Two Crafty Criminals!: and how they were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang
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Author | Sarah Henstra |
ISBN | 0316524654 |
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and emotional novel about the growing relationship between two teen boys, told through the letters they write to one another.
Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in...
Author | Tim Federle |
ISBN | 1442446897 |
Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for *seeing* a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune?...
Author | Helen Oyeyemi |
ISBN | 1594631395 |
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn’t exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman –- craftsman, widower, and father of Snow....
Author | Richard Stark |
ISBN | 0843955945 |
Perhaps the first clue that Donald Westlake was planning to close out the world of Richard Stark, the previous Grofield adventures involved him being dropped into someone else’s intrigue against his will; this one could have been a Parker story. It involves a job that is a definite "no" from the beginning,...
Author | Anne Ursu |
ISBN | 0062275097 |
When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant—and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve...
Author | Jodi Picoult |
ISBN | 0743454510 |
When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal. (An interview about the book is included below the reading...
Author | Eleanor Davis |
ISBN | 1927668409 |
In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation.
Eleanor Davis...
Author | Laura Amy Schlitz |
ISBN | 0763653802 |
The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts...
Author | Hilary McKay |
ISBN | 1509894942 |
Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September - boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father,...
Author | Tony DiTerlizzi |
ISBN | 1416939776 |
What do you do when your new best buddy has been designated a scourge by the community and marked for imminent extermination? Just ask Kenny Rabbit. When the simple folks in the sleepy little village of Roundbrook catch wind that there's a dragon running loose in the countryside, they get the wrong idea...
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Author | Roz Chast |
ISBN | 1620403218 |
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan.
A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, Roz Chast has always...
The Mistletoe Murder And Other Stories
Author | P.D. James |
ISBN | 1524708089 |
Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment."
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh...
The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden
Author | Karina Yan Glaser |
ISBN | 1328770028 |
Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem—in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting...