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Maurice is a sassy, street-smart cat with a sneaky disposition. Together with his band of rats and pied-piper friend, Maurice travels across the countryside, swindling villagers with a staged rat plague. All seems to be going as planned, until the gang arrives in a scenic market town and quickly realize something more nefarious is afoot.
Follows a ragtag team of misfits who must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect a missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands–but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.
Wolverine is recuperating from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool. They team up to vanquish a common enemy.
In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem. Following the 2022 summer blockbuster phenomenon of Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru, now begins a new chapter as Gru and Lucy and their girls Margo, Edith, and Agnes, welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad. Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life, and that his trusty purple crayon may set off more hilarious hijinks than he thought possible. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own.
The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out – but everything changes with the introduction of a new emotion: Anxiety, who has brought her friends for an extended stay.
Experience the day the world went quiet… When Samira returns home to New York City, her simple trip turns into a harrowing nightmare when mysterious creatures that hunt by sound attack. Accompanied by her cat Frodo and an unexpected ally, Samira must embark on a perilous journey through the city that has suddnely gone silent, where the only rule is to stay quiet to stay alive.
Zhi, a rookie race car driver, gets the opportunity to compete against the reigning champion of the rally car circuit. With help from a former driver-turned-mechanic, Zhi must overcome treacherous terrain, rival racers, and unexpected obstacles to prove he has what it takes to be the next great racer.
Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. With infectious humor, Margolin employs the familiar tropes of the action genre in hilarious, age-appropriate ways to tackle aging with agency. In the first leading film role of her 70-year career, Squibb portrays the strong-willed Thelma with grit and determination, demonstrating that she is more than capable of taking care of business despite what her daughter Gail, son-in-law Alan, or grandson Danny might believe.
An update to the 1996 film ‘Twister’, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.
Based on a remarkable true story, Unsung Hero follows David Smallbone as he moves his family from Down Under to the States, searching for a brighter future after his successful music company collapses. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David and his pregnant wife Helen set out to rebuild their lives. Helen’s faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs. With their dreams on hold, David and Helen begin to realize the musical prowess in their children, who would go on to become two of the most successful acts in Inspirational Music history: five-time GRAMMY Awardʼ-winning artists for KING + COUNTRY and Rebecca St. James.
ADULT FICTION
From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted-house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood… Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future… together. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, but lived long enough to utter five words to her, “I’ll be waiting for you.” That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press-the terminally ill woman holding her dying husband as he promised to wait for her on the other side. Worse, that person claimed it wasn’t Anton who said the words but his ghost, hovering over his body. Since their story went public, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium-a professor of parapsychology. For the séance, they rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton’s family once owned. The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter…in an empty shaft. Throughout it all she’s haunted by nightmares of her past. Because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t her first time contacting the dead. And Nicola isn’t her real name. That’s when she finds the first body…. In this atmospheric, thrilling new ghost story, Kelley Armstrong’s full talents are on display to thrill, chill and leave the reader guessing how Nicola escapes with her life–if she can.
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous–even suicidal–the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. On a routine scouting mission, Mickey7 goes missing and is presumed dead. By the time he returns to the colony base, his fate has been sealed. There’s a new clone, Mickey8, reporting for Expendable duties. The idea of duplicate Expendables is universally loathed, and if caught, they face being recycled into protein to feed a hungry colony. Meanwhile, life on Niflheim is getting worse, and the native species are growing curious about their new neighbors, which has Commander Marshall very afraid. Ultimately, the survival of both lifeforms will come down to Mickey7. That is, if he can just keep from dying for good.
THE BEST MYSTERY STORIES OF THE YEAR
Anthony Horowitz and Otto Penzler select and introduce the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world’s oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
“Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book–a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can’t be without–to a local little community library, she’s devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations to meet her newfound pen pal. A life-changing conversation, written only in the margins of beloved classic books, begins between Erin and her Mystery Man. Following each other through the pages of their favorite novels as the book exchange continues, they both begin to open up, falling into a friendship…and maybe something more. But Erin and her pen pal have a shared history that neither of them has guessed. Faced with painful reminders of the past–and the one person she swore never to forgive–Erin finds herself at a crossroads. One that could change her life forever.
CHILD-IN TOO DEEP: A REACHER NOVEL
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there. The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed. His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk…
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen–Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed. Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shōgun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shōgun is, as the New York Times put it, “…not only something you read–you live it.
DARA-A GRIM REAPER’S GUIDE TO CATCHING A KILLER
Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex’s baby. She’s also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences) but frankly that’s the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until one of her clients’ souls went missing. When she finally tracks down seventeen-year-old Conner Ortiz, he angrily denies he died of natural causes, despite what his file says. He’s certain that someone at S.C.Y.T.H.E. took his life instead of his soul, and he pressures Kathy to find out who and why. With only forty-five days to figure out what happened to Conner and help him move on, Kathy is forced to rely on the help of her retired mentor, her almost ex-husband, and even Conner himself before the boy’s soul becomes stuck on Earth as a ghost forever. But one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business.
GILMORE-THE CINNAMON BUN BOOK STORE
When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Book Store, Hazel can’t understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues. She just need someone to help her out. Gorgeous and outgoing fisherman, Noah, is always up for an adventure. And a scavenger hunt sounds like a lot of fun. Even better that the cute bookseller he’s been crushing on for months is the one who wants his help! Hazel didn’t go looking for romance, but as the treasure hunt leads her and Noah around Dream Harbor, their undeniable chemistry might be just as hot as the fresh-out-of-the-oven cinnamon buns the bookstore sells.
GILMORE-THE PUMPKIN SPICE CAFÉ
When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine, and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes…
GUTMAN-THE (MOSTLY) TRUE STORY OF CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE
Five kids across centuries recount the history of Cleopatra’s Needle, from its construction in ancient Egypt to moving it across the ocean to New York city in the 19th century.
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter’s actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that’s how Daphne’s story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra’s heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He’ll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together–for a particular audience of two–who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex-boyfriend. Who’s to say?
Small-town labels are hard to shake. Hometown hero. Fallen angel. Can anyone ever escape their past? A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn’t been seen since. Meanwhile, sheriff’s detective Annie Broussard begins her first day back on the job after suffering a brutal attack by taking on the case of B’Lynn Fontenot, a mother desperate to find her grown son, a recovering drug addict. Robbie Fontenot has been missing for eight days, but the local police have no interest in the case, telling B’Lynn that an adult has the right to disappear, and a missing addict is no big surprise. But B’Lynn swears her son was turning his life around. Sympathetic to a mother’s anguish, Annie agrees to help B’Lynn, knowing she’s about to start a turf war with the city police. As Annie searches for Robbie Fontenot and Nick investigates the disappearance of Marc Mercier, it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems in the lives of either man. And it’s still not clear whether either–or neither–of them might be the unidentified murder victim. Old jealousies and fresh deceits, family loyalties gone wrong and love turned sour all lay a twisting trail that leads deep into the Louisiana swamp, endangering all who cross the path of a bad liar.
Dragon fire no longer blisters the skies over Penterra, but inside the lavish palace, life is still perilous…especially for Tamsyn. Raised in the glittering court alongside the princesses, it’s her duty to be punished for their misdeeds. Treated as part of the royal family but also as the lowliest servant, Tamsyn fits nowhere. Her only friend is Stig, Captain of the Guard…though sometimes she thinks he wants more than friendship. When Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, descends on her home, Tamsyn’s world becomes even more dangerous. To save the pampered princesses from a fate worse than death, she is commanded to don a veil and marry the brutal warrior. She agrees to the deception even though it means leaving Stig, and the only life she’s ever known, behind. The wedding night begins with unexpected passion–and ends in near violence when her trickery is exposed. Rather than start a war, Fell accepts Tamsyn as his bride…but can he accept the dark secrets she harbors–secrets buried so deep even she doesn’t know they exist? For Tamsyn is more than a royal whipping girl, more than the false wife of a man who now sees her as his enemy. And when those secrets emerge, they will ignite a flame bright enough to burn the entire kingdom to the bone. Magic is not dead…it is only sleeping. And it will take one ordinary girl with an extraordinary destiny to awaken it.
KINSELLA-WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?
Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again-and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children-she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humor-it will both break your heart and put it back together again
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
On a cold winter’s evening in 1987, six middle-school paperboys wander an unfamiliar Milwaukee neighborhood, selling newspaper subscriptions, fueled by their stupid manager Kevin’s promises of cash bonuses and dinner at Burger King. But the freaks come out at night in Hampton Heights. Sent out into the neighborhood in pairs, the boys will encounter a host of primordial monsters–and triumph over them. Sigmone, who is bussed to a white school, is stuck with Joel, a white kid who idolizes Black culture. Mark, who’s wrestling with his sexuality, joins his secret crush, Ryan — who has a crush of his own. Nishu and Al are outsiders; one is a second-generation immigrant, the other a poor kid in a rich school. Over the course of one eventful evening, the three pairs will encounter the wild things of Hampton Heights–werewolves, witches with a centuries-old story to tell, and a creepy, ancient monster who feeds on memories. Meanwhile, Kevin is having an adventure of his own, seducing a beautiful woman in the neighborhood’s tavern — but there’s something weird about her fingernails . . . Funny, thrilling, outrageous, and sneakily beautiful, Dan Kois’s “Hampton Heights” captures without sentimentality the dreams and fears of teenage boys in a tender horror-comedy about camaraderie, bravery, vulnerability, and the terrifying prospect of growing up.
KOONTZ-THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS
Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn’t cast such a dark shadow. It’s where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida’s life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That’s the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can’t be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too: that Vida, like Jose, disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them. Vida, the forest, and its formidable wonders are waiting. She will not rest until goodness and order have been restored.
Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both “changed, changed utterly” from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter them they spell either doom or a touching new kind of love. At the climax of this heart-stopping novel they will inevitably meet.
LEE-SAFE ENOUGH AND OTHER STORIES
Meticulously plotted and packed with Child’s trademark action and suspense, a collection of 20 short stories shows the author’s mastery of the short form, and they’ve never been gathered before now.
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can’t shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He’s charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman–the latest in a string of deaths across the coast–confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim…
MONING-THE HOUSE AT WATCH HILL
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill–but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers. Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper. Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd… What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend–or risk being consumed by them.
The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave. Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five peoplecross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story. One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom? Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realizehe may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks-and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought. Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style
In the wake of their father’s death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear.
SMITH-A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
A young girl from an impoverished family comes of age in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.
From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change-or even make our peace with-the path we’ve taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone: happiest when off on his next adventure, zero desire to settle down. But when his grandmother passes away, her last words to him are find where you belong. She also drops a bombshell, telling him the name of the father he never knew-and where to find him. Tanner is due at his next posting soon, but his curiosity is piqued, and he sets out for Asheboro, North Carolina, to ask around. He’s been in town less than twenty-four hours when he meets Kaitlyn Cooper, a doctor and single mom. They both feel an immediate connection; Tanner knows Kaitlyn has a story to tell, and he wants to hear it. To Kaitlyn, Tanner is mysterious, exciting-and possibly leaving in just a few weeks. Meanwhile, nearby, eighty-three-year-old Jasper lives alone in a cabin bordering a national forest. With only his old dog, Arlo, for company, he lives quietly, haunted by a tragic accident that took place decades before. When he hears rumors that a white deer has been spotted in the forest-a creature of legend that inspired his father and grandfather-he becomes obsessed with protecting the deer from poachers. As these characters’ fates orbit closer together, none of them is expecting a miracle . . . but that may be exactly what is about to alter their futures forever.
The first in a series of historical novels about the 20th century US Navy, centered around an American naval officer and his key relationships, professional and personal, set during WWII.
As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her. Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from her days at NYU twenty years ago, now a lawyer on sabbatical who has come to Paris to devote himself to writing a thriller. Charming Olivier is a master at the art of flirtation, but as Amanda feels herself falling for him, she learns he is married. Providing counsel and support is her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc. When Amanda begins to receive threatening phone calls late at night, it is Pascal she turns to. Then someone breaks into her apartment on the Left Bank, and it’s all too clear she is in real danger.
STEIN-HOW TO HELP A HUNGRY WEREWOLF
What We Do in the Shadows with the small town feels of Gilmore Girls in this swoon-worthy romance that will leave readers delightfully cozy and hungry for more. When Cassandra Camberwell returns to her hometown of Hollow Brook to clear out her late grandmother’s ramshackle old house, the last thing she expects is Seth Brubaker on her doorstep. Her former best friend was responsible for the worst moment of her high school life, and she can’t imagine he wants to do anything but torment her all over again. Until she unearths the real reason this annoyingly gorgeous beast of a man keeps hanging around: he’s an actual werewolf, who’s certain she’s the witch that will ease his suffering. But Cassie just isn’t sure if she can trust him again. So Seth offers a pact: he’ll teach her all about her undiscovered magic, and she will brew the potions he needs. No feelings, no funny business, just a witch and a werewolf striking a deal. Totally doable. Until they get hit with a do-or-die mating bond. And now the heat is rising, in between fights with formers bullies and encounters with talking raccoons. They just have to not give in. Unless giving in just might be the very thing they never knew they always wanted.
In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick. The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot. The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions–demons of the past be damned. But at what cost? Horror Movie is an obsessive, psychologically chilling, and suspenseful feat of storytelling genius that builds inexorably to an unforgettable, mind-bending conclusion.
Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s story: Lucy Westenra was one of Dracula’s first victims. But her death was only the beginning. Lucy rose from the grave a vampire and has spent her immortal life trying to escape from Dracula’s clutches–and trying to discover who she really is and what she truly wants. Her undead life takes an unexpected turn in twenty-first-century London, when she meets another woman, Iris, who is also yearning to break free from her past. Iris’s family has built a health empire based on a sinister secret, and they’ll do anything to stay in power. Lucy has long believed she would never love again. Yet she finds herself compelled by the charming Iris while Iris is equally mesmerized by the confident and glamorous Lucy. But their intense connection and blossoming love is threatened by outside forces. Iris’s mother won’t let go of her without a fight, and Lucy’s past still has fangs: Dracula is on the prowl once more. Lucy Westenra has been a tragically murdered teen, a lonesome adventurer, and a fearsome hunter, but happiness has always eluded her. Can she find the strength to destroy Dracula once and for all, or will her heart once again be her undoing?
ADULT NON-FIC:
GRAHAM-BOOK AND DAGGER: HOW SCHOLARS AND LIBRARIANS BECAME THE UNLIKELY SPIES OF WORLD WAR II
The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the US found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed–and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work–and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts. In Book and Dagger, Elyse Graham draws on personal histories, diaries, and declassified OSS files to tell the story of a small but connected group of humanities scholars turned unlikely spies. Among them are Joseph Curtiss, a literature professor who hunted down German spies and turned them into double agents; Sherman Kent, a smart-mouthed history professor who rose to become the head of analysis for all of Europe and Africa; and Adele Kibre, an archivist who was sent to Stockholm to secretly acquire documents for the OSS. These unforgettable characters would ultimately help lay the foundations of modern intelligence and transform American higher education when they returned after the war. Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis–a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world.
GRISHAM-FRAMED: ASTONISHING TRUE STORIES OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Centurion Ministries Founder Jim McCloskey share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the victims of the United States criminal justice system. A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty there is very little room to prove doubt. Framed shares ten true stories of men who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, wives, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place, and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and the corrupt court system that can make them so hard to reverse. Told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of overcoming adversity when the battle already seems lost, and the deck is stacked against you.
MILFORD-THE PARANORMAL RANGER: A NAVAJO INVESTIGATOR’S SEARCH FOR THE UNEXPLAINED
Former Navajo Ranger Stanley Milford Jr.’s chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained over the course of his illustrious career serving the Navajo Nation.
Mills was still a preteen when she began her acting career and was quickly thrust into the spotlight. Under the wing of Walt Disney himself, Mills was transformed into one of the biggest child starlets of the 1960s through iconic roles in both British and American films. She became one of only twelve actors in history to be bestowed with the Academy Juvenile Award. In her memoir, Mills provides a unique window into when Hollywood was still Tinseltown and the great Walt Disney was at his zenith, ruling over what was (at least in his own head) still a family business. As a member of an esteemed acting family, she offers both her childhood impressions of the wild and glamorous world she was swept into, and the wisdom and broader knowledge that time has given her.
Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the Free–not just for the people and their purported ideals but to the actual land itself: the bedrock, the topsoil, and everything in between that generates the health of your local watershed. In his new book, Nick takes a humorous, inspiring, and elucidating trip to America’s trails, farms, and frontier to examine the people who inhabit the land, what that has meant to them and us, and to the land itself, both historically and currently.
O’REILLY-CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS: NO SPIN ASSESSMENTS FROM WASHINGTON TO BIDEN
Every American president, from Washington to Biden: their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction with Confronting the Presidents. From Washington to Jefferson, Lincoln to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Kennedy to Nixon, Reagan to Obama and Biden, the 45 United States presidents have left lasting impacts on our nation. Some of their legacies continue today, some are justly forgotten, and some have changed as America has changed. Whether famous, infamous, or obscure, all the presidents shaped our nation in unexpected ways. In Confronting the Presidents, O’Reilly and Dugard present 45 wonderfully entertaining and insightful portraits of each president, with no-spin commentary on their achievements–or lack thereof. Who best served America, and who undermined the founding ideals? Who were the first ladies, and what were their surprising roles in making history? Which presidents were the best, which the worst, and which didn’t have much impact? How do decisions made in one era, under the pressure of particular circumstances, still resonate today? And what do presidents like to eat, drink, and do when they aren’t working–or even sometimes when they are? These and many more questions are answered in each fascinating chapter of Confronting the Presidents.
THOMPSON- THE BARN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF A MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI
A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long.
TUCCI- WHAT I ATE IN ONE YEAR [AND RELATED THOUGHTS]
From an award-winning actor and New York times bestselling author comes a memoir that chronicles a year’s worth of meals.
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CHOW-THE GIRL WITH NO REFLECTION
Selected by the royal matchmaker to marry the crown prince, Ying Yue finds her husband-to-be stoic and infuriating, leading her to escape into a secret parallel world through palace mirrors where a kinder prince awaits, but the two worlds have a long and bloody history and Ying has a part to play in the future of both.
CICATELLI-KUC-PUMPKIN SPICE & EVERYTHING NICE
“…sixteen-year-old Lucy Kane hates the uber-popular PSL. She finds it overrated — especially when you consider the fact that there isn’t even pumpkin in it! — which is bad because she works at Cup o’ Jo, the local coffee shop her mom owns. Business at Cup o’ Jo hasn’t been great in the off-season, but that’s okay because it always picks up during the fall… Until Java Junction, a multinational coffee chain, opens across the street and makes things harder for the small shop. And to make matters worse, it turns out Jack Harper, the new kid in school and Lucy’s secret crush, is the son of the owner.
Michael Linden–or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals–doesn’t belong in wealthy, storied Martha’s Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn’t call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper’s pool, and everyone has something to hide–Jasper, his beautiful sister Eliza, their older brother Wells, and their friends. The accident is written off as just that–an accident–but Linden begins to wonder … Enter: Holiday Proctor. Linden’s childhood friend, and the one person on the island who knows the truth about Linden. There’s nothing Holiday loves more than a good old-fashioned mystery and she’s convinced there’s a potential killer on the Vineyard.
More than a year after childhood friends Michael Linden and Holiday Proctor solved a headline-making murder on Martha’s Vineyard, Linden is ready to start over as a freshman at Harvard–and, he hopes, to reunite with his old girlfriend, Greer. But just as things start to heat up between them, a friend is found dead in Greer’s dorm, Hemlock House. The police believe the death is the result of an overdose, but Linden suspects there’s more to the story. The victim was wearing Greer’s clothes and sleeping in Greer’s bed when she died…and Greer has a long list of enemies. It makes Linden wonder: Was this of case of mistaken identity? Was someone trying to kill Greer? Is she in danger? Is he? Nearly everyone on campus has something to hide–and some mysteries are better left buried…
Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.
Told in multiple points of view, Quell confronts hidden secrets as she tries to find her mother, while assassin Jordon faces the dilemma of protecting the source of all magic by potentially destroying the girl he once loved, as their conflicting loyalties threaten the future of magic.
GALARZA-THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY
Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal–and his deepest insecurities–online.
Some people dream of happily ever after, but all 17-year-old Josh Roberts wants is a roof over his head and for his little brother to be safe.
Kurara has never known any other life than being a servant onboard the Midori, a flying ship serving the military elite of the Mikoshiman Empire, a vast realm of floating cities. Kurara also has a secret — she can make folded paper figures come to life with a flick of her finger. But when the Midori is attacked and Kurara’s secret turns out to be a power treasured across the empire, a gut-wrenching escape leads her to the gruff Himura, who takes her under his wing. Under Himura’s tutelage, and with the grudging support and friendship of his crew, Kurara learns to hunt shikigami — wild paper spirits sought after by the Princess of Mikoshima. But what does the princess really want with the shikigami? Are they merely enchanted figures without will or thought, or are they beings with souls and minds of their own? As fractures begin to appear both across the empire and within Kurara’s understanding of herself, Kurara will have to decide who she can trust. Her fate, and the fate of her friends — and even the world — may rest on her choice. And time is running out.
A year after surviving a mission in London, and unmistakable chemistry, Winter and Syndey team up again for a perilous assignment involving old flames, new jealousies, and yet another sinister plot.
MILLER-DARK PARTS OF THE UNIVERSE
In the all-white Missouri town of “Calico Springs, Willie’s life has been defined by two powerful forces: God and the river. The ‘miracle boy’ died for five minutes as a young child, and ever since, Willie is certain he survived for a reason, but that purpose didn’t become clear until he found the Game. The Game is called Manifest Atlas, and the concept is simple: enter an intention and the Game provides a target–a blinking blue dot on the map. Willie’s second time playing Manifest Atlas, his intention takes him to an ominous target: three empty graves. Willie is sure the Game is telling him he’s going to die. Willie’s older brother Bones doesn’t believe him, but their friends are intrigued. Sarai, a girl from across the river, sets the next intention: something bloody. The group follows the Game’s coordinates and they discover something even more unsettling than the graves: a dead body. Sarai’s stepfather’s body. The Game is suddenly personal.
Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that’s warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie–and the truth is out of reach.
Ever since Isobel’s mom died, her dad won’t stop preparing for the rest of the world to end–attending doomsday survivalist meetings, packing bug-out bags, and drawing up plans for a secret backyard bunker. He’s methodically stacked and stored countless boxes of Band-Aids and antiseptic creams in the basement. And thirty-six cans of tomato soup. But Isobel has no interest in it. She has enough to deal with between finishing high school and trying to shield her little sister April from their dad’s increasing paranoia. She’s managing to cope–until their dad decides to move them all to Endurance Ranch, a survivalist community in the middle of nowhere. When Isobel meets Dane, the son of a hardcore prepper couple, she doesn’t feel as isolated at the ranch as she first thought. But she wants to be in control of her own future. She realizes it’s going to be up to her to save her sister–and herself–from a life underground.
RIGGS-THE EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPOINTMENTS OF LEOPOLD BERRY
Obsessed with the 1990s kids’ fantasy series Sunderworld, Leopold Berry believes the mythology is real and he’s destined to be Sunder’s chosen one, which turns out to be half right when he must survive LA’s magical side that’s less disappointing and far stranger than he ever imagined.
In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate’s polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week.
He was an Empyreal, her greatest threat, her greatest fascination. Everything she’d been warned against. And yet she wanted him, still. As an Empyreal, Nicole has the ability to kill any deadly supernatural. But if her power ever awakened, the Wake-the organisation that governs supernaturals-would force her to be their loyal huntress. Or kill her, like they did her mother. To stay safe, Nicole hides in a small university town, convinced the mythological art collection at a local manor contains a final message from her mother. But before she can study it, Kyan McCarter, the Wake’s most skilled Empyreal, arrives on his own hunt. When they discover his prey has stolen a painting for leverage, they’re forced to work together. As the creature threatens to expose Nicole’s powers, her tenuous alliance with Kyan threatens her heart. If her true identity is revealed, Kyan will hunt her next. No one disobeys The Wake and survives. Especially when the art they’re seeking unveils a conspiracy that would change the lives of creatures and humans forever. . . But Nicole may only be able to resist one: her wicked impulses, or a love that could repaint their world. And after a life of hiding her true nature, who could resist the temptation of magic.
A gripping speculative thriller perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and Ginny Myers Sain, about one girl with the power to see death before it happens-and the terrible consequences she faces when saving someone goes wrong.
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COOPER-SHACKLED: A TALE OF WRONGED KIDS, ROGUE JUDGES, AND A TOWN THAT LOOKED AWAY
Here is the explosive story of the Kids for Cash scandal in Pennsylvania, a judicial justice miscarriage that sent more than 2,500 children and teens to a for-profit detention center while two judges lined their pockets with cash, as told by Candy J. Cooper, an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
In this inspiring story of grit, tenacity and hope, a Mexican American track star shares how she found freedom from poverty, violence and an inappropriate coach-student relationship by becoming one of the top ranked hurdlers in the U.S. and the first in her family to attend college.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
BLABEY-CAT ON THE RUN IN CAT OF DEATH
What happens when the world’s biggest cat video star gets accused of a crime she didn’t commit? She becomes a cat on the run, that’s what. But how do you avoid capture and prove your innocence when you are the most famous feline on the planet? Well, it ain’t easy. Follow Princess Beautiful–for that is her name–as she goes from meme megastar #1 to public enemy #1 and cheer her on as she fights to clear her name. Is she a super villain? An internet-famous buffoon? Or a butt-kicking gal who’s just been seriously underestimated? YOU be the judge…
BLABEY-CAT ON THE RUN IN CUCUMBER MADNESS
Plunged into a diabolical mystery, Princess Beautiful, the World’s #1 Cat Video Star, finds herself in a world where trending isn’t a thing (OMG), danger is everywhere and cucumbers are no laughing matter.
Leaving Romania, the only home she’s ever known, Lia is thrust into a world where everything is different and with so many changes happening at once, including a new school and unpleasant periods, she wonders if she’ll ever feel like herself again.
Narwhal and Jelly learn a thing or two about tusk-tooth dental hygiene…and feelings! Everyone knows that Narwhal is a big fan of sugary treats – but Jelly is shocked when Narwhal’s tusk-tooth isn’t looking so pearly white anymore. Thankfully, no one knows more about dental hygiene than Shark – he has seven rows of teeth, after all! Meanwhile, Jelly and Crab try to teach Narwhal that it’s fine to frown if you’re feeling down. Can Narwhal’s friends convince the happiest creature in the ocean that it’s okay to be upset?
Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment–get married and have a kid–he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn’t know is that the wife he’s chosen is an assassin and the child he’s adopted is a telepath!
Norah must navigate not just her foiled dreams of blond hair but also the tangled mess her family has become. Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a good sister. Good at school. Good at, well, almost everything. So when Mom’s work brings her to a new town leaving Norah and Dad behind, no one thinks twice. After all, Norah’s a mature sixth grader who can take care of herself…right? But things spiral out of control after a botched home dye job goes wrong and being the good kid quickly gets a little…hairy. Before long, one small tangle becomes a knot of epic proportions, and Norah soon realizes that the only way to untangle the mess she’s made is to find her voice and ask for help.
FURUDATE-HAIKYU!! 1 HINATA AND KAGEYAMA
Ever since he saw the legendary player known as ‘the Little Giant’ compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, ‘the King of the Court, ‘ Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!
GONZALEZ-GOOSEBUMPS THE GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE HAUNTED MASK
Carly Beth needs the perfect Halloween mask. One that will scare everyone she comes across – including her annoying little brother and the bullies from her school. A visit to a strange costume store provides just the right one. An ugly green, with fierce fangs, the mask makes Carly Beth feel powerful and scary. But when the mask won’t come off, will the monster take over?
HARARI-SAPIENS: A GRAPHIC HISTORY
In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind’s creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas.
Thirteen-year-old Tara skips eighth grade to go directly to high school and struggles with adjusting, until she meets her classmate Libby
KIRKMAN-THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM ONE
An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled– no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.
KUSAKA-POKEMON ADVENTURES VOLUME 1
Red wants to be friends with the Pokémon as well as their trainer– can he win over the independent Pikachu?
LAIRD-MAGIC TREE HOUSE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL – THE KNIGHT AT DAWN
Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who are whisked back in the magic treehouse to the time of knights and castles.
The New York Public Library has always been their favorite place, but lately things have gotten weird…things like a dragon imprint on the ceiling and a giant beanstalk! It turns out the books are bursting with magic, and suddenly all sorts of villains are escaping from their books and threatening to destroy the whole library. Now it’s up to Page and Turner- as well as a mysterious Night Librarian and a motley crew of escaped storybook characters to save this beloved library from destruction before it’s too late!
LIU-WINGBORN: BOOK 2 IN THE WINGBORN SAGA
After her encounter with the Witch-Queen, Zuli is shaken – but feels more determined than ever to find out what’s happening to the bird spirits. Armed with new information about her identity, she mounts a daring escape from a merchant airship and takes off with Frowly and Orien by her side. But the more she tries to solve the mysteries swirling around herself, the more she’s drawn to legends about the mythical Siric, who have long since disappeared from the world. Zuli might be prepared to take on new challenges, along with the new allies she meets, but is she prepared to go farther than ever before to confront the universe’s broken magic?
MADAN-ZOONI TALES: A FRIEND TILL THE END
Join pup Zooni and the zoo crew on a series of rhyming adventures from cheese quests to road tests.
MARTIN-THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB: KRISTY AND THE WALKING DISASTER
They’re lean, they’re mean, they’re the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They’re Kristy’s Krushers! When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a ragtag team of her own. Maybe Kristy’s Krushers aren’t world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit. Now Bart’s Bashers have challenged the Krushers to a game. It’s bad enough that the Bashers truly are lean and mean – but what’s worse is that Kristy has a crush on the Bashers’ coach!
MCMAHON-COOKIE & BROCCOLI: SCARIEST HALLOWEEN EVER!
While reveling in funny tricks and sweet treats on Halloween, Cookie and Broccoli learn the true meaning of bravery and not judging others before you get to know them.
MURGUIA-WAGNIFICENT: THE ADVENTURES OF THUNDER AND SAGE
Thunder wants to be a good dog, but she’s having a ruff time. She loves to bark and dig and chase furballs–even if it gets her in trouble with her favorite human, Sage. Will Thunder’s inner Wolf push her to pick the bark side, or will Thunder choose to be a loyal pet instead? Anything is paws-ible in Wagnificent: The Adventures of Thunder and Sage, a fur-ociously fun friendship story.
Welcome to the Nine Worlds, home of Gods, Valkyries, Dwarves, Jotnar, and more! Travel the burning rainbow bridge to Asgard where Odin, king of the Aesir, surveys his realm. His thirst for knowledge drives him ever onward, but nothing is learned without sacrifice … In Asgardians, George O’Connor’s highly kinetic illustrations bring these gritty and astonishing tales of war, betrayal, and the quest for enlightenment at any cost to vivid and startling life and provide the perfect companion to his Olympians series.
When Monkey D. Luffy accidentally gains the power to stretch like rubber at the cost of never being able to swim again, he and his crew of pirate wannabes set off in search of the “One Piece,” the greatest treasure in the world.
SMYTHE-LORE OLYMPUS VOLUME SIX
Chaos reigns in Olympus as Zeus publicly declares Persephone a traitor and issues a warrant for her arrest. But Hades defies his brother’s decree, sheltering Persephone in the Underworld–and as the pair spend more time together, they are able to speak openly about their pasts. The goddess of spring admits the truth behind the bloody secret that led to Zeus’s ire, and the king of the Underworld shares the trauma he suffered at the hands of his power-hungry father, Kronos. But as Hades and Persephone’s relationship grows stronger, others begin to fall apart. The bond between Hades and Zeus is stretched to its limit, threatening to fracture the peace between their realms. Persephone and Artemis’s friendship hangs by a thread as the goddess of the hunt slowly uncovers the vile truth about her twin, Apollo. A line is being drawn in the heavens, putting everyone’s loyalties into question as all the gods are forced to choose sides. And as the cracks in the foundation of the pantheon spread, something darker and more earth-shattering might soon be released.
SMYTHE-LORE OLYMPUS VOLUME SEVEN
The rifts between realms grow ever wider as the temporary shelter Persephone had found in the Underworld is destroyed. Apollo has captured Demeter, turning the fugitive goddess over to Zeus in an attempt to win the king’s favor. Persephone and her mother must now stand trial for concealing Persephone’s unsanctioned act of wrath–though the goddess of spring feels secure with Hades on her side. But safety is not guaranteed in the world of the gods.
