emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries.Join us to paint redwood trees in the Yukon, organize a Muslim funeral in Toronto, and ...

After a stressful day at school Marci gets help from her favorite tree. He provides her with the kind of direction children often need in life. "With peace and love, we all can thrive, Without each other, we won't survive." "We don't need to talk at all Actions make us stand this tall." After the Tree's teachings, Marci continues to walk home feeling a new direction in life and more confident about herself

At the park, Mike took Jenny into one of the dugouts beside the ball field. Here, for the first time she let him touch her. As the evening grew dark, they half sat and half lay on the bench in the dugout just kind of making out. Suddenly Jenny jumped to her feet.“Shit, Mike, who’s that?” she let out in a loud whisper.Mike stood just in time to see a man disappear into the tree line behind the ball field.“Shit, Mike, that’s that man. He was just standing there, watch...

This star-studded recording brings to life a history-changing political battle.The Lincoln-Douglas Debates made history and changed its course through seven legendary match-ups between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the 1858 Illinois senatorial race. Although he lost the election, Lincoln's gift for oratory and his antislavery stance made him a nationally known figure, and led to his election to the presidency in 1860. Never before presented in audio, these debates and ...

"Alejo de Focking Eurotrash" is about the different ways a young woman's sudden death plays out amid the interdependent love affairs of twenty-something college friends in Washington DC. The Eurotrash of the book's title are final year students at Georgetown, an elite college on the banks of the Potomac - Alejo's family "like, owns Mexico," Sylvie's mother's a vrai princess, Londoner Lucy's properly clever, Jamie's uncle is Ireland's prime minister, and exquisitely cool, barefooted Manhatt...

From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks Deft with mat...

The Heffleys trade snow boots for flip-flops—but their tropical escape goes hilariously wrong.Book twelve of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series delivers sunburns, stomach bugs, and creepy critters that threaten to turn their dream vacation into a disaster.Perfect for readers ages 8-12 who love family travel tales with a twist.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of a Wimpy...

An escapist, festive read to warm your heart this holiday season, from TOP 100 bestseller Fay Keenan'Wonderfully festive' Jo BartlettHollywood comes to Roseford, as Christmas wishes really do come true…The sleepy Somerset village of Roseford is the temporary home for the cast and crew of the latest Christmas movie, and there’s excitement in the air. When Lucy Cameron, the owner of Roseford Café, is asked to fulfil a last-...

Discover the bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's books series of all time! Something scary is happening in GOOSEBUMPS HORRORLAND, the all-new, all-terrifying series by R. L. Stine. Just how scary? You'll never know unless you crack open this classic prequel! In DEEP TROUBLE, find out why Billy Deep and his sister, Sheena, are afraid of dark lagoons, coral reefs, and anything that appears to be half-human, half-fish! Now with all-new bonus materia...

In the heart of Savannah’s hauntingly beautiful streets, a chilling mystery is about to unfold …Teenagers are vanishing from the shadowy depths of the city's ancient tunnels, and fourteen-year-old Andi Leland is determined to find out why. As she delves into the sinister underworld, she, too, vanishes without a trace.With Andi’s disappearance, the stakes are even higher, and time is running out.Enter Sloane and Maddie, two friends seeking a peaceful...

#1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER! USA TODAY Bestseller!This book is a compilation of small observations and musings. It's filled with moments of reflection and a love letter to simple joys: passing a simple blade of grass on the sidewalk, the freedom of peeing outdoors late at night, or the way a hand-built ceramic mug feels when it's full of warm tea on a chilly morning. It's a catalog and a compendium that examines the complicated experience of being all too human...

A new spin on the classic smart-girl-and-bad-boy setup, this witty contemporary romance shows how easily a friendship – even one built on an elaborate lie – can become so much more.Jenny meets Chance for the very first time when she is assigned as his partner in their Junior Oral Communications class. But after they rescue a doomed assignment with one clever lie, the whole school is suddenly convinced that Little-Miss-Really-Likes-Having-A's and the most scandalous ...