Little Birdie is on a brand-new adventure, and today, his curious nose leads him somewhere unexpected! When a delicious smell fills the air, Little Birdie follows it all the way to a fry shop, where he's faced with a big decision: plain, garlic, or cheese fries?With curiosity, courage, and a little help along the way, Little Birdie learns that trying new things can be fun, and sometimes the best choice is to try them all! Through playful rhyme and gentle humor, this charming story ...

Little Birdie visits the waterpark, excited to ride the tallest waterslide. When he gets there, he learns he's too small to go on it, which makes him feel disappointed. Seeing how sad he is, a friendly lifeguard suggests that Little Birdie try a smaller waterslide instead. Little Birdie gives it a try and soon discovers it's full of splashes and fun. After a wonderful day at the waterpark, Little Birdie happily flies back home.

A delicious debut novel about a young Jamaican girl who tries to bake her way to a better life in France.Pumkin Patterson lives in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother, who wants to improve the family’s social standing; her Aunt Sophie, who wants to take Pumkin with her to a new life in Paris; and her mother, Paulette, who wants to keep her at home out of spite.When Aunt Sophie decides to move to France for work, she promises to ...

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is playing Scrabble against an imaginary Monica Gellar while watching Friends reruns.And Lenny Marks is very, very good at not remembering what happened the day her mother and s...

Can the future be rewritten?On the verge of her second marriage, Carla Carter knows she’s finally found the one. She and her fiancé, Tom, met through Logical Love, a dating agency she founded for the pragmatically minded, and she’s confident that, together, they will dispel an old family curse claiming Carter women are unlucky in love.For peace of mind, Carla’s family insists she visit a fortune teller before she ties the knot. Except the ...

The recipe for forgiveness begins with an open heart and a full belly.Sisters Rose Tillman and her sister Marvina Nash haven't spoken in decades—not since Rose sent Marvina $40 to register their business and Marvina used that money for her own personal purposes. Now retired, Rose wants to open the restaurant they'd once dreamed of. But, to her horror, Rose realizes she's forgotten their mother's secret spice mix recipe, known to only one other person in the world. With no other opt...

Brash, duplicitous women, murder and mayhem, and illicit love abound in this wild adventure for fans of Outlander and The Home for Unwanted Girls, announcing a major new talent in historical fiction.Bytown, 1836: The lawless cesspool that will become the city of Ottawa is beginning to reek of more than just swamp water. Rife with squalor, corruption, and organized crime, class injustice divides the town more starkly than the canal that bisects it,...

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the YearA suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.“Our Best Intentions is a thoughtful, gripping suspe...

HBO’s Hacks meets Carley Fortune’s Every Summer After in this hilarious and sweeping love story about a comedian forced to return to her Jersey Shore hometown and confront everything she left behind ten summers before—including the man who broke her heart.""A wonderfully witty love letter to stand-up comedy, true love, and there being no place like home.” —Georgia Clark, author of It Had to Be You...