SWEET VALLEY TWINS: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL – THE HAUNTED HOUSE
Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica think the Mercandy mansion is haunted and that new student Nora Mercandy might be a witch, but Elizabeth wants to find out if the rumors are true.
SWANSON-THE CHOSEN VOL 1: CALLED BY NAME
The Chosen: Volume 1 contains original depictions from the television show The Chosen through the eyes of world-class artists. Illustrated scenes of Jesus turning water into wine, His meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well, His healing of a paralyzed man, and more, will both excite and draw readers closer to Him.
TARSHIS-I SURVIVED THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII, AD 79
No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes–and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong–and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a huge cloud of ash and rocks that fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape–and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii? Lauren Tarshis’s New York Times bestselling I Survived series comes to vivid life in graphic novel editions. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that’s sure to keep any reader turning the pages. Includes a nonfiction section at the back with facts and photos about the real-life event.
TEMPLER-THE 39 CLUES BOOK TWO: ONE FALSE NOTE
Amy and Dan find themselves in Vienna, where they search for clues while evading their enemies, and attempt to discover the truth about their famous ancestors, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister Nannerl.
When his newfound friend, resourceful watch cat Chloe, begs him to turn her into a human girl, Unico finds his act of kindness having unforeseen consequences as he unwittingly awakens Venus and her minion, who want to destroy them both.
VARON-THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN BONE
Sweet Pea’s got a pretty sweet life. The animals in her hometown of Parkville have always gotten along with one another, and she’s free to spend her days doing what she loves best: making art, hanging out with friends, and digging through the trash for tasty treats. When two new dogs move to town, Sweet Pea is eager to show them the sights and smells of Parkville, especially its most famous attraction, the one-of-a-kind GOLDEN CHEW BONE! But… where is it? Yes, the Golden Chew Bone has VANISHED! Parkville needs a detective, and Sweet Pea’s spectacular sense of smell makes her the perfect pup to crack the case. Can Sweet Pea sniff out the suspect and find the bone before it’s too late?
YING-AMBER BROWN IS NOT A CRAYON
Third-grader Amber struggles with the news that her best friend is moving away.
TWEEN FICTION:
ALSTON-AMARI AND THE DESPICABLE WONDERS
War has come to the supernatural world, and Amari’s two worst enemies are leading the charge. Elaine Harlowe has manipulated her way into becoming prime minister, using her mind control ability to force the Bureau to take up her vicious grudge against magiciankind. Meanwhile, Dylan Van Helsing, the newly crowned leader of the League of Magicians – and Amari’s former partner – is after a destructive new power that would not only ensure the magicians’ victory … it would make him invincible. With neither the Bureau nor the League safe for Amari, and her newly returned brother, Quinton, determined to keep her out of the fray, she and her friends decide to find a way to end the war on their own. So when they learn that the only way to stop Dylan is to find powerful magical inventions known as Wonders, they go after them. But wielding these items comes at a terrible cost, and Amari will have to decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice … because the Despicable Wonders will demand everything.
Esmerelda Santos is a rare bruja, born with Chaos magic in her veins. She and her family are direct descendants of one of the four original witches – a mysterious legend about the night magic was born in San Bosco. But since the death of her mother, Esme is more concerned about healing their father’s spiraling grief. When Esme finds a heart spell in a forbidden grimorio, she thinks it could be the answer to making her dad whole again. But before she can try, she and her best friend, Tiago, discover that their families and all the town’s witches have vanished – along with their magic, which keeps San Bosco alive. The only way to save them and the town is to find an original witch – impossible since no one has actually ever seen one. With a witch hunter on their tail, Esme and Tiago journey to a banished realm where forbidden magic runs wild. Here the two must embrace their powers and confront the legend’s terrible truths…or risk losing their families and their magic forever.
Hazel, a young healer navigating a ruthless court to save the life of the king, grapples with a pantheon of gods with questionable agendas as she fights for agency and true love in her own life as the goddaughter of none other than Death himself.
Chosen to be a U.S. spokesperson at an international symposium for kids with different abilities, Melody arrives in London where she meets like-minded kids who want to make the world more equal, no matter the unusual challenges they face, and hopes her words can make an impact.
DUMAS-SECRET SOCIETY OF REBEL GIRLS: NINA AND THE MYSTERIOUS MAILBOX
Middle school is so weird. That’s the thought running through Nina Warren-West’s head in her first weeks at Ada Lovelace Middle School. Little does she know, it’s about to get even weirder. Nina’s best friend Maya has her heart set on being elected class representative. The trouble is, she’s running against the super popular Kai Nakamura. Together, the girls come up with a plan to expose Kai’s less than honorable intentions. But things go wrong-like seriously wrong. Let’s just say it involves a malfunctioning robot and a deck of tarot cards. As a result, Nina is given her first ever detention. There, she has an assignment: write a letter to a woman from history. Dear Cleopatra, Nina starts. She scribbles and scribbles and soon detention is over. On a long-cut home, Nina and Maya stumble upon a battered old mailbox in the woods. The girls drop Nina’s letter into it, hoping that’s the end of this terrible day. Turns out, it’s only the beginning. Because the next day, when Nina checks the mail, she finds something mysterious, magical, and totally impossible: a giant scroll adorned with hieroglyphics and a single signature at the bottom: Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator. As the girls scramble to put Cleopatra’s strategy for winning their school election into action, a mystery unfolds: Did this letter really come from the past? If so, how? There’s only one way to find out. But who should they write to next?
FARMER-KWAME CRASHES THE UNDERWORLD
Twelve-year-old Kwame is hurled into the Ghanaian underworld where he helps his late grandmother save humanity.
Living in a Regency England beset with a mist that turns humans into monsters, Merrick is summoned home from London by her sister, but her sister has secret plans that may threaten their lives, and the lives of the ruling Manor families.
The Civil War is over. Aurelia, the daughter of a destitute plantation owner, reels from the aftermath of a war that has torn her life apart. Halle, a newly freed slave, looks for a family she fears is lost forever. When fate brings the two girls together, they head north in a joint quest for freedom: one from human shackles, the other from pride. Differences and judgment soon give way to an unexpected friendship between two girls who have more in common than meets the eye, as do we all.
Anna and Colin defeated the King of the Dead on Halloween, saving their home, the magical Ravenfall Inn. Now, with Hannukah approaching, they’re looking forward to exploring their new powers–and maybe enjoying a little challah and peppermint cocoa, too. But then a Raven–a guardian of the supernatural world–shows up at their doorstep with a warning: A demon is hunting the Tree of Life, a source of untold power and immortality. If they can’t stop him, they risk losing the magic of Ravenfall forever. As they venture into the Otherworld, Anna and Colin discover a wondrous yet menacing realm full of mythological creatures… but is the true danger closer than they think?
LANE-POKEMON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP #1: ASH CLIMBS THE RANKS
The first installment in a trilogy that follows Ash in his final quest to be crowned world champion! Join Ash and his Pokémon as they are introduced to the World Coronation Series and begin to battle their way up through the ranks of the tournament. He makes friends and encounters Gym Leaders and powerful Pokémon Trainers, each bringing him one step closer to his goal of victory. As Ash faces some epic battles and his first defeat of the tournament, can he keep foraging ahead to ultimately win it all? Based on a thrilling storyline from the top-rated Netflix animated series, with black-and-white illustrations throughout
MAY-DIARY OF A PUG: PUG THE PRINCE
When Bella wins a poster-making contest at the animal shelter, she gets to be queen of the “Adopt-an-Animal” parade. That can only mean one thing…Bub the pug is her prince! But Bub has no idea what a prince does. Can he figure it out in time to help Bella be the best queen she can be?
Rui has one goal in mind, honing her magic to avenge her mother’s death. Yiran is the black sheep of an illustrious family. The world would be at his feet, had he been born with magic. Nikai is a Reaper, serving the Fourth King of Hell. When his master disappears, the underworld begins to crumble, and the human world will be next if the King is not found. When an accident causes Rui’s power to transfer to Yiran, everything turns upside down. Without her magic, Rui has no tool for vengeance. With it, Yiran finally feels like he belongs. That is, until Rui discovers she might hold the key to the missing death god and strikes a dangerous bargain with another King. As darkness takes over, three paths intersect in the shadows. And three lives bound by fate must rise against destiny before the barrier between worlds falls and all Hell breaks loose, literally.
