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  • Year Published: 2022

    My Sailor, My Love

    Howard is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland. His daughter, Grace, hires Annie, a lovely older woman to help around the house. Initially resistant to this support, Howard is soon charmed by Annie's gentle care, and the two fall in love. This new romance illuminates the hurt within Howard's relationship with Grace, tearing at Howard and Annie's seaside love story.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Lawmen- Bass Reeves

    It follows the journey of Reeves and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as one of the first Black U.S. Deputy Marshals west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family. This release features over two hours of special features, including an exclusive interview with Production Designer, Wynn Thomas (Malcolm X, Hidden Figures).



  • Year Published: 2003

    Grease 2 [Motion Picture - 1982]

    The saga of the T-Birds, the Pink Ladies, and young love at Rydell High continues, with a clean-cut young man trying to win the affections of a tough girl.



  • Year Published: 2024

    All Creatures Great & Small Season 4

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



  • Year Published: 2023

    Into the Weeds

    Does the most widely used weed killer in the world cause cancer? Into the Weeds: Dewayne "Lee" Johnson vs. Monsanto Company follows the story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrichemical giant Monsanto (now Bayer, which bought the company in 2018), the manufacturer of the weed killer, Roundup. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate - the active ingredient in Roundup as "proba



  • Year Published: 2007

    The life of Christ. Volume 2

    Chronicles events in the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth in a Bethlehem stable to his crucifixion and resurrection.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Grease Double Feature

    GREASE: Grease is the one that you want! Go back to high school with Pink Lady Sandy, leader of the bad-boy T-Birds, Danny, and a-rockin' and a rollin' all-star cast. Available for the first time as a remastered Special Edition and featuring all-new bonus materials, Grease: Rockin' Rydell Edition is the word! GREASE 2: Return to rockin' Rydell High for a whole new term! It's 1961, two years after the original Grease™ gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the



  • Year Published: 2023

    V/H/S/85

    Unveiled through a made-for-TV documentary, five tales of found footage horror emerge to take viewers on a terrifying journey into the grim underbelly of the 1980s. It is the sixth installment in the found-footage V/H/S franchise.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Color Purple

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



  • Year Published: 2006

    Trade

    When thirteen-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her seventeen-year-old brother Jorge sets off on a desperate mission to save her. A thrilling story of courage and a devastating exposure of one of the world's most heinous crimes.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences inside an Estonian smoke sauna. Cleansing their bodies and baring their souls, they embrace the healing power of sisterhood. Anna Hints' Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition, recognized on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.



  • Year Published: 1972

    Bushman

    In 1968, Peace Corps veteran David Schickele enlisted his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam to star in a light-hearted drama about the adventures of a well-educated Nigerian immigrant in San Francisco. Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959), Bushman observes the foibles of late-1960s African American culture with an outsider's penetrating eye. The film morphs into a documentary when the director's voice abruptly intrudes to narrate its star's fate: Okpokam was ac



  • Year Published: 2009

    Antichrist

    In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human mind.



  • Slap shot [Motion picture - 1977]



  • Year Published: 2023

    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Final Season

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



  • Year Published: 2023

    Freelance

    Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each other to make it out alive!



  • Year Published: 2006

    Sharpe's challenge



  • Sharpe- Complete Season 1 [1993]



  • Year Published: 2018

    Ladyworld

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



  • Year Published: 2004

    Sharpe's sword collection set



  • Year Published: 2008

    Entourage. The complete fourth season

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



  • Year Published: 2023

    My hero academia. Season 6, part 1

    An infiltration mission goes awry when the pros accidentally awaken Shigaraki's full potential. Dabi deals an emotional gut punch to the nation while All For One's protege levels cities on the path to his ultimate target: the vessel of One For All, Deku.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Fireworks

    1982, in the heat of a Sicilian summer, two teenage boys, Gianni and Nino, meet and fall in love. The relationship soon becomes a topic of gossip in the small town and despite their families' objections the two dream of living together, something the community is determined to stop.



  • Year Published: 2004

    Goodfellas [Motion picture - 1990] [2 discs]

    "A young man grows up in the mob and works hard to advance himself through the ranks, enjoying the life of the rich and violent. Adapted from the book by Nicholas Pileggi."



  • Year Published: 2009

    The Ugly Truth

    The search for 'Mr. Right' has left a romantically challenged morning show producer hopelessly single. She receives an eye-opening education when she gets teamed up with a hardcore TV personality who wants to prove his theories on what makes men tick by helping her find true love. The unexpected results may surprise them both. Includes deleted scenes, extended scenes, alternate endings, gag reel, and more.



  • Year Published: 2023

    King the Land

    "Inheritance clashes unfold in 'King the Land' as Goo Won, heir to The King Group, battles for control. His path crosses with Cheon Sa-rang, a cheerful hotelier whose demeanor changes upon meeting Goo Won, setting the stage for a compelling story of power and romance."



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Dick van Dyke show. Season two

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



  • Year Published: 2023

    A Creature Was Stirring

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



  • Year Published: 2002

    We were soldiers

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



  • Year Published: 2022

    The Exiles

    Documentary filmmaker, Christine Choy, tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned project she began shooting in 1989.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The exorcist. Believer

    Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter, Angela on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine, disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before: Chris MacNeil.



  • Year Published: 2024

    The wedding cottage

    A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the run-down cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.



  • Year Published: 2024

    The Promised Land

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



  • Year Published: 2024

    Suitable flesh

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



  • Year Published: 2020

    Entourage Complete Series

    The Emmy-winning hit comedy series created by Doug Ellin, and based (at least in part) on the experiences of his good friend, Oscar nominated actor Mark Wahlberg (who's among the series' executive producers). The series takes a none-too-serious look at the day-to-day life of Vincent Chase, an incandescent young Hollywood actor, and the three buddies he's brought from their hometown in Queens, NY: manager Eric, half-brother/actor Drama, and pal Turtle. Also starring Golden Globe and three-time Em



  • Year Published: 2000

    Werckmeister Harmonies

    The mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by La´szlo´ Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus completed with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic



  • Year Published: 2014

    Upstairs, downstairs- the ultimate collection



  • Year Published: 2002

    We Were Soldiers

    An action-packed war movie that features explosive battle sequences, thrilling aerial photography, and unforgettable military heroes who fought for their country, their loved ones, and their freedom.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Fantastic Machine

    What happens when humanity's infatuation with itself and an untethered free market meet 45 billion cameras…Filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck once again turn their cameras directly on society, this time to explore, explain, and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown to change our human behavior. From Camera Obscura and the Lumiere Brothers to YouTube and the world of social media, the film chronicles how we went from capturing the image of a backyard to



  • Year Published: 2013

    The way way back [Motion Picture - 2013]

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



  • Year Published: 2003

    Joan of Arcadia. The first season

    An average 16-year-old, Joan is going through the growing pains typical to any teenager after she and her familty relocate to Arcadia. Except for one thing: Joan has been getting visits from God.



  • Year Published: 1964

    Nothing But a Man

    Michael Roemer's groundbreaking first feature, sensitively shot by his close collaborator Robert M. Young, is a still-resonant expression of humanity in the face of virulent prejudice. Made at the height of the civil rights movement, Nothing But A Man reveals the toll of systemic racism through its honest portrait of a southern Black railroad worker confronting the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity, as he attempts to settle down with his new wife (jazz great Abbey Lincoln



  • Year Published: 2024

    Lost Angel- The Genius of Judee Sill

    The never-before-told story of folk-rock icon Judee Sill, who in just two years went from living in a car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone. The documentary charts her troubled adolescence through her meteoric rise in the music world and her early tragic death. Featuring Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Fleet Foxes, David Geffen, and more.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Hunger Games- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

    Coriolanus Snow mentors and fosters feelings for the female District 12 tribute during the tenth Hunger Games.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Candy Land

    Remy, a naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora, and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex, Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the lot lizard code to find her true calling in life.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Dream Scenario



  • Year Published: 2009

    Enter the Void

    A brother and sister are trapped in the hellish night world of Tokyo, where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper. A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before. **CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT**



  • Year Published: 2023

    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

    Winner of the prestigious Camera d'Or for best first film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the enthralling Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell from Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Thien An is a reverie on faith, loss, and nature expressed with uncommon invention and depth. It's a simple tale told with visual complexity: after a car accident claims the life of his sister-in-law and leaves his 5-year-old nephew an orphan, a thirtysomething man named Thien leaves Saigon for a trip back to his rural hometo



  • Year Published: 2024

    Next goal wins

    Follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.



  • Year Published: 1979

    Goldengirl

    An untried female sprinter enters the Olympics, claiming that she will win an unprecedented three gold medals. But when one man falls in love with her, he unravels the bizarre history of her training and the tough money men who stand to make millions…if she survives!



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  • The Summer Book Club



  • Toxic Prey



  • Close to Death



  • The Missing Witness

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



  • Land of Hope- An Invitation to the Great American Story

    A narrative on American history that seeks to provide a clear and informative account of events that have shaped the country and caused the current state of affairs.



  • 10% Happier

    After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head. We all have an inner narrator. It's what has us losing our



  • Fate breaker



  • She's Not Sorry

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



  • Listen for the Lie

    After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy's blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It's been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can't remember anything about, and she has s



  • Only the Brave

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



  • Mania

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



  • The Burning

    Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named Milan Swanz, was chained to a stake and burned alive. It is an appalling and eerily symbolic crime against an upstanding husband and father. Kate knows all too well that the Amish prefer to handle their problems without interference from the outside w



  • The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory

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



  • The Age of Revolutions



  • Extinction

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



  • Expiration Dates

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



  • Three-Inch Teeth

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



  • Table for Two

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



  • The Phoenix Crown

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



  • A View From the Stars

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



  • Build the Life You Want

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



  • One of Us Knows

    Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can't refuse: a position as resident caretaker of a historic home. Having been dormant for years, Ken has no idea what led them to this isolated Hudson River island, but she's determined not to ruin their opportunity. Then a surprise visit from the home's conservation trust just as a Nor'easter bears down on th



  • Never Too Late

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



  • The Hunter

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



  • You Like It Darker

    You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life, both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel "the exhilaration of leaving ordin



  • The Ghost Orchid

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



  • The House of Hidden Meanings

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



  • Miss Morgan's Book Brigade



  • Lucky

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



  • Insomnia



  • Supercommunicators

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



  • Lost man's lane



  • An Unfinished Murder



  • City in Ruins



  • Daughter of Mine

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



  • The Turtle House

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



  • Funny Story

    Daphne always loved the way her fiance´ Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian, and proposing to be roommates with the only



  • The Truth About the Devlins

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



  • Wandering Stars

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



  • Demon of unrest



  • The Twilight Garden

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



  • Medgar and Myrlie

    Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar's secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations



  • The Familiar

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



  • The Princess of Las Vegas

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



  • You Never Know

    In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, Tom Selleck brings listeners on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless arrival as a good-looking college jock in Holl



  • The Museum of Lost Quilts

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



  • Pay Dirt

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



  • Reading Genesis

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



  • Summers at the Saint



  • The Guest

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



New Adult Fiction Books

  • Maya's Laws of Love



  • Memory Piece



  • Someone Birthed Them Broken



  • Love, unscripted

    "This escapist, summery beach read about a woman who scripted her perfect boyfriend but hates the actor playing him in the on-screen adaptation is perfect for fans of romance, women's fiction, and Hallmark movies"--



  • Waiting for the flood

    "From the acclaimed author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL comes a deeply moving romance about losing the life you always thought would be yours...and finding something beautiful in the wreckage of the past. Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the househe used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin's quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacr



  • The cemetery of untold stories - a novel

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



  • Berlin

    "A wickedly insightful, darkly funny novel in which a young woman in the grip of an existential malaise moves to a new city for a fresh start but her attempt at reinvention doesn't quite go to plan "Uncommonly funny, cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest about how we deceive others and ourselves." -Lisa Halliday, bestselling author of Asymmetry When Daphne arrives in Berlin, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she'd need to do the



  • Love at first book

    "Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha's Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan's novels got Em through some of the darkest days of her existence. Helping Siobhan write the final book in her acclaimed series - after a ten-year hiatus due to a scorching case of writer's block - is a dream come true for Emily. If only she didn't have to deal w



  • The Garden



  • The Marriage Sabbatical



  • Ordinary Soil



  • Oye



  • Savor the moment



  • The Confidence of Wildflowers



  • Every time we say goodbye

    "In 1955, Vivien Lowry is facing the greatest challenge of her life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Lowry's last chance for a dramatic career. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of her friend, Peggy Guggenheim, Vivien takes a job



  • The Duchess



  • A Good Happy Girl



  • You've Lost a Lot of Blood

    A disturbing new vision of terror from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.



