. . . What makes this book endearing is its chatty, calm account of how genius in America can be a matter-of-fact defiance of reality that won’t alarm your dog or save mankind.

In this “searing work of historical fiction” (Booklist), Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Sharon M. Draper tells the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery, and stripped of everything she has ...

Beautifully written and filled with memorable characters, Creel's novel is a powerful exploration of the nature of trust and love.

Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the ...

But she didn't plan on a stowaway in the form of the deadly serial-killer CARNAGE. The titanic events of the first volume have sent Carnage across the globe with the team trying to catch him far in his rear-view. COLLECTING: CARNAGE 6-11.

'At 16, I pretended to fall in love with Alyssa.

That afternoon, Radhika Madam asked why he wasn't going the usual way, via the maidaan, and Tochi explained it was because of the election. There were rallies. ... “I'll be glad when election season is over,” Madam said, fanning herself with the end of her pallu. “And the ... Three, four, five people were on the stage, dressed in saffron and passing between them a microphone boxed in an orange collar.

In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, someone will pay for the truth with their life.

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