Ever since Maddie and her sister, Evie, moved with their family from the big city to a farm called Horsetail Hollow, it’s been one magical adventure after another. A mixed-up wish has been bringing horses from fairy tale worlds to their farm – and the sisters are the only ones who can help them save their happily-ever-afters!
TWEEN NON-FIC:
GREENE-THE GIRL WHO FOUGHT BACK: VLADKA MEED AND THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING
Warsaw, Poland, 1940s: The Nazis are on the march, determined to wipe out the Jewish people of Europe. Teenage Vladka and her family are among the thousands of Jews forced to relocate behind the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, a cramped, oppressive space full of starvation, suffering, and death. When Vladka’s family is deported to concentration camps, Vladka joins up with other young people in the ghetto who are part of the Jewish underground: a group determined to fight back against the Nazis, no matter thecost. Vladka’s role in the underground? To pass as a non-Jew, sneaking out of the ghetto to blend into Polish society while smuggling secret messages and weapons back over the ghetto wall. Every move she makes comes with the risk of being arrested or killed. But Vladka and her friends know that their missions are worth the danger–they are preparing for an uprising like no other, one that will challenge the Nazi war machine. This astonishing true story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, told through the lensof Holocaust survivor and educator Vladka Meed, introduces readers to a crucial piece of history while highlighting the persistence of bravery in the face of hate.
This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
CHILDREN’S EASY CHAPTER:
ARENA-EPIC HISTORIC ADVENTURES: THE BOY AND THE SPY
Things have never been easy for Antonio, but now it seems like the war will never end. So when Antonio is caught up in the dangerous world of freedom fighters and spies, will it change his life or destroy him?
ARENA-EPIC HISTORIC ADVENTURES: FEARLESS FREDERIC
As the floodwaters rise, Paris needs a hero…Frederic and his friends will have to battle an escaped zoo animal and fight off pickpockets and looters. But, as the danger escalates, can he find justice for his father and discover what courage really means? Set during the 1910 Great Flood, Fearless Frederic is a story of friendship and heart-racing adventure.
ARENA-EPIC HISTORIC ADVENTURES: A GREAT ESCAPE
It’s a great escape, but will Peter survive it? When Peter’s family leaves for a trip across the border, he stays behind. So when the government builds a wall through the city, guarded by soldiers, tanks and ferocious dogs, he’s trapped. Everyone says he might never see his family again. But Peter has a courageous plan… Set in Cold War Germany, A Great Escape is a story of true-life heroism and the unbreakable bonds of family.
When his friend is killed by a legendary monster, young blacksmith Argo and his new ally, Ana-the King’s eldest daughter who is also a monster hunter in disguise-must decide whether to wait for war in fear and silence or fight back.
Told in alternating voices and timelines, twelve-year-old Henry and his two friends unknowingly alter the outcome of World War II when they communicate over radio with three kids from 1944 and must now work together to change it back.
With their parents dead and supplies running low after a solar flare scorched the Earth, stepsisters Millie and Rose leave home with their infant half brother and dog Corncob in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder.
GRADIN-THE GIRL WHO KEPT THE CASTLE
Wizard West was dead for nearly an entire day before he noticed. And Faye, the daughter of West’s groundskeeper, is charged with the unfortunate task of informing the wizard that he is now a ghost who has lost all magical powers. (But not before West tries turning her into a cat!) To make matters worse, the enchanted castle of Celurdur – the only home that Faye has ever known – will fall apart at the next new moon if its foundation spells can’t be renewed. After (sort of) accepting his demise, West decides to host a competition to choose his successor. And Faye now finds herself fighting behind the scenes to keep the tournament running smoothly: putting out kitchen fires, feeding the compost dragon, and making sure competitors stay away from the cockatrice pen. But killer roosters soon become the least of her worries. A servant of the evil Shadow Queen has sabotaged the contest, and is set on destroying not only Celurdur, but the entire kingdom of Solum. Faye must find a way to stop him, but she’ll need more than a mop and some magic to save everything she loves from utter destruction.
In May 1940, Anne Frank is a young girl not quite eleven with all the ordinary problems of a little sister, but Amsterdam is about to be invaded by Nazis and after that everything changes.
LINCOLN-THE SWIFTS: A GALLERY OF ROGUES
Now that the family reunion is over and the murderer has been caught, Shenanigan Swift can return to important projects, like searching for the long-lost family treasure. But trouble always finds Shenanigan, and when a valuable painting is stolen from Swift House by a group of eccentric art thieves known as Ouvolpo, she is determined to get it back – even if it means chasing them all the way to Paris. A new adventure is about to begin, and Shenanigan’s sleuthing skills will soon be tested like never before
Lucy’s father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she’s never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad’s and she’d never measure up. And his pitching may mean big things for his career and their family, but it’s also what keeps him away from home so much of the year. Sometimes, Lucy isn’t sure what would be worse: being bad at pitching or being great. Still, this summer, Lucy wants to learn to throw the perfect knuckleball. She wakes up at the crack of dawn to practice in secret, without her friends Tex and Robin–or even the goats who watch them play. Even as she trains relentlessly, Lucy wonders if she’ll ever feel brave enough to share her progress with her mom or dad. Can she prove to them, and herself, that she has what it takes.
Sammie, a budding naturalist, knows of a secret and wonderful place: Winghaven, an abandoned lot in the middle of the suburbs where wildlife flourishes. She spends hours making notes and drawings in her meticulous field journal. When Bram, a new boy, turns up with his camera, Sammie worries he’ll give away her hidden haven–after all, the other boys at school bully her. But Bram is a scientist like Sammie, and together they observe tiny pond creatures, a pileated woodpecker with a red crest like a pirate’s bandana, and thriving monarch butterflies whose habitats are becoming scarce. When Sammie and Bram discover bright flagging tape encircling the trees, they learn Winghaven is in danger from a local developer–and it’s going to take courage, spirit, and science to save it. This beautifully written story, full of details about the natural world, includes Sammie’s field illustrations as well as real-life notes on keeping a nature journal, studying monarchs, and bird-watching.
Gracie loves snorkeling! She loves it so much, she convinces her parents to let her plan a family vacation to Roatߣ, Honduras, where they can all snorkel together. She even makes a new friend there. Now, if only her irritating little brother would leave her alone, everything would be perfect. Then Gracie hurts her leg, and all her carefully made plans start to come apart. Worse still, she learns the reef itself is in serious danger. Gracie wants to help the reef … but she’s just a kid. What can she do to make a difference? Fortunately, her new friend has a few ideas!
Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many “cold cases” their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter – first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.
WARGA-A STRANGE THING HAPPENED IN CHERRY HALL
A painting has been stolen…! When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft? Agatha the turtle knows–she has been watching from the garden. But she can’t exactly tell anyone…can she? Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The clues are all around them, but they’ll have to be brave enough to really look.
Sena thinks he is helping his poverty-stricken family when a man calling himself Jack of Diamonds promises him a job and a better life, but he ends up in the clutches of human traffickers and must use all his resolve to escape and survive.
CHILDREN’S EASY CHAPTER NON-FIC:
BARONE-MOUNTAIN OF FIRE: THE ERUPTION AND SURVIVORS OF MOUNT ST. HELENS
The narrative nonfiction story of the violent volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, the story of the people who died, those who survived, and the heroes who fought to raise an alarm.
BURNS-ONE LONG LINE: MARCHING CATERPILLARS AND THE SCIENTISTS WHO FOLLOWED THEM
This is a story about remarkable creatures, inquisitive people, and fascinating conversations. The creatures? Pine processionary caterpillars with mysterious group habits. The people? Jean Henri Fabre and, many years later, Terrence Fitzgerald-scientists with big questions about the behavior of these caterpillars. And the conversations? The conversations span lifetimes, as one researcher continues a dialogue started by the other. In this playful, candid, and accessible book for young readers, biologist Loree Griffin Burns captures the unique leader-follower behavior of pine processionary caterpillars through a glimpse into the “ask, test, repeat” nature of the scientific process-and shows how that process creates one long line of questioning and learning. Back matter includes more details about the two scientists as well as a glossary, bibliography, source notes, and suggestions for further reading.
