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When Jacob is called back to Advocate, he is not only returning home again, something he knows he cannot really do; he is going to face his dying grandmother and the people of the town who turned o

For Bluma Goldberg, the teenaged daughter of a Jewish bootlegger, Prohibition-era Chicago is the furthest place one can get from law and temperance.

Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her long-awaited debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere.

Charlie Ashanti is the son of two scientists who are kidnapped as the result of a dramatic discovery they've made (the cure for asthma, which is rampant in this near-future world).

At the end of Lionboy: the chase Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba.

In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. Hey Nostradamus!

Charlie and the lions have made it safely to Venice.

This collection gathers eight popular Louis L'Amour stories, performed by a star-studded cast.

"Debut author Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detec

A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show.

The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this award-winning latest entry into the Van Veeteren series. It starts with a drunk man killing a boy as he hits him with his car.

A stained-glass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be.

A collection of six stories and novellas includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions and an older student with a fasc

Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie.

In "Evil Eye," we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual.