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  • Year Published: 2024

    Night Swim

    Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash an evil force that will drag the family into the



  • Year Published: 2000

    Who's that knocking at my door [Motion picture - 1968]

    When J.R. meets the right girl, he begins questioning his rambunctious lifestyle and wants to settle down.



  • Year Published: 2013

    The Beach Boys - good vibrations tour

    Originally made for American television following the release of that album. It combines full live performances of their greatest hits from the Anaheim Stadium with band interviews and wonderful sequences including Dennis Wilson judging a beauty pageant, Carl Wilson flying a plane and Brian Wilson being arrested for violation of the surf code by the original Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, in the guise of highway patrolmen.



  • Year Published: 1992

    Kung Fu - The Legend Continues- The Complete First Season

    Kwai Chang Caine, grandson of the legendary hero of the Wild West, teams up with his policeman son, Peter, to tame the new Wild West, '90s urban America.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Walk up = T'ap

    In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter Jeongsu an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, an office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist's studio at the top. The three of them amicably chat the day away. But when his daughter lea



  • Year Published: 2015

    Lost after dark

    In homage to the 80s slasher films, a group of teenagers sneaking out of their high school dance, looking to party get stranded when their ride runs out of gas, and end up being stalked by a cannibalistic killer from an urban legend.



  • 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: 2024

    Guilt Season 3

    Season 3 takes us deeper into Max and Jake's murky past, revealing new secrets that could threaten to derail their plans to live a 'normal' life. Bonnar and Sives will be joined by Downton Abbey's Phyllis Logan who plays Maggie Lynch, a wife with a ruthless edge.



  • 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: 2024

    The Book of Clarence

    Striving to find a better life, Clarence is enthralled by the power of the rising Messiah and soon risks everything to carve a path to a divine existence.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Wednesday Season 1

    Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams's years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.



  • Year Published: 1939

    The Roaring Twenties

    Ripped from the headlines of the turbulent era between the Great War and the Great Depression, this dynamic, nostalgia-tinged crime drama balances tommy-gun action with epic historical sweep. Legends James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart star as army buddies whose fortunes rise and fall as their fates intersect, first in a foxhole on the front lines of World War I, then in Manhattan's Prohibition-era underworld. Directed by Hollywood master Raoul Walsh and based on a story by prolific journalist turn



  • Year Published: 2023

    Dangerous waters.

    A sailing holiday spirals out of control when teenage Rose uncovers the dark past of her mother's new boyfriend. Wounded and adrift, after their boat is attacked by vicious traffickers, Rose unearths a primal survival instinct and a terrifying need for vengeance, in this tightly wound thriller.



  • Year Published: 2022

    Inside Man- Year One

    Jefferson Grieff is on Death Row in an American prison for brutally murdering his wife. But it turns out that Grieff has a gift: he can solve crimes from inside his cell, and that is exactly why English journalist Beth Davenport needs his help. A woman who recently helped Beth has gone missing, with the only clue being a text with a blurry image of a man lunging towards the camera. Will Grieff crack the case in time? And is it possible to solve a crime before it has been committed?



  • Year Published: 2023

    Dreaming Whilst Black Season 1

    Kwabena quits his dead-end recruitment job to chase his dream of becoming a filmmaker and is thrown into a world of uncertainty. Having recently met the tantalizing Vanessa, he struggles to keep up with her taste for fancy restaurants and cocktail bars by secretly taking shifts as a fast-food delivery driver. Meanwhile, his cousin has a baby on the way, meaning he needs to find a new place to live.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Three Musketeers Part 1- D'Artagnan

    D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Big Sky River- The Bridal Path

    Tara, now settled in Montana and dating Cowboy Boone, works to bring their family lives together but tensions arise, as blending their families will be more of a challenge than anticipated.



  • Year Published: 2010

    Caprica. Season 1.5

    Fifty-eight years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, mankind is wrestling with the question of what makes one human, and sealing its own fate of certain destruction. Alliances are made, secrets are revealed, and lives are forever changed while the conflict between man and machine takes shape. As the season races towards its stunning conclusion, the seeds are sown for the inevitable, brutal clash between the newly born Cylon race and its human creators.



  • Year Published: 2015

    Victoria

    Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads are in trouble and they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria's flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. As the night takes goes on, what started out as a good time quickly spirals out of control.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Surprised by Oxford

    A brilliant but emotionally guarded American student arrives in Oxford, focused solely on attaining her PhD. But through a turbulent friendship with a charming young man, Caro begins to open herself up to vulnerability & love.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Nolly

    Nolly reveals the story of Noele "Nolly" Gordon, one of the most famous faces on British TV in the 1960s and 70s, whose unceremonious firing from her hit show at the height of her career was front-page news. A bold exploration of how the establishment turns on women who refuse to play by the rules, Nolly is an enjoyable and wildly entertaining ride through Gordon's most tumultuous years, and a sharp, affectionate, and heart-breaking portrait of a forgotten icon.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Journey to Bethlehem

    The live-action Christmas musical adventure for the entire family weaves classic Christmas melodies with humor, faith, and new pop songs in a retelling of the greatest story ever told, the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Passages



  • 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: 2024

    American Star

    An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.