CHICHESTER-WILDLIFE CROSSINGS OF HOPE: CONNECTING CREATURES AROUND THE GLOBE
An exploration of wildlife crossings projects around the world and the scientists, engineers, and everyday people behind them.
Josh Willet is a techie, a serious gamer. Which is why Josh and his friends can’t stand Mr. N’s ELA class; it’s a strict no-tech zone. Mr. N makes them write everything out by hand, he won’t use a Smartboard, and he’s obsessed with some hundred-year-old grammar book. Then Josh discovers a secret; turns out Mr. N’s been keeping a lot more than technology from his students! Together with his best friend Vanessa, and using all the computer skills they’ve got, Josh is determined to solve the mystery of Mr. N’s past. And maybe get some screentime back, too?
In the United States, Black people were enslaved for hundreds of years. In 1863, during the American Civil War, many enslaved people were freed. On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas heard the news that they were free for the first time. On Juneteenth, people celebrate this day with parades, barbecues, protests, and other activities.
CRAWFORD-RAMADAN AND EID AL-FITR
For Muslims around the world, Ramadan is the holiest month of the year. It is a time for fasting, prayer, and generosity. The month ends with Eid al-Fitr, a joyous three-day celebration. Many Ramadan customs are based on ancient religious practices. This title delves into the holiday’s history, exploring how these traditions evolved over time. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
GEORGE-BIBBIDI BOBBIDI ACADEMY: CYRUS AND THE DRAGON DISASTER
Cyrus Silverstar wants to be as brave as his friends, the other students at Bibbidi Bobbidi Academy. But during his assignment to grant a child’s wish for a pet, he ends up spelling the most terrifying pet of all: a dragon! Now the dragon is loose on the school, and it is up to Cyrus to catch him. But Cyrus learns that you don’t always have to feel brave to be brave, and sometimes the scariest situations can become the most magical adventures.
HOROWITZ-THE YEAR OF THE PUPPY: HOW A PUPPY BECOMES YOUR DOG
What is it like to be a puppy? What’s going on in their minds? Few people get to meet their dogs on the dog’s actual first birthday. Most of us missed the day our puppy opened her eyes, the first sweet sounds she made, or watching her learn to walk, bark, and play with her siblings. But the dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz got to. She met a litter of newborn pups, and traces their journey through their first year of life. In this adaptation for young readers, follow along as one of the litter, Quiddity, grows from a sweet potato-sized puppy who can’t lift her head to a member of Horowitz’s family. Equal parts scientific and adventurous, Alexandra Horowitz’s delightful study of her own puppy’s developing personality is an enticing read that will answer every question a reader could have during a puppy’s first year.
LEE-CHINESE NEW YEAR
Each year, communities all over the world celebrate Chinese New Year. They welcome the New Year with parades, dragon dances, family dinners, and other activities. Many of these traditions grew out of Chinese folk religion and early New Year celebrations. This title explores how these ancient customs developed over time and became part of the modern holiday people celebrate today. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Each year, Jewish people all over the world observe Rosh Hashanah. They celebrate the Jewish New Year with prayers, synagogue services, and family gatherings. It is a time to focus on God’s forgiveness. Many of the holiday’s traditions are based on ancient religious practices. This title explores how these customs developed over time. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
MCINTYRE-THE UNLIKELY HERO: THE STORY OF WOLF 8
Newly reintroduced along with his pack to Yellowstone National Park, Wolf 8 struggles at first. Small and often bullied by his siblings, he must learn to fend for himself in his new home. Soon enough, though, little 8 grows into one of Yellowstone’s greatest leaders.
For Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists, Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year. People across the globe gather to pray at temples, light lamps, and set off firecrackers, celebrating the power of light over darkness. This title looks at the colorful history of this festival of lights, exploring how its ancient origins and traditions have evolved over time.
MESSNER-HISTORY SMASHERS: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE TAINO PEOPLE
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and discovered America. Right? Wrong! Columbus never actually set foot in what is now the United States. His voyages took him to islands in the Caribbean and along the coast of South America. The truth is, when Columbus first arrived, Indigenous peoples, including the Taino, had been living there for thousands of years, raising their families, running their societies, and trading with their neighbors. He didn’t “discover” the lands at all! And his name? Not even really Christopher Columbus!
MESSNER-HISTORY SMASHERS: SALEM WITCH TRIALS
Bust some of history’s biggest myths and learn the truth about the Salem witch trials
SCHRADER-THE FIBER ARTS ENCYCLOPEDIA
This title includes step-by-step instructions for projects in crocheting, knitting, embroidery, sewing, and more. Features include sections on preparation and safety and general tools and tips. Informative sidebars provide additional information.
SCHRADER-THE CRAFTING ENCYCLOPEDIA
This title includes step-by-step instructions for projects in drawing, jewelry making, leather and metalworking, painting, woodworking, and more. Features include sections on preparation and safety, the elements of design, composition, and color theory. Sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
SCHRADER-THE BAKING ENCYCLOPEDIA
This title includes step-by-step recipes for cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies, muffins, breads, and more. Features include sections on baking basics, preparation and safety, common ingredients used in baking, and baking techniques. Informative sidebars provide additional information.
STEINBERG-NEW BABY HERE I COME
A collection of poems that celebrate the arrival and first years of the newest family member.
STREMER-FIRE ESCAPE: HOW ANIMALS AND PLANTS SURVIVE WILDFIRES
A timely middle grade book exploring the incredible ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature.
Halloween is one of the most well-known holidays in the United States. People of all ages celebrate by wearing spooky costumes, going trick-or-treating, and carving pumpkins. But Halloween is also one of the world’s oldest holidays, with many traditions stemming from ancient Celtic and early Christian celebrations. This title delves into the history of this candy-filled holiday, exploring how its early customs developed into modern ones. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
CHILDREN’S EASY:
BASS-TRICK OR TREAT ON SCARY STREET
Come one. Come all. Come follow… Thirteen trick-or-treaters down scary street. Dare to stop at the vampire’s lair? Tempted to take a bite of the witch’s delight? How about a peek inside a ghostly haunt? Who will make it to the end… and what last trick (or treat) awaits? Celebrate the thrills and chills of the season with this unforgettable trip down Scary Street!
BICKELL-THE LITTLE WITCH WHO LOST HER BROOM!
Poor Little Witch has lost her broom! She checks all the closets, the attic, the shed, even her cauldron and under the bed. But it’s nowhere to be found! So she tries out a scooter, a bike, a plane, and even a digger, but none of them are right. Will Little Witch ever find her broom? With gorgeously lush and striking art, accompanied by lively, rhyming text, The Little Witch Who Lost Her Broom! is a charming, silly, not-so-scary read-aloud that is perfect for Halloween!
BISCUIT: PHONICS FUN
Features twelve readers which provide young readers with vowel variations.
Friends Max and Kenji love wrestling, but Max loves lucha libre and Kenji loves sumo, so they come together to create something spectacular.
CHA-THE GOBLIN TWINS: TOO HARD TO SCARE
While Doki settles into their new home in New York City, his twin brother Kebi struggles to adjust, so Doki tries to cheer him up by planning pranks big enough to surprise the seemingly unflappable New Yorkers.
An Asian American girl shares how her family expresses their love for one another through actions rather than words.
DAHL-HOW TO HAVE A FRIGHTFUL HALLOWEEN
Prepare for Halloween by learning how to recognize the tricks and treats of witches, ghosts, and candymakers.
Ready? Let’s race! Take the wheel in this exciting, interactive story. Hold the handles and turn the book to steer around the track. Can you win the race?
ESBAUM-PARROTFISH HAS A SUPERPOWER
A parrotfish describes its amazing biological role in producing the sand that beaches are made of
FALLON-FIVE MORE SLEEPS ‘TIL HALLOWEEN
The excitement leading up to spooky season has been enjoyed by so many for so long. Filled with costumes, candy, and big scares! But why not make the last few days before Halloween even more exciting by counting how many sleeps until trick-or-treat night?
When three mysterious visitors show up in Mr. Li’s field in the middle of the night, he does what any kind human would do – he invites them back to his farmhouse and offers to help fix their…car. No, there’s nothing strange about these guests at all. They’re just like other humans. They make business. They play sportsball. And they wear hat. Yes, they are definitely human…or are they?
