From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages--told over the course of a couple's first ten dates.When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance--a queer prom--both feel an inexplicable but powerful connection. Follow them through their first ten dates as they bridge their initial shyness and fall in love--through snowstorms, groundings, meeting parents (Avery's) and not (Ryan's), cast parties, heartbreak, and every day and date in between.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect comes an expanded edition of The Off-Limits Rule - a heartwarming romance about new love and fresh beginnings, with a never-before-seen chapter. Rules are made to be broken - especially for love, right? Lucy Marshall has found rock bottom. After failing to succeed as a single mom in Atlanta, she's back home and moving in with her older brother Drew. Reconnecting with her support system is the right thing to do, but Lucy can't help but feel like a failure. Her four-year-old son deserves the world, and all she can give him is a spare bedroom. But Drew is the sweetest uncle, and some quality time might be exactly what they need to start fresh. That is until she meets Cooper, her brother's incredibly hot best friend. When Drew senses something between the two of them, he puts his foot down on any shenanigans. According to him, Cooper is everything Lucy should stay away from: flirtatious, adventurous, and especially non-committal. But Lucy has been getting the opposite impression so far; Cooper is a genuinely great guy, and she's starting to catch real feelings. Her whole life, Lucy has tried to do everything right, and look where that's gotten her - so what if she were to try something wrong?"--
"In 1980s Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming and tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed and learns to speak to and for them. Her untimely death leaves behind her mother Audrey, who is on the verge of losing the public housing apartment they once shared. Colly, Key's grieving son, soon learns that he too has inherited this sacred gift and begins to slip into the liminal space between the living and the dead on his journey to self-realization"--
"Bedtime can be...a challenge. Now grown-ups and their little ones can explore the importance of sleep in a friendly and inviting way in this nonfiction board book from the bestselling series Hello, World!"--
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stirring novel about the legacies families inherit, create, and carry on, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her younger siblings: Allegra, who survived the tragedy that killed their parents with scars and a spinal injury, and Luca, who has a penchant for wild parties, pretty women, and poker tables.Cosima navigates her personal and professional challenges with a wisdom beyond her years, but her success has come at a cost: Her needs are always secondary. She’s married to the business, and her free time is given to those who rely on her . . . until she meets Olivier Bayard, the founder of France’s most successful ready-to-wear handbag company. A brief conversation on her palazzo’s terrace turns into a tour of the Saverio workshop, and, fifteen years after her parents’ deaths, Cosima has found a confidant.Now the business is financially stable and generating enough income for the Saverios to live comfortably. Then Luca loses a hefty sum at the casino, and his debt must be repaid with money or his life. Cosima, forced to bail him out, is given an impossible choice: List the palazzo, sell a third of the family business, or let Luca fend for himself. But is there another way to save everything she has fought for before it goes up in flames?In Palazzo, Danielle Steel delivers a striking tale of family roots, ruin, and renewal.
In a society where conformity is valued above all else, a teen girl training to become an Imperial pilot is forced to return to her rebel roots to save her world in this adrenaline-fuled sci-fi adventure—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and Skyward!In the far future, one of Earth’s lost colonies discovered advanced technology, but it came at a steep price. In the Empire of New Joseon, gravity can be manipulated—in fact, adhering to certain traditions causes gravity. As a result, the Empire demands conformity of its citizens, and is constantly seeking to defend its borders.Hwa Young was just ten years old when her rebel moon home fell to pieces—literally. Six years later, Hwa Young is recruited by the Empire to become a lancer (humans who pilot giant mecha robots), but when she finds out that her fleet’s next assignment is her old home, she’s terrified that some survivor from her past will recognize her and out her to her new comrades as rebel-born.Once there, Hwa Young discovers a terrible truth: the core worlds are collapsing into a cluster of black holes, and the Empire is hiding the information. Hwa Young will have to betray the Empire to save its citizens… but can she deal with the catastrophic consequences?
The O. Henry Prize winners contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year.