  • Year Published: 2023

    The Journey- A Music Special From Andrea Bocelli

    Merging world-class music with intimate conversations in the awe-inspiring Italian countryside, The Journey is an exploration of the moments that define us, the songs that inspire us, and the relationships that connect us to what matters



  • Year Published: 2022

    The Glory Season 1 & 2

    A woman lives for absolute revenge against her childhood bullies who destroyed her life. The series received eight nominations at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards, winning three categories: Best Drama, Best Actress (Song Hye-kyo), and Best Supporting Actress (Lim Ji-yeon).



  • 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: 2023

    Walking Dead- Daryl Dixon Season 1

    Following his departure from The Commonwealth, Daryl Dixon washes ashore in France, raising the ire of a splintered but growing autocratic movement centered in Paris and endangering a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movement.



  • Year Published: 2008

    Jimmy Carter - man from Plains

    Jimmy Carter, a champion for human rights around the world, was elected the 39th President of the United States in 1976 and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. As ex-president, Jimmy Carter ignites a firestorm of controversy when he tours the country to promote "Palestine: peace not apartheid," a new book that questions Israel's policies towards the Occupied Territories



  • 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: 2023

    The Dick van Dyke show. Season five

    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 five.



  • Year Published: 2017

    My Happy Family

    Literature teacher Manana has been married for 25 years and lives in a three-bedroom flat in Tbilisi with her husband, parents, two adult children, and her son-in-law. But on the evening of her 52nd birthday, she announces to the surprise of her family that she wants to leave. When she packs her suitcase and leaves, the family is shocked and incredulous: Where is she going? What is the reason for the decision? She is past the age of a divorce and has what everyone would call a good husband. But



  • Year Published: 1996

    Sharpe's Revenge collection set



  • 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: 2023

    Thanksgiving

    After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Earth

    The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme changes in climate and the collision of whole continents.



  • Year Published: 1973

    An American Family

    In 1973, TV viewers watched dramatic life events unfold in the home of the William C. Loud family of Santa Barbara, California, in The WNET Group's groundbreaking documentary series An American Family. Chronicling the lives of its seven members, the television series made parents Pat and Bill Loud and their five children instant celebrities.



  • Year Published: 2022

    The catcher was a spy



  • Year Published: 2010

    Upstairs, downstairs [BBC TV - 2010]



  • Year Published: 2023

    Fear the Walking Dead Season 8

    Seven years after Morgan and Madison's plans to rescue Mo from PADRE end in failure, the people they brought to the island are forced to toil under PADRE's cynical rule. But the promise of a better world remains, resting with the only person able to reignite everyone's belief in it: a now eight-year-old Mo.



  • Year Published: 2008

    Business of Being Born

    Birth, it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. More than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America.



  • Year Published: 2014

    An American Ascent

    The show documents the first African American expedition to tackle Denali, North America's highest peak and explores the complex relationship many African-Americans have with the outdoors. As the United States transitions to a 'minority majority' nation, a staggering number of people of color do not identify with America's wild places. By embarking on the grueling multi-week climb of the 20,327ft Denali, nine African-American climbers set out to bridge this 'adventure gap.'



  • 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: 2023

    The Marsh King's Daughter

    A woman seeks revenge against the man who abducted her mother.



  • Year Published: 2023

    Pet sematary. Bloodlines

    In 1969, a young Jud Crandall dreams of leaving his hometown of Ludlow, Maine behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to Ludlow. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an ancient evil that has gripped Ludlow since its founding, and once unearthed has the power to destroy everything in its path. Based on the untold chapter from Pet Sematary, Stephen King's chilling novel, is



  • Year Published: 2010

    Wallander Series 1 Volume 1

    Based on Henning Mankell's novels, volume one features the first three episodes of series one, Before the Frost, the Village Idiot; and the Brothers.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Brain-Gut Connection With Dr. Emeran Mayer

    Recent science is now revealing that the vital connection between the gut and the brain impacts everything: physical health, mental health and even the choices one makes.



  • Year Published: 2024

    Bob Marley- One Love

    Celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob's powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music.



  • Year Published: 2023

    More than ever [Motion Picture - 2022]

    Premiering in Cannes Selection, the story about Helene and Mathieu who have been happily together for many years, the bond between them only growing deeper with time. Faced with an existential decision, Helene travels alone to Norway to seek peace, an act that will test the strength of their love.



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  • It Had to be You

    The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way, handsome, intelligent, popular, until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death of their parents. Married now with children



  • End of Story



  • 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



  • Fate breaker



  • 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



  • Summers at the Saint



  • Long Island



  • 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



  • Lost Birds

    Joe Leaphorn may be long retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, but his detective skills are still sharp, honed by his work as a private detective. His experience will be essential to solve a compelling new case: finding the birth parents of a woman who was raised by a bilaga´ana family but believes she is Dine´ based on one solid clue, an old photograph with a classic Navajo child's blanket. Leaphorn discovers that his client's adoption was questionable, and her adoptive family not what they se



  • The hidden life of trees



  • 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.



  • 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



  • 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.



  • 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



  • 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.



  • 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



  • 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



  • 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.



  • The Summer Book Club



  • City in Ruins



  • 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



  • 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



  • Miss Morgan's Book Brigade



  • 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



  • 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



  • 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



  • Toxic Prey



  • 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



  • An Unfinished Murder



  • 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 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



  • After Annie

    When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are left to struggle without the woman who centered their lives. Bill Brown finds himself overwhelmed, and Annie's best friend Annemarie is lost to old bad habits without Annie's support. It is Annie's daughter, Ali, forced to try to care for her younger brothers and even her father, who manages to maintain some semblance of their former lives for them all, and who confronts the complicated truths of adul



  • 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.



  • 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



  • Insomnia



  • The Interpretation of Dreams

    In his iconic, landmark work, acclaimed psychoanalytic Sigmund Freud introduces his theory on the unconscious mind and how it is related to dreams. Here, Freud reveals how dreams can be interpreted as the mind's wish to settle an unresolved conflict.



  • 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



  • Camino Ghosts



  • 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



  • 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



  • The Age of Revolutions



  • 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



  • 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



  • 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



  • 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



  • The Courage to be Disliked

    Already an enormous bestseller in Asia with more than three million copies sold, it demonstrates how to unlock the power within oneself to be the person listeners truly want to be.



  • Lost man's lane



  • Fourteen Days

    One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants, some of whom have barely spoken to each other, become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editor Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contrib



  • 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



  • Close to Death



New Adult Fiction Books

  • The curators - a novel

    "Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates"--



  • The Juliet code

    "Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice. To their surprise, their friend, Detective Jack Miracle, is also in the city, investigating a series of art heists starting at the house of eccentric millionaire, Laraby Covington. Drawn into a world of boat races, mysterious houses, and parties of the rich and unusual in Venice, Frederick and Grace learn of the existence of the Juliet paintings, (Renaissance



  • Mrs. Gulliver



  • The Widow Spy



  • The desert crucible

    John Shefford sets out to rescue three people trapped in Surprise Valley, including Fay Larkin, who, unknown to him, has been forced into a polygamous marriage to a mysterious Mormon leader.



  • Piglet - a novel

    "When Piglet's fiancae reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day"--



  • The quick and the dead

    Three teenage friends, Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, travel across a desert populated by confused adults.



  • Maktub - An Inspirational Companion to the Alchemist



  • It All Comes Back to You- A totally emotional and gripping page-turner



  • Ordinary Soil



  • Help for the Haunted

    John Searles s Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter s discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery.Sylvie Mason s parents have an unusual occupation helping haunted souls find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter s night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence.A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older siste



  • He's So Not My Valentine- A Single-Mom, Reluctant to Fall Sweet Romcom



  • The heist

    "Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler"--



  • Welcome home, Caroline Kline - a novel

    "In New York City, newly single Caroline is stumbling her way through the recent implosion of her life. After a surprise breakup leaves her with no job, no apartment, and no backup plan, she's unsure of what to do next. That is, until Caroline's father, Leo, injures himself in a bad fall and asks her to move home to the Jersey Shore suburb she'd always been desperate to escape. But Leo doesn't want his daughter to be his caretaker; he needs her to replace him as third baseman in his local men's



  • The First Death



  • My lucky charm

    It’s no secret that I love life. And Dr Pepper. But also, I love a challenge. . .So when the coach of the Chicago Comets gives me the opportunity to help their star player, newly traded to their team, acclimate to life in Chicago, I'm all in. It turns out that the player, Grayson Hawke, is the rudest, most off-putting, reclusive guy I’ve ever met. It also turns out that he is the beautiful stranger I kissed on New Year’s Eve.



  • The dead guy next door

    "A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor...who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others. Unless the "others" are of the female persuasion



  • The forgotten Island- a horror novel



  • The mystery writer - a novel

    "Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him-to save him. Then she disappears. But the writer has left a t



  • Cloaked in scarlet

    "After watching her two closest friends survive mistreatment and degradation, Emeline is determined never to become a victim herself, no matter how small and quiet she may be. She's proven to others that she can take charge as a cook; now she's proving to herself that she can handle any situation. She's trained hard with a sword to become a force to be reckoned with. Her determination to try her skills in a festival competition will require subterfuge, especially when Hunter, a young man from he



  • Summers at the Saint

    "Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer she did, and married the boss's son. Now, she'



  • When we were silent

    "An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut novel for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Dare Me Louise Manson is the newest student at Highfield Manor, Dublin's most exclusive private school. It seems nearly perfect: the high arched window alcoves and tall granite pillars, the overspill of lilac at the front gate and the immaculate playing fields, the giggling students, the dusty, oak-lined library, and the dark, festering secret she has come to



  • Someone Birthed Them Broken



  • Kate's War



  • Only the brave



  • 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



  • Ellipses



  • Familia

    A fact-checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco, takes a DNA test and discovers she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has been desperately trying to find her for 25 years, despite her parents saying it is impossible.



  • The captive duke

    "To help his daughter Margaret heal from her mother's death, Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, invites Gillian, Countess of Windmere, into their lives, and as they spend more and more time together, Margaret's terrible secret threatens to tear them apartforever"--



  • Red Sky Mourning



  • How to End a Love Story



  • The Stellar Debut of Galactica Macfee



  • Love, me - a novel

    "Rachel Miller is a lawyer and mother of two who's just as comfortable in a courtroom as she is on the sidelines of a soccer field. Sure, her marriage is on autopilot, her parents are overly involved, and the other suburban moms are just a little bit catty. But if you ask Rachel, life is good. That is until her world is upended when racy photos of her and her high school boyfriend, the famous actor Jack Bellow-along with his love letters to her-are published in a tabloid, unexpectedly thrusting



  • Indian burial ground

    "A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on--just like her beloved Uncle Louie before her--things are finally looking up for Noemi. U



  • All the Glimmering Stars



  • The U.P. trail and The call of the canyon - a novel



  • 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



  • All the world beside

    "From the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England. Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love s



  • Where There's Smoke



  • The Auburn conference - a novel

    "It is 1883 and America is at a crossroads. The Civil War is nearly twenty years in the past, Reconstruction has been crushed in the South, and the Gilded Age is bringing unprecedented prosperity to some, along with radical social and class conflicts. Ata tiny college in upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comsto



  • The Summer Swap



  • Disturbing the dead - a rip through time novel

    "Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since thenight both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in this century. So, understanding the Vict



  • Miracles at Promise Lodge



  • 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



  • The 24th hour



  • Just Ella

    I watched in helpless horror as two guards hauled Gavin to his feet and dragged him from the room. My voice was frozen, unable to protest as another guard took hold of my arm, leading me upstairs. From the confines of my room, I stared into the darkness beyond my window, hoping to catch one more glimpse of Gavin. He was gone, and I wondered if he would have been better off if he had never met me.' Ariella was only looking for a distraction, something to break up the monotony of palace life. What



  • American Daughters



  • Everyone Is Watching - A Locked-room Thriller



  • Circle of vengeance

    "Twenty-five years ago, a body was discovered in the Turney family's barn. This discovery, and the resulting suspicion that fell on every member as the murder remained unsolved, slowly destroyed the family. Now, the daughter, Jill, a Chicago lawyer, wantsthe case solved and hires cold case private investigator Star Cavanaugh to unravel the mystery. But as Star begins digging up generation-old secrets, the killer resurfaces, determine to make sure all the secrets remain buried, no matter what the



  • Folk Around and Find Out



New Adult Nonfiction Books

  • Just add water - my swimming life

    "A memoir from World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky"--



  • Office 365 all-in-one

    "Office 365 is Microsoft's #1 productivity suite, and this book helps you get work accomplished with it right away. The minibooks found inside explain how to use each application, how the applications work together, what commands and features are common to all the tools, ways you can streamline your work, and how to collaborate online with other users."--Back cover



  • Psychedelics - the revolutionary drugs that could change your life--a guide from the expert

    "We are on the cusp of a major revolution in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience. After fifty years of prohibition, criminalization and fear, science is finally showing us that psychedelics are not dangerous or harmful. Instead, when used according to tested, safe and ethical guidelines, they are our most powerful newest treatment of mental health conditions, from depression, PTSD, and OCD to disordered eating and even addiction and chronic pain. Professor David Nutt, one of the world's leadin



  • The Formula - how rogues, geniuses, and speed freaks reengineered F1 into the world's fastest-growing sport

    "WALL STREET JOURNAL reporters and authors of THE CLUB, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world's fastest growing sport. For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1--the wealthiest racing league in the world--a dista



  • Women Money Power - The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality



  • The way you make me feel - love in black and brown

    "A memoir in essays about love and allyship, told through one Asian and Black interracial marriage"--



  • The Blues Brothers - an epic friendship, the rise of improv, and the making of an American film classic

    "The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local Chicago orphanage. But Aykroyd, who conceived



  • Mortal secrets - Freud, Vienna, and the discovery of the modern mind

    "A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite,and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind and the way we live today. Long coffee menus an



  • Enough - Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer



  • Globetrotting - Writers Walk the World



  • The gap and the gain - the high achievers' guide to happiness, confidence, and success

    "Most people, especially highly ambitious people, are unhappy because of what they measure themselves against. We all have an ideal, which is like a moving target always out of reach. When we measure ourselves against our ideal, we're in "The Gap." However, when we measure ourselves against our previous selves-the person we were when we set our goals and ideals-we will be in "The Gain." In "The Gain" we can more clearly see the progress we've made, and therefore will experience the happiness, co



  • Remembering peasants - a personal history of a vanished world

    "A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the worldhas become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell the



  • Mindful eye, playful eye - 101 amazing museum activities for discovery, connection, and insight

    "Experience art and design as never before with 101 imaginative, mindfulness-based practices"--



  • Small fires - an epic in the kitchen

    "In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -- that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books -- as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control"--



  • Playing With Reality - How Games Have Shaped Our World



  • The little encyclopedia of fairies - an A to Z guide to fae magic

    "This pocket-size encyclopedia features diverse fairies from around the world that have charmed our imaginations for centuries, perfect for fans of mythology, folklore, and cottagecore"--



  • Reclaiming Body Trust - Break Free from a Culture of Body Perfection, Disordered Eating & Other Traumas



  • Goodbye Lupus- how a medical doctor healed herself naturally with supermarket foods



  • An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children



  • Blood money - why the powerful turn a blind eye while China kills Americans

    "Peter Schweizer investigates the apathy American elites' have about China's undermining of American society"--



  • 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



  • Thick with trouble

    "In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being "trouble"-difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant-is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has craf



  • Teach Yourself Visually Macbook Pro & Macbook Air



  • Narcotopia - in search of the Asian drug cartel that survived the CIA

    "Nestled in the Golden Triangle of China, Burma, and Nepal, the Wa nation has existed and thrived for over five decades. Like mountain peoples from Chechnya to the Ozarks, the Wa like to do things their own way. A tribal authority called the United Wa State Army (or UWSA) controls their native terrain. The UWSA makes laws, defends the motherland, and builds roads and schools. It even issues driver's licenses. In every sense, it is a government. And as a nation, its armed forces command 30,000 tr



