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Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker.

New to town, Brent Bishop longs to stroll around school with the popular Brianna on his arm.

It's wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home.

Former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. It is where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion.

Manhattan's vampire ecosystem is fragile, with too many bloodsuckers feeding on the same supply. So undead strong-arm Joe Pitt heads to the outer boroughs to keep an Orthodox danger at bay.

Temple can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember the tragedy that sent her on her personal journey toward redemption.

Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington DC's most corrupt: a dirty Congressman an

In a school where the football team rules, footballer Kurt and gymnast Danny form an unlikely friendship.

Freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse becomes the prime murder suspect when one of the queen's personal guards is poisoned. Trying to clear his name, Eddie becomes embroiled in a nasty scandal.

When Pico Iyer visited Japan, he met the vivacious, attractive Sachiko.

After a number of suicides by LGBT students who were bullied in school, Dan Savage and his partner uploaded a video to YouTube to inspire hope for LGBT youth, launching the It Gets Better Project.

Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in an orphanage for boys, which suited her just fine. She didn't like playing with dolls, she could hold her own in a fight, and she loved to work in the stable.

An anthology of traditional American Black folktales retold by the African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant.

Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork--a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression.

She created the soundtrack of our lives. Now, at last, she tells the stories behind the music.