Hurry Up, Houdini!
Magic Tree House #50 features Jack and Annie and legendary magician, Harry Houdini! If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on reading! The Magic Tree House books, with their fiction and nonfiction books, are perfect for parents and teachers just starting to get into the "Core Curriculum." With a blend of magic, […]
The Eye of God
Library Journal Sigma Force (Bloodline) learns that the end of the world prophesied centuries ago will come to pass in four days after a satellite crashes to Earth. The video feed breaks apart but not before showing the entire Eastern seaboard in ruins. A man working at the Vatican receives a package containing a book […]
The Care & Keeping of You 2 : the Body Book For Older Girls
School Library Journal Gr 5–7—This follow-up to the popular Care and Keeping of You (American Girl, 1998) is written for slightly older girls, with more in-depth information about puberty and menstruation. Navigating through all the changes a body goes through can be a challenge-even for the most confident of girls-and this title has a calm, […]
The Care & Keeping of You : the Body Book For Younger Girls
Our best-selling body book for girls just got even better! With all-new illustrations and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, it features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything […]
The Unwinding : an Inner History of the New America
The New York Times – Dwight Garner This book hums—with sorrow, with outrage and with compassion for those who are caught in the gears of America's increasingly complicated (and increasingly poorly calibrated) financial machinery…The Unwinding contains many sweeping, wide-angle views of American life. Its portraits of Youngstown, Ohio; Tampa; Silicon Valley; Washington; and Wall Street […]
Life As We Knew It
I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, the way “one marble hits another.†The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for […]
The Dead and the Gone
Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event—an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion novel examines the same events as they unfold in New York City, revealed through the eyes of […]
This World We Live In
In the year that has passed since a meteor collided with the moon, Miranda’s friends and neighbors have died, the landscape has frozen, and food has become increasingly scarce. The struggle to survive intensifies when Miranda’s father and stepmother arrive with a baby and three strangers in tow. One of the newcomers is Alex Morales, […]
First Sight : a Novel
Publishers Weekly The latest from the prolific grand dame of the beach read concerns iconic designer Timmie O'Neill. Despite her looks, talent, and good soul, Timmie has had it hard. From an early age she grew up in an orphanage; as an adult she was left by her husband after their four-year-old son died. Career […]
Bombshell
Publishers Weekly In bestseller Coulter’s captivating 17th FBI novel (after 2012’s Backfire), FBI agent Griffin Hammersmith learns on his way to a new assignment in Washington, D.C., that an intruder has attacked his sister, Delsey, in her Maestro, Va., home. With the assistance of local law enforcement and the DEA, Griffin discovers that his sister […]