  • Be victorious- in Christ you are an overcomer



  • Motorhome prophecies - a journey of healing and forgiveness

    "Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday. She and her seven siblings were often forced to live as vagabonds, remaining on the move across the country. They frequently subsisted in sheds, tents, and, most notably, motorhomes. They often lived a dysfunctional drifter existence, camping out in their motorhome in Walmart parking lots. Carrie attended



  • The Backyard Bird Chronicles



  • The lede - dispatches from a life in the press

    "Calvin Trillin can write just about anything-and has. He covered the Civil Rights movement in the South for Time, chronicled stories from small towns and cities for The New Yorker, and wrote comic poetry for The Nation. He has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America" (The Miami Herald), "our funniest food writer" (The New Yorker), and "one of the most brilliant humorists of our time" (Charleston Post and Courier). But one of his favorite subjects across the years-a superbly good fit



  • Restoring sanity - practices to awaken generosity, creativity, and kindness in ourselves and our organizations

    "Bestselling author of Who Do We Want to Be gives visionary leaders the tools to create organizations that foster generosity, creativity, and kindness in a chaotic world. We are living in chaotic and contentious times. Tensions between people are reachingdangerously hateful proportions. Margaret Wheatley calls on leaders to resist, to forge communities that protect people from the destructive dynamics so prevalent today and rediscover and reawaken our common humanity. To become what she calls Wa



  • Splinters - Another Kind of Love Story



  • Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder



  • A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages - The World Through Medieval Eyes



  • Oh Crap! Potty Training - Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right



  • An end to inequality - breaking down the walls of apartheid education in America

    "An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author"--



  • The shooter at midnight - murder, corruption, and a farming town divided

    "The harrowing true story of a cold-blooded murder and its tragic aftermath-and the stunning revelations that would emerge decades later On a cold November night in 1990, an intruder entered Cathy and Lyndel Robertson's Missouri home while the couple andtheir children slept. Leaving the safe full of cash undisturbed, the person snuck into the main bedroom and fired at point-blank range, killing Cathy and injuring Lyndel. The investigation that followed swept up the entire region in a hunt for th



  • The laws of simplicity - design, technology, business, life

    In this book, the author offers ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design--guidelines for needing less and actually getting more. The author explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of "improved" so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on. Maeda's first law of simplicity is reduce. It's not necessarily beneficial to add technology features just because we can. And the features that we do have must be organized (Law



  • Egyptian made - women, work, and the promise of liberation

    "What happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with the demands of globalization? In this sharply drawn, immersive portrait of Egyptian society, veteran reporter Leslie T. Chang follows three womenas they establish businesses and careers in a country that throws up obstacles at every step, from economic upheaval to conservative marriage expectations to a failing education system. Working in Egypt's centuries-old textile industry, Riham is



  • Fodor's Vienna & the Best of Austria - With Salzburg & Skiing in the Alps



  • 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"--



  • The Fortune Teller's Prophecy - A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor



  • Nobody cares about your career - why failure is good, the great ones play hurt, and other hard truths

    "The ultimate playbook for crushing it at work, from the CEO of Barstool Sports. She works hand-in-hand with a founder who's a lightning rod for controversy-OK, for stepping in it. She's grown a chaotic company (Vanity Fair calls it a "pirate ship") housed over a dentist's office outside of Boston that published giveaway papers into a juggernaut with more than 5 billion monthly video views and 225 million followers valued at 550 million dollars. Erika Ayers Badan calls herself a "token CEO", the



  • Fog and smoke - poems

    "The Rilke Prize-winning poet unfurls the quotidian fabric of our lives, stained with the difficulties of language and our present moment"--



  • Why You, Why Me, Why Now - The Mindset and Moves to Land That First Job, from Networking to Cover Letters, Resumes, and Interviews



  • The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters



  • K-Drama School - A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television



  • The Everything War - Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power



  • The Year's Best Sports Writing 2023



  • Jesus and the disinherited



  • Tits Up - What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts



  • Dk Eyewitness Great Britain



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



  • Lies My Teacher Told Me - A Graphic Adaptation



  • The Witches of Silverlake 1



  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2



  • Safe Passage



  • Sheets

    The brand-new deluxe hardcover collector's edition of Sheets features never-before-seen content from the beloved graphic novel from Brenna Thummler.



  • 49 Days



  • The marble queen

    "A sapphic YA graphic novel with sword fighting, political intrigue and magic where the princess needs a marriage alliance for the welfare of her kingdom, but she unknowingly accepts a proposal from a mysterious country, having come not from the prince, but his sister."--



  • Five nights at Freddy's. Fazbear frights - graphic novel collection. Vol. 4

    From a boy determined to teach the school bully a lesson to a novelty toy that brings good luck with monstrous consequences, this terrifying trio of tales will have FNAF fans on the edge of their seats.



  • The complete Eightball. Issues 1-18

    Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball; it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is s



  • 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



  • The baker and the bard - a cozy fantasy adventure

    "Juniper and Hadley have a good thing going in Larkspur, spending their respective days apprenticing at a little bakery and performing at the local inn. But when a stranger makes an unusual order at the bakery, the two friends (and Hadley's pet snake, Fern) set out on a journey to forage the magical mushrooms needed to make the requested galette pastries. Along the way, Juniper and Hadley stumble across a mystery too compelling to ignore: Something has been coming out of the woods at night and e



  • The Fox Maidens



  • Miss Truesdale and the fall of Hyperborea

    "One of the last followers of the Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra, the unassuming Miss Truesdale is the recipient of HBR leader Tefnut Trionus's final vision. From meek secretary in Victorian London to a mighty gladiator in ancient Hyperborea, Truesdale is thrust into the past to fight ancient evils and change the future forever"--



  • Why don't you love me?

    Barely going through the motions of family life, Claire and Mark struggle in their unhappy marriage and, when nuclear war becomes imminent, both are sure that somehow their reality is anything but.



  • 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"--



  • 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?"--



  • 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"--



  • Turtle bread

    When Yan stumbles upon Baking Club her social anxiety tries to keep her away, but the bakers encourage her to come out of her shell, especially the caring and supportive Bea, and soon Yan discovers her new friends may need her too.



  • The Baker and the Bard



  • Earthdivers 2 - Ice Age



  • Nothing special / Through the Elder Woods

    "Two not-so-human teenagers and a friendly ghost radish face the fantasy adventure of a lifetime."--



  • 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.



  • 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?"--



  • 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"--



  • Huda F cares

    This summer's exercise in Fahmy family sisterly bonding involves a trip to Disney World--which seems like it is headed for disaster when Huda gets into a fight with a boy making fun of her hijab.



  • 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.



  • Monstress. Inferno Volume eight, Inferno

    "The truth about the death of Maika's mother has been revealed, and Maika has come undone. As her allies scramble to save her soul, they find themselves in the unlikeliest of places--the beautiful and brutal prison planet where the Monstra have long beenlocked away. This visit to the site of Zinn's worst nightmares might just hold the key to Maika's survival--and to the long-buried origins of the Known World"--



  • My boyfriend is a monster. 8, A match made in heaven

    Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy is delighted to be in a relationship with new student Gabriel, but her best friend Julia needs her, Gabriel's cousin Luci keeps causing trouble, and other crises keep arising, making her wonder if the heavens are against them.



  • 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.



  • Punk rock karaoke

    "Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain their friendships with each other."--



  • The glass scientists. Volume 1

    Dr. Henry Jekyll believes mad scientists would do well to fix their public image, so he starts the Society for Arcane Sciences, but when a mysterious stranger aims to take the Society in a radical new direction, Jekyll's life starts to spiral out of control, threatening to expose his darkest secret.



  • Firebugs



  • Lisa Cheese and Ghost Guitar. Attack of the Snack Attack of the snack

    "Lisa Cheese moved to Earth City hoping to make a name for herself as a folk singer--but her very first open mic was a disaster, leaving her with a bionic arm and an identity crisis. Now she's starting a crummy office job, her parents back in their home dimension are laying on the guilt trip, her sister's acting smug, and the cool girl at the record store leaves her tongue-tied. But none of that will mater if the city's demonic new fast food chain achieves its evil ambitions: Lisa's very life is



  • 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.



  • Clock striker. I'm Gonna Be a Smith! Volume 1, "I'm gonna be a SMITH!"

    "A young Black girl apprentices to the SMITHS, legendary warrior engineers who once traveled the world making it safer for everyone"--



  • Call Me Iggy



  • The Scumbag



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



  • Time Under Tension



  • 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"--



  • Zodiac - a graphic memoir

    "As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they were restricted by the confines of political propaganda, Ai Weiwei was struck by the artists' ability to express their thoughts on art and humanity through graphic storytelling. Now, decades later, Ai Weiwei and Italian comic artist Gianluca Costantini present Zodiac, Ai Weiwei's first graphic memoir. Inspired by the twelve signs of th



  • The Death-Ray



  • 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"--



  • Deadendia 3 - The Divine Order



  • Armed with madness - the surreal Leonora Carrington

    "Reluctant muse and feminist champion... society heiress and rebel refugee... the last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington played many roles in her long and extraordinary life. Renouncing her privileged upbringing in pre-war England for the more exciting elite of Paris's 1930s avant-garde, she comes to rub shoulders (and more) with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Salvador Dalai, after embarking on a complicated love affair with Max Ernst. But the demons that have both haunted and ins



  • Charisma's turn - a graphic novel

    Follows the story of Charisma, a Black high school student grappling with mounting pressures from home and school, and when frustrations with her family intersect with a conflict at school, she reaches a crossroads, facing a choice that could change her future.



  • Amazing Spider-man 5



  • Shook! - A Black Horror Anthology



  • Five nights at Freddy's. Fazbear frights. Graphic novel collection vol. 4

    From a boy determined to teach the school bully a lesson to a novelty toy that brings good luck with monstrous consequences, this terrifying trio of tales will have FNAF fans on the edge of their seats.



New Large Print Books, Foreign Language & VITAL Materials

  • Miss Morton and the English house party murder

    "The options for the penniless daughter of a deceased earl are few indeed in Regency England. So, following the suspicious death of her father, the Earl of Morton, and the discovery that she and her much younger sister have been left without income or home, Lady Caroline takes a post as a lady's companion to the wealthy widow Frogerton. Just as Caroline is getting accustomed to her new position, her aunt, Lady Eleanor Greenwood, invites her and her employer to a house party in the countryside to



  • The French ingredient



  • Better hate than never



  • Missing persons

    When a desperate businessman asks him to find his daughter and grandchildren who have disappeared without a trace, Jack Morgan, the head of Private, finds this simple missing persons case turning into something much more deadly, forcing him to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.



  • The berry pickers - a novel

    "A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distr



  • Nosy neighbors



  • Only if you're lucky



  • The dog across the lake



  • Bulletproof barista



  • Everything left to remember



  • Brooklyn



  • Amish love letters



  • Shadow Spell

    Originally published: New York: Berkley Books, 2014.



  • Family family



  • Plain target

    "Horse trainer Jess McGrath only wants to clear her disgraced brother's name, but enemies keep coming out of the woodwork and danger only gets closer. Jess soon learns that no place is safe--nd no one can be trusted ... except for the last white knight she'd ever expect to ride to her rescue. Paramedic Seth Travis was the boy behind her high school humiliation, but he's also the man keeping her alive. When they find sanctuary in the Amish community, can they uncover answers in time to stop a kil



  • Talking to strangers - what we should know about the people we don't know



  • The woman in me



  • The best mystery stories of the year 2023



  • Take two, Birdie Maxwell



  • Darling girls



  • Familia



  • Love on the ninth floor

    "Trending on TikTok takes on an entirely new meaning when the 'for you' becomes a viral love story in the making. Aries Skye makes a sizzling debut in this flirty feel-good romance, perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Farrah Rochon. Zany and vivacious Nissi Richards always had her sights set on one goal-her career. As the youngest doctor at Optimal Dentistry, Nissi is the epitome of Black Girl Magic and a #GoalCrusher. Dating, however, was a different topic, or rather more of a non-existent



  • The deepest kill



  • The warm hands of ghost



  • Phantom orbit



  • Infectious generosity



  • Sisters by the sea - 4 short romances set in the Sarasota, Florida, Amish community

    "Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana. The Seashell Cake by Wanda E. Brunstetter Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets Leora in the bakery where she is enjoying expressing herself through cake decorating. They are instantly attracted to each other and spend several days



  • A love discovered



  • The price you pay



  • Las madres - a novel

    "They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close-knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in 1975 when fifteen-year-old Luz, the tallest girl in her dance academy and the only Black one in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans, is seriously injured in a car accident. Tragically, her brilliant, multilingual scientist parents are both killed in the crash. Now orphaned, Luz navigates the pre



  • 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



  • UFO



  • The Morningside



  • Five furry familiars



  • Invisible generals



  • Lone wolf



  • Sieve and let die



  • Diva



  • Paws to remember



  • Things we left behind

    "Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his abusive father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels. Exceptwhen it comes to one feisty small-town librarian... Bonded by an old, dark secret from the past and their current mutual disdain, Sloane Walton trusts Lucian about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body. When bickering accidentally tur



  • Village in the dark



  • Jackie - public, private, secret

    "From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, and lovers over a thirty-year period--as well as previously unreleased material from the JFK Library--Kennedy historian J. Randy Taraborrelli paints an unforgettable new portrait of a woman whose flaws and contradictions only serve to make her even more iconic. "I hav



  • Summers at the Saints



  • Above the salt



  • The songbird of Hope Hill



  • Secrets of a Scottish Isle



  • The stolen child



  • The Princess of Las Vegas



  • While you were out



  • Assistant to the villain



New Children's Materials


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Fiction
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Nonfiction
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Early Readers and First Chapter Books
Early Readers
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Graphic Novels and Manga
Graphic Novels
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Featured: New Children's Picture Books

  • Can you see it?

    A child considers the difference between using our eyes to look at what is in front of us and using our hearts to see beyond the surface to find the miracles surrounding us. Includes author's note.



  • Ready to soar

    "Riley's paper airplane is ready for take-off, but criticisms from all the birds threaten to ground the plane, until Riley meets a more supportive friend and rediscovers the joy of soaring"--



  • I made these ants some underpants!

    In rhyming text a boy makes underpants for all his friends, from ants to dragons to piggy banks--before concluding that if they don not need underpants then neither does he.



  • Cupig - the Valentine's day pig

    When a storm blows Cupig's arrows off course, the arrows strike the wrong targets and Cupig must rectify her mistake and get some classic pairs back together.



  • Grumpy Hat



  • Here comes Shopkeeper Hippo

    "Little Hippo loves to play pretend, and today he's going to be a shopkeeper! Little Hippo has a goal--he is determined to buy his mama a special gift. With goodies filling his shop, Shopkeeper Hippo is excited to see his many friends stopping by for a treat. Filled with silly animal antics and culminating in the beautiful bond between mother and child, this heartwarming story shows all readers the joy in being kind and the impact of being brave"--



  • 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.



  • Small things mended

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



  • My block looks like

    "A picture book that recognizes the beauty of the bodegas, subways, and playgrounds that characterize everyday life in the Bronx and pays homage to the ways that its residents have shaped pop culture through music, visual art, and dance"--



  • Love grows

    "Told through a series of poetic letters, this charming celebration of family, plants and boundless love follows a little girl who receives her very own plant baby from her aunt, a gift that helps her bloom and grow, just as the love for her aunt blossomsas well"--



  • Baby be

    As they dance, wiggle, and boogie together, fathers assure their sons that they can become anything they want and that they will always have their fathers' support.



  • The wolf in underpants gets some pants

    "When the Wolf's signature striped briefs become a trend across the forest, he feels like he has lost his identity. But when he abandons his favorite outfit, he will have to learn who he is without it"--



  • Wants vs. needs vs. robots

    "A group of robots demonstrates the difference between a want and a need, by making trades to get some things they really want and accidentally giving away some things they really need"--



  • Why we dance - a story of hope and healing

    A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.



