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  • Year Published: 1998

    Psycho

    Director Gus Van Sant's controversial remake of the 1960 Hitchcock film.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Saint Omer

    Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigra



  • Year Published: 2023

    Dream Scenario



  • Year Published: 2024

    American Experience- Fly With Me

    Fly With Me tells the story of the pioneering young women who became flight attendants at a time when single women were unable to order a drink, eat alone in a restaurant, own a credit card or get a prescription for birth control. Becoming a "stewardess," as they were called, offered unheard-of opportunities for travel, glamour, adventure and independence. Although often maligned as feminist sellouts, these women were on the frontlines of the battle to assert gender equality and transform the wo



  • Year Published: 2023

    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Final Season

    In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect.



  • Year Published: 1999

    South Park Season 3

    See all 17 outrageous episodes from the third season of this award-winning series.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Dick van Dyke show. Season two

    One of television's most celebrated shows, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" follows the misadventures of comedy writer Rob Petrie. Starring the legendary Dick Van Dyke and Emmy Award winner Mary Tyler Moore. Season two.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Holdovers

    It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.



  • Year Published: 2024

    All Creatures Great & Small Season 4

    It's Spring 1940 and with Europe at war, the community in Darrowby are pulling together more than ever before. With Tristan away serving, Siegfried and James bring in some extra hands to help around the practice: highly efficient bookkeeper Miss Harbottle, and student vet Richard Carmody.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Invisible beauty

    "The essential memoir of fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison, INVISIBLE BEAUTY shines a spotlight on the singular and unapologetic Hardison, one of the fasion industry's most influential icons. Hardison and her codirector Fre´de´ric Tcheng set forth an absorbing record of the racial evolution of fashion and an original contemplation on the life of an unparalleled trailblazer."--Container.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Afire

    While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon and photographer Felix are surprised to encounter Nadja, a mysterious young woman staying as a guest at the holiday home of Felix's family. Nadja soon distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel, not only because of her passionate liaison with lifeguard Devid but also because her brutal honesty forces Leon to confront his artistic inadequacies. As Nadja and Leon grow closer, an encroaching forest fire threatens the group and pushes the writer t



  • Year Published: 2024

    Thanksgiving

    After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.



  • Year Published: 1954

    Go Man Go

    The true story of the Harlem Globetrotters and Abe Saperstein.



  • Year Published: 1992

    Kung Fu - The Legend Continues- The Complete First Season

    Kwai Chang Caine, grandson of the legendary hero of the Wild West, teams up with his policeman son, Peter, to tame the new Wild West, '90s urban America.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Birthright Outlaw

    Her father said her birthright was sealed. A frontier pastor's love told her otherwise. But when their daughter is kidnapped by her outlaw grandfather, can this couple trust God and each other to rewrite their destiny?



  • Year Published: 2024

    The Promised Land

    The story of Ludvig Kahlen who pursued his lifelong dream: To make the heath bring him wealth and honor.



  • Year Published: 2020

    The expanse. Season four

    With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly new threats from the protomolecule emerge.



  • Year Published: 2002

    We were soldiers

    Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major battle of the war. Heroism becomes the order



  • Year Published: 2010

    Wallander Series 1 Volume 1

    Based on Henning Mankell's novels, volume one features the first three episodes of series one, Before the Frost, the Village Idiot; and the Brothers.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Brain-Gut Connection With Dr. Emeran Mayer

    Recent science is now revealing that the vital connection between the gut and the brain impacts everything: physical health, mental health and even the choices one makes.



  • Year Published: 2023

    A Creature Was Stirring

    Faith keeps her troubled teenage daughter on a tightly controlled regimen of experimental drugs, their only means of fending off a mysterious, terrifying affliction. But after two burglars attempt to rob the home on Christmas, they stumble upon a long-kept family secret with monstrous consequences.



  • Year Published: 2009

    Moon

    Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole purpose is getting back home on his own.



  • Year Published: 2017

    Sharpe. Complete season one

    Set during the Napoleonic wars of nineteenth century Spain. This fast-moving, hard-hitting action adventure series brings to life all the danger and romance of one of the bloodiest wars in history.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Color Purple

    A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Doom Patrol Season 4

    DC's unlikeliest group of heroes, the Doom Patrol, are ready to save the world... kind of. After suffering horrific accidents that gave them superhuman abilities, Cliff/Robotman, Larry/Negative Man, Rita/Elasti-Woman, Jane/Crazy Jane, and Vic/Cyborg, were each left scarred, disfigured, and ostracized, until mad scientist Dr. Niles Caulder brings the outcasts together to treat and protect them. Gritty and irreverent, Doom Patrol follows this part support group, part superhero team as they take on



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Moon

    Seven years after Korea's first fully manned mission to the moon ends in disaster, a second human spaceflight is launched successfully until a strong solar wind causes the spacecraft to malfunction. With an astronaut left stranded in space and quickly running out of oxygen, the Naro Space Center turns to its former managing director to avert yet another fatal catastrophe.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Walking Dead- Daryl Dixon Season 1

    Following his departure from The Commonwealth, Daryl Dixon washes ashore in France, raising the ire of a splintered but growing autocratic movement centered in Paris and endangering a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movement.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Butcher's Crossing

    Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey wher



  • Year Published: 2024

    Suitable flesh

    Psychiatrist Elizabeth Derby becomes obsessed with helping a young patient who's suffering from extreme personality disorder. However, it soon leads her into occult danger as she tries to escape from a horrific fate.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Madame Web

    Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.



  • Year Published: 2018

    Ladyworld

    Eight teenage girls are trapped at an endless birthday party after a massive earthquake. When one goes inexplicably missing, a menacing power struggle takes hold. Then, rumors of a male prowler push the girls' fragile psyches even further into a series of strange rituals and fierce delirium.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Funny Woman

    It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara finds herself in unfamiliar territory--an audi



  • Year Published: 2024

    Alice & Jack

    Alice & Jack explores perseverance, passion, and the true sense of partnership over the course of a profound fifteen-year relationship. Honest, intimate and surprisingly funny, it asks the seminal question of our time: are the bonds between us stronger than the forces that would tear us apart?



  • Year Published: 2023

    Out of Darkness

    45,000 years ago, six people searched for a new home in an inhospitable landscape. When night falls, hope turns to fear as they realize they are not alone. Stalked by a terrifying enemy, the group fractures as everyone fights for survival.



  • Year Published: 2015

    Victoria

    Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads are in trouble and they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria's flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. As the night takes goes on, what started out as a good time quickly spirals out of control.



