Fiction

Good Little Wolf

by Nadia Shireen

Rolf, a small, gentle wolf, lives with Mrs. Boggins, who tells him he is a good little wolf. But when he meets up with a large, ferocious wolf, he is told that he isn't a real wolf. Wolves aren't little and...

The Little Christmas Elf

by Nikki Shannon Smith & Susan Mitchell

Nina, the littlest elf in Santa's workshop, doesn't finish the teddy bear she's making in time for it to get loaded onto Santa's sleigh-but, encouraged by Santa Claus himself to not give up, she works far into...

How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over

by Julia Alvarez

Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast! With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tía Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all...

The Only Ones

by Aaron Starmer

"Call it coincidence, call it fate. This is the place you come. There's no one else. This is the entire world."

These words welcome Martin Maple to the village of Xibalba. Like the other children who've journeyed...

You Have Seven Messages

by Stewart Lewis

   It's been a year since Luna's mother, the fashion-model wife of a successful film director, was hit and killed by a taxi in New York's East Village. Luna, her father, and her little brother, Tile, are...

The Tanglewood Terror

by Kurtis Scaletta

When 13-year-old Eric Parrish comes across glowing mushrooms in the woods behind his house, he's sure there's a scientific explanation. But when they start encroaching on the town—covering the football field...

Calvin Coconut: Kung Fooey

by Graham Salisbury & Jacqueline Rogers

Calvin Coconut's fourth grade class meets Benni Obi, a weird and likable new kid. Benny brags about knowing kung fu, wears mirrored sunglasses, eats worms, crickets, and chocolate-covered scorpions, and says...

All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky

by Joe R. Lansdale

Jack Catcher's parents are dead—his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart—and he has to get out of Oklahoma, where dust storms have killed everything green, hopeful, or alive. When former classmate...

Paintings from the Cave: Three Novellas

by Gary Paulsen

Meet Jake who lives in a neighborhood controlled by street violence and fear. He meets a sculptor across the street, and his eyes are opened to another world.  Or Jojo,who's closer to her three dogs than to...

Every You, Every Me

by David Levithan & Jonathan Farmer

In this high school-set psychological tale, a tormented teen named Evan starts to discover a series of unnerving photographs—some of which feature him. Someone is stalking him . . . messing with him . . ....

Duty Free: A Novel

by Moni Mohsin

Jane Austen's Emma, transported to the outrageous social melee of 21st-century Lahore.

Our plucky heroine's cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged...

Heartwood

Billy Bob Holland #2

by James Lee Burke

A brilliantly layered novel of crime, character, and place from the two-time Edgar Award winner, Gold Dagger Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author of  Sunset Limited.

Few writers in America...

Purple Cane Road

Dave Robicheaux #11

by James Lee Burke

Dave Robicheaux has spent his life confronting the age-old adage that the sins of the father pass onto the son. But what has his mother's legacy left him? Dead to him since youth, Mae Guillory has been shuttered...

Sunset Limited

Dave Robicheaux #10

by James Lee Burke

In a land soaked with sin, Dave Robicheaux is dueling with killers, ghosts, and a woman's revenge....

The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever...

God Is a Bullet

by Boston Teran

Christmas, 1995. A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty Satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, embarks on a desperate mission to find her, but his only hope lies with...

The Longest Journey

by E.M. Forster

In this searching tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, E. M. Forster explores the "idea of England" he would later develop in Howard's End. Bookish, sensitive, and given to wild enthusiasms,...

Spellbound: A Loveswept Classic Romance

by Adrienne Staff

Conjured of equal parts mystery and romance, Adrienne Staff’s Spellbound captures the imagination and compels the heart to believe once more in a love for all time.

Edward Rockford is tired of the hollow...

Never Let Go

by Deborah Smith

Confusion, fury, and disbelief filled Rucker McClure's soul when he saw his wife across the airport waiting room.  A year ago, Dinah had vanished without a trace, but he'd never stopped looking for her, never...

Yom Kippur Murder

by Lee Harris

When ex-nun Christine Bennett can't get into her friend Mr. Herskovitz's apartment to accompany him to Yom Kippur services, she discovers that he's been murdered. The police arrest someone almost immediately,...

Light from a Distant Star: A Novel

by Mary Mcgarry Morris

Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s "Scout."

It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of adolescence...