  • Nudi Gill - poison powerhouse of the sea

    Meet Gill, a flashy nudibranch (noo-de-brank) living a fierce and fascinating life in the ocean without a shell and completely . . .NAKED! When a curious young snorkeler stumbles upon Gill, she learns there is more than meets the eye when it comes to her sassy new friend. This soft-bodied mollusk is anything but vulnerable, turning a diet of dangerous ocean creatures into a poisonous sting of its own. Found in unique shapes and colors in every ocean throughout the world, Gill and his diverse fa



  • My dad is a tree

    "A little girl convinces her dad to be a tree all day long, no matter what, even in the rain, in this imaginative picture book that encourages playing pretend and pays tribute to parents"--



  • You're Going to Love This Book!



  • Out cold - a Little Bruce book

    "The mice want to celebrate winter doing all their favorite outdoor things. But poor Bruce is inside with a cold. Luckily, the mice decide to bring the winter fun indoors"--



  • I want 100 dogs

    After meeting a dog during a walk, a little girl declares that she wants one hundred dogs, but as her parents point out all the difficulties, she gradually reduces the number--until she gets the one dog she really wants.



  • Simon and the better bone

    "One day, down by the pond, Simon meets another dog just like him. And that dog has a bone just like his, only better! How will Simon ever get him to trade, when the other pup knows all the same tricks...?"--



  • 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.



  • Moomin and the ice festival

    "The Moomins enjoy an ice festival as winter hits Moominvalley. Moomintroll and his family are getting ready for the long winter sleep. But before their slumber, they are invited to the Moominvalley Ice Festival. Will they be able to travel through the winter snow to spend time with their friends? The Moomins are celebrating a major revival. These contemporary editions of the classic tales, in which Moomintroll goes on adventures with his friends and family in the winter, are a joy for all Moomi



  • Hat on, hat off

    As a little boy gets ready to go out with the help of his big sister, he keeps putting on and taking off knit hats at each stage of the process of getting dressed.



  • The book that almost rhymed

    A boy begrudgingly composes a sometimes-rhyming adventure with his precocious little sister.



  • Here comes shopkeeper hippo

    "Little Hippo loves to play pretend, and today he's going to be a shopkeeper! Little Hippo has a goal--he is determined to buy his mama a special gift. With goodies filling his shop, Shopkeeper Hippo is excited to see his many friends stopping by for a treat. Filled with silly animal antics and culminating in the beautiful bond between mother and child, this heartwarming story shows all readers the joy in being kind and the impact of being brave"--



  • Small things mended

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



  • BrindleFox

    A fable about a reclusive fox who learns to open himself up to friendship.



  • Mama's library summers

    Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them.



  • Ahoy!



  • Wonderful goodbyes

    A young girl faces the loss of her beloved dog by spending the day doing all their favorite things.



  • Angelina's big city ballet

    Angelina goes to the most famous city in Mouseland to perform at the Big Cheese Dance Show with her cousin Jeanie, but the two clash over whether tap or ballet is better.



  • A flicker of hope

    "Lucaia loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papaa. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papaa is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when 'the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home.' So while he spends the summer months harvesting produce on faraway farms, Lucaia watches the skies for signs of the monarchs'--and her papaa's--return"--



  • Happy St. Patrick's Day from the crayons

    "As St. Patrick's Day fast approaches, Green Crayon would like a break since he's still recovering from Christmas, but when his friends try to take over, it soon becomes apparent just how much he's needed"--



  • The Trouble With Earth



  • 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?"--



  • Laolao's dumplings

    "Millie makes a special batch of dumplings filled with love that Laolao will never forget after she falls ill"--



  • Vlad, the fabulous vampire

    Unfortunately looking alive due to his rosy cheeks, fabulous vampire Vlad tries to hide his complexion behind elaborate vampire outfits in traditional black until he finds out that his best friend has a pink secret of her own.



  • Butterfly on the wind

    Nearvous for her talent show performance, Aurora spots a butterfly and is inspired to conjur a magical butterfly with her hands which sets off a chain reaction of support and empowerment among the global Deaf community.



  • A happy place

    "Takes readers on a magical, moonlit adventure following a tiny star and invites all to dance with a host of animals. But is it all a dream?"--



  • The owl who dared

    "A little owl is scared of flying, because every time he opens his wings, he tumbles to the ground. Mommy explains to him that it will take a few failures before he succeeds, and soon, the little owl feels brave enough to keep trying. An uplifting celebration of courage and learning how to handle life's challenges."--



  • The invisible string

    When Liza and Jeremy run to their mother during a scary storm, she comforts them by telling them about the Invisible String, which connects people who love each other no matter where they are and means that they are never alone.



  • You Stole My Name Too



  • Flora's wish

    A young mouse learns how to grieve and honor her best friend, a dandelion named Lion who helped her be brave.



  • While You're Asleep



  • Ganesha goes green

    Concerned about the pollution the Ganesha statues cause when her town celebrates her favorite festival, Ganesha Chaturthi, young Prema comes up with an innovative plan to keep the river clean.



  • Don't touch that flower!

    Squirrel is apprehensive about the arrival of Spring until he spots a wildflower and tries to claim it as his own, not understanding his overbearing protectiveness is doing more harm than good. Includes information on flowers.



  • Water day

    A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.



  • My Mama Is a Work of Art



  • Not a smiley guy

    Ernest's parents are worried because he never really smiles, but Ernest assures them that he is happy--he is just not the kind of guy who smiles.



  • Peg gets crackin'

    Peg the Egg is safe within her shell, and does not want to hatch--but sooner or later all little chicks must face the world.