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“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books The best-known book by Cuba’s most important...

Jack and the Giant Killers must save their beloved mentor, Abel, and round up the elements that the cruel giant, Gorgo, requires to open the terrible Hateful Gate. Failure would mean victory for Gorgo and his equally horrid family, who are more determined than ever in their relentless march to absolute power in Ooom. Jack and his young comrades are faced with countless perils as they transport a feisty talking hen to safety in the mystic northern kingdom of Glacial. By the time the novel concludes, the stage will be set for what promises to be an epic final battle for Ooom.

Twelve-year-old Colton Clutts is looking for a breakthrough. Average as they come, the third-string quarterback on the middle school football team does himself no favors when he agrees to play the part of the fairy in the school play. At home, his little sister thinks she's a witch and casts protective spells for Colton because she's convinced he's cursed. But when she stumbles upon a spell that actually works—turning theater-issued glitter into magical fairy dust—things start happening. Just like that, Colt-the-Bolt is born!

At these supernatural academies, romance is enchanting and friendship is magical. Become immersed in a world where magic is around every corner....

Essays, speeches, and letters on constitution ratification, pardoning powers, the Bank of the U.S., and foreign policy illuminate not only Hamilton’s legacy but his compelling engagement with Madison, Jefferson, and Adams, and his legendary conflict with Burr. A Penguin Classic With the...

Augie Sweetwater is a brilliant 11-year-old with a gift for inventing amazing things. Coop Cooperlick is the new kid in town, a 14-year-old with a passion for rock climbing and a knack for quick action. Mika Deerwood is a lovely 13-year-old Native American attending the prestigious Anacortes School with Augie and Coop. With the help of a rather special dolphin named Leo, they solve the mystery of disappearing families in the San Juan Islands of Washington state.

Kensey Vardallian may be young and foolish, but he'll stop at nothing to sate the need for vengeance consuming him after his grandfather's murder at the hands of an oppressive villain. Not only that, but his family's ancestral treasure is stolen and lies in the hands of a greedy count. 

“When a peregrine falcon dives, it can reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour,” Miles once told me. Two hundred miles per hour is about how fast my heart was beating when Miles finally told me the truth. He has schizophrenia. “Can you imagine the kind of courage that takes? To make a dive like that?” he had asked. Courage. Courage was exactly what I needed.

Luna's feathered friend has lost his feathers! Hoover the owl is fed up with Wizard Edwin's reckless magic tricks. When Hoover wakes up as a rhinoceros, no amount of pepper jack cheese can win his trust back. Luna, Edwin, and Hoover set off on a quest to get Hoover's feathers back, but the...

Luna is a crested gecko, small and seemingly insignificant. She lives in a tank, in a house, on the edge of Cottonwood Forest, with five humans who called themselves the Robbins family. She likes the Robbins family very much. Her life is ordinary and repetitive, yet pleasant. She never expects that one day things will change.

Warren Bullock always thought he was a decent person. But lately he's been haunted by a sinister voice in his head urging him to commit unspeakable acts of violence against the people around him.

When the cruel Thunder Giant Gorgo embarks on a quest to extract the all-powerful Horned Crown from the mystic recesses of the Hateful Gate, it falls to a poor farm boy named Jack and a ragtag bunch of teenagers known as the Giant Killers to stop him. For the Jack and the Giant Killers, stopping Gorgo will mean an adventure in the wondrous land of Ooom that none of them had ever imagined. But the biggest feat of all might be if they can find a way to get along with one another long enough to prevent Gorgo from achieving all power.

At the Academy of Ambrosia, magical dishes decide destinies—and Archie Kent is eager for redemption—in the first book of this deliciously epic fantasy series. In the five kingdoms of United Ambrosia, there's no higher honor than becoming a White Jacket. From childhood, Archie Kent has...

THE FINAL BOOK IN THE SAPPHIRE SAGA TRILOGY The O’Ryan family’s interstellar adventure reaches its thrilling conclusion. Join Slugger, Flint, Scout, and their father as they embark on their final and most dangerous quest―a journey to the center of the universe. For Slugger, Flint, and...

Birds, Boughs, and Belonging invites listeners into a quieter America—where meaning is discovered not in noise or ambition, but through attentive companionship with nature. Across gardens, forests, seashores, and mountain vistas, classic American writers—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa...

A poor labor class lives underground. The wealthy elite live in a gleaming city above them. This is Metropolis, the sci-fi classic that emerged after its writer collaborated on the screenplay for the 1927 film by the same name. As tensions between the two classes come to a head, a pair of young people from different worlds fall in love. Impoverished and compassionate Maria comes together with existential Freder, the wealthy son of one of the above-ground leaders, in a romance that angles toward whatever peace they can find.

Orca families have been decimated by humanity’s greed and folly, their food supply wiped out, their infants dying from starvation and tainted mother’s milk. Captive male orca Makai is destined for freedom, but a human-caused tragedy upends his world. Plotting revenge, acceptance into orca society, and reversal of his adopted family’s decline, his success hinges on fellow orcas, whale researchers, and a runaway teenager with Orca Clan roots.

A Huey helicopter escorted by two assault Charlie-model gunship helicopters are flying somewhere over the South Vietnam jungles in search of a sniper and his spotter. Not able to locate or make contact with them and with enemy fire increasing, they have to cancel their mission and hopefully come back later. As they begin to fly away, the door gunner from the second gunship sees the sniper and spotter running through the jungle. Realizing there is not enough time for the Huey to turn back, his pilot breaks toward an area where they can pick up the sniper and spotter.

"The Secret of the Old Mill," the third book in the Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon, follows Frank and Joe Hardy as they investigate a mysterious counterfeiting operation in their hometown of Bayport. When they receive a strange, counterfeit bill at the local post office, the brothers...

“The Tower Treasure,” the first book in the Hardy Boys series written by Franklin W. Dixon, introduces readers to the young sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy. The story is set in the fictional town of Bayport, where the brothers, sons of the famous detective Fenton Hardy, inherit their father’s...