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A teen investigative podcaster decides to dig into the truth behind a grisly murder spree that rocked his hometown five years ago, but soon discovers that this cold case is still hiding deadly secrets

In The Cradle of Citizenship, James Traub chronicles his year of observing public schools across the country. He finds a red-blue war incarnated in the 1619 Project and 1776 Report; a profound disagreement over what exactly civic education means; and, most dismayingly, ever-diminishing expectations of students with ever-dwindling attention spans. Shedding light on one of the most divisive issues of our time, The Cradle of Citizenship upholds a vision of civics education as it could be.

The Beginner's Cut Flower Garden is the perfect book for gardeners who are dipping a toe into growing cut flowers for the first time. Gardener and therapeutic horticulturalist Elizabeth Brown offers thoughtful, step-by-step, seasonally inspired narratives and information on the flowers to grow. With the poetry of a classic horticultural guide and the accessibility of a contemporary garden club, Brown brings a collaborative, welcoming spirit to the process of growing flowers: we're all beginners here.

Radically open-minded and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. In distant Tibet, another life unfolds as remote from Evelyn's as can be: the life of a boy named Tsering, raised as a Buddhist monk who eventually becomes a high lama. And yet, their lives are strangely linked--as Evelyn discovers when a trio of Buddhist lamas show up at her door to announce that her five-year-old son Cliff is the seventh reincarnation of the illustrious Norbu Rinpoche, recently deceased. 

Hollywood, 1942. Jacqueline Love's acting career is flailing. Desperate to cling to stardom, Jackie takes the only gig that will have her- the Hollywood Victory Caravan, a train full of movie stars crossing the country to fundraise for the war effort. When a fellow star dies on board, Jackie enlists the help of Grace, one of the few women in the police force, to investigate as the train sits at Union Station. 

Told in two voices, Andy, a serious journalism student adamant about reinventing herself, and her influencer cousin, Dominique, who is on the verge of securing a major deal, navigate their own respective love stories over the New Year.

Beth March’s sisters will stop at nothing to track down her killer—until they begin to suspect each other.

There's a ghost haunting Drew Tarpin's new room. Liam Orville has been dead for ten months and has no idea how to move on. After a run-in with a ghost-eating monster leaves Drew and Liam desperate for answers, they strike up a deal. But Liam's time is running out, and if Drew doesn't help him move on, he risks becoming a monster himself.

A harrowing, edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller about a queer homeless teen who, in a bid for safety, assumes the identity of a boy who went missing ten years ago...only to find that his new home is anything but a safe haven.

A Chinese American teen navigates a high-stakes coding competition, sabotage, and first love when she is invited to a summer hackathon at MIT

After a botched high-profile murder investigation, Corporal Elderick Cole is exiled to the remote, rugged landscape of Nunavut, a vast territory in the Arctic Circle known for its untamed beauty, frigid temperatures, and endless winter nights. His bleak existence takes a sinister turn when he discovers the hanging body of Pitseolala, a troubled Inuit girl whom he had sworn to protect. Cole turns to Pitseolala’s younger brother, Maliktu, on a mission to find her killer.
 

In November 1913, a recruitment notice appeared in the first issue of an underground newspaper in San Francisco, the Hindustan Ghadar. The paper was founded by a charismatic anarchist from India named Har Dayal with the help of a group of Indian students at the University of California, Berkeley. Under the leadership of Dayal and fellow radical Sohan Singh Bhakna, this group hatched an audacious plan to put their words into action: they would convince other Indians, many of them Sikh lumber workers and farmhands on the west coasts of the United States and Canada, to launch a violent insurrection against the British Raj.
 

The Great Shadow uses extensive historical research and first-person accounts to tell a vivid story about sickness and our responses to it, from very ancient times until the last decade. In the process of writing, historian Susan Wise Bauer reveals just how many of our current fads and causes are rooted in the moment-by-moment experience of sickness—from the search for a balanced lifestyle to plug-in air fresheners and bare hardwood floors. 