  • Year Published: 2012

    Entourage. The complete third season, Part 1 & 2

    For Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane isn't without its road bumps, as we learned when a botched deal cost Ari, Vince's longtime agent, his job. Will change at the top make the difference in getting Vince his dream picture, or will the boys regret giving Ari the ax?



  • Year Published: 2024

    Patrick and the Whale

    Patrick Dykstra is a man who has dedicated his life to his great passion - diving with and filming whales. Over the years, Patrick has learned how whales communicate, how they perceive other creatures in the water, and how they behave in his immediate presence.



  • Year Published: 2018

    Elephant

    Elephant takes us inside an American high school on one single ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. The story unfolds, filled with classwork, football, gossip, and socializing. It's an ordinary high school day. Except that it's not.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Special Ops - Lioness. Season one.

    Inspired by an actual US Military program, follows the life of Joe while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade and Donald Westfield, enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11.



  • Year Published: 2010

    Entourage. The complete sixth season

    For Vince, Eric, Drama, and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating roller-coaster of a ride. After hitting some speed bumps the last couple of year, Vince's career is in high gear after his role in a new Martin Scorsese film. But now that Vince is back on top, is it finally time for the entourage to step out of his shadow?



  • Year Published: 2013

    The way way back [Motion Picture - 2013]

    While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.



  • Year Published: 2014

    Battlestar Galactica [Television program - 1978-1979). The complete epic series

    In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hoping for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the Cylons. But after an act of treachery, the Cylons launch a devasting surprise attack, destroying the Colonies' home planet. A lone flagship, the Galactica, remains to aid the surviving colonists on their epic journey to their new home-- far-off Earth.



  • Year Published: 2018

    Grease [Motion Picture - 1978]

    The classic tale of good girl Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) and bad boy Danny (John Travolta) gets tuned up with new special features in Grease: Exclusive 40th Anniversary Edition.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Three Musketeers Part 1- D'Artagnan

    D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.



  • Year Published: 2018

    The catcher was a spy

    The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Perpetrator

    Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing from her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.



  • Year Published: 2008

    Entourage. The complete fourth season

    Eric and Vince have taken on new roles as producers. Will their film be hailed as a critical masterpiece, or will it end up on the trash heap of broken Tinseltown dreams?



  • Slap shot [Motion picture - 1977]



  • Year Published: 2010

    Upstairs, downstairs. Series four

    "Series four takes place during the Great War, from 1914-18, and no one is unaffected"--Container.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Leap of Faith

    A complete dissection and sweeping examination of the award-winning genre classic The Exorcist. Explore the uncharted depths of William Friedkin's mind's eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that helped shape his life and filmography, as told by the man himself.



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  • The Twilight Garden

    Between the houses of No.77 and No.79 on Stoke Newington Green in London, there is a shared garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it's overgrown and neglected, an empty patch of greenery lost to time. But that suits neighbors Winston and Bernice just fine, their houses may share the garden, but they're not exactly neighborly. But one day, a mysterious parcel drops through Winston's door at No.77. It cont



  • The Missing Witness

    Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and tracking down the witness becomes a matter of



  • The Familiar

    In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pe´rez, the di



  • Never Too Late

    Recently widowed Kezia moves from San Francisco to New York, determined to start fresh. She sells her home and her late husband's company, freeing herself from board responsibilities. She settles in a midtown penthouse near her adult daughters and befriends her movie-star neighbor, Sam. When a crisis hits the city, Kezia and Sam bond over volunteering, leading to a transformative friendship. While her daughters focus on their love lives, Kezia learns that her changes open new horizons.



  • The Turtle House

    It's spring 1999, and 25-year-old Lia Cope and her prickly 73-year-old grandmother, Mineko, are sharing a bedroom in Curtain, Texas, the ranching town where Lia grew up and Mineko began her life as a Japanese war bride. Both women are at a turning point: Mineko, long widowed, moved in with her son and daughter-in-law after a suspicious fire destroyed the Cope family ranch house, while Lia, an architect with a promising career in Austin, has unexpectedly returned under circumstances she refuses t



  • The Interpretation of Dreams

    In his iconic, landmark work, acclaimed psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud introduces his theory on the unconscious mind and how it is related to dreams. Here, Freud reveals how dreams can be interpreted as the mind's wish to settle an unresolved conflict.



  • The Age of Revolutions



  • An Unfinished Murder



  • Expiration Dates

    Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it, the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she'd spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. F



  • It Had to be You

    The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children



  • End of Story



  • Insomnia



  • Wandering Stars

    Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathe



  • Only the Brave

    In Nazi-era Berlin, Sophia Alexander shoulders immense responsibility after her mother's death, managing her family and aiding the resistance. Amidst Hitler's tyranny, Sophia assists in her sister's daring escape from Germany, endures personal losses, and joins the Sisters of Mercy. Despite danger, she persists in rescuing Jewish children, defying surveillance and persecution, determined to help those in need, even at the risk of her freedom.



  • The Ghost Orchid

    LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention's a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past, and who can still find you. A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor named Meagin March. A married neighbor. An illi



  • Daughter of Mine

    When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town, and people, she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance.



  • A View From the Stars

    Features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays and short stories side-by-side for the first time. This collection includes essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writer, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years.



  • Build the Life You Want

    Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the outside world to change. With insight, compassion, and hope, Brooks and Winfrey reveal how the tools of emotional self-management can change your life, immediately. They recommend practical, re



  • Fate breaker



  • Camino Ghosts



  • The Guest

    Iris and Gabriel seem to have it all: a beautiful country home, a daughter taking a gap year in Greece, and their good friends from Paris, Laure and Pierre, always up for a holiday weekend away. But when a young man has a tragic accident in a nearby quarry, Gabriel is the one to find him and hear his final words, leaving Gabriel with a guilty burden. As Iris tries to help ease her husband's trauma, they acquire an unexpected house guest. Their friend Laure has seemingly moved in, her marriage in



  • Miss Morgan's Book Brigade



  • Lucky

    Jodie Rattler's journey from a St. Louis girl to a singing sensation unfolds with a lucky racetrack win at age six. Fueled by family warmth and a mix of hard work and serendipity, she rises to stardom, touring from New York City to St. Thomas. Amidst recording studios and backstage scenes, Jodie navigates the music scene's challenges, competing with iconic figures. As she matures, the search for true love becomes a lingering question in her life's dynamic narrative.



  • The Truth About the Devlins

    T.J. Devlin is the charming disappointment in the Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their eponymous law firm, except him. He works at the firm as its investigator, after rehab for alcoholism and a stint in prison. One night, T.J.'s older brother John tells him that he killed his client, an accountant, in self-defense, during a fight that ensued after John had confronted the accountant with evidence of embezzlement. T.J. and John hurry to the scene, but they find that the accountant has v



  • After Annie

    When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adul



  • Three-Inch Teeth

    A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage, killing, among others, the fiance´ of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a list of six names tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates devises a method of violence identical to the bear killings and sets out to methodically check off his list.



