Can one spoiled cousin upend three kids' hard-won happiness? Find out in this hilarious, big-hearted, high stakes companion to the award-winning bestseller Parachute Kids! Perfect for fans of School Trip, A First Time for Everything, The Tryout, and The Squad.★ "Humorous and relatable...tugs at the heartstrings." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ "Powerful and triumphant." -Sc...

The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—"there are marvels aplenty" ( The New York Times).On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman's strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years a...

They say friends make the best lovers...After a bitter divorce, Jackson Norwood never thought he'd fall in love again. Especially not with his best friend, Essence Priestly. His attraction to her is the most powerful thing he's felt in a long time, and he doesn't just want her as a lover. He wants her to be his wife. Yet she's determined to keep their relationship strictly platonic.Jackson means everything to Essence and her son, and she's torn between her love for...

If you try to assassinate the Grim Reaper… Don’t miss.Dax used to be the Grim Reaper. Until he was banished to Earth to live as a human. Exiled to Redemption City, he’s doing his best to keep his head down and run his shabby dive bar. But when an assassin puts a bullet in his chest, his quiet life dies a bloody death.Red City is a corrupt and decaying metropolis. Finding out who wants Dax dead could be a long twisted road. He’ll have to test the boundaries ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHarvard professor and bestselling author Arthur C. Brooks offers science-based insights on work and life in this curated collection from his "How to Build a Life" column in The Atlantic.Imagine if your life were a startup. How would you lead it and shape it to be most successful?That's the question behind The Happiness Files, a rich selection of enlightening and instructive essay...

Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel—"a stone-cold classic" of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced th...

**National Book Award Longlist Title****Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book**This funny, fast-paced, and heartrending story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants is perfect for fans of New Kid and Front Desk.A DREAM TRIP TO AMERICA TURNS INTO A NIGHTMARE!Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed ...

In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: "A first-rate tour de force" ( The New York Times).In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly ben...

A New York Times bestseller—with 1.5 million copies sold!If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate fo...

A Complete Music Theory Guide to Learn How to Read, Write, and Hear the Different Aspects of Music from Beginners to Advanced-The Fundamentals of Music-Basic Notions of Music-Reading Melody and Harmony-Reading Counting and Tempo-Reading Dynamics and Articulation-How to Read Rhythm-Reading Chords & chord progression-How to Compose music-and much moreMusic is an art form of combining different sound note...

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very machines humans designed and built ...

From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued our time. However, a new problem is on the horizon—one greater than humanity has ever faced. A massive asteroid is racing toward Earth, and its impact could destroy all life on the planet.Immediately after the asteroid...