
The Martian: Classroom Edition
Written by Andy Weir
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | May 2016
$15.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-8041-8935-4 (0-8041-8935-8)
In the Classroom Edition of The Martian:
Classroom-appropriate language Discussion questions and activities Q&A with Andy Weir
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to... > Read more
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Armada
Written by Ernest Cline
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | April 2016
$16.00/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-8041-3727-0 (0-8041-3727-7)
From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline can.
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing... > Read more
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Girl at War
Written by Sara Novic
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | March 2016
$16.00/21.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-8639-6 (0-8129-8639-3)
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ALEX AWARD WINNER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION
For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about... > Read more
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Half the World
Written by Joe Abercrombie
Del Rey | Trade Paperback | July 2015
$16.00/22.00(Canada) | 978-0-8041-7843-3 (0-8041-7843-7)
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • ALEX AWARD WINNER • New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie’s thrilling series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin hailed as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page... > Read more
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Between the World and Me
Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Spiegel & Grau | Hardcover | July 2015
$25.00/34.00(Canada) | 978-0-8129-9354-7 (0-8129-9354-3)
AWARD: National Book Award
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER... > Read more
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The Martian
Written by Andy Weir
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | October 2014
$15.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-553-41802-6 (0-553-41802-5)
AWARD: RUSA Reading List Genre Award AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA AWARD: International Thriller Writers Award AWARD: Indies Choice Award AWARD: Space Frontier Foundations Best Presentation of Space Award AWARD: Silver Falchion Award AWARD: Hugo Award AWARD: John W. Campbell Award
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with... > Read more
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Mother, Mother
Written by Koren Zailckas
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | July 2014
$15.00/18.00(Canada) | 978-0-385-34725-9 (0-385-34725-1)
From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband, and a historical landmark... > Read more
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Written by Carol Rifka Brunt
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | June 2013
$17.00/23.00(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 In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people... > Read more
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Anchor | Trade Paperback | July 2012
$16.00/0.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-74443-2 (0-307-74443-4)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults AWARD: YALSA Best Books for Young Adults
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in The Night Circus,the spellbinding bestseller that has captured the world's imagination.
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... > Read more
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Robopocalypse
Written by Daniel H. Wilson
Vintage | Trade Paperback | April 2012
$16.95/22.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-74080-9 (0-307-74080-3)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
In this terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising, Daniel H. Wilson has written the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our world turns against us. Controlled by a childlike—yet massively powerful—artificial intelligence known as Archos, the global network... > Read more
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Caring Is Creepy
Written by David Zimmerman
Soho Press | Trade Paperback | April 2012
$15.00/17.00(Canada) | 978-1-56947-977-3 (1-56947-977-1)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother’s pill-popping boyfriend has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled... > Read more
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The Night Circus
Written by Erin Morgenstern
Doubleday | Hardcover | September 2011
$30.00/0.00(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 the... > Read more
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Ready Player One
Written by Ernest Cline
Crown | Hardcover | August 2011
$26.00/35.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-88743-6 (0-307-88743-X)
AWARD: Laura Hillenbrand Outstanding Literary Award
The bestselling cult classic—soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.
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... > Read more
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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Written by Helen Grant
Bantam | Trade Paperback | April 2011
$15.00/0.00(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 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 Kids Are All Right
Written by Diana Welch, Liz Welch, Amanda Welch and Dan Welch
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | September 2010
$15.00/17.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-39605-1 (0-307-39605-3)
A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."—People
Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy proceedings, the four Welch siblings managed to handle each new heartbreaking misfortune together.
All... > Read more
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Written by Conn Iggulden
Bantam | Trade Paperback | July 2010
$17.00/0.00(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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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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The Good Thief
Written by Hannah Tinti
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | August 2009
$17.00/23.00(Canada) | 978-0-385-33746-5 (0-385-33746-9)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.
Winner of the 2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize... > Read more
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Three Girls and Their Brother
Written by Theresa Rebeck
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | April 2009
$16.00/19.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-39415-6 (0-307-39415-8)
AWARD: Alex Award - YALSA
Now that it’s all over, everybody is saying it was the picture–that stupid picture was behind every disaster. . . .
They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day... > Read more
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Mister Pip
Written by Lloyd Jones
Dial Press Trade Paperback | Trade Paperback | May 2008
$16.00/0.00(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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Color of the Sea
Written by John Hamamura
Anchor | Trade Paperback | November 2007
$16.00/22.00(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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Black Swan Green
Written by David Mitchell
Random House Trade Paperbacks | Trade Paperback | February 2007
$17.00/0.00(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
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the... > Read more
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage | Trade Paperback | March 2006
$16.00/0.00(Canada) | 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
AWARD: National Book Critics Circle Awards AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: Man Booker Prize AWARD: Nobel Prize in Literature
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating 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... > Read more
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My Jim
Written by Nancy Rawles
Broadway Books | Trade Paperback | January 2006
$14.00/19.00(Canada) | 978-1-4000-5401-5 (1-4000-5401-X)
AWARD: ALA Alex Award AWARD: New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age AWARD: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy... > Read more
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