A flu pandemic wipes out most of humanity in a matter of days. Fifteen years later, the Traveling Symphony moves between scattered survivor settlements performing Shakespeare and music, their motto: “Because survival is insufficient.” Kirsten was a child actress the night it all began; now she’s onstage in the ruins of the old world, making […]
Mrs. Frisby is a widowed field mouse with a sick child and an impossible deadline: move before the spring plowing, or the child will face certain death. Fortunately, she’s got some truly incredible neighbors. The extraordinarily intelligent rats of NIMH, who escaped a government laboratory and are building a civilization of their own, take her […]
One moment, Earth exists. The next, every human-made structure has been atomized and transformed into an 18-level dungeon complete with goblins, traps, loot, and an alien audience of billions tuning in to every moment. Enter Carl, a Coast Guard vet, and Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend’s very opinionated show cat. The rules: survive each level before […]
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It’s ten years since the fall of Troy and Odysseus still hasn’t made it home. So begins one of literature’s great longshot sagas: conspiring gods, beckoning enchantresses, and a house full of suitors helping themselves to his kingdom. Homer’s ancient epic of loss, cunning, loyalty, and the relentless pull of home remains, over 2,700 years […]
Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of Black women calculated the equations that got him there—and then were asked to use a separate bathroom. Hidden Figures tells the true story of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine: the “human computers” at NASA whose brilliance powered the Space […]
The Dark Lord wants his ring back. The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance. And the person carrying it is a small, soft-footed hobbit from a very comfortable hole in the ground. Tolkien’s foundational epic is grand in every sense—sweeping landscapes, ancient evil, immortal poetry—but its secret is that it never loses sight of […]
Tayo returns from World War II to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation shattered. He is scarred by combat, imprisonment, and the rejection he faces at home. His path back to himself winds through ceremony, myth, and the land itself, guided by a medicine man whose healing is as unconventional as it is profound. Silko’s novel is […]
Welcome to CAPE—Criminal Action Penal Entertainment—where prisoners fight to the death in front of packed arenas for the chance to win their freedom. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars, teammates, and lovers, navigating a system designed to crush them. Adjei-Brenyah’s blazing debut novel is part gladiator epic, part searing satire of […]
Brian Robeson is thirteen, alone in the Canadian wilderness, and the only tool between him and starvation is a hatchet from his mom. Gary Paulsen’s Newbery Honor classic earns every page of what comes next—the failed fires, the wrong berries, the slow accumulation of skills that nobody teaches you until your life depends on them. […]