  • Mixed signals

    "A small-town baker learns to raise her expectations for love with some help from a handsome local teacher in this sunny romantic comedy. Layla Dupree has given up on love. She's waded through all the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than thelast. Apparently, owning the bakery at Inglewild's most romantic destination does not help one's love life--despite Layla's best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her wi



  • James - a novel

    "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan.



  • Keep your friends close

    "Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary is desperate for a friend. So when she meets the charming and enigmatic Willa at a Brooklyn playground, their connection feels fated. But during a margarita-fueled moms' night out, Mary shares her darkestsecret about her ex, George, and the next morning Willa simply disappears. No calls, no texts, nothing. Two months later, Mary's divorce is almost finalized, and she's trying to build a new life for her son in upstate New York. On her first day i



  • In a not-so-perfect world - a novel

    "A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--



  • The girls we sent away - a novel

    "North Carolina, 1960s. Lorraine has it all-the boyfriend, the good grades, the white picket fence, the ambition to become the first woman astronaut. But when she-the darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she learns that love is conditional and ambition has its limits. In an effort to hide their daughter's secret shame, her parents send her away to a maternity home-a common solution for "wayward" girls during that time period. Lorraine soon realizes that instead of being a safe haven, the hom



  • Salty Kisses



  • Play Dirty



  • Set in stone

    "When paleontologist Martha Jankowski discovers an intact dinosaur skeleton, she has the opportunity to make a name for herself, but only if she can uncover the full skeleton before another competing dig. As she races against the clock, she meets a man who shares her passion for science and faith-but is he friend or foe?"--



  • Mistakes we never made

    "Emma Townsend can sum up her situationship with hot-as-hell romantic red flag Finn Hughes in one word: almost. They almost dated in high school. They almost hooked up after college. They almost took things too far one magical night. Their whole story isone series of "almosts" and "nearlys," and now they just kind of can't stand each other. Like, at all. But this weekend, one of their mutuals is getting married . . . and Emma and Finn will have to pretend they don't remember how disastrous it wa



  • The hands of strangers



  • Bye, baby - a novel

    "Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie's world. Once fiercely bonded by their s



  • Broughtupsy



  • The elusive truth of Lily Temple - a novel

    "Lively and charming silent movie actress Lily Temple is everything private investigator Peter Driscoll is not. It makes sense, then, that combining forces would mean more cases solved and secrets revealed. Except for Lily's own - why a legendary missingsapphire is within her possession and on her person at all times"--



  • Haunted by the succubus



  • The cypress maze

    "Tuscany, 1943. Stranded in war-ravaged Italy, Beatrice's dream of an escapist year teaching English is shattered. Granted shelter at the Villa delle Colombe, she seeks refuge in Francesca and Edoardo's beautiful walled garden, hidden from the outside world, with an elaborate cypress maze at its heart. But Beatrice is not the only one seeking an escape here. Francesca has brought children to the safety of the house, as well as other adults, all of them seeking sanctuary on the estate with its my



  • Pitch Dark



  • See- loss. see also- love - a novel

    "A tender, slyly comical, and shamelessly honest debut novel following a Japanese widow raising her son between worlds with the help of her Jewish mother-in-law, as she wrestles with grief, loss, and-strangest of all, joy. Shortly after her husband Levi'suntimely death, Kyoko decides to raise their young son, Alex, in San Francisco, rather than return to Japan. Her nosy yet loving Jewish mother-in-law, Bubbe, encourages her to find new love and abandon frugality but her own mother wants Kyoko to



  • The hearing trumpet

    The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is



  • Queen Takes Rose

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



  • Voice of the ancient

    "When a nearby city is attacked, Avidan fights for the newly crowned King Saul. When one of his cousins goes missing during the battle, he searches for him and instead stumbles across Keziah--the daughter of a powerful man. Traveling together, they must rely on each other to stay alive and learn to trust the King of Israel to guide their every step"--



  • The Keeper of Stars



  • The Wedding of the Year



  • But the girl - a novel

    "Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl boards her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath. Though she is ambivalent toward academia and harbors ideas about writing a post-colonial novel, if only she could work out just what that means, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectations and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family. At last Girl has an opportunity to live on



  • Lovelight farms

    "Two best friends fake date to reach their holiday happily ever after in this first romantic comedy in the Lovelight series. A pasture of dead trees. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom's dreams. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since she was a kid, Stella enters a contest with Instagram-famous influencer Evelyn St. James. With



  • Driving the tide

    "The liberation of occupied France is long overdue, but the magnitude of the operation requires the combined efforts of the resistance groups across Europe. Jeremy Littlefield returns to France to prepare for the Allied invasion, Operation Overlord. An occupied country is a dangerous terrain to navigate, and as Jeremy works with his fiancaee to set the plan in motion, even the smallest mistake can come at a fatal price. At Bletchley Park, Claire Littlefield decodes a troubling message from Germa



  • The Painter's Daughters



  • The blue maiden - a novel

    "It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's sinister past and their absent mother, whom their father refuses to speak of. As the girls come of age, and the strictures of the community shift but never wane,



  • Last house - or The age of oil

    "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect forfans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"--



  • Danger close- domestic extremist threat #1 Come clean



  • Little River- The Other Side of Paradise

    Two girls go missing on a topical island. Authorities turn a blind eye to the disappearance and the girls parents try to follow the trail through the dark underbelly of human trafficking. Will they find them in time? How far will they go to save them?



