Evil Genius
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. With a series of breakneck twists and turns, Jinks's (the Pagan Chronicles) latest novel follows Cadel Piggott, a seven-year-old Australian boy with an incredible mind and a proclivity toward mischief: "He loved systems: phone systems, electrical systems, car engines, complicated traffic intersections." Following a string of disasters, which Cadel engineers […]
Winter Wheat
In the Light of the Sun
Journey of the Jihadist : Inside Muslim Militancy
The Four Loves
Pirates Don't Change Diapers
Publisher Weekly Review: Plucky young Jeremy Jacob is reunited with Captain Braid Beard and his crew of daft, dentally challenged buccaneers in a follow-up to the bestselling How I Became a Pirate. This time, Jeremy clearly has the upper hand: he won't let the pirates dig up the treasure they buried in his backyard at […]
The Doubtful Guest
Presented to the library by Sandra Taylor in honor of the birth of Edward Gorey February 22, 1925. Boston Herald: Impossible to resist.
Saint Iggy
Children's Literature: Sixteen-year-old Iggy Corso is hardly anyone's idea of a hero. He is kicked out of high school (terminated this time, Principal Olmos says, because of his long disciplinary history). Iggy's had a lot to overcome in his short sixteen years: He lives in the projects in New York City. His dad is usually […]
Please, Mr. Einstein
Publisher Weekly Review: French screenwriter Carri?re (he worked on Belle de Jour and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) sets out to make the elegant beauty of Einstein's ideas manifest to lay readers in this thin, pleasant novel-dialogue. It is the early 21st century, and a young, nameless student intent on learning more about Einstein […]
A Three Dog Life
Publisher Weekly Review: Stephen King's front-cover endorsement of Thomas's memoir as the best he's ever read?and a "punch to the heart"?will surely pique interest in this wrenching, elegiac portrait of her third husband, Rich, who flounders in a miasmic present after a hit-and-run in their Manhattan neighborhood shatters his skull, destroys his short-term memory and […]