Summer Reads

One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an...

A New York Times Editors' ChoiceRiveting stories of the brain on the brink, from an acclaimed cognitive neurologist.   Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist...

In The Man Who Tasted Words, Guy Leschziner leads listeners through the five senses and how, through them, our brain understands or misunderstands the world around us.Vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch are what we rely on to perceive the reality of...

(Available after December 30th, 2022)Deliciously chilling and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful.”—Nina LaCour, Printz Award–winning author of We Are Okay Sacramento, 1885  Edie and Violet Bond know the truth about death. The seventeen-year-old twins are...

This page-turning debut novel will entice fans who like their paranormal romances dark and disturbing. It's a natural next-read for fans of Stephanie Meyer, Carrie Jones, and Becca Fitzpatrick. But instead of mythical creatures, blood magic has...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)The most life-affirming and uplifting debut you will read this year. Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell, Fiona Gibson and Clare Pooley.What would Lily Bennett do?This is the question Lydia Grey finds herself repeatedly...

DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must rescue a CIA officer when she’s kidnapped in Texas by a nefarious band of criminals in this pulse-pounding thriller for fans of C. J. Box.   Special Agent Garrett Kohl has just taken down a dangerous and deadly cartel...

Detective Amos Decker discovers that a mistake he made as a rookie detective may have led to deadly consequences in this compelling Memory Man thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.Decker is visiting his hometown of Burlington,...

Written in Auschwitz itself and translated for the first time ever into English, this one-of-a-kind, minute-by-minute true account is a crucial historical testament to a Holocaust survivor's fight for his life at the largest extermination camp in Nazi...

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.I am Mercedes Athena Thompson Hauptman.My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five pound...

The entrepreneur and philanthropist's A-Z guide and manifesto for personal growth and for turning problems into assets   In the newest entry in Phaidon's popular advice series, the internationally renowned fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von...

The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, brings readers a story with enormous heart.    Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog...

The sixth book in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series   Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors...

Heed the call of the wild and step into the world of cats with this first book in the bestselling series, Warriors. Young Rusty has always dreamed of life beyond his owner’s fence. When an opportunity arises for Rusty to leave behind his old life and...

The third book in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series   Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors...

The fourth book in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series   Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors...

The fifth book in Erin Hunter’s #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series   Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors...

The High Druid of Shannara trilogy draws to a thrilling close as a young hero nears completion of his trial by fire, a banished ruler fights for her life in a wilderness of dread, and forces of darkness and light square off in a battle unto death for the...

Dark magic has opened a gateway to the Forbidding and trapped within it Grianne Ohmsford, rightful High Druid of Shannara. Rescuing Grianne will be merely the beginning of the effort to return the Four Lands to some semblance of peace. Only her...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of...