Carter is caught in an unusual condition that causes him to relive his sixteenth year repeatedly. Each time he approaches his seventeenth birthday, his memory resets and his body reverts, while the rest of the world continues forward. Maggie, who previously had a relationship with Carter, remembers what he cannot. As she prepares for college and faces the limits of Carter's condition, the two navigate questions of memory, attachment, and continuity. 

Mia Yoon has a plan for everything, including producing her own dating show starring other people and their crushes. But everything goes off the rails when she has to enlist the help of her own secret crush, Noah Cho, a boy she'd rather hate. As Noah goes on more and more romantic dates on The Cuffing Game and Mia watches from behind the camera, something feels off. With the showrunner and contestant slowly falling for one another, can the show still go on?

High-achieving Eva dreams of attending Oxford, but her dream turns into a nightmare when her friend George dies during interview week and suspicion falls on Eva.

An internet star crafts a fake relationship with a small-town boy to rehab her image only to develop real feelings.

Sixteen-year-old Kyra teams up with new boy Logan to uncover the truth behind a mysterious drug with disturbing side effects that is plaguing their town.

When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock because Joe died five months ago. When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe monthly to help her turn the page on her first year without him. Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. 

County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight in Ireland, Maggie O’Shaughnessy has lost everything. She can see no future until the mysterious Lady Catherine arrives to whisk her away. Lady Catherine wants Maggie to impersonate her late daughter, Wilhelmina, to receive Wilhelmina’s widow pension. But something in Lady Catherine’s house is reawakening long-buried memories in Maggie.

To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights.

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

Book 2 of the Legendborn Cycle series

When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers.

When a student's younger brother becomes seriously ill after an encounter with a mysterious shopkeeper, she seeks assistance from a classmate who practices magic. With his help, she attempts to use supernatural abilities to protect her brother.

After breaking Uxlay University's sacred laws and inviting the rogue Nefrasi vampires into its halls, Kidan Adane finds herself trapped between betrayal and desire. Determined to protect her house and the artifact it guards, Kidan forges a perilous alliance with the ruthless Nefrasi leader.

Eighteen-year-old Prince Arris hopes to escape the cursed fate of his predecessors, each of whom dies shortly after marriage, so he strikes a deal with Demelza, a seventeen-year-old veritas swan maiden who can separate truth from lies.

Zora Lyon agrees to pretend to date the insufferably good-looking fan-favorite streamer, Ivan Hunt, in an attempt to boost her popularity in an e-sport competition. With her unmatched skill and in the video game world, and her new status as Ivan Hunt's girlfriend, she is sure to win the title of National Champion.

When a night of babysitting turns fatal, a girl burdened with survivor's guilt becomes increasingly convinced that someone is responsible for the gas leak that killed her family member--and that she was the intended target all along.

In 1965, twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother, who has shipped out to serve in Vietnam. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. But the real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam. 

Playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But it's not likely to be performed in a still-misogynistic theater world -- until the play is submitted under a male pseudonym. In 1581, Emilia Bassano is forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, overseer of all theatre productions in England. When she sees how playwrights' words move audiences, Emilia pays an actor named William Shakespeare to bring a work of her own to the stage.

Nash has a wife and a daughter and a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, where his innate skills and dogged tenacity have carried him to the top of the pyramid in his business career. Then Nash is approached by the FBI to become an 'inside man.' His purpose: To expose an enterprise, led by Victoria Steers, that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. 

Vigil transports us, careening, through the wild final evening of a complicated man, K. J. Boone. Visitors begin to arrive (worldly and otherworldly, alive and dead), clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room; a black calf grazes on the love seat; a man from a distant, drought-ravaged village materializes; two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s post-death future.

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate.

Dr. Ashely Alker manages to shock readers while making them laugh, educating them on how to outsmart a wide range of deadly situations and conditions. Many of the chapters include stories from her experiences in life and medicine, at times heartwarming, others heartbreaking. Sections include explorations of sex, poison, drugs, biological warfare, disease, animals, crime, the elements, and much more.

In this long-awaited follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Endure, Alex Hutchinson dives headfirst into a fascinating and provocative new field of research, examining how exploration is a fundamental part of what makes us human and revealing how, even in our fully mapped modern world, the pursuit of the unknown remains an indispensable mindset in all walks of life.