  • The Pumpkin Spice Cafe

    'This is everything I love! Cozy small town romance, fall vibes, coffee house vibes, and grumpy x sunshine trope that was done perfectly!'?????NetGalley Reviewer



  • Blue Ruin



New Adult Nonfiction Books

  • How we walk - Frantz Fanon and the politics of the body

    "Focuses on the work of Frantz Fanon and the relationship between colonialism and the body. Each chapter has Fanon walking with another thinker"--



  • The truce - Progressives, Centrists, and the future of the Democratic Party

    "Even before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself-yet Joe Biden's narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump administration, Democrats forged an unlikely but effective coalition that stalled Trumpism at the ballot box and enacted a raft of consequential legislation. But how long can the uneasy peace hold, and can Biden win again?"--



  • Arcane arts - the dungeoneer's guide to miniature painting and tabletop mayhem

    "Learn how to paint exciting miniature creatures and elevate your tabletop experience, with Arcane Arts. Professional miniature painter and instructor Noxweiler Berf has created an immersive guide to painting miniatures for tabletop games. In his engaging and playful style, Berf demystifies the miniature painting process for the beginner and offers new perspectives and encouragement for advancing hobbyists. The guide offers the reader a number of milestone "quests" that will take them from the f



  • Every Moment Holy - The Work of the People



  • Go Big or Go Home - The Journey Toward the Dream



  • Most dangerous - Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War

    Traces the story of how an obscure government analyst exposed two decades of political deception about the Vietnam War in what became known as the Pentagon Papers.



  • The 5 Resets - Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience



  • Emotionally Healthy Discipleship- Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation

    Many pastors and leaders are stuck in a culture of "shallow discipleship" that severely undermines the impact of their ministry. Pete Scazzero takes three decades of wisdom and hard lessons learned to reverse this crisis and create a church culture that multiplies deeply changed disciples.



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

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



  • Preschool Math at Home- Simple Activities to Build the Best Possible Foundation for Your Child

    Giving your preschooler a great start in math doesn't have to be complicated. Learn how to use fun but purposeful games and activities to give your young child the best possible foundation.



  • The work of art - how something comes from nothing

    "From former editor-in-chief of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art. What is the work of art? In this guided tour inside the artist's head,Adam Moss traces the evolution of transcendent novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and more. Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries, napkin doodles, and sketches that we



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

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



  • A short history of trans misogyny

    "Shows why it matters to understand trans misogyny as a specific form of violence with a documentable history"--



  • The Berman murders - unraveling the Mojave Desert's most mysterious unsolved crime

    "On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved"--



  • This is my God - the Jewish way of life



  • Journey to Shalom - finding healing, wholeness, and freedom in sacred stories

    Do you wonder if healing, transformation and lasting change are possible? If so, you're not alone. All throughout history, people have struggled with pain, loss, trauma and rejection-and cried out to God for hope and peace, for shalom. Using the latest, research-backed psychotherapy and neuroscience, Journey to Shalom presents the sacred stories of Scripture like you've never seen them before. The human struggle of alienation, shame, and exile is brought to light and a vision of restoration and



  • The Riviera, Exposed- An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor

    "This history of the French Riviera examines the ecological and social impacts of mass tourism after World War II. Much of the focus is on the technologies embedded in roads, airports, hotels, water lines, sewers, beaches, and marinas, as well as the North African laborers who built and maintained them"--



  • The Montessori child - a  parent's guide to raising capable children with creative minds and compassionate hearts

    "From the bestselling authors of The Montessori Toddler and The Montessori Baby, The Montessori Child guides parents in using the principals of Montessori to raise their school-aged children in ways that assist their development and foster a respectful relationship between parent and child and world. When children are given independence, the tools to succeed, and the encouragement to build on their abilities, it's amazing what they can achieve. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori serie



  • Grief is for people

    "A memoir about the suicide of the author's closest friend and the ensuing grief process"--



  • Eric Clapton Solo - Every Album, Every Song



  • All the scary little gods- a memoir



  • Clean Economy Now - Stories from the Frontlines of an American Business Revolution



  • The Darkest White - A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him



  • Of greed and glory - in pursuit of freedom for all

    "Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions of Americans-including author Deborah Plant's brother, whose life sentence at Angola Prison reveals a shocking current parallel to her academic work on the history of slavery in America-are deprived



  • Blackwildgirl - A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower



  • The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians - Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers



  • Blades in the dark

    Blades in the Dark is a tabletop role-playing game about a crew of daring scoundrels seeking their fortunes on the haunted streets of an industrial-fantasy city. There are heists, chases, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, bloody skirmishes, and, above all, riches to be had--if you're bold enough to seize them. You and your fledgling crew must thrive amidst the threats of rival gangs, powerful noble families, vengeful ghosts, the Bluecoats of the city watch, and the siren song of your scoundr



  • Never not working - why the always-on culture is bad for business, and how to fix it

    "Many workers believe that to compete with other top talent they must embrace a culture that rewards long hours and constant connection to work. Businesses and society have encouraged this by endorsing busyness, overwork, and extreme commitment as the most valued traits in workers. Sometimes that endorsement is explicit, as when Elon Musk told Twitter employees to work "long hours at high intensity" or get fired. But more often it's an implicit contract, a buildup of organizational and cultural



  • Dear younger me - what 35 trailblazing women wish they'd known as girls

    "From Emmy Award-winning journalist Elisa Boxer comes an inspiring YA anthology of thirty-five trailblazing women from all walks of life detailing their struggles and achievements and featuring a personal message from each woman written just for this book, telling their younger selves what they wish they had known growing up"--



  • The lie detectives - in search of a playbook for defeating disinformation and winning elections

    "A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, journalist Sasha Issenberg again goes behind the scenes of political campaigns. This time, the most urgent research and strategizing are being conducted on how to deal with disinformation"--



  • Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.- How Big-Time College Sports Cheat Students, Taxpayers, and Academics

    Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education.



  • Returning- A Spiritual Journey

    "A grippingly honest account of how one man succeeded in filling the emptiness at the core of his soul".Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. "One of the most important memoirs of the spirit I've ever read".Bill Moyers.