  • The Phoenix Crown

    Versailles, 1912. At the height of an intoxicating Paris summer, a mysterious American millionaire attends a sumptuous costume ball with his bride, on whom he has bestowed the legendary Phoenix Crown, a priceless relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. The party of the century kicks off with three hundred guests, nine hundred bottles of champagne, and one quest for justice that spans two continents and six years. San Francisco, 1906. In a bustling city of newly minted millionaires and hopeful u



  • Pay Dirt

    V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her unflinching courage. All that changes when a case ends with a father killing the child she'd been hired to find. She's second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout. Her worried friends send her down to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball; Angela, one of her prote´ge´es, is a Northwestern star. And that's when V.I.'s troubles really begin. Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and



  • Fourteen Days

    One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contrib



  • Knife

    Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife is a gripping, intimate, and ultimately life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art, and finding the strength to stand up again.



  • Toxic Prey



  • The hidden life of trees



  • Table for Two

    The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomita



  • The Princess of Las Vegas

    Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style thirty years old, living and working in a casino that has become a dated trash heap. O



  • Supercommunicators

    We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand, some by intuition, some by hard-won experience, that there is a science to how human beings connect through words. They unde



  • Reading Genesis

    For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true. Both of these approaches preclude an



  • Long Island



  • She's Not Sorry

    Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has alwa



  • The House of Hidden Meanings

    Stripping away all artifice, RuPaul recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego, navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates



  • The Museum of Lost Quilts

    Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues, and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't graduate until she does. Elm Creek Manor offers



  • Demon of unrest



  • Mania

    n an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who use it at home. A college English instructor, the



  • Summers at the Saint



  • Lost man's lane



  • Lost Birds

    Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilaga´ana family but believes she is Dine´ based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they se



  • The Courage to be Disliked

    Already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than three million copies sold, it demonstrates how to unlock the power within oneself to be the person listeners truly want to be.



  • The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory

    Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing, and least understood, people living in America today. In his seminal new book, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical preacher, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. Through the eyes of televangelists and small-town preachers, celebrity revivalists and everyday churchgoers, Alberta tells the story of a faith cheapened by ephemeral fear, a pr



  • Close to Death



  • Extinction

    Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with



  • The Hunter

    It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey's long-absent father reappears



New Adult Fiction Books

  • Sweetness in the Skin



  • The Inheritance



  • In the weeds

    "A grumpy farmer and a no-nonsense social media influencer have another chance at love in this charming romantic comedy. Evelyn St. James isn't the kind of woman you forget. Beckett Porter certainly hasn't. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he's officially a man distracted. He's not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings, but Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can't stop thinking about her laugh. Her hand pressed flat against his chest. Her smiling mouth



  • Remember



  • The off limits rule- a romantic comedy



  • A spy like me

    "An elite team of MI6 agents trained by James Bond must go undercover to unravel a band of violent terrorists in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood"--



  • Victim



  • Folk Around and Find Out



  • The Juliet code

    "Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice. To their surprise, their friend, Detective Jack Miracle, is also in the city, investigating a series of art heists starting at the house of eccentric millionaire, Laraby Covington. Drawn into a world of boat races, mysterious houses, and parties of the rich and unusual in Venice, Frederick and Grace learn of the existence of the Juliet paintings, (Renaissance



  • You know what you did - a novel

    "Is someone out to get Annie? Or is she her own worst enemy?"--



  • The trouble with paradise



  • The Garden



  • Sunburn

    It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, fifteen-year-old Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a despera



  • A fire so wild - a novel

    "With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices growing beneath the city's surface. As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built. Abigail, a wealthy white woman, decides to throw a lavish birthday in a hillside ma



  • Cole and Laila are just friends - a love story

    "Cole and Laila have been inseparable since they could crawl. And they've never thought about each other that way. Except for when they have. Rarely. Once in a while, sure. But seriously . . . hardly ever"--



  • What Happened to Nina?



  • My Name Was Eden



  • Love and Hot Chicken - A Delicious Southern Novel



  • The Return of Ellie Black



  • The Rings of Saturn

    A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, author W.G. Sebald's home for more than 20 years, "The Rings of Saturn" explores Britain's pastoral and imperial history. On the pilgrimage a company of ghosts, like conductors between the past and present, keep the narrator company.



  • One by One



  • The general's gold



  • Parasol Against the Axe



  • The Mother Act



  • Queen Takes Rose

    "Once upon a time I made a deal with the devil. It turns out I like playing in the dark. Over the years, I've become someone I'm proud of, someone dangerous. I'll never be as dangerous as Malone, though. She's one of the most feared leaders in Carver City, and her reputation is more than earned. Years ago, we had a single night together and she's ignored me ever since. Imagine my surprise to discover she's scheduled me for the final two weeks of my contract. Maybe I should be afraid. Everyone el



  • Double Lives



  • Anita De Monte Laughs Last



  • Never been better - a novel

    "Dee, Misa, and Matt were the "three musketeers" of the psych ward. A year after discharge, Dee is eager to convince everyone that she's finally turning things around. But Matt and Misa are tying the knot in Turks and Caicos, surrounded by guests who haveno idea where they met, and the secrecy isn't sitting well with Dee, who has been hopelessly in love with Matt since before she got kicked out of the hospital. So, when Dee arrives at the swanky resort with her high-voltage sister, Tilley, it's



  • Offside - Special Edition



  • The cemetery of untold stories - a novel

    "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--



  • The Visitors



  • Cheater

    "A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting high-stakes thriller. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego's premier elderly support from independent retiree housing to full-time hospice care. But when a resident's body is found brutally stabbed and his apartment ransacked, it's clear there's someone deadly in their community. Detective Katherine "Kit" McKittrick quickly discovers that Shady Oaks is full



  • The Morningside



  • This Summer Will Be Different



  • Up Island Harbor



  • Selling out

    Austin: After years of working my tail off in the music industry, I've finally made it: headlining my own tour across Europe. Sure, it'd be great to sing my own songs instead of the stuff my label gives me, but success requires compromise. It also requires a stellar tour team, which is why I know I have to have Mia Sawyer as one of my backup vocalists when I hear her sing. With thousands of women screaming my name on stage every night, it shouldn't bother me that she doesn't seem to think much o



  • Daughter of a Promise



  • All our yesterdays - a novel

    "Scotland, the 11th Century. Born in a noble household and granddaughter of a forgotten Scottish king, a young girl carries the guilt of her mother's death and the weight of an unknowable prophecy. When she is married, at fifteen, to the Mormaer of Moray,she experiences firsthand the violence of a sadistic husband and a kingdom constantly at war. To survive with her young son in a superstitious realm, she must rely on her own cunning and wit, especially when her husband's downfall inadvertently



  • A haunting in the arctic

    "A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on whatcould be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later, the wreck of the Ormen has washed up on the forbid



  • Business casual

    "Two polar opposites will find out if one night together is enough to get each other out of their systems in the final book in the beloved Lovelight Farms series, publishing as a Berkley original. Nova Porter isn't looking for love, and she certainly hasno explanation for her attraction to buttoned-up, three-piece-suit-wearing, investment banker Charlie Milford. Maybe it's his charm? Or maybe it's his determination to help her fledging business anyway he can. Either way, she's distracted every t



  • The Angry Land



  • Wild Heart - Includes Falling for Rachel & Convincing Alex



  • Dream spinner

    In this steamy and emotional contemporary romance from a New York Times bestselling author, two damaged souls must overcome the pain of their pasts to have the love they've always dreamed of. Hattie Yates has finally met the man of her dreams. Yet years of abuse from her demanding father have left her petrified of disappointment. She's already failed to reach her goal of becoming a professional ballerina and she can't handle the terrible consequences of another dream becoming a nightmare. But wh



  • Desperate Measures

    Loosely based on the characters from the animated film Aladdin.



  • Hooked

    "She's free to fly if her past doesn't catch up with her. But what if she's ready to fall for him instead? Cecily doesn't want to grow up--not if growing up means marrying. Having escaped a life of abandonment and mistreatment, she refuses to put her life in the hands of a man ever again. She's happily settled into her life as lady's maid to Princess Marilee when the princess's personal guard, Falstone, expresses a wish to know her better. His kind heart and playful nature pull her in, but while



  • A Good Happy Girl



  • At Her Service



  • The Widow Spy



  • There's going to be trouble - a novel

    "Minnow Hunter has always tried to lead the life her single father, Christopher, modeled - private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical. So she is rocked when a split-second decision makes her the extremely public face of a scandal in the small town where sheteaches. She even loses the support of her father, who stops speaking to her when the media start harassing him too. Overwhelmed, Minnow flees to a teaching position in Paris, hoping distance and time will let her start over. But what if Christop



  • American spirits

    "Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--



New Adult Nonfiction Books

  • A letter to liberals from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - censorship and COVID- an attack on science and American ideals

    "A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science. Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how to read science critically, exercising healthy skepticism toward notoriously corrupt entities like the drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis, and were outraged by the phenomenon of "agency capture" and the pervasive control of priv



  • Japanese interiors

    An insider's look at the myriad styles of private homes of Japan, showing how Japanese interior design continues to evolve in a new era. Exploring the art and craft of Japanese residential interiors, author Mihoko Iida provides an insider's look into the wide-ranging interior design of her country's private homes. Featuring twenty-eight exemplary residences around Japan - from urban apartments to mountain and seaside escapes - the book showcases aspirational minimalist homes alongside functional



  • Roberto Alomar - the complicated life and legacy of a baseball Hall of Famer

    "Roberto Alomar is the first complete and unbiased look into the complicated legacy of this baseball Hall of Famer, covering Alomar's impressive career that included 12 All-Star selections and 10 Gold Glove awards, his altercation with umpire John Hirschbeck, the controversial allegations stemming from his personal life, and his global influence"--



  • 100 bike rides of a lifetime - the world's ultimate cycling experiences

    "This inspiring illustrated guide reveals the ultimate bucket list destinations for cyclists"--



  • The Sounds of Life- How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants



  • Oh Crap! Potty Training - Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right



  • One Way Back - A Memoir



  • Fighting Phishing - Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing



  • Peterson's master the SAT 2023.

    Provides in-depth subject review of the reading, writing and language, and mathematics sections of the SAT, along with diagnostic tools, test-taking strategies, and full-length practice exams with detailed answer explanations.



  • Means of Control - How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State



  • A history of the world in twelve shipwrecks

    "From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time. The Viking warship of King Cnut the Great. Henry VIII's the Mary Rose. Captain John Franklin's doomed HMS Terror. The SS Gairsoppa, destroyed by a Nazi U-boat in the Atlantic during World War II. Since we first set sail on the open sea, ships and their wrecks have been an inevitable part of human history. Archaeo



  • Camille Pissarro - the audacity of impressionism

    "From the acclaimed biographer and author of Monsieur Proust's Library, an engaging new work on the life of "the father of Impressionism" and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity. The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French painting, he was a close friend of Monet, a longtime associate in Degas's and Mary Cassatt's experimental work, a support to Caezanne



  • Forging Freedom- Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston

    Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston



  • The Elderberry Book - Forage, Cultivate, Prepare, Preserve



  • The Jazzmen - How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America



  • The hammer - power, inequality, and the struggle for the soul of labor

    "The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of today has failed to enable enough individuals to join unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside of organized labor will-far more than most people realize--determine the economic and social course of American life for years to come. In deeply reported chapte



  • Murder on Birchleaf Drive- The True Story of the Michelle Young Murder Case

    The author documents the gripping tale of a family's marathon quest for justice, confounding crime scene evidence, persistence of law enforcement officers, and riveting courtroom combat.



  • On Bette Midler - an opinionated guide

    "Bette Midler today is a beloved legacy star, best known for her comic witch in Disney's Hocus Pocus and its 2022 sequel and for sentimental, anthemic ballads like "Wind Beneath My Wings." She's initiated green space projects in New York City and tussledwith Donald Trump on Twitter. Her profile is that of an articulate, civic-minded matron enjoying thoroughly mainstream stardom. But more than fifty years earlier she emerged from the steam of the subterranean Continental Baths as the Divine Miss



  • Eclipse - A Love Story Between the Sun & Moon



  • Globetrotting - Writers Walk the World



  • Goodbye to a river - a narrative



  • Moby Dyke - an obsessive quest to track down the last remaining lesbian bars in America

    "Lesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers, providing not only a good time but a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987, there were 206 of them in America. Today, only a couple dozen remain. How and why did this happen? What has been lost--or possibly gained--by such a decline? What transpires when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream? In Moby Dyke, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand, ventur



  • The Case for Open Borders



  • Left for Dead - Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World



  • Air and Dreams- An Essay on the Imagination of Movement



  • Ian Fleming - The Complete Man



  • Fashion - the definitive visual guide

    "Learn all about fashion's trailblazers and trendsetters in this boldly illustrated, definitive guide that charts style from the late 19th century to the modern day"--



