Summer Reads

A collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.  This is an unusual sort of history a history of ideas – and not just any old ideas, ideas from across time and space that...

(Available after 3-20 days)Step into a world of rejected mates, wolf shifters, and dangerous secrets in Blood Moon, the captivating first book in USA Today bestselling author Michelle Madow's Wolf Born series.Ruby Grace is just an ordinary girl. Or so...

All seven electrifying books in the New York Times bestselling Michael Vey series are now available in a collectible paperback boxed set!To everyone at Meridian High School, Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette’s syndrome. But in...

“The Procrastination Equation will teach you how to bust the excuses that are preventing you from doing your best work and living your best life….So don’t put it off any longer. Read this book. Today.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New...

An addictive standalone about a Hollywood princess who is desperate to self-destruct...and the grumpy bodyguard who saves her."An opposites attract tale with emotional depth and one of my all-time favorite k*nks. Shen never misses." --USA Today...

From USA Today bestselling author L.J. Shen comes a passion- and angst-charged story about a woman caught between a secure relationship and a once-in-a-lifetime spark with her muse.   They say first loves are oftentimes the end of one’s innocence. Those...

LOVE WILL BE THEIR DEMISE. A revolutionary, Marc conspires to overthrow the tyrant who rules the underground kingdom of Trollus. But treason has its price. And if Marc wants to avoid execution, he must keep his involvement a secret from everyone...

Tales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short storyWard No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and often extreme emotions in his short fiction. These...

This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which established his reputation, is the unforgettable tale of a boy's journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through...

From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. These...

This winner of the first Stonewall Award for Children’s & Young Adult Literature will make you marvel at the beauty of human connection and the irrepressible nature of love. Everyone has that one line they swear they’ll never cross, the one thing...

(Available after June 30th, 2023) Inspired by a historical figure in the author's research, The East Indian is the story of Tony, the first Indian in Colonial America, and his adventures as an indentured servant, and later, as a physician's...

We can’t stop thinking about Shutter, a most perfect blend of supernatural and mystery. A debut novel that takes us to the limits of imagination and cuts through to the heart of the human condition. Ramona Emerson writes about dedication to family,...

A boy, a murder, a girl, a secret. From award-winning author Mariko Tamaki comes Cold, a haunting YA novel about a shocking crime, told by a boy who died—and a girl who wants to know why.Who was Todd Mayer, and why don't any of his fellow students at...

(Available after 3-20 days)Summer school, a cute boy, and overbearing Armenian parents—what’s a guy to do?Alek Khederian was looking forward to a relaxing summer. But when his parents announce that he’ll be attending summer school in order to bring up...

A modern-day Practical Magic about love, loss, and embracing the mystical.It's been one year since Edie's mother died. But her ghost has never left.According to her GG, it's tradition that the dead of the Mitchell family linger with the living...

When Claire Draper's fictional love story goes viral in the wake of a pandemic, the line between reality and fiction is blurred. But will she be able to tell the difference?  Claire is a junior in high school when a worldwide pandemic strikes, and she's...

From Rachel Lacey, award-winning author of Read Between the Lines, comes a sexy slow-burn romance about two dynamic divas who collide on the world’s biggest stage.Eden Sands has been a star for twenty years, but it’s lonely at the top. Her mediocre...

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from...

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with...