Summer Reads

(Available after November 30th, 2022)The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with thrilling stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!There are still countless tales...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics.This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions...

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels,...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited...

A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself...

An unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance.When Ten moves out of her parents’ home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male...

“The great mistress of the last-minute switch is at it again. . . . Even the experts have given up any attempts to out-guess Miss Christie.” —The New Yorker   In this beloved classic from the Queen of Mystery, now with a new beautiful series look, a...

Young adventurers Patrice and Nate have followed neighborhood defender Crazy Dave throughout time--but are they ready to investigate a school campus to keep the streets safe from zombies? In Plants vs. Zombies: Bully For You, they'll be visiting a very...

Multiple Eisner-award winning author Paul Tobin returns, with Brittney Williams making her Plants vs. Zombies debut with another imaginative addition to the New York Times bestselling series!On your bookmarks...get set...GO!Let the bookish battle...

In this "gorgeous translation" (The New York Times), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said...

A New York Times 2016 Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the YearA Washington Post 2016 Notable BookA Slate Top Ten Book“Nathan Hill is a maestro.” —John Irving It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson hasn’t seen his mother, Faye, in...

(Available after 3-20 days)CONTENTS:The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent, The Call to Service, The Mind of Shakespeare, Magic and Wonder in Literature In different ways the four essays set forth one theme -- the moral use to which intelligence might be...

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint...

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it’s too late.Life at Grace Field House had been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they had to take were tough, their loving...

The children of the Grace Field House orphanage must escape a macabre fate before it’s too late.Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker...

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out...into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and...

Jana Fleischer loves her life—wonderful family, best sister in the world, awesome soon to be sister-in-law, fabulous job, and a never-ending stream of men to chew through and spit out. So what if everyone says she’s too picky and she’s...

Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the DevilThe Secret to Freedom and SuccessSecrets from the Vault, Written in 1938, Revealed TodayAn Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation "Napoleon Hill was one of America's great, influential thinkers who...

Keanu Reeves makes his comic book writing debut alongside New York Times bestselling co-writer Matt Kindt and acclaimed artist Ron Garney in a brutally violent new series about one immortal warrior’s fight through the ages.A WAR WITH NO END. The man...

Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium's most gifted talent.This volume picks up where the last left off in the story of the Kindly Ones—a conflagration of nightmarish proportions that will...