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There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. -
Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. --from "Ask Me" -
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances—a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection. -
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. -
The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States. -
A lyrical picture book debut from Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman and illustrator Loren Long. -
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross. -
A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future. -
Mo Willems meets Bob Shea in this uproariously funny picture book about Gilbert the Goblin from the creator of Unicorns Are the Worst! -
A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother’s, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. -
A picture book biography by an award-winning team about the first woman to ride a motorcycle around the world. -
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.d