Rare book dealer Rebecca Romney loves Jane Austen, and books in general. After purchasing the 18th century novel “Evelina” by Frances Burney as part of a lot of old books, Romney starts to realize that many of the female authors and works explicitly referenced in the novels and letters of Jane Austen are unknown, or […]
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was born in Ecuador and was one of the first undocumented students to attend Harvard. With the book set in six main sections–Staten Island, Ground Zero, Miami, Flint, Cleveland, and New Haven—Cornejo Villavicencio traveled throughout the United States to report on the diverse, sometimes lesser-known but nonetheless important and valuable stories […]
“DON’T WALK ALONE, OR THE STITCHER WILL FIND YOU. DON’T STAY OUT LATE, OR THE STITCHER WILL TAKE YOU. DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES, OR THE STITCHER WILL REMAKE YOU.” These are the rules that Abby Ward and her sister live by. People in their town have been known to go missing and then reappear later […]
Eric Bittle, former Junior Figure Skating Champion and amateur baker, is starting college this year. Instead of figure skating, he’s joining up with the Samwell University hockey team, a big group of talented sports jocks led by Jack, the stoic team Captain who isn’t in the NFL solely because he skipped drafts for his mental […]
Ramona Riley had her first kiss on the 4th of July when she was 14 with a mysterious girl she just met and who was leaving the next day. She never got her name and never saw her again…until she did. You see the girl was Dylan Monroe, the daughter of very famous rock stars, […]
Chika does not understand love. At least not in the sense other high schoolers seem to. She has never been in love or had a crush, and has no desire for any kind of romantic intimacy. Everyone tells her she just hasn’t met “the one,” but Chika isn’t sure that will ever happen. When Chika […]
Are you mad right now? Want to feel more mad? Good! Step right up. Amitav Ghosh’s nonfiction book about the opium trade, which he researched while writing his historic fiction Ibis trilogy, is a doozy. The Portuguese Catherine of Braganza married Charles II and became the queen of England in the late 1600s. She is […]
Leverage asks the question – “What if bad guys make the best good guys?” In the first episode of Leverage we meet our crew: mastermind, thief, grifter, hacker, hitter. This team, all the best in their fields, is assembled by a client to steal back his proprietary information. Once the job is done, they intend […]
When kingdom come, there will be one. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine […]
High school senior Aya Osawa’s life keeps a steady rhythm that anyone would be happy to play along to. She’s popular, fashionable, and on the cusp of graduating with something of a plan in mind for how the soundtrack of her life will sound. There’s just one thing, one very important thing, that she keeps […]
