BikeSnobNYC

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling

The author lampoons the missteps, pretensions, and absurdities of bike culture, sparing nobody, not even himself.

Bike Snob

76aebb06-d5d9-422b-b52c-5fb412cd309a-1

Jim Arnosky

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The noted naturalist and artist presents sketches and observations from his walks around the Vermont farm where he lives.

Nearer Nature

9e7cca7a-de7a-4a08-a284-3a6db9833c40-0

Douglas J. Llewellyn

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

Implementing Inquiry- and Argument-Based Science Standards in Grades 3-8

Your definitive guide to inquiry- and argument-based science—updated for today’s standards! Doug Llewellyn’s two big aims with this new edition of Inquire Within? To help you engage students in activities and explorations that draw on their big questions, then build students’ capacity to defend their claims. Always striking a balance between the “why” and the “how,” new features include how to Teach argumentation, a key requirement of both the Common Core and NGSS Adapt your existing science curricula and benefit from the book’s many lesson plans Improve students’ language learning and communication skills through inquiry-based instruction Develop your own inquiry-based mindset

Inquire Within

4a8de9cf-1133-49b5-95ae-a8aeeefc93d8-0

Peter Matthiessen

Author's account of his travels in Western Africa in 1978 and in Eastern Africa in 1986 tells of the vanishing worlds of Africa and what is replacing them.

African Silences

85831d2e-a034-45ca-86c6-dd12ecdedb09-0

Stephen King

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations. 1,750,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

Bag of Bones

a2eb0909-3921-4f9c-80d9-a536a5db3e23-1

Carey Corp

Lorie Langdon

Embarking on a summer adventure in Scotland, best friends Veronica and Mackenna find romance and danger when they are transported to the kingdom of Doon, a hidden village that appears once every one hundred years.

Doon

6e5491db-cee4-433f-ad1c-923ac345b6ee-1

David Bell

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tom's investigation into the disappearance and return of his 12-year-old daughter, Caitlin, and her refusal to testify against the man thought to be responsible or discuss what happened to her leads to a shocking discovery. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Cemetery Girl

1912448f-fd4a-4318-a8df-e21bb8024f2d-1

Nicole Maggi

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant, but the organ beating in her chest does not seem to be in tune with the rest of her body, and after she discovers her heart belonged to a girl her own age who fell out of the foster care system and intoa rough life on the streets, Georgie is compelled to find the truth before she loses herself completely.

The Forgetting

ac13f4cf-d2fc-490e-b6ca-5e1fd21101d6-1

Stephanie Knipper

A Novel

In the spirit of Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s The Language of Flowers--and with a touch of the magical--The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin is a spellbinding debut about a wondrously gifted child and the family that she helps to heal. Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when growing up on their family’s Kentucky flower farm yet became distant as adults when Lily found herself unable to deal with the demands of Rose’s unusual daughter. But when Rose becomes ill, Lily is forced to return to the farm and to confront the fears that had driven her away. Rose’s daughter, ten-year-old Antoinette, has a form of autism that requires constant care and attention. She has never spoken a word, but she has a powerful gift that others would give anything to harness--she can heal with her touch. She brings wilted flowers back to life, makes a neighbor’s tremors disappear, and even changes the course of nature on the flower farm. Antoinette’s gift, though, comes at a price, since each healing puts her own life in jeopardy. As Rose--the center of her daughter’s life--struggles with her own failing health and Lily confronts her anguished past, the sisters, and the men who love them, come to realize the sacrifices that must be made to keep this very special child safe. Written with great heart and a deep understanding of what it feels like to be different, The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin is a novel about what it means to be family and about the lengths to which people will go to protect the ones they love. “This is the kind of book that invites you home, sits you down at the kitchen table, and feeds you something delicious and homemade. You will want to stay in this world where new relationships bloom out of broken ones, sisters find one another again, and miracles really do occur.” —Tiffany Baker

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin

1c911049-5ba8-4185-b699-27ab40a1233a-1

Hank Green

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

3ca9a29e-73ce-46a2-9710-56465660c24f-1

Jodi Picoult

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past -- a past she didn't even know she had -- catches up to her just in time to threaten her future. Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it. In shock and confusion, Delia must sift through the truth -- even when it jeopardizes her life and the lives of those she loves. What happens when you learn you are not who you thought you were? When the people you've loved and trusted suddenly change before your eyes? When getting your deepest wish means giving up what you've always taken for granted? Vanishing Acts explores how life -- as we know it -- might not turn out the way we imagined; how doing the right thing could mean doing the wrong thing; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat. Once again, Jodi Picoult handles a difficult and timely topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.

Vanishing Acts

f1424a7a-7c26-4136-8d16-0a88e36023f3-1

Tana French

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.

In the Woods

5cacc042-acac-48ea-a8d2-ea8592582821-1

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Italo Calvino

Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.


The Baron in the Trees

428e4745-cc48-44f5-af1e-d33f97e5369c-1

Liz Jensen

Minor damage to front corner of dust cover 

Coming soon as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English Patient Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy. Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in a constant state of panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic. Was the fall really an accident? If anyone knows, they're not telling. Until one day, still deep within his coma, Louis meets the bandaged figure who calls himself Gustave, and begins to tell his tale... The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

af5e7370-23f1-4b2e-8c5c-0846aa467e6c-1

Tasked with watching his niece after his estranged, former-addict sister shows up, Jason Danvers is forced to confront unresolved past issues when his she suddenly goes missing again. By the best-selling author of Never Come Back and Cemetery Girl. Includes reader's guide. Original. 75,000 first printing.

