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In this spine-tingling story from Newbery Medal winner Avi, a boy must solve the mystery of the ghost haunting him. For most of Tony Gilbert’s life, he has thought of his uncle as “Weird Uncle Charlie.” That is, until Uncle Charlie moves in with Tony and his family. Uncle Charlie is still...

An entertaining short-story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of A Confusion of Princes. Garth Nix is renowned for his legendary fantasy works, but To...

Told in alternating points of view by a wide cast of characters, Twisted Fate is a tensely wrought psychological thriller, perfect for fans of We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. Two sisters. One mysterious boy. Ally and Sydney couldn’t be more different—one shy, the other popular and...

“Maria Dahvana Headley is a firecracker: she’s whip smart with a heart, and she writes like a dream.” —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Graveyard Book and Coraline Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that...

Oola is a very different kind of love story. Oola and Leif meet at a party in East London, two Americans at a loose end. The insouciant music school dropout and aimless young writer fix on one another, grab hands and fall headfirst down love's rabbit hole. Leif's summer plans soon become Oola's, too, and the pair find themselves mansion-sitting their way across the States, drinking the liquor cabinets dry and emptying the walk-in wardrobes to play dress-up.

The deliciously dark and dangerously addictive New York Times bestseller, from the author of the sensational The Boy Who Steals Houses. Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education in this queer dark academia YA horror, filled with twisted fairy tales and monsters that will keep you up at night. 'No...

The New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a group of college students encountering supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia—an unforgettable, chilling novel that is “scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night” (Stephen King). 1983...

Brought to you by Penguin. Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as...

Jake, Macon, and Lovie fight to survive at sea in this third “powerful coming-of-age tale” (Kirkus Reviews) in the middle grade, New York Times bestselling The Islanders series by Mary Alice Monroe! Jake Potter’s biggest dream finally comes true: he gets his very own boat! And it’s just...

How do you run a big meeting? Help your employees meet their goals? Hire someone? Master these skills and more with this indispensable guide to the first 30, 60, and 90 days in your new management role. Jump into the job with confidence as you navigate the dos and don'ts of first-time managers, learn to communicate effectively, delegate responsibilities clearly, and build the 5 qualities all great bosses have.

“Delicious, decadent, and utterly diabolical. No one serves up a scandal like Asha Elias.”—Kirsten Miller, author of The Change A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, Pink Glass Houses is very Big Little Lies and Pineapple Street...

Eighteen-year-old Constance is not interested in marriage or in being a “young lady”. But for a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, that’s just about all that’s available to her. When her parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her age, she’s powerless to resist. Stance couldn’t possibly find her newfound husband less appealing, but what can she do? Here’s what: Four months into the marriage, she can slip out of their bed in the middle of the night, and she can put on his clothes. 

Eager to clean up his act after his troubled early 20s, Owen has returned to Kentucky to take a job as a groundskeeper at a small college in the Appalachian foothills, one which allows him to enrol on their writing course. It's there that he meets Alma, a writer-in-residence, who seems to have everything Owen doesn't - a prestigious position, an Ivy League education and published success as a writer. 

Stranger Things meets Sideways Stories from Wayside School in this quirky supernatural middle grade novel about a boy on an unlikely quest to uncover an enchanted book to defeat an unearthly nemesis—from New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël. When he first started seeing ghosts, Max...

This expanded junior novelisation retells the fourth season of Netflix’s iconic series Stranger Things. It’s been six months since the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins. Struggling with the aftermath, our group of friends are separated for the first time...

Clay knows deep down in his bones that his mother was NOT killed by her dolls. At least until her cryptic plea for help arrives, one that sends Clay on a twisted investigation exposing creepy, cult-like doll collectors, disturbing online urban legends, and a mysterious figure following Clay's every move only known as the Button-Eyed Man. Clay won't abandon his mom like she did to him—he'll leave no road untaken to bring her back.

When COVID hits, Peter Hughes finds himself unemployed, out of shape, and living in his mother’s basement. Not where he thought he’d be in his mid-thirties. Then he discovers Ryan’s Fabulous Fitness, a gay-forward online workout program. Peter can’t look away, and before long, he’s not only transforming his body: he’s reckoning with his sexuality, too. Peter emerges from the pandemic newly out and totally unprepared. Nevertheless, he dives headfirst into gay life, stumbling through app-fueled hookups, steamy underwear parties, and New York’s chaotic dating scene.

Pools, parties, and Pina Coladas are common in Key West. But a cartel crashes the party. Can Paradise Survive another serial killer? Chicago detectives, Nick Scott and Norm Malone are invited to Key West for a consultation with their friends, Jojo and Lola, who have founded their own Detective Agency. They have requested assistance in stopping the cartel distributing fentanyl, which has resulted in numerous ODs. More chaos ensues when two flamingos disappear from The Bird House, one of Key West’s major attractions. Conflicts arise as Nick’s addiction to alcohol and men increase.

One year after surviving the mystery that made them local legends, the Sanera gang has gone their separate ways. When Sanera's Halloween festival reunites the group for a celebratory hometown event, nostalgia quickly turns to terror. As the festival spirals into chaos, a new killer emerges, using Sanera's local legends as inspiration for a string of gruesome murders. Each crime mirrors myths the gang once debunked, making it clear: someone is obsessed with their history and is rewriting it in blood.

A sweeping historical novel about hidden, forbidden love in the early 1900s by bestselling writer and former poet laureate of Kentucky Silas House. Amos and Tom fall in love while working in the tobacco fields during the hot summers of the early 1900s, yet Tom cannot shake his strict religious...