"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...

"Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass and cedar palace on an island in British Columbia. Jonathan Alkaitis works in finance and owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, Vincent's half-brother, Paul, scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis,...

Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, prime ministers and other potentates. It's about states, armies and corporations. It's about orders from on high. But what if that's simply because hierarchical institutions create the archives that historians rely on? What if we are missing the less visible social networks that are the true drivers of change - leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati?...

"In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading. Chabon asks why anyone would write an introduction, or for that matter, read one. His own daughter Rose prefers to skip them. Chabon's answer is simple and...

"Astro Mouse is depressed. He misses his family and home. They have been drifting in space for so long they hardly remember when they last saw Earth! Light Bulb, Lamp, Astro-Chicken and the soldiers from planet Bubblegum try to cheer their friend up. Nothing works until they find a strange planet that looks like...Wait! It's Earth! Unfortunately, Earth has changed a lot and it's overrun with dinosaurs...Where have our space heroes landed? Are they...

"A celebration to mark the founding of Ponyville kicks things off, Pinkie Pie gets the gang together for some live-action role playing, and take a trip to the Wonderbolts Academy for Foals and Friends Weekend. Plus, an escaped Cerberus equals quite the ruckus for our favorite fillies, especially when Princess Celestia requests a dog sitter and the task falls to Rarity! Twilight Sparkle receives a mysterious message about a missing turtle! Only it's...

"Alan is an older gay man on the prowl for a young, 30-ish hookup. He finds the perfect match in Scott, but when they go back to Alan's sprawling estate, "Scott" suddenly turns on his older date. Turns out, Alan isn't the picture-perfect sugar daddy, but a sociopath responsible for the disappearance of numerous young gay men. "Scott" isn't really looking for a boyfriend, but revenge for a fallen friend...unfortunately for Scott, he may have underestimated...

Nearly 700 poems by fifty poets, from colonial times to the present.