The Anxious Generation

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

A River in Borneo : a tale of East Indies

It is the summer of 1964 during the Far Eastern war euphemistically called ‘Confrontation.’ A British Royal Marine patrol has orders to penetrate Indonesian Borneo to locate a river thought by Allied intelligence to be in use by the Indonesians to build up supplies before launching a major attack on Sarawak. Charged with this mission, Lieutenant Charles Kirton makes a most extraordinary dis…

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book—featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link

Beloved

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single Beloved.

Waiting

In Waiting, Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart.

The Sun Is Also a Star

A story of a girl, a boy, and the universe Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my st…

Interpreter of Maladies

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In…

The White Darkness

Symone "Sym" Wates is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears. But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed—and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for sur…

The Hate U Give

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529 p. : 2 cm.

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Long Way Down

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322 p. : 20 cm.

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Grendel

This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf , tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our…

The New Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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9781620971932

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377 p. : 22 cm.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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9781982110994

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218 p. : 22 cm.

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CURIOS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THE ICE AGE

Do you have a lot of curious question? This book is full of amazing answer! Humorous illustrations and astounding facts explore all that is wild, wonderful and downrigth weird about the ice age.

AROUND THE WORLD 80 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Come on a journey around the globe to explore a musical cave, peek inside a piano and find out how to play an instrument without touching it. From ancient instruments made from shells to instruments that make music with lightning, discover an orchestra of instruments you can shake, pluck, scrape, hit and blow-and how you can make your own. Learn how instruments are used in celebrations, ceremon…

The Book of Time Adventures in The Past, Present, Future and Beyond

What, exactly, is time? Why does it sometimes seem to speed up or slow down? Is time on earth the same as time on mars? And is it possible to travel through time? This book holds the answer to these questions, and many more!

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

In the future, will we teleport from place to place, keep dinosaurs as pets, or 3D-print our dinner? Will we live on Mars or upload our brains to computers? Could we solve climate change by making all our energy from mini stars we build here on earth? In this book, you'll meet the scientists working to bring science fiction to life and learn how soon we might have amazing new technology. You'll…

MILLIONS OF CATS

Once upon a time, an old man and old woman lived in a charming little house with so many beautiful flowers but they were not happy. they felt lonely, if only had a cat said the old woman sadly a cat ? asked the old man. An Old Man wanted to give a cat to his wife. He found one, two, three, then ... tens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of cats! He had a hard time choosing between them. F…

HOW TO MAKE A PICTURE BOOK

Ever dreamed of making your own picture book? Award-winning author Elys Dolan is here to show you how! Join ELys (the worm*) and her trusty sidekick Bert in a hilarious picture-book making adventure.

The Bee Sting

The Bee Sting , Paul Murray’s exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de a portrait of postcrash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.

Night

Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.

Dawn

Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli freedom fighter in British-controlled Palestine; John Dawson is the captured English officer he will murder at dawn in retribution for the British execution of a fellow freedom fighter. The night-long wait for morning and death provides Dawn, Elie Wiesel's ever more timely novel, with its harrowingly taut, hour-by-hour narrative…

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

A Man Called Ove

A word-of-mouth bestseller that has caused a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman's irresistible novel about the angry old man next door is an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people.

Nursery Rhymes

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The Bears Autumn

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What is a Wedding?

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Draw the World!

The world is full of patterns and pictures. So pick up a pencil and draw the world!

The Stationery Shop of Tehran

Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the stationery shop run by Mr Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick wads of writing paper, also carries translations of literature from all over the world. Bahman, with his burning passion for justice, is like no one else she has ever met. But all around them, as their relationship blossoms, life …