Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds : the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childho...

Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, Julilly only has her dream of freedom left. Every day she spends huddled in the trader's cart travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possi...

This is the third and final book in the (And Other Things) series. The first one was about basketball. The second was about movies. This one is about hip-hop. They're all different in content but similar in structure, which is to say : Each chapter h...

With Celtic Lightning , bestselling author Ken McGoogan plunges into the perpetual debate about Canadian roots and identity : Who do we think we are ? He argues that Canadians have never investigated the demographic reality that informs this book—t...

Of course I didn't like Digby when I first met him. No one does. The first time Philip Digby shows up on Zoe Webster's doorstep, he's rude and he treats her like a book he's already read and knows the ending to. But before she knows it, Zoe's ...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of h...

The Shape of a Girl goes far beyond a simple dramatization of the seemingly inexplicable code of silence and tacit complicity that surrounded the sensationalized Reena Virk murder in 1997, on which the play is based. It speaks eloquently and compassi...

In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider, she joins the elite team who ac...

In the little college town of Blitheton, fantasy creatures live cozy, normal lives right alongside humans, and werewolf barista Julie strives to be the most normal of all. But all heck breaks loose when she and her new girlfriend Selena go on a disas...

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-hea...

Meet Kiran Sharma : lover of music, dance, and all things sensual ; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his lot-until he realizes he's a god... As an only son, Kiran has obligations - to excel in ...

DJ thinks himself as a leader - always out in front, always in charge and able to accomplish anything. So when he goes to Tanzania to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and scatter his grandfather's ashes, he is sure it won't be that difficult - how hard is a b...