  • Where rivers part - a story of my mother's life

    "In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet Lao, becoming the most heavily bombed count



  • Have a beautiful, terrible day! - daily meditations for the ups, downs, and in-betweens

    "Tender and powerful spiritual reflections and blessings that invite readers to honestly and joyfully walk through their everyday, wonderful, messy humanity, from the New York Times bestselling author of Good Enough. Kate Bowler, author of the instant NewYork Times bestseller Good Enough and national bestseller The Lives We Actually Have, wants to encourage people to develop their capacity to feel the breadth of their experiences. The better we are at identifying our spiritual highs and lows, th



  • Girls Just Wanna Have Funds- A Feminist's Guide to Investing

    "Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest's guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power. Are you one of the 68% of women worldwide earning less than a man doing the same job? Then you need to make your money work harder, starting now. In Girls Just Want to Have Funds, the trio of founders behind the global movement Female Invest bring you an empowering five-step guide with a



  • On giving up

    "A new book from the acclaimed psychoanalytic writer Adam Phillips on giving up to feel more alive"--



  • Live Ready- A Guide to Protecting Yourself In An Uncertain World

    Anyone can learn the techniques to recognize danger, avoid trouble, and ward off the people who would commit violence against them. You simply have to control your fear and be willing to protect yourself. This book shows you how.



  • Everything all at once - a memoir

    "When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced her to confront her past is raw, illuminating,



  • Total garbage - how we can fix our waste and heal our world

    "What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change-all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates our daily lives illuminates the ways in w



  • Dogland - passion, glory, and lots of slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

    "From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account of the Westminster Dog Show-America's oldest and most beloved dog show-following one dog on his quest to become a champion"--



  • The light eaters - how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth

    "A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--



  • A Darker Shade of Blue - A Police Officer's Memoir



  • Our biggest fight - reclaiming liberty, humanity, and dignity in the Internet age

    "The internet as we know it is broken. Here's how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms that have poisoned our digital information system and create a third-generation Internet that uplifts humanity-before it's too late"--



  • Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder



  • Take back your brain - how a sexist society gets in your head--and how to get it out

    "Take Back Your Brain offers a new paradigm for breaking free from negative self-talk and creating a life of confidence, power, and joy, from the host of the UnF*ck Your Brain podcast, Kara Loewentheil"--



  • The Homeschool Advantage - A Child-focused Approach to Raising Lifelong Learners



  • The call to serve - the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush

    "The lavishly illustrated The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the 41st U. S. President, a man many know mainly through his politics. Jon Meacham brings the leader vividly to life, including as a man dedicated to political and moralleadership, and to a life marked by the strong values of integrity and respect for others that Bush learned during his childhood. Bush pursued a life of service to America and to others, including through action in the Pacific during World War II



  • Hot sheet - sweet and savory sheet pan recipes for every day and celebrations

    "Transform everyday meals into extraordinary ones, with more than 100 recipes harnessing the power of your sheet pan, including breakfasts, starters, dinners, and desserts. Say goodbye to boring food and hello to flavor-packed dishes for weeknight diningas well as special occasions"--



  • I Curse You With Joy



  • Reading the Constitution - Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism



  • Dear Oliver - an unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks

    "In this intimate and inspiring book, Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became friends, laying bare the meeting of two people endlessly intrigued by the world and its mysteries"--



  • New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements- Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America

    "An engaging and impressively detailed textbook. Urban gives in-depth coverage of key new religious movements and provides explanations of frequently neglected alternative movements, such as the Native American Church, Neopaganism, and Spiritualism."--Rebecca Moore, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, San Diego State University "This is one of the most well-organized and comprehensive textbooks available on new religious movements. Urban highlights key movements and uses them as windows int



  • Tumblehome - one woman's canoeing adventures in the divine near wilderness

    "On a warm summer evening, Brenda Missen, a 37-year-old single, unattached writer, pitches her tent beside a lake in Canada's vast Algonquin Provincial Park. She's on a four-night "reconnaissance mission," an hour's paddle from the parking lot, to find out if she has the capability - and nerve - to one day go on a real canoe trip in the park interior by herself. Paddling and portaging from her campsite by day and surviving imaginary bear attacks by night, she decides she's ready. Then a ranger a



  • A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages - The World Through Medieval Eyes



  • Penning poison - a history of anonymous letters

    "Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison letter campa



New Young Adult Books, Graphic Novels, Manga & Zines

  • The complete Eightball. Issues 1-18

    Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball; it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is s



  • Nothing special. Volume one, Through the Elder Woods

    "Two not-so-human teenagers and a friendly ghost radish face the fantasy adventure of a lifetime."--



  • Huda F cares

    This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.



  • Zodiac - a graphic memoir

    "As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist Gianluca Costantini present Zodiac, Ai Weiwei's first graphic memoir. Inspired by the twelve signs of th



  • The Lonesome Hunters  2 - The Wolf Child



  • Dune - The Graphic Novel 2 - Muad'dib



  • Star Wars Darth Vader 8



  • Lissa - a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution

    "Anna is the daughter of Americans working in Cairo. But she feels more at home with the humble family of her friend Layla, who lives in the doorman's shack adjacent to Anna's apartment building. As the women grow up, their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they each face a family health crisis. Gulfs of misunderstanding emerge, as Anna deals with her family history of breast cancer, and Layla makes difficult decisions about her father's kidney failure. When the Arab Spring in Egypt erup



  • Doctor Who - the ninth doctor. Vol 4, Sin eaters



  • Stephen Mccranie's Space Boy 18



  • The Gulf



  • New Mutants omnibus. Volume 3



  • Charisma's turn - a graphic novel

    Follows the story of Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could change her future.



  • Donald Duck. 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea 20,000 leaks under the sea

    "Donald's cuckoo-bananas cousin Fethry has a submarine! He's roping desperate Don into a two-week treasure hunt on the ocean floor...and a bear-taming trip to Duckburg's deepest woods--and a mission to cure hiccups with scary hillbilly remedies! Are fameand fortune worth it?"--



  • Safe Passage



  • Lisa Cheese and Ghost Guitar. Attack of the Snack Attack of the snack

    "Lisa Cheese moved to Earth City hoping to make a name for herself as a folk singer--but her very first open mic was a disaster, leaving her with a bionic arm and an identity crisis. Now she's starting a crummy office job, her parents back in their home dimension are laying on the guilt trip, her sister's acting smug, and the cool girl at the record store leaves her tongue-tied. But none of that will mater if the city's demonic new fast food chain achieves its evil ambitions: Lisa's very life is



  • How to love - a guide to feelings & relationships for everyone

    A popular web comic artist presents this humorous, honest handbook, inclusive of all genders and sexualities, that offers valuable insights on everything from first love to self-love and love ever after.



  • A Firehose of Falsehood - The Story of Disinformation



  • The glass scientists. Volume 1

    Dr. Henry Jekyll believes mad scientists would do well to fix their public image, so he starts the Society for Arcane Sciences, but when a mysterious stranger aims to take the Society in a radical new direction, Jekyll's life starts to spiral out of control, threatening to expose his darkest secret.



  • Baltimore. 5, Cult of the Red King

    "Continuing his quest to destroy the Red King, Lord Baltimore heads to the icy Baltic Sea and to northern Russia, but he finds witchcraft in the streets of St. Petersburg and evil in its shadows. With new allies and fearsome new enemies, Baltimore continues his battle to save the world from the Red King. But as his path grows darkers, he may not only lose his way, but those closest to him. Collects Baltimore: The Cult of the Red King #1-#5"--



  • Clock striker. I'm Gonna Be a Smith! Volume 1, "I'm gonna be a SMITH!"

    "A young Black girl apprentices to the SMITHS, legendary warrior engineers who once traveled the world making it safer for everyone"--



  • Five nights at Freddy's. Fazbear frights. Graphic novel collection vol. 4

    From a boy determined to teach the school bully a lesson to a novelty toy that brings good luck with monstrous consequences, this terrifying trio of tales will have FNAF fans on the edge of their seats.



  • Void Rivals 1 - More Than Meets the Eye



  • Out of Left Field



  • A guest in the house

    "After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband--a recently widowed dentist--when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it's strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband's first wife, the more things don't add up. And Abby starts to wonder...was Sheila's death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila's me



  • Us

    "What happens when the life you thought you had does a 180 turn? Everything, and yet...nothing. Us is Sara and Diana's love story, as well as the story of Diana's gender transition. Full of humor, heartache, and the everyday triumphs and struggles of identity, this graphic memoir speaks to changing conceptions of the world as well as the self, at the same time revealing that some things don't really have to change. Written, drawn, and colored by Sara Soler, with English translation by Silvia Per



  • Smash the patriarchy / A Graphic Novel

    "The patriarchy is falling. It's time to smash it. This graphic novel shows you how. Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women-from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera-who stood up to them"--



  • Deadendia 3 - The Divine Order



  • The marble queen

    "A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister"--



  • Amazing Spider-man Epic Collection - The Secret of the Petrified Tablet New Printing



  • The keeper

    "A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family's dark history in this horror graphic novel"--



  • Nothing special / Through the Elder Woods

    "Two not-so-human teenagers and a friendly ghost radish face the fantasy adventure of a lifetime."--



  • Sheets

    When Marjorie, a practical teen in charge of her family's laundry business, encounters Wendell, a ghost seeking purpose in the forbidden human world, the pair must find a solution to Wendell's hauntings that are causing chaos in Marjorie's life.



  • Firebugs



  • Armed with madness - the surreal Leonora Carrington

    "Reluctant muse and feminist champion... society heiress and rebel refugee... the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting elite of Paris's 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dalai, after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst. But the demons that have both haunted and ins



  • Invincible - ultimate collection. Volume 9



  • Shook! - A Black Horror Anthology



  • The baker and the bard - a cozy fantasy adventure

    "Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a little bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger makes an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends (and Hadley's pet snake, Fern) set out on a journey to forage the magical mushrooms needed to make the requested galette pastries. Along the way, Juniper and Hadley stumble across a mystery too compelling to ignore: Something has been coming out of the woods at night and e



  • King cheer

    Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.



  • Malcolm Kid and the perfect song

    "What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician's soul is by performing the perfect song. With much hesitation,



  • DC vs. vampires

    "The Justice League has long protected Earth from all manner of foreign and alien invaders over the years, always keeping a vigilant eye to the skies for the next threat. But what if the threat was already walking the Earth...hiding in plain sight...watching...waiting for their moment to strike... A mysterious new vampire lord has already put a plan in motion to conquer the Earth, and his horde are hunting on the streets of Gotham."--



  • Guardians of the galaxy (2013-). Vol. 5, Through the looking glass

    "With the Slaughter Squad hot on their tails, the X-Men and the Guardians of the Galaxy are going to have to find somewhere to stash this loot. The odds against them, their only option for gaining the upper hand might lie with the mysterious Black Vortex. Will the temptation of the Black Vortex's unknown power be too much for this band of misfits?"--Provided from Amazon.com.



  • Through fences

    "Collection of short comics about life near the US-Mexico border. Touches on issues of immigration, detainment, policing, sexuality, racism, and violence"--



  • Clock striker. I'm Gonna Be a Smith! Volume 1, "I'm gonna be a SMITH!"

    "A young Black girl apprentices to the SMITHS, legendary warrior engineers who once traveled the world making it safer for everyone"--



  • The marble queen

    "A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister."--



  • Earthdivers 2 - Ice Age



  • Princeless - Raven - the pirate princess - year three. Book seven, Date night



  • Ruth Asawa - an artist takes shape

    "This graphic biography chronicles the genesis of Ruth Asawa as an artist--from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking wire sculptures"--



  • The witch's throne. Volume 2

    "Agni and her throne-seeker friends finally make it to the Citadel, and prepare to start battling their way through the tournament. Agni has grand visions for how she, Grom, Reksha, and Valdis will become heroes and save the world, but somehow she missedan important detail--these fights are to the death"--



  • King cheer / King Cheer

    Waitlisted by her dream college and questioning her identity, Leah steps down as cheer captain to focus on her future, but when the competition for captaincy goes awry, power-hungry twins take command of the squad and immediately pit the cheerleaders against the basketball team.



New Large Print Books, Foreign Language & VITAL Materials

  • The quaker and the rebel

    Emily Harrison's life has been turned upside down. At the beginning of the Civil War, she bravely attempted to continue her parents' work as conductors in the Underground Railroad until their Ohio farm was sold in foreclosure. Now alone, she accepts a position as a governess with a doctor's family in slave-holding Virginia. Perhaps she can continue her rescue efforts from there. Alexander Hunt is the doctor's handsome nephew. While he does not deny a growing attraction to his uncle's newest empl



  • Covert Amish investigation

    "A deadly undercover assignment...in the Amish community she left behind. After a woman in witness protection disappears from Kate Bontrager's Amish hometown, the now Englisch police officer goes undercover--and enters a killer's sights. Partnering with Abram Burkholder, the man she'd hoped to marry nearly a decade ago, is the only way to solve the case. But can they face the past and heal their still damaged hearts...before they both end up dead?"-- Back cover.



