Loux’s tale opens in the Pennsylvania settlement of Penn’s Woods decades after the mysterious disappearance of Jean-Pierre Laux, the eponymous seigneur. A letter arrives at the chateau of Magdalena Laux, wife of a Pennsylvania legislator, warning that a man claiming to be the long-lost father of Magdalena’s own father, Pierre, is on a ship bound …
After someone tells Green Hippo that his kind doesn’t exist, he goes to Frog for help. “NONSENSE!” says Frog, but Green Hippo dismisses his pal’s reassurance. “Well, that’s easy for you to say,” replies Green Hippo. “Frogs are supposed to be green, just like you.” He’s similarly dismissive when Elephant and Giraffe attempt to soothe …
Cat Stevens is known for several things, among them anthems such as “Wild World,” “Morning Has Broken,” and “Peace Train.” Those songs, he writes, came to him after a shattered first career as a pop singer, which left him “all burned out at the age of nineteen, after only sixteen months: show business had done …
Early on, Lyons, a professional entrepreneurial coach and the founder of Lyons Consulting Group, writes about studying at the University of Michigan and earning an MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. At the time, he was concentrating on a numbers-driven approach to business that had made his family’s Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship the largest …
Maggie O’Malley needs a quick influx of cash, or her family home will be auctioned off to pay the loans and taxes that her deadbeat ex-husband refused to pay. When her best friend, Wendy Hayes, learns of a “Magic, Moonlight, and Mayhem” contest in Ireland with a cash prize of $500,000, she convinces Maggie to …
In three interactive stories with multiple endings, readers navigate Dragon and Unicorn’s friendship along with them in different situations. The “frenemies” label from the title isn’t really accurate: Bespectacled green Dragon and blue-eyed, blue-horned Unicorn are best friends and truly care about each other, but each needs to speak up to remind the other that …
As war rages, a conspiracy led by Calinoran nobility seeks to remove Calinor’s queen by any means necessary. The Larks, self-styled patriots, recently kidnapped Princess Adelisa, who goes by Ash and has a disability that requires her to use braces and a cane. Now the Larks have deadly plans for the city of Haven’s harvest …
While watching the Perseids meteor shower with best friend Naznen, Aya is hit by a shooting star that leaves her with mysterious powers—steam puffs out of her ears, flames shoot out of her mouth, and flowers spring up where her tears fall. A confused Aya discovers that a prophecy that “a star would strike a …
Opening and closing with scenes from a gig as a 33-year-old burlesque dancer, Campbell shows off her experience as a stand-up comic with a quip-laden narrative in which she chronicles both her youth as a picky eater from childhood through college and a yearslong, riotously contentious, on-again, off-again relationship with a sometimes pushy, sometimes disturbingly …
“I ain’t ready to go anywhere,” writes Osbourne in the opening pages of his new memoir. “It’s good being alive. I like it. I want to be here with my family.” Given the context—Osbourne died on July 22, 2025, two weeks after the publisher announced the news of this book—it’s undeniably sad. But the rest …
