Best Fiction Books
Category100 of 4,717 books98 recommendations totalThe novels and short story collections recommended most by writers, critics and serious readers — literary fiction, science fiction and modern classics. Historical epics included, and every title here came off a real reading list rather than a bestseller chart.

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Social Sciences, Ethics, NonFiction, Greek, Philosophy lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for decision-making, behavior, or human motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Comedy, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samuraiwithout really knowing what it meanthe regains consciousness after the battle to find himsel...

“Available recommendation signals suggest this title has discovery traction, but there is not enough safe category context to make a stronger reader-fit claim.”
This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's bestloved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where ...
A Novel
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground."[A] buoyant, mischievous thriller . . . Grisham writes in such an inventive spirit. . . . A treat."Janet Maslin, The New York Times Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. Bu...

The Three-Body Problem, Book 3
Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexi...

Kingsbridge, Book 1
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

A Novel
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
Ocean Vuong's first fulllength collection aims straight for the perennial "big"and very humansubjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these he allows to overwhelm his spirit or his poems, which demonstrate, through breath and cadence and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the fiercest ...
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club National Book Award FinalistFinalist One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year A Best Book of 2019: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus, AV Club National Book Award FinalistFinalist fo...

Hungry City Chronicles, Book 1
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the driedout bed of the old North Sea."The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But now, the sinister plans of Lord Mayor Mangus Crome can f...

A Novel
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the truecrime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a rel...
Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the selfeffacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red Levine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who looked ...
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a un...
A Fable of Love, Forgiveness, and Following Your Heart
From the author of the bestsellers Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It and Live Your Truth comes Rebirth, an inspiring novel about the magic that happens when you learn to follow your heart. After the death of his estranged father, Amit takes his parent's ashes to the Ganges to fulfill a deathbed promise. Instead of returning home, he wander...

A Novel
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrativeupending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacherIn an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music...
The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet …As in all wars, life goes on. Sixthyear students learn to ...

Little Blue Truck, Book 1
Beep! Beep! Beep! Meet Blue. A muddy country road is no match for this little pick upthat is, until he gets stuck while pushing a dump truck out of the muck. Luckily, Blue has made a pack of farm animal friends along his route. And they're willing to whatever it takes to get their pal back on the road. Filled with truck sounds and animals noises,...

Game of Thrones, Book 1
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Grimdark, Fantasy, Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Maya Angelou's poetic celebration of the courage within each person is matched by the daring vision of artist Basquiat, whose childlike style reveals the fanciful imaginings of childhood. In this introduction to poetry and contemporary art, brief biographies of Angelou and Basquiat accompany the text and artwork. Maya Angelou's poetic celebration o...

From #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called ?Devil Boy? by his classmates; ?God?s will? is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother?s devout faith...
The Baroque Cycle, Book 2
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka HalfCocked Jack devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Count...

"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not." Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. His classic cautionary tale is now available in an irresis...
Secret Origins
Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral CityAbraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbaliennow lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their...
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever.In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discus...
Rama, Book 1
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers an...

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problemever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and ...

MaddAddam, Book 3
A manmade plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the greeneyed Crakers ? a gentle species bioengineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with streetsmart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers? reluctant prophet, SnowmantheJimmy,...

Jack Reacher, Book 20
"You can leave the army, but the army doesn't leave you. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. This time, for the State Department and the CIA.Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance betwee...

A Magic Shop Book (2)
Beloved author Bruce Coville's classic tale about a boy who accidentally hatches a dragon. Sixthgrader Jeremy Thatcher discovers a strange magic shop he has never seen before. He enters, and his life is changed forever. Buying what he thinks is a marble, he discovers he has really purchased a dragon_x0092_s egg. Beloved author Bruce Coville's classic t...

A Novel
Capturing the violence, tragedy, history, and drama of the French Revolution, this novel focuses on the families and loves of three men who led the RevolutionDanton, the charismatic leader and orator; Robespierre, the cold rationalist; and Desmoulins, the rabblerouser....

Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a postapocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the madeup role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth fo...
Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, ...
Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like her best friend, Saleem, does for his family. When Naima's rash effort to help puts her family deeper in debt...

A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
From the time she was just a young girl, Georgia O'Keeffe viewed the world in her own way. While other girls played with toys and braided their hair, Georgia practiced her drawing and let her hair fly free. As an Adult,, Georgia followed her love of art from the steel canyons of New York City to the vast plains of New Mexico. There she painted all d...
This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampasa protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and the Argentine political establishment.This poem, composed and first pu...
A Printz Honor Book "Gorgeous and evocative . . . magnificent."The New York Times Medieval France: Dolssa is an uppercrust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she's on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too. Botille is a matchmaker and a tavernkeeper, st...
With a welcome mix of humor, heart, and highstakes drama, Sabina Khan provides a timely and honest portrait of what it's like to grow up feeling unwelcome in your own culture.Seventeenyearold Rukhsana Ali has always been fascinated by the universe around her and the laws of physics that keep everything in order. But her life at home isn't so abs...

Congratulations! Your monster is growing up and up, and UP! Now it's time to potty train him! Potty training is not always the easiest task to navigateespecially for growing monsters. Thankfully, with the help of this easytouse guide, young ones can be sure not to forget any steps in the process. With hilarious text and playful, energetic illust...
Seraphina, Book 1
This is an Alternative Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9780375866227In her New York Times bestselling and Morris Awardwinning debut, Rachel Hartman introduces mathematical dragons in an alternativemedieval world to Fantasy, and sciencefiction readers of all ages. Eragonauthor Christopher Paolini calls them, "Some of the most interesting dragons I've ...
Into the house. Down the stairs. Through the dripping dark of the cellar. Someone is there. Someone that shouldn_x0092_t be there.As a building awaits demolition, a horrifying discovery is made inside the basement: a cage made of human bones_x0097_with a terrified, feral child lurking within.Unbeknownst to Detective Inspector Phil Brennan and psychologist Mari...

Eternity Road is set 1000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of citystates. Legend has it that the Road...
What if the most terrifying person you know is your tenyearold sisterSeventeenyearold Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he's also certain that she's a psychopathclinically, threateningly, dangerously. Recently Rosa has been making trouble, hurting things. Che is the only one who knows; he's the only one his sister trusts....
A multicultural cast of children imagines what it would be like to be president....
On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a onemegaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands. In this blasted heart of the new America, a group of people plan desperately to escape the eerie...
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeenyearold Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she's forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to t...
A Novel of Suspense
A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong"Fast and furious . . . You'll never see what's coming."The Washington PostYears ago, her sister Rachel vanished. Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in the pas...
This beautiful book is the latest addition to the National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series. These colorful pages will introduce young children to the wonders of space, with colorful illustrations by David Aguilar and simple text that is perfect for beginning readers or for reading aloud. The book will explain basic concepts of space, b...
In this moving story that celebrates cultural diversity, a shy girl brings her West African grandmotherwhose face bears traditional tribal markingsto meet her classmates. It is Grandparents Day at Zura's elementary school, and the students are excited to introduce their grandparents and share what makes them special. Aleja's grandfather is a fi...
A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to fight for her dreams and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteenyearold Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a ?louding voice...

Princess Bea isn_x0092_t like other princesses_x0097_she prefers pirate ships above tea parties, the salty sea over silly dolls. But what_x0092_s a landlocked princess to doAhoy, Captain Jack to the rescue! When the captain offers Bea a place aboard his ship, it_x0092_s a dream come true_x0097_until she_x0092_s put to work swabbing the decks and making dinner for the crew. Can a pri...

The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin (Amazing Scientists)
If you?ve ever felt different, if you?ve ever been low,if you don?t quite fit in, there?s a name you should know?Meet Dr. Temple Grandin?one of the world?s quirkiest science heroes!When young Temple was diagnosed with autism, no one expected her to talk, let alone become one of the most powerful voices in modern science. Yet, the determined visual ...

From Stonewall and Lambda Awardwinning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and selfdiscovery while falling in love for the first time.Felix Love has never been in love?and, yes, he?s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it?s like and why it seems so easy fo...

Python
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book now available in board book! An unabridged board book for kids version of the bestselling, bestbeloved hardcover, perfect for small hands! Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines, rest their wheels, and drift to sleep with this sweet and soothing story. Vibrant illus...

