National Network for Equitable Library Service

It is the summer of 1955.

What's really going into commercial dog food? The answer is horrifying.

Through a collection of intimate reflections (on art, punctuation, eyeglasses, color, dreams, celebrity, corpses, porn, and translation) and assignments that encourage pleasure, attentiveness, and

Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical horses and stories inspired by her travels.

People fear death (apparently just a tiny bit less than public speaking).

In a world where magic is sung, a powerful mage named Cadence has been forced to torture her country's disgraced nobility at her ruthless queen's bidding.

Jason Tanner, protégé of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has been by his mentor's side in New York to spread the message of passive resistance.

Mary's baby has arrived, and she can't contain her joy! As Joseph sleeps, she examines her newborn's tiny mouth, his wild hair, his little hands.

My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother. All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters.

Evie Jamieson, a former wild child, is not only a headstrong, smart-mouthed trouble magnet, she is also a lead singer with a plan.

Blade McCormick is not a nice guy. He's pure adrenaline and smells like smoke and leather-the kind of guy you look at and know he's going to be a combination of nasty and irresistible.

Tennyson D'Angelo...Darkness lives within each of us. Shadows. We are each capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil. It is the duality of being human. I want to live in the light.

Little Bear feels the world around him. He feels his bed rumble when Dad Bear wakes him up in the morning. He feels the floor shake when his teacher stomps to get his attention.

Florence, Italy. Summer, 1982. Judith Campbell prides herself on her level head.

Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few months of her memory.