  • Christmas in Winter Valley

    "Cooper Holloway would take nature over people any day -- especially visiting relatives. That's why he's headed for a rustic cabin in remote Winter Valley, where he'll care for a herd of wild mustangs. But Cooper's plans are quickly thwarted by the arrival of two unexpected guests: one, a stranger in desperate need of his help, and the other, a very attractive young veterinarian. Elliott is busy trying to keep Maverick Ranch running smoothly with Cooper gone, which is no easy task with family vi



  • Nosy neighbors



  • Evergreen

    "It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded Los Angeles. Aki is working as a nurse's aide at the Japanese H



  • The Ghost Orchid



  • Sister of Starlit Seas



  • The Hunter



  • Everything left to remember



  • Miss Morton and the English house party murder

    "The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady's companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Just as Caroline is getting accustomed to her new position, her aunt, Lady Eleanor Greenwood, invites her and her employer to a house party in the countryside to



  • Piglet



  • You only call when you're in trouble



  • The butterfly collector

    "A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the making. 1868, Morpeth. Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is in finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby. She canno



  • The heiress

    "When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass to her adopted son, Camden. But to everyone's sur



  • The art and the dove



  • Nightwatching



  • The counterfeit countess



  • Only if you're lucky



  • The cowboy whisperer



  • Front sight



  • Never fall again



  • The Atlas Maneuver

    "1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day. Retired Justice Department operative, Cotton



  • An unfinished murder



  • If the boot fits



  • The wonder of it all

    "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her thrall, but years have passed and bitterness has set in. Still, the old attraction is there and Ja



  • The mistress of Bhatia House - a mystery of 1920s India

    "Bombay's only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey's award-winning series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing



  • Here in the dark



  • Mercury



  • Wandering through life - a memoir

    "Theinternationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells herown adventurous life story as she enters her eighties In a series of vignettes full of affection, irony, and good humor, DonnaLeon narrates a remarkable life she feels has rather more happened to her thanbeen planned. Following a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, withfrequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals, and summersspent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Leon go



  • What harms you



  • Murder in the tea leaves



  • The storm we made



  • A questionable character

    "It's a busy summer in Booktown. Contractor Jim Stark is in great demand: he's overseeing a number of projects, including Angelica Miles's newly constructed building on Main Street, finishing up the new brew pub, and gutting a stone mansion off Main Street that Angelica bought to be the world headquarters for Nigela Ricita Asssociates. It'll house office space where her marketing staff and the rest of the NR Associates clerical personnel will work. Tricia Miles and Angelica arrive at the mansion



  • The summer book club



  • To slip the bonds of earth



  • Murder on tour

    "Michigan bookshop owner Samantha Washington's tour for the launch of her new mystery novel is a whirlwind success... until life - or rather murder - begins to imitate fiction on the last stop at Michigan's most prestigious literary festival! While Sam wraps up her first whirlwind book tour, Nana Jo has kept Market Street Mysteries running smoothly. The last stop is a prestigious book festival in Sam's hometown of North Harbor, Michigan. But not everyone thinks the guest of honour, bestselling a



  • The day tripper



  • Death of a Spy



  • All that is hidden



  • Anita de Monte laughs last



  • Murder makes the page



  • Shadow Spell

    Originally published: New York: Berkley Books, 2014.



  • Booshops & bonedust



  • A winter by the sea



  • Meadow Falls



  • Double life



  • A love discovered



  • Family family



  • Sandcastle Inn



  • Last seen in Havana



New Children's Materials


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Featured: New Children's Picture Books

  • The clean machine

    "Can Rubble and his family of construction pups create a new car wash in time for the Builder Cove Vroom-Vroom Car Race?"--



  • First night of howlergarten

    Sophie worries she will not turn into a werewolf on her first night of howlergarten.



  • Storyteller Skye - teachings from my Ojibway grandfather

    Encouraging children to embrace the art of storytelling, gifted storyteller Skye shares unique and funny short stories passed down to her from her Ojibway Grandfather that contain a number of Indigenous teachings.



  • You stole my name

    "This fun picture book features vibrant, hand-painted illustrations and curious questions like "why does the bull trout share its name with the bull?" You Stole My Name is a stunning collection of illustrations that takes you and your child on a colorfuljourney through some of the animal kingdom's most interesting creatures and their namesakes"--



  • Are you mad at me?

    Opal the ostrich pushes past her anxiety to take on a big responsibility at her family's annual party.



  • Helping / Helping

    Celebrating the joy of helping others, this funny story finds Papa Bear making a mess of things while Mama is away and the cubs coming to the rescue with a little help around the house.



  • Our wish for you - a story about open adoption

    "In a celebration of open adoption, both a baby's birth mother and his adoptive parents share the same universal wishes for the child"--



  • Our incredible library book - and the wonderful journeys it took

    "This library book is very special. It's been hugged, lost, torn, chewed by a dog, and soaked in the rain. It's been read in apartments and in tents, by children wearing costumes and pyjamas, reading alone and with family. Each time it returns to the library it's a little more worn, but a lot more loved. For every rip, scribble, or stain there's a child who has found adventure or escape, comfort, or excitement in its pages. That's the magic of a library book!"--



  • Penguin huddle

    "All day long the penguin colony plays and plays, and when the sun goes down and the night grows cold and dark, they squeeze and squish together ("penguin huddle!") to stay warm and snug. But one morning, after a freezing gale, the penguins find themselves stuck, frozen together like a giant penguin ice pop. When no one in the Antarctic can unstick them ("penguin muddle!"), Pipsqueak, the smallest penguin of all, leads his fellows out of their snowy home to a city across the sea in search of hel



  • Ganesha goes green

    "Concerned about the pollution the Ganesha statues cause when her town celebrates her favorite festival, Ganesha Chaturthi, young Prema comes up with an innovative plan to keep the river clean"--



  • Flap your hands - a celebration of stimming

    Four neurodivergent kids, who face stressful moments throughout their day, use body movements, called stims, to self-regulate their emotions.



  • Way past sorry

    When Kat breaks a promise to Sage, she tries to apologize, but Sage, who is still hurt, ignores the apology, forcing Kat to find another way to make things right with her best friend.



  • The spark in you

    A young girl unleashes her inner spark and expresses her creativity and uniqueness during Carnival's lively atmosphere.



  • Noodle conquers Comfy Mountain

    As he prepares for a no bones day, Noodle the pug decides to rest on the top of Comfy Mountain, but finds his ascent harder than he anticipated.