  • When the Body Says No - Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection



  • Guns, Girls, and Greed - I Was a Blackwater Mercenary in Iraq



  • I can fix this - and other lies I told myself while parenting my struggling child

    "From the author of Hold On, But Don't Hold Still, the emotionally charged and eye-opening account of a mother who navigates the cacophony of best practices and urgent advice from parenting authorities in search of a way to support her teen as he maps hisown path to mental health"--



  • You Get What You Pay for - Essays



  • Buddhism - A Journey Through Art



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

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



  • City poet - the life and times of Frank O'Hara



  • Capturing nature - 150 years of nature printing

    "Hailed as the earliest precursor to photography, nature printing is the practice of using impressions from the surface of a natural object such as leaves, flowering plants, ferns, seaweed, snakes, and more to produce an image. Author Matthew Zucker has spent decades curating the most extensive collection of nature prints ever assembled, with more than 13,000 images across 120 rare and seminal works, including journals, published books, unique manuscripts, American currency, and instructional te



  • Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics - Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles



  • Emotionally resilient tweens and teens - empowering your kids to navigate bullying, teasing, and social exclusion

    "The teen years are rife with social landmines in school, sports, and other activities--and instances of teasing, bullying, and exclusion are unfortunately all too common. Social media has only made this behavior easier and more insidious. But when kids learn to respond effectively, manage their emotions in the situation, and recognize their self-worth, they can reclaim a sense of their own power, and develop skills for life. Kim John Payne, an education consultant, and parenting expert, offers



  • Oceans rise empires fall - why geopolitics hastens climate catastrophe

    "Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Change discusses how geopolitics affects climate change by highlighting its catastrophic effects. Even though states would prefer to reduce emissions in the abstract, they would always prioritizeaccess to carbon-based fuels necessary for generating economic growth to compete with rival states. Thus, geopolitical competition ramps the difficulty of implementing effective climate change policies. Oceans Rise Empires Fall discusses how the



  • HBR guide to your job search.

    "Finding a new job can be stressful. Assessing positions and employers, meeting the requirements in a job description, competing with other job searchers, and submitting an application that will get noticed-each element comes with its own set of obstacles. And that's all before the nerve-wracking interview. The HBR Guide to Your Job Search is here to help. Whether you're fresh out of school, have been working for decades, or somewhere in between, this book offers you tips and advice for navigati



  • If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die- The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

    This enlightening book guides film professionals toward making the right color selections for their films, and helps movie buffs interpret why they feel the way they do while watching movies incorporating certain colors. Learn how powerful color can be and increase your awareness of the colors around you and how they make you feel, act, and react.



  • Ascent to Power - How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World



  • Now and not yet - pressing in when you're waiting, wanting, and restless for more

    "Bestselling author Ruth Chou Simons guides readers who are restless in their current circumstances on a journey of growth, purpose, and pressing in"--



  • A life impossible - living with ALS - finding peace and wisdom within a fragile existence

    "In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now tenyears past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS lif



  • Vexations

    "Viewed from a distance, interdisciplinary artist and poet Annelyse Gelman's Vexations could be described as a long poem-a book-length narrative work in the tradition of epic or romance. Vexations is fragmentary and dreamlike, however, chipping away overtime at the very foundation on which such a narrative tradition typically rests. The central drama of Vexations is centered around the journey of a mother and her daughter through a speculative world that seems utterly contemporary and, at the sa



  • Fodor's essential France

    "Ready to go away? The experts at Fodor's are here to help. We're bringing you the very best of France, including Paris, Provence, Normandy, the Riviera, Brittany, and more. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure that you have all the essential information to plan a perfect trip and make the most of your time"--Page 4 of cover.



New Young Adult Books, Graphic Novels, Manga & Zines

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

    Don't miss the stunning fourth collection of the Ninth Doctor's all-new comics adventures with Rose Tyler and Captain Jack Harkness! Two staggering adventures see the Doctor and his companions facing psyche-shattering conspiracies and ancient secrets in equal measure! First, the Doctor goes undercover at a prisoner rehabilitation facility held within a collapsing singularity - a place where the scientists claim to be able to 'cure' murderers and psychopaths by removing all of their negative emot



  • Unaccompanied - stories of brave teenagers seeking asylum

    "This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seekasylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual kids from among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who enter the US each year. In stark black



  • Lies My Teacher Told Me - A Graphic Adaptation



  • Uncle $crooge - pie in the sky

    "Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck battle old foes and ancient curses in wild comics adventures by fan-favorite artist William Van Horn!"--



  • Freshman year

    Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist.



  • In utero

    "Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen...but soon dark horrors awaken, and the twonew friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time"--



  • The sea in you

    When fifteen-year-old Corinth encounters Skylla, a young mermaid, at the beach, a dangerous bond grows between the two, and a magical bargain may be the only thing that can save them, at a tremendous cost.



  • Catwoman - lonely city

    "Ten years ago, the massacre known as Fools' Night claimed the lives of Batman, the Joker, Nightwing, and Commissioner Gordon...and sent Selina Kyle, the Catwoman, to prison. A decade later, Gotham has grown up-it's put away costumed heroism and villainyas childish things. The new Gotham is cleaner, safer...and a lot less free, under the watchful eye of Mayor Harvey Dent and his Batcops. It's into this new city that Selina Kyle returns, a changed woman...with her mind on that one last big score:



  • Voyage de gourmet

    "Layne Green is a social media sensation of a cook. He's selected to compete on a reality TV show called Voyage de Gourmet - a globe-trotting foodie adventure. However, his partner is his former best friend, Jiang-Mi Pipper, someone that he really wrongedwith some of his posts. Can the two find forgiveness, flavor, and themselves on this journey?"--



  • A guest in the house

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



  • The Lonesome Hunters  2 - The Wolf Child



  • The comic book story of basketball - a fast-break history of hoops

    "A fast-break history of basketball--from its humble beginnings to its all-time great players--featuring engaging true tales from the court and vivid, dynamic illustrations"--



  • Disney Masters 22 - Uncle Scrooge- Operation Galleon Grab



  • The Seasons Have Teeth



  • A Firehose of Falsehood - The Story of Disinformation



  • Deadendia 3 - The Divine Order



  • Shook! - a Black horror anthology

    "In partnership with Second Sight Publishing, Dark Horse Comics is proud to present, Shook! A Black Horror Anthology. With over 190 pages of terrorizing material, the anthology is filled with stories from a range of award-winning Black writers and artists. Stemming from a love of Southern gothic horror, this anthology boasts a cadre of award winning or nominated writers representing awards such as the Will Eisner Awards, the Ringo Awards, the Hugo Awards, and is the largest collection of Glyph



  • The Witches of Silverlake 1



  • Ruth Asawa - an artist takes shape

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



  • Through fences

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



  • Bad medicine

    "After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. Chad begins by telling the group about an unfortunate fisher who encountered a cluster of small, malevolent creatures while navigating the river in his canoe. Attempting to defend himself, Carl lashed out with an oar... and his world changed forever. One by one, the teens try to outdo each other, and the evening evolves into an impromptu storytelling competition. On certain nights,



