May 2024

From the Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author comes a collection of three short stories that probe the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged and breathtakingly insightful.

Powerful novel about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island, in all its shattered reality. This one takes you through a roller coaster of emotions, as Jiménez does what the best writers do – she makes you laugh, cry and think. Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship – and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. The inspiring story of one man’s journey through a century of upheaval.

Hoodie Rosen’s life isn’t that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just picked up and moved to the quiet, mostly non-Jewish town of Tregaron, but Hoodie's world hasn’t changed that much. That is, until he meets and falls for Anna-Marie Diaz-O’Leary – who happens to be the daughter of the obstinate mayor trying to keep Hoodie’s community out of the town. And things only get more complicated when Tregaron is struck by a series of antisemitic crimes that quickly escalate to deadly violence. Wry, witty and great for classroom discussions.

The third installment in the popular, award-winning Song of the Lioness series finds newly knighted Alanna of Trebond seeking adventure in the vast desert at the edge of Tortall.
When the local Bazhir people discover her, they charge her with trespassing and sentence her to a duel to the death. But when Alanna wins, she’s inducted into the tribe – and soon after, she becomes the tribe’s first female shaman. Students devour these books.

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind.

When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Soon, he and his best friend Rafe discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform not only their own futures, but the town itself.

With tricky puzzles, funny riddles, and eerily funny stories, this interactive middle grade book allows the reader to become a part of the plot – like the good ole Choose Your Own Adventure series of my youth!

The first in a series about a curious, imaginative, playful little boy and his band of lovable stuffed animal friends.

Illustrated brilliantly by Sophie Diao, this joyful and lyrical picture book from Chen is a moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children.