London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. A baseball player struggling with a god-given gift and human passions is given a second chance to become what he always dreamed he could be: the best there ever was. This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an..... More
New York: HarperTempest, 2003. Paperback. ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults School Library Journal Best Book Willie Weaver used to be a hero. Now he's nothing. Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2004. Nicolas Bentley (illustrations). Trade Paperback. Before heading off to war Major Palfrey reminds his two daughters, Dinah and Dorinda, to be good while he is gone. But the sisters aren’t sure that they can do it. As Dinah admits, “I think that we..... More
London: 4th Estate, 2020. Julian Humphries (jacket design). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. Ronni Solbert (illustrations). 50th Anniversary Edition. 5th Printing. Paperback. 50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains..... More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2014. Anton Petrov (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods—and risk their lives—in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series..... More
New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 2014. Anton Petrov (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. After being held..... More
London: Puffin Books, 2015. Yelena Bryksenkova (cover illustration), Robin Lawrie (illustrations). Reissued Edition. Thirteenth Printing. Paperback. Spend a season on the river bank and take a walk on the wild side . . . Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world. There's boating..... More
New York: Holiday House, 2019. James E. Ransome (cover art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2011. David Wyatt (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. The Black Cauldron, the Newbery Medal-winning second book in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain In the land of Prydain, evil is never far away. Arawn, Lord of the Land of Death, has been building an army..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2011. David Wyatt (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Princess Eilonwy hates to leave her friend Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper, and her beloved home, Caer Dallben. Why does she have to go to the Isle of Mona to train as a proper lady when she's already a princess..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2011. David Wyatt (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Newbery Award Winner When the most powerful weapon in the land of Prydain falls into the hands of Arawn, Lord of the Land of Death, Taran and Prince Gwydion rally an army to stand up to the..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2011. David Wyatt (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Taran Wanderer, the fourth book in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer--he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of Princess Eilonwy, but how can someone..... More
New York: Square Fish, 2007. Taeeun Yoo (cover art). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic, soon to be a major motion picture. It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the..... More
London: Black Swan, 2019. Fifth Printing. Paperback. A lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then can he tell the astonishing story of his family, rocked..... More
London: Vintage, 1999. Illustrated by the author. Reprint. Paperback. A beautiful fairytale filled with unexpected plot twists. Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2018. David McPhail (illustrations). First Printing. Trade Paperback. Anatole has a knack for seeking and finding adventure, often with Plumpet, his orange cat, who is accustomed to ghost trains, amnesiac soldiers, flying horses, and wallpaper portals, just a few of the enchantments encountered along..... More
New York: Laura Geringer Books/HarperTrophy, 2007. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. "A terrific yarn, full of smart detection and hip good humor" (Stephen King) Behind the Curtain is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams, following the acclaimed Down the Rabbit Hole..... More
New York: Simon Pulse, 2011. Reprint. Trade Papreback. The second installment of Scott Westerfeld’s international bestselling Uglies series – the global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend. In Tally’s world, looks are all that matters. And now that she’s finally undertaken the surgery to become a ‘Pretty’, everything seems..... More
New York: Simon Pulse, 2011. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "Special Circcumstances"… the words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious Ugly. Back then, the Specials were a sinister rumour - frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, and breathtakingly fast. And now Tally's become one of them..... More
London: Andersen Press, 2015. Ellen Forney (illustrations). Reprint. Trade Paperback. An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2016. Paperback. Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon is the second volume in the adventures of Shigeru Mizuki’s bizarre yokai boy Kitaro and his gaggle of otherworldly friends. These seven stories date from the golden age of Gegege no Kitaro, when Mizuki had perfected the balance of folklore, comedy..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. Paperback. In the fourth installment of Shigeru Mizuki’s Kitaro series readers meet a whole new cast of yokai monsters, including a giant Cyclops, the villainous Blackbeard, and a malefic sea captain who attempts to summon hell on Earth. The lead adventure “Yokai Cloth,” follows Kitaro..... More
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