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Portable Edgar Allan Poe
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe’s greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the world’s first detective story. In addition,…
Read MorePebble & Dove
In the tradition of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, a once-famous but now-abandoned aquarium-in-a-ship in Florida is the captivating backdrop for a novel of family secrets and dysfunction, and the ways in which it can sometimes take an animal to remind us how to be human. Lauren’s life is falling apart. She has a storage unit full…
Read MoreOut of Salem
Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature A Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Book of 2019 The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you’ve ever read—by debut author, Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from…
Read MoreThe Odyssey
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 “Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered.” —Madeline Miller, author of Circe Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a…
Read MoreNear Miss
Stone Barrington faces down a deadly foe in the latest thrilling adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Following a string of adventures, Stone Barrington is enjoying some downtime in New York City when a chance encounter introduces him to a charming new companion. Too bad she also comes with the baggage of…
Read MoreMuddled Through
“Mud season takes on a whole new meaning in the coastal town of Busman’s Harbor, Maine, when local business owners sling dirt at one another in a heated feud over a proposed pedestrian mall … When Julia spots police cars in front of Lupine Design, she races over. Her sister Livvie works there as a…
Read MoreOne of Us is Back
The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from the Bayview Four’s past resurfaces, history begins to repeat itself—and the consequences are deadly. The third time’s a charm. It’s been almost two years since Simon…
Read MoreOld Age & Young Hearts
Old Age and Young Hearts is a rich collage of women’s poetic voices of experience, at once nostalgic, somber, and quietly hopeful. There’s so much loss and sorrow here-illness, estrangement, death. One poet laments “how one loss calls forth another.” The body often fails, but not the spirit. And the women find joy in remembering…
Read MoreMr. Churchill’s Secretary
BARRY AWARD WINNER • Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it. “With any luck, the adventures of red-haired super-sleuth Maggie Hope will go on forever. . . . Taut, well-plotted, and suspenseful, this is a…
Read MoreThe Mosquito
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 LANE ANDERSON AWARD “Hugely impressive, a major work.”–NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate…
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