The Forgotten Girl

585dfaac-b8b0-42ed-9129-ce8aca4a30bd-1

Robin Jarvis

Only flaw is small crease on front cover 

A brilliant supernatural thriller with a modern twist, and a triumphant return from one of Britain s best-loved writers. At the end of a track, on the outskirts of an ordinary coastal town, lies a dilapidated house. Once, a group of amateur ghost hunters spent the night there. Two of them don t like to speak about the experience. The third can t speak about it. He went into the basement, you see, and afterwards he screamed so hard and so long he tore his vocal cords. Now, a group of teenagers have decided to hang out in the old haunted house. Dismissing the fears of the others, their leader Jezza goes down into the basement and comes back up with a children s book, full of strange and colourful tales of a playing-card world, a fairytale world, full of Jacks, Queens and Kings, unicorns and wolves. But the book is no fairytale. Written by Austerly Fellows, a mysterious turn-of-the-century occultist, it just might be the gateway to something terrifying and awfully final. As the children and teenagers of the town are swept up by its terrible power, swept into its seductive world, something has begun that could usher in hell on earth. Soon, the only people standing in its way are a young boy with a sci-fi obsession, and his dad an unassuming maths teacher called Martin "

Dancing Jax

f02c7799-69c4-423f-beb4-599349dd7ed6-0

Hannah Harrington

After her sister's suicide, Harper Scott takes off for California with her best friend Laney to scatter her sister's ashes in the Pacific Ocean.

Saving June

569efbb7-8ca7-43cd-8e78-1b8cda5fe1e9-1

A. S. King

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn't ask to be the target of Nader McMillan's relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far. But Lucky has a secret--one that helps him wade through the mundane torture of his life. In his dreams, Lucky escapes to the war-ridden jungles of Laos--the prison his grandfather couldn't escape--where Lucky can be a real man, an adventurer, and a hero. It's dangerous and wild, and it's a place where his life just might be worth living. But how long can Lucky keep hiding in his dreams before reality forces its way inside? Michael L. Printz Honor recipient A.S. King's smart, funny and boldly original writing shines in this powerful novel about learning to cope with the shrapnel life throws at you--and taking a stand against it.

Everybody Sees the Ants

09d8ccf1-053a-4552-915f-c177a82937e6-1

Melina Marchetta

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Kirkus Best Book Jellicoe Road is a dazzling tale that is part love story, part family drama, and part coming-of-age novel. Described by Kirkus as “a beautifully rendered mystery” and by VOYA as “a great choice for more sophisticated readers and those teens who like multifaceted stories and characters.” Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn't a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs, the boy who might be the key to unlocking the secrets for Taylor’s past, is back in town, moody stares and all. In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her; Hannah finding her; Hannah’s sudden departure; a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear; a boy in her dreams; five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago; and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she just might be able to change her future.

Jellicoe Road

9f3fed22-8b64-4fd6-84db-1a68956bc4c7-1

Amy Huntley

Madison Stanton doesn't know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this—she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark space. The only company she has in this place are luminescent objects that turn out to be all the things Maddy lost while she was alive. And soon she discovers that with these artifacts, she can reexperience—and sometimes even change—moments from her life. Her first kiss. A trip to Disney World. Her sister's wedding. A disastrous sleepover. In reliving these moments, Maddy learns illuminating and sometimes frightening truths about her life—and death.

The Everafter

4ddc7759-04c9-4eea-b539-cd62c3dbb6c0-1

Laura Jean McKay

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu- its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals - first mammals, then birds and insects, too. As the flu progresses, the unstoppable voices become overwhelming, and many people begin to lose their minds, including Jean's infected son, Lee. When he takes off with Kimberly, heading south, Jean feels the pull to follow her kin. Setting off on their trail, with Sue the dingo riding shotgun, they find themselves in a stark, strange world in which the animal apocalypse has only further isolated people from other species. Bold, exhilarating, and wholly original, The Animals in That Country asks what would happen, for better or worse, if we finally understood what animals were saying.

The Animals in That Country

d76a8dd0-1578-4ca5-97f8-90d898e01213-1

Kate Chopin

Kaye Gibbons

Introduction by Kaye Gibbons
Edited and with notes by Nina Baym
Commentary by Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and from The Picayune's Creole Cook Book
 
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accompanies the trappings of middle- and upper-class life are the themes of this now-classic novel. As Kaye Gibbons points out in her Introduction, Chopin "was writing American realism before most Americans could bear to hear that they were living it." This edition includes selected stories from Chopin's Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadie.
 
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

The Awakening and Other Stories

3a415b3b-ae53-45ff-aafc-bb0438c59202-1

Ethan Hawke

Jimmy, AWOL from the Army, heads across America from Albany to New Orleans, Ohio, and Texas in a souped-up Chevy with his pregnant girlfriend, Christy, transforming themselves from passionate lovers into a young family along the way. By the actor-author of The Hottest State. 100,000 first printing.

Browse by categories

BikeSnobNYC

Bike Snob

Jim Arnosky

Nearer Nature

Douglas J. Llewellyn

Inquire Within

Peter Matthiessen

African Silences

Stephen King

Bag of Bones

Carey Corp; Lorie Langdon

Doon

David Bell

Cemetery Girl

Nicole Maggi

The Forgetting

Stephanie Knipper

The Peculiar Miracles of Antoinette Martin

Hank Green

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts

Tana French

In the Woods

Trenton Lee Stewart

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Italo Calvino

The Baron in the Trees

Liz Jensen

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

David Bell

The Forgotten Girl

Robin Jarvis

Dancing Jax

Hannah Harrington

Saving June

A. S. King

Everybody Sees the Ants

Melina Marchetta

Jellicoe Road

Amy Huntley

The Everafter

Laura Jean McKay

The Animals in That Country

Kate Chopin; Kaye Gibbons

The Awakening and Other Stories

Ethan Hawke

Ash Wednesday

Get The App