National Network for Equitable Library Service

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.

In 1978, Merle is in her first year at Corcoran School of Art. In 1870, teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of finding his voice.

Twenty years ago, a barmaid fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune.

Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known--now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and f

Red Cross nurse Nina Borg's life is at a turning point.

Set during World War II, two cousins face family secrets and community violence aimed at a refugee from Nazi Germany, raising questions about mob mentality, creativity and survival.

For nurse Kayla Friday, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and frightening memories.

Heiress to Seattle's most powerful shifter clan, Alice Corbette's destiny is set.

It's Christmas Eve, and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who is robbing his church's poor box.

Motherless Olivia and Nellie go to live with their elderly Great-Aunt Minty, who knows little about children, but a lot about her overgrown garden.