A YA paranormal fantasy about vampires in the Paris underground, where a young woman's bohemian dream turns into a chilling nightmare. Now her survival hinges on bringing to light the city's darkest and deepest secrets. 

A seventeen-year-old vlogger known as Storymancer is determined to get to the bottom of what's wrong in his town. A few years ago, his little brother went missing in the woods and no one, not even his parents, seemed to care enough to try and find him. When a body is found, Storymancer takes the opportunity to investigate the monsters that lurk in the shadows, and the people in town who might just want the monsters there after all.

a We Were Liars novel

When eighteen-year-old Mathilda is invited to spend the summer with the father she has never met, she discovers far more than she expected within his seaside home.

Determined to exist beyond the limitations of misogynistic social norms, a group of teenage girls form a powerful friendship and transform into werewolves.

Seventeen-year-old Anna accepts her aunts offer to come work and live at her seaside bookshop. There are plenty of distractions in this sleepy little town: the infuriatingly hot local surfer who keeps crossing her path, for instance, plus the celebrity book launch Anna unwittingly agrees to host at the bookshop. This summer is going to be anything but boring!

The story Julian promises to deliver is a love story, that of two friends he met at university in the 1960s, that time of touted but rarely experienced sexual freedom. Julian played matchmaker to Stephen (tall, gangling, uncertain) and Jean (tart and attractive); as the third wheel he was deeply invested in the success of their love and insulted when they broke up. Time is swift, and forty years later, he tries again, watching as their rekindled affair produces joys, betrayals, and disappointments of a different order.

Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure. As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. It feels inevitable, finally, that something must give.

Nothing could prepare Ruby, a servant to the royal family, for the king's decision to name her as the next heir to the throne just before his death. Thrown into the viper's nest of court, Ruby is forced to contend with a kingdom in crisis, the dead king's angry wife, and the three entitled and annoyingly handsome princes. When she discovers a note left by the king that claims he was murdered and she might be next, Ruby must make uneasy alliances with each of the princes as she tries to solve the king's murder. 

Aromantic and asexual students Sophie and Jo, engaged in an online feud as the creators of popular relationship advice accounts "Dear Wendy" and "Sincerely Wanda," unwittingly become real-life friends and navigate their shared aroace identities as they face the challenges of college life.

Maggie Atkins will never forget what happened when she and six other elementary school kids were kidnapped. She will never forget that her friends left her alone to escape. Ten years later she's forced to go on a school trip to the mountains with the very same people who abandoned her. When a brutal storm separates her group from their chaperone they realize there is someone else on the mountain. Someone who knows what really happened all those years ago. Someone who wants them dead and is willing to take them out one by one. 

When her father is investigated by the FBI, Indy's life begins to fall apart--including her friendships--but when she finds herself locked in her school's bathroom with one of her ex-best friends, Beau, the two have one final chance to understand what went wrong.

Are the four Farthing sisters really descended from Persephone? This is what their aunt has always told them: that the women in their family can trace their lineage right back to the Goddess of the Dead. When one of the sisters falls in love with a ghost named Henry, and another banishes him to the Underworld, the sisters are faced with even bigger questions about who they are. If they really are related to Persephone, and they really are a bit magic, then perhaps it’s up to them to save Henry, to save the world, and to save each other.

You press send and your message disappears. Full of secrets about your neighbors, it’s meant for your sister. But it doesn’t reach her – it goes to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead. As rumor spreads like wildfire through the picture-perfect neighborhood, you convince yourself that people will move on. But then you receive the first death threat. The next day, a woman has been murdered. She had the same address as you but in a different part of town. Did the killer get the wrong house? 

Daring to Be Free portrays the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved and, wherever possible, in their own words. It highlights the power of collective action, stressing the role of maroon communities, conspiracies, insurrections, and spiritual movements, from Haiti and Brazil to Cuba, Mauritius, and the American South. These acts of resistance involved entire communities, with women often at the heart of the story as warriors, organizers, and agents of radical change. 

The Wounded Generation tells the indelible stories of the veterans and their loved ones as they confronted the aftershocks of World War II. Veterans suffering from recurring nightmares, uncontrollable rages, and social isolation were treated by doctors who had little understanding of PTSD. The true cause of their distress would remain undiagnosed for decades to come. 

