The Talking Earth

Author

Brenda Woods

Sally Harrison and her family are slaves on a plantation in Georgia. But when Master decides to sell Sally and her brother, the family escapes to seek shelter with a tribe of Seminoles who are rumored to adopt runaway slaves. After a perilous journey, Sally’s family finds and joins the tribe. But while...

Author	Anne Trubek
ISBN	1250162971

The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly...

Author	Keigo Higashino
ISBN	4062157713

Newcomer is a translated Japanese murder mystery. It is the 8th in the series, but doesn’t matter if you start here as the main character, Sergeant Kyochiro Kaga, is new to the Tokyo police force. Kaga is assigned a murder case about a 45 year old divorced woman. His style is like that of Colombo - kind...

Author

Scott McCormick

"Each volume of four 30-minute histories will dig into the petty name-calling and grumbling grudges that led to many of the world's greatest advancements, all delivered with a cheeky sense of humor."

Did you know that most of our dinosaur fossils were discovered because two grown men absolutely...

Author	Kamome Shirahama
ISBN	4063886905

Thanks to the rave review from Lauren, and this has to be one of the best new manga I have read in the last couple years, the story of Coco, a girl who wants badly to be a witch. But as everyone knows, you have to be born a witch and can't just become one. Still, one day she finds a spell book, copies some spells and...