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FICTION
Tracker has a nose: he can find anyone. But when he takes a job to locate a missing child, he ends up as part of a splintered fellowship running headfirst into a conspiracy of magic and kings. James’s meditative prose delivers a gripping fantasy adventure rooted in African mythology and history. - Madeline Shier, Powell's Books
Buckle your seat belts. Fantasy novels will never look the same after this beast of a book. It is a full on sensory experience and its only volume one. This is certain to be the "have you read?" book of 2019. - Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books
Buckle your seat belts. Fantasy novels will never look the same after this beast of a book. It is a full on sensory experience and its only volume one. This is certain to be the "have you read?" book of 2019. - Robert Sindelar, Third Place Books
In the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors, she cuts off her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself, Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent, capricious Governor, whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive.
Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.
Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice, Whiskey When We're Dry is a stunning achievement, an epic as expansive as America itself--and a reckoning with the myths that are entwined with our history.
Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity, and haunted by questions about her own, Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her, ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.
Told in Jess's wholly original and unforgettable voice, Whiskey When We're Dry is a stunning achievement, an epic as expansive as America itself--and a reckoning with the myths that are entwined with our history.
New in Paperback
Shannon Moss is a tough cop, investing tough crimes- crimes of time travel. When a case hits close to home, Shannon is called to hunt both the murderer and a missing girl, and the results could mean have consequences for all humanity.
Inception meets True Detective in this enthralling thriller that combines scifi and detective thrillers, and will blow your mind.
Inception meets True Detective in this enthralling thriller that combines scifi and detective thrillers, and will blow your mind.
When it comes to the human experience, few write it better than Tayari Jones. Celestial and Roy are the couple at the center of Jones's new novel, and circumstances take them from whole to broken in less than 50 pages. Only in the hands of a truly adept writer can a precarious marriage, family ties, and entangled bystanders have readers slashing through these pages as if through a psychological thriller. The experience of reading "An American Marriage," is similar to that of climbing up a cliff, looking down when you know you shouldn't, and then carrying on toward an unknown summit. Trust me dear reader, you won't believe how far you've come until you reach the end.
- Jessilynn Norcross, McLean & Eakin
- Jessilynn Norcross, McLean & Eakin
So read it, okay? It's the most fun you'll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident. It has one of the best first chapters of the year, and the second one is even better. Reincarnation Blues is like Cloud Atlas written by Douglas Adams. Something that could've been so grim and sad turned bright and cheery (and also sad) by a mind just made for the appreciation of absurdity, dry humor, shark attacks, philosophical anarchy, and an acceptance of the hard fact that every life is a death sentence, made valuable only by what we choose to do between the first day and the last one. - NPR
This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life. - Chicago Review of Books
This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life. - Chicago Review of Books
NON FICTION
Finally... Pam writes a full book about The Ranch and it is totally worth the wait!
"In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land. Above all else, Deep Creek is a love letter to the earth and the beings -both wild and human- that inhabit it. If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up DEEP CREEK and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope - not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it." - BK Loren
"In the face of the world's turmoil, this book is utter clarity. In the face of the world's harshness, this book is a soft place to land. Above all else, Deep Creek is a love letter to the earth and the beings -both wild and human- that inhabit it. If you find yourself careening toward despair, pick up DEEP CREEK and read even just one page. The words there will lift you back to hope - not the sentimental kind, but the kind that can and does change the world for the better. What gratitude we owe to Pam Houston for writing it." - BK Loren
On a volcanic island in the Savu Sea so remote that other Indonesians call it "The Land Left Behind" live the Lamalerans: a tribe of 1, 500 hunter-gatherers who are the world's last subsistence whalers. They have survived for half a millennium by hunting whales with bamboo harpoons and handmade wooden boats powered by sails of woven palm fronds. But now, under assault from the rapacious forces of the modern era and a global economy, their way of life teeters on the brink of collapse.
Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, one of a handful of Westerners who speak the Lamaleran language, lived with the tribe across three years, and he brings their world and their people to vivid life in this gripping story of a vanishing culture..
Deeply empathetic and richly reported, The Last Whalers is a riveting, powerful chronicle of the collision between one of the planet's dwindling indigenous peoples and the irresistible enticements and upheavals of a rapidly transforming world.
Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, one of a handful of Westerners who speak the Lamaleran language, lived with the tribe across three years, and he brings their world and their people to vivid life in this gripping story of a vanishing culture..
Deeply empathetic and richly reported, The Last Whalers is a riveting, powerful chronicle of the collision between one of the planet's dwindling indigenous peoples and the irresistible enticements and upheavals of a rapidly transforming world.
New in Paperback
Francisco Cantú is a Mexican American who grew up on both sides of the border, and joined the Border Patrol hoping to bring common sense, compassion, and a human touch to a the job. He discovers that the lives of people on both sides of the border are intertwined, and no wall can change that.
This is memoir of the highest order: Cantú knows the border region better than most, and writes about it ways that feel both personal and intimate, and big and important.
This is memoir of the highest order: Cantú knows the border region better than most, and writes about it ways that feel both personal and intimate, and big and important.
“Kagge's deceptively simple meditation on silence complicates something we all think we understand. Quoting from a wide range of artists and thinkers, Kagge constructs a graceful mosaic of definitions, statements, and paradoxes. We all have a 'primal need for' silence, Kagge states, and in this noisy world, it's 'the new luxury.' Though it's found inside of us, Kagge, an explorer and publisher, traveled to Japan to look for it in meditation and yoga; he walked to Antarctica in search of it, spending 50 days alone. Made up of 33 brief sections and ending in a blank page, Kagge leaves plenty of room for the reader's own reflections, demonstrating the kind of active engagement he believes silence invites.”
