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While some art historians tend to dismiss Darger as possibly psychotic, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged and fearful gay man, raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. This...

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria...

Instant New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018 TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads List Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018 Kirkus...

The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand...

Pura Belpré Honor Book BEST OF THE YEAR Chicago Review of Books - Kirkus - Los Angeles Public Library Publishers Weekly Flying Start High Spirits is a collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora, from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is...

Are you looking for a better way to connect with your employees and keep them motivated? Every person in your organization desires to be understood and accepted. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to empathize with each of your employees,...

Author: Clarissa Pinkola EstésPublisher: Ballantine BooksPublished: 02/04/2003Pages: 560Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.01lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.56w x 1.61dISBN: 9780345377449Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Honor BookReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/11/1992

Packy the Packrat's mother has had enough It's time that he sorts through his ever-growing collection of trinkets and puts them away. Told in rhyme, the text leads the reader to participate in the sorting process by categorizing Packy's piles of things according to...

It is night and Edmund is all alone. His mother is gone. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one, except for a dark and mysterious stranger who follows him through the cold and shadowy city with offers of help. But who is this...

HIGHER INSTITUTE OF VILLAINOUS EDUCATION Otto Malpense may only be thirteen years old, but so far he has managed to run the orphanage where he lives, and he has come up with a plan clever enough to trick the most powerful man in the...

A brilliant portrait of two American heroes from the award-winning creators of The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy)!"Adams and Jefferson help bring forth the Declaration of Independence and... model successful collaboration. Their secret: Speak up and listen to the other guy. Good lessons...

By the author of Villanelle novels, the basis of Killing Eve, the sensational hit television series. Blood Knots is a brilliant and dramatic memoir of an angler's life. It places Jennings in the front rank of natural history writers. As a child in the...

Barrett recounts the incredible story of Ben Hogan's victory just 16 months after suffering near-fatal injuries in a head-on car crash with a Greyhound bus.Author: David BarrettPublisher: Skyhorse PublishingPublished: 10/08/2010Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.35w x 1.11dISBN: 9781616080822Award: USGA Herbert Warren Wind...

Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that. Chad, on the other hand, is one...

8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller Absolutely riveting --Jason ReynoldsStunning. --John GreenThis story is necessary. This story is important. --Kirkus...

Winner: John Brinckerhoff Jackson PrizeWinner: Kniffen AwardWinner: Missouri History Book Award Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of its cultural beacons.In Kansas City and...

The first Catherine Le Vendeur mystery to appear in trade paperback, The Wandering Arm is an absorbing, richly authentic adventure. Heaven has a way of playing with mortals. When the mummified arm of St. Aldhelm is stolen from the Salisbury Cathedral in England, Catherine...

After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.Author: Eva IbbotsonPublisher: Puffin BooksPublished: 04/06/2006Pages: 416Binding Type:...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN OPEN BOOK AWARD, THE 2023 PEN/BINGHAM PRIZE, THE 2022 STORY PRIZE, THE 2023...

Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond."What's the story on Bond?""Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported."I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him!And be straight with me, man. No medical mumbo...