With the help of insider and society maestro Ward McAllister, among others, Alice and Cora launch into the social season of 1884, scheming their way through grand balls, private dinners, and opera nights, ensnaring Alice's targets one by one. But as they hurtle toward their ultimate swindle, a sprawling orchestrated scheme at their fabricated embassy to rob their targets blind, pressures close in from all sides. This sting is sure to be the event of the season. Or else ruin Alice and Cora both.

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A young woman cursed with a fatal heartbreak-induced sickness must race against time to find a cure and protect her family legacy from the ancient finfolk that would destroy it, the fiancé that would kill her for it, and the boy who would love her if she forsook it. 

A magical romance about a teen descendant of a Japanese dragon god who must find out the truth of what happened to her missing sister while trying not to fall for a handsome rogue agent.

Long-lost twin sisters unravel the mystery behind their mother's disappearance and face the family betrayal that ultimately separated them.

A swoony, sweet rural romance between a rancher and the Hollywood hotshot she's tasked with turning into a cowboy.

As part of the inaugural senior class of Huntington Academy, eighteen-year-old Austen-loving Lorena hopes to find her own Mr. Darcy, but instead accidentally awakens William Pride, the world's last vampire, whose struggle between love and destiny could determine the fate of his kind.

Vibrantly narrated and sharply argued, Blank Space is an essential guide for anyone looking to understand the chaos of the twenty-first century, the trends, tastemakers, and icons who shaped it, and how we might push our culture forward over the next quarter century—through renewed emphasis on creativity, community, and the values that transcend mere profit.

Wary of love after divorce, Janae Sanders focuses on the best things in her life: her son James and her besties in the Savvy, Sexy, and Single Club. As for romance? Not today, Satan. That is, until high school heartthrob Adam Henderson crashes back into her life at their 20-year reunion. Armed with sass, sarcasm, and a suitcase full of emotional baggage, Janae and Adam discover that sometimes love shows up in the most infuriating and unexpectedly sexy ways.

Prepare delicious meals with this no-frills, all-flavor recipe collection from Jessica Secrest, the wildly popular home chef known for her hostile humor and affordable recipes. Her long-awaited debut cookbook has an array of mouthwatering meals that focus on low-effort ingredients and techniques—think pre-shredded cheese, tater tots galore, and your handy-dandy slow cooker—so you’ll have an endless source of recipes to feed your family without wasting time or money.

The Canarviers are the premier performance thieves in New Washington, blending astonishing acrobatics, clever misdirection, and daring escapes to entertain their rich patrons. As King Canarvier has always told his children, their work is art. Then King disappears. With only days to buy mercy before their father is lost forever, Roo and Dax must compete in a high-stakes Grand Heist, pushing down their resentments to work together. 

Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

1975 is a time of change in America. In the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. Their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

Long ago, Arthur Poole built a grand house overlooking the turbulent ocean, in a Maine village that bore his name. Today, Sonya MacTavish lives in that house—a manor that has been cursed for generations. Within its walls, she has witnessed the deaths of seven brides and the thefts of seven wedding rings. And now, to break the curse and banish a malevolent spirit once and for all, a difficult task must be completed.

Gabriela Rose, recovery agent extraordinaire, can’t seem to lose her gorgeous-but-infuriating ex-husband Rafer Jones. And now he needs her help. His cousin, Harley, is in trouble. As a bank president, he invested an astronomical amount of money in insuring some of the world’s most priceless artifacts at the urging of his board. Recently, these insured pieces started going missing and worse, there’s no paper trail of Harley being directed to make these risky investments. Unless the artwork can be recovered soon, it looks like Harley is going to be heading to jail as the fall guy for an ingenious crime. 

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell has been "exiled" to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. Then Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor, a Jane Doe identifiable at first only by a streak of purple dye in her hair. He is convinced he is the only one who can bring justice to the woman known as "Nightshade." Soon, his investigation uncovers closely guarded secrets and a dark heart to the serene island that was meant to be his escape from the evils of the big city.
 

First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. Nothing is missing. Second—a store to buy a coat. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note with a desperate plea for help.

Ada’s little sister is getting married. But the wedding is all the way in Ireland, and Ada is so broke that she just barely managed to get a ticket on a budget airline that just cancelled her connection. She spills her heart about the womanizing best man she dreads to meet to a handsome also-stranded stranger at the bar. Then she realizes the stranger is the infamous best man. Now, Jack and Ada must put their simmering attraction behind them to make it to Belfast before they miss the nuptials. 

There are three things that PR strategist Jasmine Morgan knows for sure: One, she's damn good at her job. Two, she'll do whatever it takes to save her team from looming layoffs. And three, Derek Carter will always be her handsome archnemesis. Unfortunately, she and Derek end up on competing projects in Miller's Cove, a small town highly suspicious of corporate outsiders. To gain the trust of the locals, she'll have to ditch her blazer and pose as a "honeymooning couple" with her mortal enemy. But as the two get deeper into their charade, they discover little Miller's Cove has a lot of big secrets. 

These modern step-by-step projects draw inspiration from the artisans working in traditional block print workshops around Jaipur. From simple motifs to intricate patterns – and from tablecloths and tote bags to air-dry clay and gift wrapping – the instructions can be followed both by beginners and experienced crafters. Indian block printing is more than just an art form. It's a conscious and creative way of living.

In Progress, geographer Samuel Miller McDonald offers a radical new perspective on the myths upon which the modern world is built, illuminating its destructive lineage and suggesting an urgent alternative. Drawing on interdisciplinary research across anthropology, history, philosophy and geography, McDonald argues that if humanity is to thrive, then we must dismantle, reimagine, and create anew what progress means.

A girl knows having a pet giraffe poses some difficulties, like finding a way to take walks together with legs very different in length. And her giraffe doesn’t fit into the clubhouse door for Pet Club. But the Pet Club members come together to find a way for him—and everyone—to be included. Because that’s what friends do.
 

Every day, Buffalo Fluffalo goes about his usual routine. He munches all the grass he can eat, frolics and rollicks with his friends, and at noontime, lies down for a nap in the shade. But one morning, Fluffalo wakes up to a loud wailing cry and, to his surprise, finds a little buffalo named Puffalo with the tiniest, shiniest eyes!

At first, Fluffalo does not like Puffalo. “What does it need?” he huffs in alarm. But Crow wisely explains that Puffalo doesn't need much—just time to learn and grow. Slowly, Fluffalo watches as Puffalo learns to trip, slip, gallop, and trot. He teaches Puffalo to eat plants and to keep away from red ants. Together, the two take long strolls and snuggle for naps. And even though Puffalo sometimes slows him down, Fluffalo realizes that life is much better with Puffalo by his side.
 

It’s bedtime for Bean! And Ms. Rachel knows exactly how to get him settled down and ready for a restful sleep. Follow along as Ms. Rachel and Bean say good night to the day with their tried-and-true bedtime routine. 

First, they put away toys. Next comes bathtime and pajamas. Then Bean brushes his teeth and uses the potty. Finally, Ms. Rachel and Bean will read a wonderful bedtime story together and sing a song! 

When the town's "it-couple," Brad and Shelley, are found brutally murdered in a secluded manor, a brave group of teen friends takes on the mystery.

A swoon-worthy YA rom-com about an ambitious college student whose plans get derailed when he discovers his roommate is the prince of hell.

Fallon is a fixer. Shelby is a fighter. Jobie is a failure. Fallon needs to keep herself anonymous, Shelby needs to keep her new boyfriend happy, and Jobie needs to keep her followers who keep asking for more. Each girl finds herself trapped in an inescapable situation--that will leave one of them dead.

Finley, Mya, River, and Eli were inseparable—until tragedy shattered their bond and drove Finley away. Now it’s senior year, and she’s back, hoping to reclaim the friendships she lost. But when Mya throws a house party on a snowy night, Finley realizes the group isn’t what it used to be. Then a stranger crashes the party. Then someone ends up dead. Then everything unravels.

Dawson, a star hockey player, and Harper, his biggest critic, must confront their assumptions about each other while working together at an after-school job, as they navigate their differences and find unexpected common ground.