Willa Knight: Dead Alive Damned to a state of eternal bad luckWilla and the Abcurse brothers are back, and more determined than ever to stick by each other. Unfortunately, Staviti has other plans, plans that threaten to change the natural order of the worlds_x0097_though nobody really understands why. His agenda may very well affect all beings on Mina...
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth, and what follows is a long and frustrating journey with onagain, offagain braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there?s still more to deal...
Richard Siken_x0092_s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In the world of American poetry, Siken's voice is st...

"When I Was Eight" was called "utterly compelling" by "Kirkus"in a starred review."Margaret can't wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected."Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders' school. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family but her ...
The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing through the air. They were the worstbehaved class in the whole school.So begins this quirky classic, first published in 1977 and still relevant today as a lighthearted reminder to show our appreciation to those we value. The students don_x0092_t proffer a ...

The Commitments; The Snapper; The Van
Roddy Doyle's winning trio of comic novels depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in workingclass Dublin.The CommitmentsStill one of the freshest and funniest rock 'n' roll novels ever written, Doyle's first book portrays a group of aspiring musicians on a mission: to bring soul to Dublin.The SnapperDoyle's sparkling second nove...

(Read Aloud Books, Series Books for Kids, Books for Early Readers)
The third book in the muchloved Mr. Magee seriesA snowy adventure with Mr. Magee and his dog, Dee: One winter morning, Mr. Magee and his little dog, Dee, head out bright and early to learn how to ski. But what begins as a pleasant day in the snow quickly goes downhill when a runin with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging...

The Heroes of Olympus, Book 1
JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn?t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They?re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for ?bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here And where is here, exactly J...

Welcome to Richard Scarry's Busytown! Home to Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Goldbug, and more, precshoolers can tour the town on an adventure of discovery and see what fire fighters, construction workers, doctors, pilots, train conductors, and farmers do all day! And now, this unabridged version of the original classic includes a detailed character map o...
For readers who were enthralled by Alan Gratz's Prisoner B3087 comes a gripping novel about a lesserknown part of WWII.Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken away, but Lida is not Jewish. She will be fine, won't sheBut she cannot escape the horrors of World War II.Lida's parents are ripped away from her a...
Rocking in My School Shoes
Time to head back to school with this bestselling groovy Pete the Cat book!Pete the Cat is rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunch room, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song...because it?s all good.The fun never stop...
Treason (Star Wars) (Star Wars
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. "If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance."Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting. Since then, Thrawn has b...
Addition Subtraction
Start the school year right with New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar's fun and accessible introduction to the essentials of math. Addition and subtraction are as easy as 1 2 = 3 in this funny and educational book that will have readers embracing math instead of fearing it.Finally, a FUN book to read with kids that helps bridge the g...
A journey through every country in the world (Lonely Planet Kids)
Take a world tour through 200 countries with this brand new edition of the bestselling kids' version of Lonely Planet's popular The Travel Book, loaded with thousands of amazing facts on wildlife, how people live, sports, hideous and mouthwatering food, festivals and a wide range of other quirky insights on every page. Every single country gets its...

Numbers Colors Shapes
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, For, Year, Olds, Children's lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781480169111For previous cover edition see hereShortlisted for Outdoor Book of the Year by The Great Outdoors Magazine The second book from award winning writer Keith Foskett The Pacific Crest Trail stretches some 2,650 miles from the Mexican border to Canada. It meanders through the scorching deserts of Californi...
Dollar, Book 1
"I'm not the hero in this story, girl. You'd do best to remember that." Once upon a time, I was an eighteen year old psychology student. Now, I'm a man's property. Stolen and sold, I've been decorated in bruises since the day my world changed two years ago. I suffer in silence, I crave freedom, but I never break. I can't. Until he arrives. Elder Pr...
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Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor!A favorite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chicken_x0092_s habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.It_x0092_s time for the little red chicken_x0092_s bedtime story _x0097_and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can_x0092_t help herself! Whether the tale is HANSEL AND GRETE...

One of Isaac Asimov's SF masterpieces, this standalone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov's single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read.Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, H...

