As a lonely child, Lucy Hart tried to run away to Clock Island, the made-up world created by her favorite author Jack Masterson. As a struggling grown-up, Lucy is facing the hard truth that everything doesn’t always work out in the end, and even working hard and wishing with all her might will not get […]
This YA novel, based loosely on the plot of the 1995 film “While You Were Sleeping,” follows 17-year-old Sonia Patil as she makes plans to finally get noticed by her crush. Instead, he faints into a canal and Sonia jumps in to save him. When a video of the rescue goes viral, she can only […]
Tesla Crane is an engineering genius and famous heiress who is traveling with her new spouse and service dog Gimlet on a luxury cruise spaceship headed to Mars. She is reveling in her anonymity when a body turns up and her husband is taken into custody as suspect #1. Tesla is willing to do whatever […]
Will McPhail is an artist with a distinctly expressive style that will keep you engaged and laughing with every drawing. In his first graphic novel, In, he explored one man’s journey to connect with his fellow humans. Love & Vermin is a collection of his comics, some previously published in The New Yorker, which can […]
Thirty-five year old accountant Mira has achieved her goal of getting far away from her turbulent childhood and now just wants to find the perfect man to be her life partner. But nobody is quite right, and she knows her matchmaker is about to give up on her when her aunt – the only person […]
El attends Scholomance, a school meant to prepare young magicians like her to live in a world where ferocious creatures called mals hunt and eat magic-users, and adolescents are a mal’s favorite meal. The school is supposed to train and protect the students, but what El and her classmates are mostly learning is how not […]
Literary agent Nora knows better than anyone that character archetypes can be found in real life – she’s the embodiment of the put-together career woman who the male lead dumps after meeting his true love in a small town. But she doesn’t understand the appeal of “loosening up” or “slowing down to enjoy life” when […]
It’s only been a few years since the war with the Valovians ended and Octavia Zarola is trying to move past the difficult memories that keep her up at night. She has enough to worry about keeping her bounty hunting crew alive and her ship in the air. So when Torran Fletcher, a former Valovian […]
This BBC series follows Miranda Blake, a by-the-book British detective who is forced to transfer to Mallorca. Spending time on the beautiful Spanish island would be a dream to anyone else, but Miranda is not thrilled. Even more annoying is her new partner, Max Winter, a German detective assigned to Mallorca who fully embraces the […]
Author John Green is best known for his thoughtful and often melancholy Young Adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. But in this, his first non-fiction book, readers will find a delightful (and often melancholy) collection of thought-provoking essays that interweave the author’s personal experiences and his sincere interest in the […]
