Quick view The Road by Cormac McCarthy At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of... View Details
Quick view The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the... View Details
Quick view The Guernsey Library and the Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as... View Details
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Quick view The Circle by Dave Eggers When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world s most powerful internet company, she feels she s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users personal emails, social media,... View Details
Quick view The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer by Gary Paulsen The author recalls his experiences as a migrant laborer andyment as carnival worker after he ran away from home at age sixteen. View Details
Quick view The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed,... View Details
Quick view The Alchemyst by Michael Scott Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris in 1330. Nearly 700 years later, he is acknowleged as the greatest alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty! View Details
Quick view The 5th Wave (Paperback) by Rick Yancey Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them View Details
Quick view The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey "The Passage" meets "Ender's Game" in an epic new series from an award-winning author. On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. To stay alone is to stay... View Details