  • Way past afraid

    When a thunderstorm intrudes on Van and Abbi's sleepover at Grammy and Pop's, Van is terrified, but he has an ingenious plan to make the sun come out again.



  • Listening to the quiet

    Jacki's mama is slowly losing her hearing. As Mama's world becomes quieter. Jacki's remains full of sound. Can Jacki and her mama find a way to keep sharing the music they love? --



  • The Hedgehog Who Said, Who Cares?



  • My Bollywood dream

    "It's Friday night, and on the bustling streets of Mumbai, a girl heads out with her family to the cinema. As she rides through the winding blocks with her maa, baba, and bhai, old melodies fill the car. And as she captures the sights and sounds of the city with her camera, she imagines a movie unfolding before her eyes. A choreographed dance sequence atop a long line of cars! When they arrive at the screening, the room is abuzz with people from all walks of life, waiting to lose themselves in t



  • Grandpa is here!

    "When her Grandpa finally arrives, a young child shows him all her favorite things and wishes he could stay longer but knows their short time together will be even sweeter and more special"--



  • Penelope Rex and the problem with pets

    Penelope Rex gets a saber-toothed tiger for her first pet, but find 'Mittens' a lot to handle.



  • Waaa waaa goes Táwà

    Ta´wa` makes her wishes known in the loudest way possible, even though she's too little to talk. Whenever things don't go her way, her sweet personality disappears. Whether on a walk, at the market or just getting new braids, Ta´wa` is quick to cry "Waaa waa." As the day wears on, her cries become more and more frequent and exasperating as they echo throughout the village. And when night falls and it's time for bed, is there anything the exhausted grow-ups can do to restore peace and quiet?



  • Just one more sleep - all good things come to those who wait ... and wait ... and wait

    Helping kids celebrate milestones and holidays throughout the year, this hilarious book channels childhood exuberance and explains why waiting can be wonderful - and why it can be worth it!



  • Hippos remain calm

    Follows two hippos as they calmly and mindfully go about an ordinary day.



  • Everyone Gets a Turn



  • The princess and the (greedy) pea

    "This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table it's all served on. After all that, it needs tosleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humungous pea resting under?"--



  • Sleepy Sheepy and the sheepover

    Sleepy Sheepy is excited for his first sleepover at Grammy and Grampy's house, but when it is time to go to bed he misses home too much to fall asleep.



  • Keep Up, Duck!



  • Make way for Butterfly

    Butterfly learns from Bee that he too is a pollinator and can help in the important work of pollinating plants.



  • Peg gets crackin'

    Peg the Egg is safe within her shell, and does not want to hatch--but sooner or later all little chicks must face the world.



  • Don't blow your top!

    Big Volcano and Little Volcano live side by side in paradise, but when a silly bird drops a coconut (or two) on Little Volcano's crater he blows his top.



  • I am not the easter bunny!

    Despite the vest, bowtie, and Easter egg painting a bunny insists that he is NOT the Easter Bunny.



  • Dancing hands - a story of friendship in Filipino sign language

    Sam is fascinated by her new neighbors and their ability to talk with their hands, and when she meets Mai, she starts to learn Filipino sign language so they can communicate. Includes dictionary of Philippine signs.



  • Gravity is bringing me down

    Gravity becomes a very personal problem for Leda as she stumbles and tumbles through a long day.



  • Vlad, the fabulous vampire

    Unfortunately looking alive due to his rosy cheeks, fabulous vampire Vlad tries to hide his complexion behind elaborate vampire outfits in traditional black until he finds out that his best friend has a pink secret of her own.



  • It might be an apple

    It Might Be an Apple is a boisterous, philosophical shaggy dog story for young children and probably a few adults. The story follows a childs hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought through all the things an apple might be if it is not, in fact, an apple. Distrusting the apples convincing appearance, the childs imagination spirals upwards and outwards into a madcap fantasy world maybe its a star from outer space with tiny aliens on board? Perhaps it wants a cool hairstyle? Does it feel scar



  • This Baby. That Baby.



  • If I had a polar bear

    A young girl imagines what it would be like to have a cuddly and super-strong polar bear for a pet.



  • Ploof

    In this imaginative and interactive book, Ploof, a friendly, puffy cloud full of feelings, helps little readers learn social-emotional skills like empathy, encouragement and kindness - and how to be a fantastic friend.



  • You're Going to Love This Book!



  • The Words We Share



  • The First Day of May



  • Tiny barbarian conquers the kraken!

    "After admiring the new movie poster for Bob the Barbarian Conquers The Kraken, Tiny wants to battle a kraken in the choppy seas, too! There's just one problem: Tiny doesn't know how to swim! Off to the community pool for Tiny's first swim lesson! With aswim cap stretched over his signature barbarian "helmet" and some cool new gear, Tiny learns to blow bubbles, float, dog paddle, kick, and build his confidence in the water. Just in time, because...A tentacled fearsome foe rises from the deep end



  • Baby be

    As they dance, wiggle, and boogie together, fathers assure their sons that they can become anything they want and that they will always have their fathers' support.



  • Squash, the cat

    "Squash, who looks a lot like the vegetable, is an early-breakfast, lots-of-naps kind of cat. Maggie is a wake-up-late, wild-playdate kind of girl. Despite their differences, they are the best of friends. That is until one day Squash confuses Maggie's newtoy for a dangerous beast and makes a terrible mistake. An unbelievably big mistake. Now Squash is a can't-face-Maggie kind of cat, and Maggie is a wishes-she-had-her-toy kind of girl. But the thing about best friends is, one way or another, the



  • I am not the Easter Bunny!

    Despite the vest, bowtie, and Easter egg painting a bunny insists that he is NOT the Easter Bunny.



  • Butterfly on the wind

    Nearvous for her talent show performance, Aurora spots a butterfly and is inspired to conjur a magical butterfly with her hands which sets off a chain reaction of support and empowerment among the global Deaf community.



  • The blue umbrella

    "A magical umbrella seems to grow and grow during a rainstorm so everyone in town is able to stay safe and dry"--



  • From here to there - a first book of maps

    "One day, Anna's friend Zane sends her an invitation to come over to play, and inside the envelope is a map. But Anna is convinced the map can't be right--why has Zane put his house in the middle and hers on the edge? So Anna decides to draw a map of herown, and Dad joins in as well. With an inviting narrative, child-friendly illustrations, and running commentary about various aspects of maps, aspiring cartographers are introduced to everything from symbols to point of view, road maps to family



  • I Have to Go!



  • Alligators, alligators

    Ten-year-old Jim and his father, who work together on a boat, use the power of love, nature, music, and the help of some dancing alligators, to outsmart a greedy stranger who tries to steal Jim's flute.