
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Written by Carol Rifka Brunt
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | June 4, 2013
$15.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-8285-5 (0-8129-8285-1)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds... > Read more
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Written by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Dial Press | Hardcover | June 2012
$25.00/29.95(Canada) | 978-0-679-64419-4 (0-679-64419-9)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD
In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds... > Read more
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Ready Player One
Written by Ernest Cline
Crown | Hardcover | August 2011
$24.00/25.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-88743-6 (0-307-88743-X)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans... > Read more
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My Losing Season
Written by Pat Conroy
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | August 2003
$16.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-553-38190-0 (0-553-38190-3)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pat Conroy, one of America’s premier novelists, has penned a deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball—and life itself. During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid... > Read more
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Swimming to Antarctica
Written by Lynne Cox
Knopf | Hardcover | January 2004
$24.95/35.95(Canada) | 978-0-375-41507-4 (0-375-41507-6)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
• At age fourteen, she swam twenty-six miles from Catalina Island to the California mainland. • At ages fifteen and sixteen, she broke the men’s and women’s world records for swimming the English Channel—a thirty-three-mile crossing in nine hours, thirty-six minutes. • At eighteen, she swam the twenty-mile Cook Strait between North and South Islands of... > Read more
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An American Insurrection
Written by William Doyle
Anchor | Trade Paperback | January 2003
$18.00/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-385-49970-5 (0-385-49970-1)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award AWARD: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil... > Read more
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Gabriel's Story
Written by David Anthony Durham
Anchor | Trade Paperback | April 2002
$13.95/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-385-72033-5 (0-385-72033-5)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of drudgery and toil... > Read more
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The Oxford Project
Text by Stephen G. Bloom Photographed by Peter Feldstein
Welcome Books | Trade Paperback | September 2010
$29.95/34.00(Canada) | 978-1-59962-087-9 (1-59962-087-1)
The Alex-award winning The Oxford Project is back in an abridged paperback edition. Less expensive, more portable, and retaining all the drama of this extraordinary true tale of a seemingly ordinary Midwestern town through the pictures and words its residents. Equal parts art, American histroy, cultural anthropology, and human narrative -... > Read more
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Written by Helen Grant
Bantam | Trade Paperback | April 2011
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-34418-0 (0-385-34418-X)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
After Pia’s grandmother dies in a freak accident, the neighbors in her little German hometown of Bad Münstereifel glance at Pia with wary eyes. But then something else captures the community’s attention: the vanishing of Katharina Linden. Katharina was last seen at a parade, dressed as Snow White. Then, like a... > Read more
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Written by Mark Haddon
Vintage | Trade Paperback | May 2004
$14.95/(Canada) | 978-1-4000-3271-6 (1-4000-3271-7)
AWARD: YALSA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: Whitbread Book of the Year AWARD: Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults AWARD: ALA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age AWARD: New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award AWARD: Commonwealth Writers' Prize of Europe and South Asia
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's quest to... > Read more
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Donorboy
Written by Brendan Halpin
Villard | Trade Paperback | August 2004
$14.00/17.00(Canada) | 978-1-4000-6277-5 (1-4000-6277-2)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
Rosalind had two mommies. Now, thanks to a tragic accident involving foodstuffs, she has none. And Sean, the sperm donor responsible for half her DNA (and nothing else), is taking custody. Rosalind finds herself adjusting to a new life that seems both hateful and surreal–she’s an orphan with a new father... > Read more
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Color of the Sea
Written by John Hamamura
Anchor | Trade Paperback | November 2007
$14.95/16.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-38607-6 (0-307-38607-4)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam... > Read more
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Plainsong
Written by Kent Haruf
Vintage | Trade Paperback | August 2000
$15.00/17.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-70585-4 (0-375-70585-6)
AWARD: National Book Awards AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: YALSA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
"Ambitious, but never seeming so, Kent Haruf reveals a whole community as he interweaves the stories of a pregnant high school girl, a lonely teacher, a pair of boys abandoned by their mother, and a couple of crusty bachelor farmers. From simple elements, Haruf achieves a novel of wisdom and grace--a... > Read more
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Written by Conn Iggulden
Bantam | Trade Paperback | July 2010
$16.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-34421-0 (0-385-34421-X)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys Genghis Khan was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Shaped by abandonment and betrayal, Temujin endured, driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death... > Read more
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage | Trade Paperback | March 2006
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
AWARD: National Book Critics Circle Awards AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: Man Booker Prize
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where... > Read more
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Knopf | Hardcover | April 2005
$28.95/(Canada) | 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... > Read more
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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | May 2008
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-34107-3 (0-385-34107-5)
AWARD: Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the UK AWARD: American Library Association Literary Awards AWARD: ALA Notable Book AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA AWARD: YALSA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives.
On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone else, only... > Read more
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Shadow Divers
Written by Robert Kurson
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | May 2005
$16.00/19.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-76098-3 (0-375-76098-9)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a... > Read more
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Crow Lake
Written by Mary Lawson
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | January 2003
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-385-33763-2 (0-385-33763-9)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.
Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands”... > Read more
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Black Swan Green
Written by David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | February 2007
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-8129-7401-0 (0-8129-7401-8)
AWARD: ALA Notable Book AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: ALA Best Books for Young Adults AWARD: School Library Journal Best Adult Books for High School Students
From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of... > Read more
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Anchor | Trade Paperback | July 2012
$15.00/(Canada) | 978-0-307-74443-2 (0-307-74443-4)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But... > Read more
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Doubleday | Hardcover | September 2011
$28.95/(Canada) | 978-0-385-53463-5 (0-385-53463-9)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind... > Read more
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When the Emperor Was Divine
Written by Julie Otsuka
Anchor | Trade Paperback | October 2003
$12.95/15.95(Canada) | 978-0-385-72181-3 (0-385-72181-1)
AWARD: Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: Asian American Literary Award
The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other... > Read more
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The Dive From Clausen's Pier
Written by Ann Packer
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2003
$14.95/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-375-72713-9 (0-375-72713-2)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller... > Read more
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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To
Written by DC Pierson
Vintage | Trade Paperback | January 2010
$14.95/16.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-47461-2 (0-307-47461-5)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
A wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the typical high school experience: the homework, the awkwardness, and the mutant creatures from another galaxy. When Darren Bennett meets Eric Lederer, there's an instant connection. They share a love of drawing, the bottom rung on the cruel high school social ladder and a... > Read more
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