With the utterance of a single line—"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"—a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed into one of the most famous encounters in exploration history. But the true story behind Dr. Da...

Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Wh...

Clare Dunkle’s acclaimed fantasy trilogy— now available in paperback For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the...

From the national bestselling author of Alliance, linesman Ean Lambert finds himself caught in a dangerous fight for political power...  The lines. Mysterious yet familiar: the key to controlling every ship in the galaxy. Once they w...

Geoff Dyer's classic The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, he examines...

Praise for Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon: "One of the most compelling novels I have ever read. . . . A work of remarkable importance."—The Village Voice "One of the best books of the year. . . . Compelling, hon...

"A heart-stopping, breath-stealing masterpiece of romantic suspense!"— Colleen Coble,USA Todaybestselling author ***EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a mou...

When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a lon...

Umberto Eco's first novel, an international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Medicis Étranger awardsThe year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Basker...

This important novel, written in 1812, was a work of social criticism that raised people's consciousness about the evils of absentee landlords, specifically the English in Ireland. The story involves the efforts of young Lord Colambre...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 "A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States." —New York Times Book Review"Devastating … A powerful story of the collision...

This compendium of mind-blowing facts about the human body will help you achieve mastermind status in no time.Why are modern humans larger than people who lived 500 years ago? Can people spontaneously combust? How many organs could yo...

Read the story of Christ's birth from a whole new vantage point...from the viewpoint of Heaven. The Birth is the third in the series. The Chronicles of heaven written by the beloved storyteller Gene Edwards.The Birth has become the mo...

Brunella, an accomplished Seattle architect, stumbles upon a a web of family secrets, while struggling to help her aging father protect his beloved vineyard during a drought that is ravaging the Pacific Northwest and investigating the...

What makes a legendary assassin? For John Rain, it was the lessons of love, war, and betrayal he learned in Tokyo in 1972.Fresh from the killing fields of Southeast Asia, Rain works as a bagman under the watchful eye of his CIA handle...

The Sequel to Flux Bestseller Leaving Paradise!Maggie and Caleb just went through the worst year of their lives. Hit by a car and starting life over with a limp, Maggie never thought she would forgive Caleb. But she did-and fell in lo...

A Wall Street Journal bestselling series. For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author. Rowan ...

Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 3/1/2004Pages: 32Reading Level: Age 10 and Up

Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, the...

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse, young urban fantasy from an award-winning author--with two starred reviews!When Jaxon is sent to spend the day with a mean old lady his mother calls Ma, he finds out she's not his grandmoth...

Stealing a baby dragon was easy! Hiding it is a little more complicated, in this sequel to reviewer favorite Dragons in a Bag. Jaxon had just one job—to return three baby dragons to the realm of magic. But when he got there, o...

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four terrible years of war, and now, just when the village is coming to terms with the loss of so many of its sons, the brutal murder of a young girl shatters its hard-won...

Detective Wesley Peterson investigates another mysterious and deathly case on his 19th adventure in Kate Ellis's captivating crime series When a middle-aged man is found dead in a hotel room, it seems like a routine matter—until it...

Fans of superb Amish fiction will welcome the rich and moving stories of The Wayne County series by Mary Ellis, the bestselling author of Abigail's New Hope, Never Far from Home, and The Way to a Man's Heart.Meghan Graber is 17, brigh...

With the same page-turning suspense as The Girl on the Train and The Husband's Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison's No One Knows is a "riveting…skillfully plotted" (Publishers Weekly) thriller that ques...

Shadow Sun Seven continues Spencer Ellsworth's Starfire trilogy, an action-packed space opera in which the oppressed half-Jorian crosses have risen up to supplant humanity.Jaqi, Araskar and Z are on the run from everyone - the Resista...

Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff.

Two queens, two concubines, six princes. Innumerable secret agendas.A single hidden blade.The imperial palace -- full of ambitious royals, sly gossip, and unforeseen perils -- is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Empire of Zhaon...

The new novel from the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges—a political thriller set against the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.In the Negev desert, a nameless prisoner languishes in a secret c...

Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettabl...