Roller Coaster is a powerful, heartfelt journey through the life of Peter Searle—a story of resilience, reflection, and the pursuit of meaning. Set against the backdrop of Denver’s iconic amusement parks, young Peter confronts his deepest fears, finding comfort in his mother’s love while haunted by dreams and the belief in alien forces. Amid the chaos of a turbulent household ruled by a controlling uncle, Peter clings to moments of joy and the grounding influence of his grandfathe...

Roller Coaster is a powerful, heartfelt journey through the life of Peter Searle—a story of resilience, reflection, and the pursuit of meaning. Set against the backdrop of Denver’s iconic amusement parks, young Peter confronts his deepest fears, finding comfort in his mother’s love while haunted by dreams and the belief in alien forces. Amid the chaos of a turbulent household ruled by a controlling uncle, Peter clings to moments of joy and the grounding influence of his grandfathe...

Greg bets it all on becoming rich and famous. But when his plans backfire, he’s in double trouble.Greg’s mom wants him to be creative. Greg wants to be a movie star. In book eleven of the #1 international bestselling series, a bag of gummy worms sparks a movie-making scheme that could turn into a major flop.A laugh-out-loud, highly relatable story for kids ages 8–12 who dream big—and don’t always get it right the first time.Collect all the b...

An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman.Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this bri...

The trouble starts when Apollo introduces Percy and his friend Grover the satyr to the Chryseae Celedones. Three golden women--living statues--appear in front of them, and sing one blissful chord. Apollo has a concert tonight at Mount Olympus, and he needs the Celedones as his backup singers. But there should be a quartet, not a trio--one of the singers has gone rogue. It's up to Percy and Grover to find the missing Celedon somewhere in New York City before she causes any problems. Capturi...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! • A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A heartbreaking, empowering, often hilarious debut memoir about a mother’s all-consuming love, a son’s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him*A BookRiot Best Book of the Year**A BookPage Memoir of the Year*

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America."Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous." —The Washington Post**In Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her...

The fourth volume of the annual Unidentified Funny Objects series features the theme of dark humor.What happens when you ask some of the genre's masters to interpret this theme? The enclosed twenty-three darkly humorous tales range from black comedy to biting satire to morbid irony and everything in between.Inside this book you'll find Faustian bargains gone awry, time-traveling ghosts, flawed supervillains, talking hamsters, and much more.Featuring stories by:

'A love story and a domestic horror story' Michael Cunningham'A compelling and fitfully harrowing child's-eye account of a mother's unravelling' The GuardianStefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school in Plano, Texas, certain that his teachers were 'stifling his creativity'.Years before homeschooling became a nationwide movement in the US, Stefan vanished from the system and into his mother's increasingly ec...

Ford Atticus Ford, former host of the hit ghost-hunting reality show Graveyard: Classified, has more than a few regrets—especially after young Chelsea Hopper was attacked by a demon.Assisting police departments by conducting paranormal investigations and uncovering buried clues now provides Ford with an ounce of redemption, but it will never be enough.What occurred on that long-ago Halloween night was unforgivable, and Ford, chasing ratings and stardom, let it happen. With ...

Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos.First up is “Vigil” by Chad Lutzke. Chad takes us into a neighborhood where a steady stream of decayed corpses are exhumed from a neighbor’s cellar. Extreme olfactory horror at its best.Deborah Sheldon went under the knife for the inspiration of “Hair And Teeth,” and th...

HOUDINI HEART harkens back to the masters of suspenseful supernatural horror: Poe, Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, but speaks with a wholly fresh voice. Once caught in its pages, there's no escaping Longfellow's terrible tale.Weeks ago, she was one of Hollywood's biggest writers, wed to one of its greatest stars. The doting mother of their golden child. But now? She's alone, tortured by a horrifying secret no woman could bear.Pursued by those she can't outrun, anguished by a gu...