  • Homebody



  • Liberated - the radical art and life of Claude Cahun

    "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--



  • Doctor Who - the ninth doctor. Volume 3, Official secrets



  • Shook! - A Black Horror Anthology



  • Spider-Gwen- Ghost-Spider - edge of Spider-verse. Vol. 1, 2014-2016

    "On Earth-65, the radioactive spider didn't bite Peter Parker--it bit Gwen Stacy! Now, Gwen fights crime as Spider-Woman--just don't tell her father, the police chief! In the wake of Spider-Verse, Gwen splits her time between school, heroism and playing in her band, the Mary Janes, while dodging NYPD lieutenant Frank Castle! But what really happened the night her world's Peter Parker died, and how does it connect to a new reptilian rampage? Gwen's troubles pile up as her world's Osborns debut an



  • Nancy & Sluggo's guide to life - comics about money, food, and other essentials

    "The newspaper cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller once admitted that "all my characters are conceived in desperation." Nancy was no exception. She was the niece of the star of his other strip, Fritzi Ritzi, and meant to serve as a throwaway gag character. But Nancy could not be contained: Within a few years, Bushmiller's strip had been renamed for her, and she had begun her ascent into the pantheon of cartooning greats. Nancy, along with on-and-off boyfriend Sluggo, delivered absurd laughs to readers f



  • 49 days

    Day 1. Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map - it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what's that...? And so begins a graphic novel story unlike any other: 49 Days. In Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die, before they can fully cross over. Here in this book, readers travel with one Korean American girl, Kit, on her journey, while also spending time with her family and friends left behind. Agnes Lee has captivated readers across the world for years wit



  • Superman - the harvests of youth

    "Despite being a superpowered teenager, high school has been pretty normal for Clark Kent; but his idyllic life is wrenched away when the death of a classmate rocks all of Smallville. As he and his friends grieve, the challenges they face become darker, more complex, and deeply insidious. Clark feels completely out of his depth when Smallville's latest threat proves that it takes more than fists and laser beams to save the day. For the first time in his life, Clark must grapple with life's bigge



  • Doctor Who - the ninth doctor. Vol. 3, Official secrets

    Team TARDIS are in hot pursuit of a monster they accidentally sent back to the 1970s (or was it the 1980s?), but there are more monsters than they ever could have imagined ... and they're being controlled by an unknown source! Then the search for Jack's missing memories takes the TARDIS to 17th Century Brazil! Will Jack find what he seeks, and keep the trust of his friends?



  • Jim Henson's Labyrinth - Beyond the Goblin City



  • The closet

    "Thom is moving cross-country with his family and dragging the past along with them. When his child, Jamie, is seeing monsters in the bedroom closet, Thom reassures him that they will stay in the apartment after the move. But Thom is very wrong about manythings and the monsters do continue to find young Jamie"--



  • King cheer

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



  • Void Rivals 1 - More Than Meets the Eye



  • Knee deep. Book one

    "In the year 2223, a teenage girl must venture through underground tunnels and canals in search of her parents who disappeared while on a mining expedition"--



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

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



  • Us

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



  • Something is killing the children. Volume seven

    "After narrowly surviving the Duplicitype, Erica Slaughter must still reckon with the murderous Cutter in order to save the people of Tribulation. Separated from Dolly and driven by desperate rage, Cutter won't stop until she exacts her revenge on Erica.But the horror is far from over as the terrifying Duplicitype, the infamous monster wearing Erica's likeness...also remains at large and in relentless, sinister pursuit"--



  • Sex criminals. Volume 5, Five-fingered discount

    "Suzie and Jon have that special something-- when they have sex, they freeze time and do crimes. Well-- they had that special something. In the aftermath of what would appear to be a breakup, where do our two love-crazy time-freezing sex-having bank robbers go? Rebound ahoy! Also everything gets more dangerous and complicated? But it's okay"--Amazon.com



  • DC vs. vampires

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



  • The amazing Spider-Man. Dead Language Volume 06, Dead language. Part 2

    "The shocking story it's all been building to - and your heart is not ready! At last, witness exactly what brought Peter Parker together with his former arch-nemesis, Norman Osborn as past and present collide with the return of the Emissary - and his power is far beyond Spider-Man's abilities. Peter and his allies may figure out a way to win, but the cost of victory will be so immense that you just might hope they don't! Plus: Witness the full fury of Peter's new Spidey suit unleashed! Discover



  • Ultramega. Volume 1

    "A cosmic plague has spread, transforming everyday people into violent, monstrous kaiju. Only the Ultramega--three individuals imbued with incredible powers--hold the line against this madness. Their battles level cities and leave untold horror in their wake. Now, the final reckoning approaches for the Ultramega...but is this a war they can even win?"--



  • Just another story - a graphic migration account

    "When Carlos was nineteen, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador. Refusing to let her go without him, Carlos joined the journey north. Together they experienced the risks countless people faces as they migrate"--



  • Nightmare country / Nightmare Country 1

    "Sometimes, nightmares walk the Earth. Every night when you sleep, the Lord of Dreams chooses the path you'll follow...into a sylvan Elysium, or down the hallways of your darkest fears. And sometimes, if it is Dream's will, those nightmares escape those halls, and go out into the world. But it is not a choice he makes lightly. Today the Corinthian walks the Earth again. The most feared of all Dream's nightmares, his ravenous mouths have made him a legend among serial killers. Letting the Corinth



  • Amazing Spider-man 5



  • The girl who sang - a Holocaust memoir of hope and survival

    "A heartrending graphic memoir about a young Jewish girl's fight for survival in Nazi occupied Poland, The Girl Who Sang illustrates the power of a brother's love, the kindness of strangers, and finding hope when facing the unimaginable." -- Publisher annotation.



  • Star Wars Darth Vader - unbound force

    "When the Dark Lord of the Sith loses control of the Force, nothing is safe - not even his own Star Dreadnought! But in the face of total destruction, Commander Sabae finds an opportunity. Does Vader's untrammeled onslaught expose a vulnerability? Or is it just another doorway to the terrifying tyranny of the Sith? According to the Jedi, fear leads to anger and anger leads to hate. But does hate lead to suffering...or power? Caught in a maelstrom, Sabae must finally confront the horrifying conse



  • Cats are people, too - a collection of cat cartoons to curl up with

    Here is an irresistible collection of clever cat-themed cartoons-a companion title to Dave Coverly's Dogs Are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag. This collection contains over a hundred of Dave's funniest cat cartoons from his nationally syndicated panel Speed Bump, as well as cat doodles and interviews from eight other award-winning cat-loving cartoonists.



  • Charisma's turn - a graphic novel

    "Follows the dynamic story of Charisma, a Black high school student who is grappling with mounting pressures from home and school. When frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that couldchange her future"--



  • Sea serpent's heir. Black Wave Book two, Black wave

    "For fans of Nimona and Teen Titans: Raven! The high-fantasy, high-seas adventure continues! Aella sets sail with her mother's pirate crew on a quest for revenge. As more secrets about her origin are revealed, Aella begins to embrace her dangerous and powerful dark side, leading her down a path from which there may be no return"--



New Large Print Books, Foreign Language & VITAL Materials

  • Things we hide from the light

    "Nash Morgan was always known as the good Morgan brother, with a smile and a wink for everyone. But now, this chief of police is recovering from being shot and his Southern charm has been overshadowed by panic attacks and nightmares. He feels like a broody shell of the man he once was. Nash isn't about to let anyone in his life know he's struggling. But his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, sees his shadows. As a rule, she's not a fan of physical contact unless she initiates it, but f



  • Technically yours



  • The Morningside



  • Secrets of a Scottish Isle



  • The Longmire defense



  • The Ghost Orchid



  • The other mothers



  • Everyone is watching



  • The butterfly collector

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



  • Upside down - a novel

    While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feels for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they eachtry to navigate an unconventional romance.



  • Deep tide

    "With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she's deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen. Sean Moran is on an undercover mission: The seaside community of Lost Beach may look like a picturesque postcard, but



  • A cold Highland wind



  • Sister of Starlit Seas



  • The familiar



  • Easy money cryptocurrency, casino capitalism, and the golden age of fraud

    "At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at home with some cash in his pocket, worried about his family, armed with only the vague notion that people were making heaps of money on something he--despite a degree in economics--didn't entirely understand. Lured in by grandiose, utopian promises, and sure, a little bit of FOMO, McKenzie dove deep into blockchain, Bitcoin, and the various other coins and exchanges on which they are trad



  • Summers at the Saints



  • Of love and treason



  • The quaker and the rebel

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



  • Never fall again



  • The reaper follows



  • Public anchovy #1



  • The heiress



  • Thorne of grace



  • Sword catcher

    "Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of forbidden love, dangerous magic, and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of an epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles"--



  • The little things

    "A decade ago, Rochelle Delany made a decision that changed her life forever. Wanting more than just football games and potluck suppers, she boarded a bus for California and didn't look back. But instead of a glamorous life, she became trapped in a nightmare of labor trafficking. Now, she's made a daring escape and returns home to Ohio. Sandy Fairbrother has a problem with trust. Twice betrayed, he now puts his faith only in God. He's a single dad doing his best to grow his construction business



  • After the forest

    "After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal w



  • A council of dolls - a novel

    "From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... Sissy, born 1961: Sissy's relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present, a doll called Ethel. Ethel whispers advice and



  • Meadow Falls



  • Lost & hound - a novel

    "Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds -- and of course, the start of fox hunting season. It's "Sister" Jane Arnold's favorite time of year. And this year, the Jefferson Hunt Club is busier than ever, organizing a fundraising drive to help with the upkeep of their beloved hunting grounds. But the festive season is interrupted by the appearance of a dead body, tied to a chair and placed directly in the



  • Life after power



  • UFO



  • Tropicália - a novel

    "In the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope of what it means to be from two homes, two peoples, and two worlds . Daniel Cunha has a lot on his mind. He got dumped by his pregnant girlfriend, his grandfather just dropped dead, and on the anniversary of the raid that doomed his



  • Carl Weber's kingpins - the ultimate hustle

    "Being the daughter of a pastor, Erica Collins never got a chance to live a normal life. When she lost her mother at a very young age, she questioned her faith in the Lord. Pastor Collins tried to rescue her faith by tying her everyday life even more closely to the church. Now 21 years old, Erica's only escape from her father and his Bible is when she hooks up with her best friend, Nicole. She finds a little freedom through Nicole's wild stories, with most of them being about her boyfriend, Mekc



  • Four weddings and a puppy



  • Harlem after midnight

    "Harlem, 1936: Lena Aldridge grew up in a cramped corner of London, hearing stories of the bright lights of Broadway. She always imagined that when she finally went to New York City, she'd be there with her father. But now he's dead, and she's newly arrived and alone, chasing a dream that has quickly dried up. When Will Goodman--the handsome musician she met on the crossing from England--offers for her to stay with his friends in Harlem, she agrees. She has nowhere else to go, and this will give



  • Death Valley



  • Knitmare on Beech Street



  • A love discovered



  • An Amish Cinderella



  • What the bears know



  • Easter basket murder



  • Alone with you in the ether - a love story

    "CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of



  • A murder of aspic proportions



  • Family meal



  • Fatal first edition



  • The unmaking of June Farrow



  • Never whistle at night



  • A memoir of my former self



  • Here in the dark



  • To spark a match

    "After five unsuccessful Seasons on the marriage mart, Miss Adelaide Duveen has resigned herself to the notion that she's destined to remain a spinster forever--a rather dismal prospect, but one that will allow her to concentrate on her darling cats and books. However, when she inadvertently stumbles upon Mr. Gideon Abbott engaged in a clandestine activity during a dinner party, Adelaide finds herself thrust into a world of intrigue that resembles the plots in the spy novels she devours. Former



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Featured: New Children's Picture Books

  • Jam, too?

    "A jam session forms, instrument by instrument, and welcomes a child who loves dancing along"--



  • Make way for Butterfly

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



  • I love it when you smile

    A grumpy little kangaroo is having a bad day until his mother finds a way to make him smile.



  • Bibi

    Bibi is an elderly flamingo who looks out for the flock, and especially the babies--but when it looks like she will not be able to migrate the rest of the flock tell her it is their turn to look out for her.



  • Squash, the cat

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



  • This little kitty in the garden

    Five little kittens enjoy the wonders of spring as they spend time in the garden.