— Laurie Greer, Politics & Prose Books and Coffee Shop, Washington, DC
— Laurie Greer, Politics & Prose Books and Coffee Shop, Washington, DC
CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT
From Newbury award winning author Katherine Applegate comes a new series!
Byx, the youngest member and only survivor of her pack of mythical doglike creatures, dairnes, sets out to find safe haven and, perhaps, more of her kind, aided by allies, both animal and human.
Khara - A human girl, desguised as a boy, who is more than she seems.
Tobble - A Wobyk with the body of a large rodent but the courage and heart of a lion.
And Khara's trusty stead Vallino!
This troop weathers many hardships and adventures in the first of a trilogy that is promising to be a classic.
Byx, the youngest member and only survivor of her pack of mythical doglike creatures, dairnes, sets out to find safe haven and, perhaps, more of her kind, aided by allies, both animal and human.
Khara - A human girl, desguised as a boy, who is more than she seems.
Tobble - A Wobyk with the body of a large rodent but the courage and heart of a lion.
And Khara's trusty stead Vallino!
This troop weathers many hardships and adventures in the first of a trilogy that is promising to be a classic.
Once there was, and one day there will be. This is the beginning of every story.
Sefia lives her life on the run. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father left behind, something she comes to realize is a book.
Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. With no time to lose, and the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide. In the end, she discovers what the book had been trying to tell her all along: Nothing is as it seems, and the end of her story is only the beginning.
Sefia lives her life on the run. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father left behind, something she comes to realize is a book.
Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. With no time to lose, and the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide. In the end, she discovers what the book had been trying to tell her all along: Nothing is as it seems, and the end of her story is only the beginning.
The bestselling author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss.
Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.
It begins with the death of Vic’s father.
It ends with the murder of Mad’s uncle.
The Hackensack Police Department would very much like to hear it.
But in order to tell their story, Vic and Mad must focus on all the chapters in between.
This is a story about:
1. A coded mission to scatter ashes across New Jersey.
2. The momentous nature of the Palisades in winter.
3. One dormant submarine.
4. Two songs about flowers.
5. Being cool in the traditional sense.
6. Sunsets & ice cream & orchards & graveyards.
7. Simultaneous extreme opposites.
8. A narrow escape from a war-torn country.
9. A story collector.
10. How to listen to someone who does not talk.
11. Falling in love with a painting.
12. Falling in love with a song.
13. Falling in love.
Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.
It begins with the death of Vic’s father.
It ends with the murder of Mad’s uncle.
The Hackensack Police Department would very much like to hear it.
But in order to tell their story, Vic and Mad must focus on all the chapters in between.
This is a story about:
1. A coded mission to scatter ashes across New Jersey.
2. The momentous nature of the Palisades in winter.
3. One dormant submarine.
4. Two songs about flowers.
5. Being cool in the traditional sense.
6. Sunsets & ice cream & orchards & graveyards.
7. Simultaneous extreme opposites.
8. A narrow escape from a war-torn country.
9. A story collector.
10. How to listen to someone who does not talk.
11. Falling in love with a painting.
12. Falling in love with a song.
13. Falling in love.
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.
But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
What happens when the Lago family needs a new couch? They get more than they bargained for!
When the family's perfect new couch accidentally whooshes off the top of their car, they discover that it has landed in a field occupied by an unsuspecting llama. Llama is confused at first--this new thing doesn't talk, taste good, or budge one bit.
How does Llama learn to love the new couch?And how will the Lagos resolve this most unusual dilemma?
When the family's perfect new couch accidentally whooshes off the top of their car, they discover that it has landed in a field occupied by an unsuspecting llama. Llama is confused at first--this new thing doesn't talk, taste good, or budge one bit.
How does Llama learn to love the new couch?And how will the Lagos resolve this most unusual dilemma?
In this timely and charming story about the importance of being true to yourself, mindfulness, and standing by your friends, we meet Leonard, a lion, and his best friend Marianne, a…duck. Leonard and Marianne have a happy life together - talking, playing, writing poems, and making wishes - until one day a pack of bullies questions whether it’s right for a lion and a duck to be pals. Leonard soon learns there are many ways to be a lion, and many ways to be a friend, and that sometimes finding just the right words can change the world…
This sweet, funny, thoughtful, and much-needed story will open up readers’ eyes to the importance of being who they are and not backing down to hurtful criticism. It’s an empowering tale about connecting with others and choosing kindness over bullying, and shows children how angry and provocative words can be overcome by empathy and courage.
This sweet, funny, thoughtful, and much-needed story will open up readers’ eyes to the importance of being who they are and not backing down to hurtful criticism. It’s an empowering tale about connecting with others and choosing kindness over bullying, and shows children how angry and provocative words can be overcome by empathy and courage.
Scientist Ada has a boundless imagination and has always been hopelessly curious. Why are there pointy things stuck to a rose? Why are there hairs growing inside your nose? When her house fills with a horrific, toe-curling smell, Ada knows it’s up to her to find the source. What would you do with a problem like this? Not afraid of failure, Ada embarks on a fact-finding mission and conducts scientific experiments, all in the name of discovery. But, this time, her experiments lead to even more stink and get her into trouble!
Lucas was convinced he was born to fly. He spent hours watching birds and airplanes in flight and tried to design his own sets of wingsmany times. But each time they failed. He wrote letters to Santa, pleading for help, but was disappointed with the toy wings and capes he received. Then one day something magical happened, without him even knowing it. His mother put a book in his handsand Lucas began to fly. And fly. And fly. Bonilla celebrates the wonder of books and their power to transport us to places beyond our imagination.