Summer Reads

A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers. “I will never forgive you,” Uli says to his sister Elisabeth. It is 1960 and the border between East and West Germany has long been closed. Their...

(Available after October 30th, 2023)She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden...From the snowy winter woods to the bright midnight sun; from lost and powerless to finding your path, Now She is Witch conjures a world of...

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE***Nik has lots of questions about his late father but knows better than to ask his mother, Avani. It's their unspoken rule.When his grandfather dies, Nik has the opportunity to learn about the man he...

New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy returns to Lancaster Prep with a new enemies to lovers romance...Weston Fontaine is the hottest senior at Lancaster Prep.And he knows it.He’s gorgeous. Confident. Smart.Too smart.Everyone loves him. He...

In this rom com from the author of Someone Else's Summer, a hopeless romantic juggles senior year stress, family problems, and faulty friendships around the end of senior year and prom.Quincy Walker is a hopeless romantic, so when she's kissed by a...

"Rod Pulido delivers the ultimate one-two punch: bare-knuckled, bruising honesty wrapped in humor, sincerity, and sweetness." — Becky Albertalli, bestselling author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens AgendaExperience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of...

A scrappy former maid and jewel thief must outwit gods, injustice, and her own past in this sequel to the Indie Next Pick, Little Thieves by Margaret Owen.Let's get one thing straight - Vanja Schmidt wasn't trying to start a cult.After taking down a...

Sarah J. Maas meets A Deadly Education in A.M. Strickland's lush, queer YA dark fantasy novel.In becoming a vampire, I’m less than a girl. And more.Or maybe I’m becoming what I always have been, deep inside.A blade.When nineteen-year-old Fin volunteers...

From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings—a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young...

'Ginsberg could terrify the authorities ... a literary pioneer' - The New York Times Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. The apocalyptic 'Howl' became the subject of an obscenity...

Brilliant English translation of beloved poems by Pablo Neruda, who is the subject of the film Neruda starring Gael García Bernal and directed by Pablo Larraín  A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with French flaps First published in 1924, Veinte poemas...

A beautifully and faithfully reissued edition of a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom.Widely recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, Songs of Innocence and Experience also occupies a key position in...

From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the classic creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Every Thing On It, comes a wondrous book of poems and drawings.   Filled with unforgettable characters like Screamin’...

What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam;...

In 1988, Batman readers were allowed to vote on the outcome of the story... and they decided that Robin should die! Jim Starlin's devastating graphic novel classic left shockwaves throughout the comic book industry, many of which are still felt today!As...

Gotham City's worst criminals—Joker, Riddler, Ra's al Ghul, Clayface and others—have emerged to throw Batman's life into utter chaos. However, these villains are part of a much more elaborate, sinister scheme to destroy the Dark Knight once and for all,...

Named by James Gunn as an influence for Gods and Monsters, the first chapter of the new DC Universe film and television slate! This story inspires the upcoming film THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD.Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, the creative team of ALL STAR...

Imagine a reality where the world’s most powerful super-being does not grow up in Smallville, Kansas—or even America, for that matter…Superman: Red Son is a vivid tale of Cold War paranoia, that reveals how the ship carrying the infant who would later be...

Named by James Gunn as an influence for Gods and Monsters, the first chapter of the new DC Universe film and television slate! This Eisner Award-Winning story inspires the upcoming film SUPERMAN: LEGACY.The Man of Steel goes toe-to-toe with Bizarro, his...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the...