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After the Fireworks

Three Novellas

by Aldous Huxley, Gary Giddins
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

"'After the Fireworks' is a major work and a turning point for Huxley, leading directly to Brave New World.” --Gary Giddins, winner of the **National Book Critics Circle Award ** In After the Fireworks, three lost classic pieces of short fiction by Aldous Huxley, author of* Brave...
by Thornton Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. The...

A Teacher's Guide to Brave New World

Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter

by Aldous Huxley, Amy Jurskis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

For teachers We know that the Common Core State Standards are encouraging you to reevaluate the books that you assign to your students. To help you decide which books are right for your classroom, each free ebook in this series contains a Common Core–aligned teaching guide and a sample chapter. This...

Lean on Pete

A Novel

by Willy Vlautin
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

Willy Vlautin's award-winning novel follows the story of a newly orphaned fifteen-year old-boy struggling to make his way to a long lost aunt, who just might give him a home—now a major motion picture starring Chloë Sevigny (American Horror Story), Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) and Travis Fimmel...

The Boat Runner

A Novel

by Devin Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

National Bestseller In the tradition of All The Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale, comes an incandescent debut novel about a young Dutch man who comes of age during the perilousness of World War II. Beginning in the summer of 1939, fourteen-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older...

Irma Voth

A Novel

by Miriam Toews
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011

"The nicely drawn contrast between what Irma knows and suspects and what the reader understands about her world gives Irma Voth a suspenseful charge from the first pages.” —Jane Smiley, Globe and Mail (Toronto) In a rare coming-of-age novel that blends dark truths with uplifting transformations,...
by J.R. Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team. Chase Robertson arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the recent death of his older...

The Virgin Cure

A Novel

by Ami McKay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the poverty and treachery of post-Civil War New York City. McKay, whose debut novel The Birth House made headlines around the world, returns with a...
by Erika Johansen
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

A #1 Indie Next Pick and LibraryReads Selection Magic, adventure, mystery, and romance combine in this epic debut in which a young princess must reclaim her dead mother’s throne, learn to be a ruler—and defeat the Red Queen, a powerful and malevolent sorceress determined to destroy her. On...
by Ann Patchett
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

#1 New York Times Bestseller The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins...
by Lisa O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013

A riveting, brilliantly written debut novel, The Death of Bees is a coming-of-age story in which two young sisters attempt to hold the world at bay after the mysterious death of their parents. Marnie and Nelly, left on their own in Glasgow's Hazlehurst housing estate, attempt to avoid suspicion...

Tiny Americans

A Novel

by Devin Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019

From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world—perfect for fans of the film Boyhood. Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents’ destructive dance of loving,...

LaRose

A Novel

by Louise Erdrich
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Finalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner Award In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her...

Loteria

A Novel

by Mario Alberto Zambrano
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

In Lotería, the spellbinding literary debut by Mario Alberto Zambrano, a young girl tells the story of her family’s tragic demise using a deck of cards of the eponymous Latin American game of chance.   With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo...
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