Summer Reads

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth has it ALL and in a super cool instagrammable/TikTokable cover! Yes, it’s got the goods to back up your next favorite social media book! Multiple heroines to root for, scary, macabre and a twinkle of...

'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' -- MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' -- JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' -- A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is...

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on...

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on...

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates...

The “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovatorsHiro lives in a Los Angeles where...

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an...

“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today   Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The...

MAKE 2021 THE YEAR YOU QUIT SMOKING, WITH THE HELP OF ALLEN CARR'It didn't take any willpower. I didn't miss it at all and I was free' -- Ruby WaxRead this book and you'll never smoke another cigarette again.Allen Carr has discovered a method of quitting...

(Available after 3-20 days)Celebrate Halloween with the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Blue Truck and friends!   Beep! Beep! It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Lift the flaps in this large,...

“Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!”—Chris Pratt, star of The Terminal List, coming soon to Amazon Prime“A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come.” —Gregg...

Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a...

A teen girl’s rising star attracts the attention of a sinister figure in this chilling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a...

(Available after 3-20 days)SILENT INVASIONThey arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade—and take control of—a human host to...

(Available after 3-20 days) PERSONAL DEMONShin looks like an ordinary high school boy, but he has a terrible secret: an alien parasite has infected his body. This mysterious creature is ruthless, deadly, and utterly indifferent to human suffering...and...

(Available after 3-20 days)ALIEN NATIONAliens parasites have invaded Earth and taken over the minds of ordinary people. Shin has been infected with a parasite, but he still can think and act for himself. Now he’s been approached by two mysterious victims...

(Available after 3-20 days)SIXTH SENSEShinichi, an ordinary high school student, is the only one who knows that aliens have invaded Earth and are controlling the minds of thousands of unwitting victims. It’s a secret too dangerous to share...but too big...

(Available after 3-20 days)ENEMY MINEShinichi has been hiding his true nature from the world: His body has been colonized by an alien being, and now he’s half-human, half-alien. The other alien invaders, led by the cruel and beautiful Tamura, have...

(Available after 3-20 days)ENDGAMEShinichi is both man and monster. He’s an ordinary high school student whose body has been invaded by an alien parasite. And he alone knows a terrible secret: The aliens are plotting the destruction of humankind. Now...

(Available after 3-20 days)MONSTER TWISTShinichi vows to destroy Goto, one of the deadliest of the alien parasites that have invaded Earth—and people’s bodies. But at the moment of truth, Shinichi discovers something unexpected in his heart: sympathy for...