FIRST LITTLE READERS: GUIDED READING LEVEL A
Jump-start reading success with this big collection of motivating storybooks correlated with Guided Reading Level A. Most pages of these full-color storybooks feature just one line of simple, repetitive text to help children learn to read with ease and confidence.
FRANK-THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS SOMETIMES
Max is not exactly a perfect kid. From sunup through his school day and right until bedtime, he’s goofy, disorganized, and generally uncontainable—much to the frustration of those around him. But when a little enthusiasm and creativity are in order, you can count on Max to save the day.
Ready? Let’s fly! Take the wheel in this exciting, interactive story. Hold the handles and turn the book to steer through the skies. Where will you explore?
Remo searches frantically for his missing teddy bear without success, until he takes a deep breath and retraces his steps.
GREENFIELD-GOOD NIGHT THOUGHTS
A sleepless child finds tranquility when they put their racing thoughts to bed.
Every night, Milo hitches a ride on a friendly comet to a place far above the clouds to help the Keeper of the Stars.
HEVRON-CITY OF LEAFCUTTER ANTS
A look at the social structure of leafcutter ants, where each ant has a specific job to do for the health and success of all.
Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn’t what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary’s pages once again.
KLINK-I FOUND U: AN INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIFT-THE-FLAP BOOK
An Indiana University Lift-the-Flap-Book
Ember, a small dragon with an unimpressive roar, fears he will never be as good at stealing gold as other dragons, but discovers a different path to joy after a chance encounter with a baker.
MARSHALL-GEORGE AND MARTHA: ONE MORE TIME
Laugh along with best friends George and Martha in these two classic stories: “The Scary Movie!” and “The Secret Club.”
After moving to America from Hong Kong, Jun feels isolated at her new school but discovers a sense of home in the familiar foods and flavors she finds in her lunchbox.
Ms. Rachel is looking for something very special, and she needs your help finding it! With more than 20 important milestones featured – including gestures and speech – Ms. Rachel brings educational expertise to her debut picture book. Using key lessons from her YouTube channel and threading them into an interactive story, she shows kids and parents alike fun ways to engage and play!
NOVESKY-IF YOU WANT TO RIDE A HORSE
A whimsical guide through the steps of riding a horse, whether the horse is real or lives in the imagination.
OUD-HALLOWEEN WITH LILY AND MILO
Hooray, it’s Halloween! Lily and Milo want to celebrate together. They put on lively costumes, decorate the house, and make delicious soup. They’re not scared at all. Or are they?
First-time readers can now follow along with Peppa while they learn their phonics sounds. This set includes ten Peppa Pig stories written specifically to help children learn short vowel sounds, as well as two phonics workbooks to practice, all in a sturdy box with a plastic handle.
This engaging and educational picture book about protecting our waterways follows a classroom as they build a rain garden, empowering readers with the tools to reduce pollution, diminish flooding and create a habitat for wildlife.
SLEGERS-KATIE CELEBRATES HALLOWEEN
It’s Halloween. Katie goes to school dressed up as a witch. Her class has a scary party. They make ghosts, play a witch game, and dance to spooky music. When it gets dark out, Katie goes trick-or-treating with Kevin, Alex, and Daddy. Halloween is so much fun.
Dinosaur fossils are found all over the world…and even on the moon?! Dinosaurs lived on this planet millions of years ago. We know about the dinosaurs from the fossils they left behind. But did you know some of those fossils might be on the moon? The dinosaurs in THIS book think that must mean there are dinosaurs in space! But is that really what happened? In this silly science lesson gone wrong, discover what happens when dinosaurs let their imaginations run wild while learning about real scientific theories. These dinos are determined to boldly go where no dinosaur has gone before: space!
SUDENDORF-WACKY WITCHES AND THEIR PECULIAR FAMILIARS
Warts, evil spells, and toads for pets? The modern-day witches in this book aren’t scary or frightening, but rather hip! Meet these diverse witches from around the world and their animal companions in this quirky picture book from debut author-illustrator April Suddendorf!While helping her family celebrate two extra-special harvest holidays–the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Ruby realizes there’s something missing to blend these two holidays together and must figure out what it is.
When Alice wakes up with a terrible pain in her stomach, she’s not sure what might be the cause. A doctor at the hospital asks her to pick which face on a numbered pain chart best shows the suffering that she’s experiencing. The problem is, she’s nervous and isn’t sure. That’s when the faces turn into imaginary friends who help her speak up about what she’s feeling. This fictionalized version of Alice’s real experience chronicles her struggle to get the right diagnosis after suddenly being struck with appendicitis. Caregivers and kids alike will benefit from reading this meaningful book about advocating for yourself during a medical emergency. With whimsical and comforting illustrations by Fanny Liem, the gentle telling of this true story will resonate with anyone who has ever struggled to be believed.
CHILDREN’S EASY NON-FIC:
BONDER-STONE-SPACE: THE FINAL POOPING FRONTIER
This is a scientific history of pooping in space. From the earliest NASA missions up through the innovative results of their recent Space Poop Challenge design competition, we’ll see the evolution of pooping on the final frontier. With fascinating facts and a few mishaps and discarded technologies along the way, we’ll learn why it’s so hard to deal with waste management in space.
BRUNELLE-LIFE AFTER WHALE: THE AMAZING ECOSYSTEM OF A WHALE FALL
A book about the rich ecosystem that springs up around the death of a whale in the deep sea.
ESBAUM-BIRD GIRL: GENE STRATTON-PORTER SHARES HER LOVE OF NATURE WITH THE WORLD
Gene Stratton-Porter was a farm girl who fell in love with birds, from the chickens whose eggs she collected to the hawks that preyed on them. When she grew up, Gene wanted nothing more than to share her love of birds with the world. She wrote stories about birds, but when a magazine wanted to publish them next to awkward photos of stuffed birds, she knew she had to take matters into her own hands. Teaching herself photography, Gene began to take photos of birds in the wild. Her knowledge of birds and how to approach them allowed her to get so close you could count the feathers of the birds in her photos. Her work was unlike anything Americans had ever seen before – she captured the true lives of animals in their natural habitat. A pioneering wildlife photographer and one of the most popular authors of the early 20th century, this bird girl showed the world the beauty of nature and why it was worth preserving.
JOHNSON-ELINOR MCGRATH PET DOCTOR
When Elinor McGrath decided she wanted to be a veterinarian, the world told her no, but she was determined to prove that accepting women wasn’t the only change the profession needed.
LEUNG-MR. PEI’S PERFECT SHAPES: THE STORY OF ARCHITECT I.M. PEI
As a boy, Ioeh Ming Pei explored the gardens of Suzhou with his grandfather, where rock farmers placed giant boulders in streams for them to be shaped over hundreds of years. He imagined building something that lasted that long. As dazzling new high-rises went up around his home in Shanghai, Ioeh Ming decided what he wanted to be when he grew up … an architect who designed skyscrapers that touched the clouds. Now his legacy can be seen in structures all around the world.
NELSON-BIRTH OF THE BICYCLE: A BUMPY HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE IN AMERICA
Hop on! Take a jaunty, rhythmic ride through the colorful history of the bicycle’s debut in America.
Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they’ve made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That’s only fair, though–after all, it’s how knowledge advances!
The beguiling true story of a rescued owl that stayed to become a wild neighbor, bringing joy, magic, and a touch of wisdom to a family’s backyard.
SCHUH-MY LIFE WITH A PARENT IN THE MILITARY
Meet Gracen! She likes karate and ice skating. Her dad is in the military. Gracen is real and so are her experiences with moving often and having her dad away from home. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students.
SCHUH-MY LIFE WITH LOSING A PET
Meet Abe! He likes hockey and fishing. He also lost his pet dog. Abe is real and so are his experiences with death and grief. Learn about his life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students.
SCHUH-MY LIFE WITH LOSING A SIBLING
Meet Peyton! She likes art and science. She also lost her brother to cancer. Peyton is real and so are her experiences with death and grief. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students.
SPILSBURY- ROBOTS ENFORCING THE LAW
Within the world of law enforcement, robots are on the rise! They are revolutionizing how we protect our communities, prevent crime and uphold the law. But is this robotic revolution all good? Join the debate.
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