halloween decorations for her architectural salvage shop in Galway leads her to a curiosity...
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RAVAGE & SONBosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights has nothing on Charyn’s Lower East Side, described by one character as home to “every kind of vermin.”...
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ACTUALLY SUPERWhen a depressed Isabel discovered Actually Super, an online community devoted to the theory that people with superhuman abilities exist, her...
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MOLLY AND THE MUTANTSIn Molly and the Machine (2022), 11-year-old Molly and an unlikely assortment of heroes rescued her younger brother from a giant robot. Now...
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A DAY IN THE PARKThere is an entire world alive here; the varied flora and fauna include gorgeous trees, vibrant flowers, joyful pups roaming off-leash,...
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THE BEYONDThough this installment follows the same structure as Leviathan (2022), it stands alone; readers need not be familiar with the previous...
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DIG TWO GRAVESCelebrating both his secretary/partner/lover Velda Sterling’s return from a long absence in the early 1960s and his own comeback from a...
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MY DAD THINKS HE'S A PIRATE“My dad thinks he’s funny,” the young narrator tells us. Dad, who’s hanging up clothing to dry, proceeds to tell a joke (“Knock, knock.” “Who’s...
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NINE LIVES AND ALIBISDetermined to make Daybreak Island the next Salem, Maddie James has big plans for a Halloween celebration. Well, really her family does, but...
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ALWAYS SISTERSRaya’s mother is having a baby, and Raya can’t wait to meet her new little sister, Nura (Arabic for “beautiful light”). Although she loves her...
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THE DAWN OF A MINDFUL UNIVERSEGleiser, a professor of natural philosophy, physics, and astronomy at Dartmouth, has written multiple books exploring philosophical questions...
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FRANCE ON TRIALJackson, a professor emeritus of history and author of the prizewinning De Gaulle , reminds readers that Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) “was...
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THIRD WHEELAs the story begins, 14-year-old Brady Wilks expects to spend his upcoming summer partying and playing Dungeons & Dragons with his next-door...
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IGNITE YOUR IDEASThe author is an education specialist with several published works on nurturing children’s talents, including Being Smart About Gifted Learning...
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UNREDEEMABLE AND OTHER STORIESTo read this debut collection is to confront the messy, fragile, joyful business of being alive. “Everyone is their most interesting while...
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BEE CONSPIRACYSpecial Agent Kelso Bagley is an entomologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who’s recently been disciplined for his unorthodox arrest...
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UNSINKABLECorcoran’s daring athletic odyssey doesn’t begin with his decision to swim the 500 km length of Ireland’s coastline. It began when his beloved...
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MAGIC, MYSTERY, AND THE MULTIVERSECalifornia teenager Zorana “Ana” Zest’s father ships her and her little brother, Zackary,off to London. They’ll stay with their beloved uncle,...
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QUEEN OF THE COURTPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Blais, author of In These Girls Hope Is a Muscle and other books, presents a vividly complete portrait of...
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A SONG SO BLACK, SO PROUD!“I’ve been flowing strong since I was born in 1968,” the tune informs readers, “Like the Mississippi River running up and down the States.”...
