This story is not for the faint of heart. When Cleo reaches out to her best friend Adrian, she feels nothing. Literally. Suddenly, she is plummeted into a new world she refers to as The Nothingness, and is told that she must recreate the universe with only her imagination as a guide. But The Nothingness isn't as empt...
What happens when a geriatric security guard survives a werewolf attack? You get the world's oldest, arthritic, toothless werewolf, that's what.
“Like the howl of an accordion—half sorrow and half joy, wondrous and exquisite—these stories squeezed my heart.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of "The House on Mango Street" * In "Once More to the River," Erasmo Guerra writes a moving account of his boyhood on the Texas-Mexico border. An award-winning novelist and journ...
Read this to see the world through a blind boy's eyes. "You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same."~Daniel Knode "Colors?" Edward asked. "What did they looked like?" A blind boy's question about what colors are. Edward is blind and has been his whole life. After being bullied and pu...
When magic leaps from fairy-tale to reality at the tips of every person's fingers, chaos unfolds. Four unlikely but steadfast friends; Eris, Pird, Zook, and Sye, have their loyalty to one another tested when they find themselves at the center of an invisible war and a conspiracy three-thousand years in the making...
Teenager Lisa Herbert lives in the small town of Mountain View on the planet Fairfield. The "Savage Rain" decades earlier shut down the hyperspace gate and isolated her world. A casual remark from her sister gets Lisa to ask a simple question: "If life was better before the 'Savage Rain,' why couldn't it be better aga...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, f...
A dystopian vision of the future, as seen through the eyes of a brain damaged ex-policeman. The last city on Earth is an overcrowded, festering metropolis of segregated quarters and ancient, ethnic hatreds. It is a city on the edge of starvation, slowly succumbing to the creeping death that has choked off the rest of...