Shea Serrano is back, and his new book, Movies (And Other Things), combines the fury of a John Wick shootout, the sly brilliance of Regina George holding court at a cafeteria table, and the sheer power of a Denzel monologue, all into one.Movies (And Other Things) is a book about, quite frankly, movies (and other things). One of the chapters, for ex...
Rachel's father called it the running game. Count the exits, calculate the routes, and always be ready to run.On the surface, Rachel is just an ordinary doctor, but she has a secret. Rachel is a Reacher, wanted by the government and the criminal underworld for her psionic powers.Charlie and his brother John have a reputation for doing the impossibl...
It is seldom that a practical guide to gardening attains the level of a literary masterpiece, still more seldom that a book on gardening can amuse and instruct even those who have no garden to plant., nor the faintest interest in acquiring one. The Gardener's Year is a charismatic product of Karel Capek's genius: amusing, informative, and full of a...

Moties, Book 1
Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others. The Mote In God's Eye is ...
Mortal Instruments, Book 1
When fifteenyearold Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone e...

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton_x0092_s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton_x0097_until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.That_x0092_s not Pat_x0092_s biggest problem. She_x0092_s visiting her old friend, the Earl_x0092_s heir Jimmy Yoxall_x0097_but she wants to spend a lot more time with Jimmy_x0092_s fiancée. The irrepressib...
(Multicultural Childrens Book, Mixed Race Childrens Book, Bob Marley Book for Kids, Music Books for Kids)
Adapted from one of Bob Marley's most beloved songs, One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation. Readers will delight in dancing to the beat and feeling the positive groove of change when one girl enlists her community to help transform her neighborhood for the better. Adapted by Cedella Mar...

Based on the experience of reallife Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteenyearold Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjus...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Manga lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”
Lessons That Count
Greg Tang has built his career as an author and math missionary on the power of creative problem solving. Now, through winsome "fables" about concepts that are relevant to the very youngest math learners sharing, teamwork, etc. Greg encourages kids to see the basics of addition and subtraction in entirely new ways. Fresh, fun, and most of all...

Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre
From the acclaimed author of Dispatches From Pluto and Deepest South of All, a harrowing travelogue into Mexico?s lawless Sierra Madre mountains.Twenty miles south of the ArizonaMexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several c...

The Perfect Bedtime Book! (Goodnight Series)
Getting ready for bedtime has never been so much fun! These colorful books are the perfect way to help tiny ones wind down on their way to dreamland. From a big "digger" truck to a pirate ship, tractor and horsedrawn carriage, each book helps little dreamers wish their favorite things a sweet goodnight. Fun rhyming words and joyful illustrations m...
Considered one of the great dystopian novels_x0097_alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World_x0097_Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only on...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Time, Travel, Dystopian, Fiction, Teen lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Time Series, Book 1
“Available recommendation signals cluster around Time, Travel, Historical, Fiction, Science Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Wallflowers, Book 5
Librarian's Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowman's father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now. And if Daisy can't snare an appropriate suitor, she will marry the man he chooses_x0097_the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift.Daisy is hor...
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide ...

A Novel of the Adversary Cycle (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack (1)) (NO. 1 OF 6)
"Something is murdering my men."Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses behind to terrify its future victims.When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to ...
A Leaphorn & Chee Novel (A Leaphorn and Chee Novel)
_x0093_Brilliant_x0085_as fascinating as it is original._x0094__x0097_St. Louis PostDispatchFrom New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, the first novel in his series featuring Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn & Officer Jim Chee who encounter a bizarre case that borders between the supernatural and murderHomicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptio...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild comes The Dark Between Stars, a new illustrated collection of heartfelt, whimsical, and romantic poems from Instagram poetry sensation, Atticus.Atticus, has captured the hearts and minds of nearly 700k followers (including stars like Karlie Kloss, Emma Roberts, a...

Revelation Space, Book 1
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the c...

A Novel (The Royals)
There is an alternate cover edition for this ASIN here.From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.These Royals will ruin you_x0085_Ella Harper is a survivor_x0097_a pragmatic optimist. She_x0092_s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends me...

A Novel
_x0093_Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets_x0094_A dazzling novel about all the choic...
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