"In the 1950s, Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of a woman named Maria von Trapp. He's fascinated to learn about this Catholic novice who was living quietly as an Austrian nun until her abbey sent her away to teach a widowed baron's children. When the assignment turned into a marriage proposal and the family was forced to escape the Nazis, it was Maria who taught them to survive by using the power of their voices and song. It's an inspirational story, to be sure, and as half of the famous Rodgers & Hammerstein duo, Oscar knows Maria's story has big Broadway potential. But much of her life will have to be reinvented for the stage. ... When Maria sees the script, she is so incensed that she sets off to confront Hammerstein, who foists her off on Fran, his secretary. The pair strike up an unlikely friendship as Maria tells Fran about her life, contradicting much of what will eventually appear in The Sound of Music and delivering a far grittier tale"--
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel • A terrifying and thought-provoking look at what it means to be truly free in America as a woman uncovers a secret about her new home in a utopian community • "Brilliant, provocative, seminal...Your book club will be discussing this one for DAYS.”—Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times best-selling authorJasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to find her place. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on booking spa treatments and ignoring the world’s troubles. Jasmyn’s only friends in the community are equally perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook. Then Jasmyn discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders. Frustration turns to dread as their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life. Will the truth destroy her world in ways she never could have imagined?Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved All Souls series, hailed as “your next favorite fantasy read” (Harper’s Bazaar).“The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood—the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children.”—Jodi PicoultDeborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.
2 BOOKS IN 1! Get whisked away in the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time! This bindup includes the first two adventures with Jack and Annie as they travel in time and all over the world. . .There's a mysterious tree house in the woods. Jack and Annie don't know where it came from, but it's filled with books. . . and magic! Before they know it, the tree house whisks Jack and Annie to the prehistoric past. Then to the time of knights and castles! Can they make it home before their parents notice? Introduce your young reader to the adventures that have been beloved by kids, teachers, librarians, and parents for generations!This bindup includes DINOSAURS BEFORE DARK and THE KNIGHT AT DAWN.
From the pages of The Sandman #40 comes award-winning author/artist Jill Thompson’s adorable versions of the Endless family in two grand adventures!From the pages of The Sandman #40 comes award-winning author/artist Jill Thompson’s adorable versions of the Endless family in two grand adventures!In Delirium’s Party: A Little Endless Storybook, Delirium decides to throw her sister Despair a party. Can the merriest member of the Endless succeed in cheering up her gloomy sibling?And in the follow-up tale, The Little Endless Storybook, Delirium has gone missing! Now her puppy and protector, Barnabas, must travel to the strange realms of each of the Endless to see if any of her siblings have seen their sister.This set collects Delirium’s Party: A Little Endless Storybook and The Little Endless Storybook.
"Misty is a sad ghost. The haunted house she lives in is cold and damp. Her living room is full of spiderwebs. And she's too CUTE to be spooky! What Misty needs to do, she thinks, is to be someone else. But will being spooky make Misty happy?"--
The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist gets deadly and dangerously personal.For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours Jamie was married, and Kat had a step-brother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.Now, Jamie is a jewel thief, and her boss, Gem, is the closest thing Kat has ever had to extended family. So it’s no wonder that Kat is crushed when Jamie breaks the news: they're going straight. Her next job will be her last—and it’s a big one. Because the woman whose necklace they’ll be stealing is Annalise Sutherland, a member of one of America’s richest families.Liam's father is not his favorite person, but since his mother's tragic death six months ago, he's had to live with him. So far all he's learned about the man is that he's serial scammer. He dates women and cons them out of money. His latest mark--Annalise Southerland. Which is how Liam and Kat end up in the same place. Ross Sutherland’s, birthday celebration, hosted at the Sutherland family compound. This final job is supposed to be easy, but from the moment Kat and Liam reunite it's clear that something is horribly, dangerously wrong. And just like those 48 hours their parents were married, they can only count on each other. Or can they? Everyone is lying and suddenly Kat is in the crosshairs of a mysterious stranger who definitely wants her dead. Or is it even a stranger?
