A redheaded child describes his “busy body,” including his green eyes that help him see, his nose that helps him smell warm, fresh-baked cookies, and his mouth, with which he laughs, yawns, and enjoys eating his favorite treats. He counts the hairs on his baby brother Paul’s head, swims, jumps, and plays sports, and he …
Having recovered from adventures related to a prankster co-worker, Marty Moose (so named because of an unfortunate ink blot on his birth certificate) is ready to enjoy his day off. And what better way to relax than to attend the Annual Little Ditch Fastest Feathers Race, where birds compete for a solid gold egg? But …
Janessa “Nessa” Douglas left her hometown near Chesapeake Bay nearly two decades ago. Now she’s returned to Mystic Beach, because her late grandmother Elspeth bequeathed her a coastal home there. Nessa, who’s between jobs, plans to sell the house, but Elspeth’s will stipulates that she must live there at least a month before putting it …
At just over 1,000 years old, Ellet has seen a lot in his lifetime. He’s fought—and died—in battles, lost a wife and child, and drunk the blood of hundreds of thousands of people. Throughout this time, he’s been bound to Embla, the vampire who turned him after he was killed in battle. Embla is a …
Captain Zephyra “Zeph” Zamora and her Uncle Jack work best as a team. Together, they run missions for Cellexis, a powerful corporation that’s leading the ambitious effort to solve Earth’s water crisis by creating the LunaRing Reservoir, which consolidates water gathered throughout the galaxy. When a disaster tears apart one of the company’s space stations, …
Wilhelm “Willie” Grimmerly wishes to leave the Blackened Forest on a journalism internship (“Whether brave or naive, Willie believed stories matter”). Upon her arrival in King’s County, Willie finds herself censored, relegated to writing propaganda in praise of marriage and femininity. Frustrated, she records the controversial stories of the Resistance, writing about the Levens (magical …
McFadden wastes no time pulling the trigger in this harrowing story that starts with gunfire then swiftly propels readers into a crack tale of secrets and misdirection. Originally self-published in 2016, the book carries the same formidable weight as McFadden’s later novels featuring unsuspecting women who lose their power then fight to recapture it—mostly from …
In this expansive memoir, Slavova recounts her life from her childhood in Bulgaria to her present life in Los Angeles. Born in 1977, the author grew up with her sister, Luiza, a disciplinarian mother, and a gentle father. After her Olympic judo dreams were crushed in a car accident involving her boyfriend, Slavova made her …
Raised by her grandparents in the Jim Crow South, the young Arlinda Willis “had a front-row seat” to the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, while growing up in nearby Toxey. In defiance of the systemic racism that shaped her upbringing—she grew up in “squalid conditions” in a “ramshackle house” without indoor plumbing or electricity—Willis …
The Glory Peak Ski Resort is founded in 1966 by Bill Macklemore, a World War II veteran–turned–ski instructor who developed a site near Fortooth into a premier skiing destination (it is said that “Fortooth was one of those towns where reality was far more potent than myth”). His devotion to his business is so all-encompassing …