  • Kicks in the sky

    When a few special pairs of sneakers get knocked down from telephone wires all over the city and imbue the kids who try them on with magical abilities, they wonder where these colorful kicks came from - and who would leave them behind.



  • Dinosaur party

    "Granny Pig is throwing a dinosaur party and Peppa and George are invited! Will they have a roaring good time? Find out in this storybook based on the hit TV show!"--



  • The clean machine

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



  • Snail in space

    Gail, an adventurous snail, is willing to do what it takes to achieve her dream of traveling to outer space.



  • Gravity is bringing me down

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



  • See this little dot

    Illustrates the characteristics and possible functions of a dot.



  • I'm going to build a snowman

    A young child sets out to build the best snowman ever.



  • Animal Albums from a to Z



  • Like you, like me

    Pen pals Tulsi and Vanessa discover that even though life in their countries--Tanzania and America--is very different, they still have a lot in common.



  • Words between us

    "Felix and Grandma have always lived oceans apart--until the day Grandma arrives. Felix is so excited to meet Grandma and spend time with her. Except she doesn't know English! And he doesn't know much Vietnamese! But maybe they can connect in other ways--like over their shared love of pizza. One day, when Grandma gets lost and doesn't know how to ask for help, Felix decides to teach her English. And by working together and teaching each other, they just might learn to share words as well"--



  • Old black fly

    Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be. Nothing drives a family crazy faster than an old black fly on a hot summer day, especially when the family's a little crazy already. And this fly is as bad as they come. He knows every low-down trick in the book--and won't rest until he's gone through them all. He ate on the crust of the Apple pie. He bothered the Baby and made her cry. Shoo fly! Sh



  • The great banned-books bake sale

    "Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together-with their teacher's help-they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale anduse the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success; the entire school participates, and the local TV station covers it in the evening news. Prodded by her classmates to read the poem she has written, Kanzi st



  • Tex / A Book for Little Dreamers



  • Don't trust cats - life lessons from Chip the dog

    "Chip the dog warns other pups that cats are not their friends, among other nuggets of wisdom"--



  • From here to there - a first book of maps

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



  • Whatever comes tomorrow

    A book that offers encouragement for managing the "butterflies" in the stomach that come with feelings of worry or anxiety. -- Provided by publisher.



  • I am happy!

    "Starring a very happy puppy, who wants to sing on a swing, chase after bubbles and skip through a puddle"--



  • Dinosaur party.

    Peppa Pig and her brother George wonder if they'll have a ROARing good time at Granny Pig's dinosaur party!



  • I cannot draw a bicycle

    "The book cannot draw a bicycle, but the horse really wants a bicycle. Will horse's wheely dreams come true--or will they end in pieces?"--



  • Gravity is bringing me down

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



  • Copydog

    Elsie enjoys hanging out with her younger sister Rosemont, but the one thing Rosemont does that drives her big sister mad is copy everything Elsie does.



  • Jack the library cat

    When a stray cat keeps turning up for story time at the library, he is always shooed away, but when he meets Pascal, a boy who needs a reading buddy, a friendship forms, and now Pascal along with the other children have Jack the cat to read to.



  • One more jar of jam

    "A girl experiences the cycles of the seasons and of life courtesy of her family's mulberry tree and a communal love of jam"--



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

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



  • All of those babies

    Simple, rhyming text introduces readers to the names of babies across the animal kingdom.



  • Whatever comes tomorrow

    "We might not know what the future holds, but the lyrical rhyming text in this beautiful book reassures readers that they have the resilience and strength to face whatever comes their way. Whimsical illustrations make for a captivating read-aloud or bedtime story. Inspired by the author's own experience with anxiety, this book offers gentle wisdom applicable to both children and adults. End matter includes a discussion guide and activity ideas for managing worries"--



  • Becoming Charley

    Unlike all the other caterpillars Charley sometimes wonders what it would be like to be a fawn or a waterfall, so when the day comes to form her chrysalis, Charley must decide who she will become.



  • Threads - Zlata's Ukrainian Shirt



  • Tiny wonders

    April uses the secret language of flowers to help bring color and wonder back to her town.



  • When fall comes - connecting with nature as the days grow shorter

    "This next book in the Seasons series is a poetic children's book about life in fall, following a family who explores the outdoors and enjoys outdoor activities, such as mushroom hunting, collecting driftwood, picking apples, and getting their home and yard ready for winter months. This story focuses on wildlife in Fall and the joy of being outdoors during the Fall months"--



  • Stella and the mystery of the missing tooth

    When Stella's friend Owen loses a tooth at the museum, Stella and Roger believe that someone stole it and search high and low to find it.



  • The world and everything in it

    Celebrates the big things and little things in the world and everything in between.



  • Sleepy Sheepy and the sheepover

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



  • Groundhog gets it wrong

    Groundhog is shocked and a bit ashamed when he discovers that he does not have innate weather-predicting gifts, especially when his mis-forecast ruins the spring carnival.



  • Ramadan Kareem



  • Stella and the mystery of the missing tooth

    When Stella's friend Owen loses a tooth at the museum, Stella and Roger believe that someone stole it and search high and low to find it.



  • Tango Red Riding Hood

    "When Moni sets off to her Abuela's house, her feet can't resist the magical rhythm that calls to her in the woods. But an encounter with Lobo and his bandoneaon turns Moni's pace from a tango to milonga as she races to save her sweet Abuela"--



  • Etta extraordinaire

    Born to be a star, Etta prepares for her big performance in her school's talent show, but when she gets pre-show jitters, her loving family helps her through it so she can shine in the spotlight.



  • The horseback librarians

    In 1930's rural Kentucky, Anna Mary, rhymes with library, and her horse, Sand, go from farm to farm to deliver books to the delight of both children and adults.



  • Small things mended

    "Friendship and purpose help a grieving man re-engage with his world and talent for fixing things"--



  • Wild blue - taming a big-kid bike

    Using her boundless imagination, Kayla finds the courage to tame her new big-kid bike--despite falls, bumps and bruises--and the confidence to let go of her fear.



  • Our wish for you - a story about open adoption

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



  • Like so

    Just as the sun loves the day and the moon loves the waves, a grandmother shows how her family's love is natural and connected to the world around them.



  • A Unicorn, A Dinosaur, and A Shark Were Riding a Bicycle