Akane's feelings for Yamada continue to grow as he proves to be a considerate and reliable friend on- and offline, but she's starting to overthink everything she does around him. When Akane and the other guild members attend a cultural festival at Yamada's school, all the students think Akane is Yamada's girlfriend, which leads to an embarrassing misunderstanding.
"Romance blooms between a Nebraskan cowboy and California girl, thrust together on the Oregon Trail"--
"Developed by education experts, this Dr. Seuss Workbook gives kids a fun and cheerful way to learn basic phonics and practice decodable words! PHONICS LEVEL 1 is perfect to help young readers tackle short vowels (a, e, i, o, u), early CVC words, and sight words commonly taught at the kindergarten level"--
"Developed by education experts, this Dr. Seuss Workbook gives kids a fun and cheerful way to practice the skills they need to learn to read! PHONICS LEVEL 2 is perfect for young readers working on late kindergarten and early 1st grade phonics, as well as older students needing extra practice with essential reading skills and decodable words"--
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. “Whenever I want to read a book I know will be good, I go to Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, CrimeReads1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times.So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.Two actresses, both determined to make it to the top in Golden Age Hollywood—a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue—make for a sizzling combination.But this is the tale of three women, for it is also the story of the princess Salome herself, consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who foretells the doom of her stepfather, Herod: a woman torn between the decree of duty and the yearning of her heart.Before the curtain comes down, there will be tears and tragedy aplenty in this sexy Technicolor saga.
"An advanced exploration of machine learning and AI, with each chapter asking and answering a question from the field. Divided into five sections: deep learning and neural networks; computer vision; natural language processing; production and deployment; and predictive performance and model evaluation"--
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after—but this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA.“Currently the most popular romantasy webnovel . . . Under the Oak Tree is a Korean romantasy with intense emotional depth, weaving trauma and love in a medieval setting. [It] explores the internal and external struggles of Lady Maximillian and Sir Riftan in a fraught, evolving marriage.”—Bleeding Cool, in praise of Under the Oak Tree (The Comic)Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family’s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their noble name. When she is forced to marry Sir Riftan, a lowborn knight caught in one of her father’s schemes, Maxi doesn’t dare hope for happiness, let alone love. Her stumbling communication and his gruff manner sour their relationship before it can begin, and Riftan leaves without a word the morning after their vows are exchanged.Now, three years after their disastrous wedding night, Riftan has returned as a war hero. To Maxi’s surprise, despite rumors that he was offered marriage to Princess Agnes, a beautiful and renowned sorceress, Riftan still wants Maxi for his wife. And when he comes to claim her, his longing becomes a desire that bewilders Maxi, even as she is overcome by the scorching heat that Riftan’s presence ignites within her. As she learns to navigate the intricacies of her new life, Maxi will find herself and her courage, and discover that she is anything but powerless.This volume collects chapters 1-76 of the original webnovel by Suji Kim.
"After twenty-two years together, Danielle and Alex are getting a divorce. Once fiercely in love, they can barely stand the sound of each other's voice. To save money during the separation process, they decide to share a nesting apartment, swapping days with their two boys at the family home. In the apartment, Dani and Alex, on their own, begin to reflect on the last two decades - why they fell in love, and why the marriage fell, spectacularly, apart. The distance provides a chance for them to get to know their autonomous selves again. They both get back in the dating pool, Dani finds major success at work as a showrunner on her own TV project, and Alex starts dating a much younger woman. Still, they find they just can't stay away from each other, and somehow, the distance allows them to remember (for the first time in years) what they what they used to love about one another. Then, a family crisis suddenly draws them back into each other's orbit"--
"It's late August in Shady Hollow, and the heat has intrepid reporter Vera Vixen eager to get away. She agrees to chaperone the annual field trip to Summers End, an ancient tomb built by an early woodland culture, along with her good friend Lenore Lee to come with her. But when the two enter the tomb, they find bones that are distinctly more...modern. Digging a little deeper, Vera and Lenore discover that the deceased was involved in a recent excavation at the site, and very unpopular with their colleagues. Now the fox and raven have to delve into the dark world of academia and archaeology to determine which creature thought they were clever enough to get away with the perfect murder"--
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