With multiple starred reviews, don't miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby’s Last Day.In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever....

This expanded edition of The Go-Giver includes the text of the original business parable, together with a foreword by Arianna Huffington, a new introduction, a discussion guide, and a Q&A with the authors.“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving....Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who ye...

‘Harriet’s Eternal Tears’ is an emotionally uplifting drama of a mother’s love and loss during the First World War, when her two sons went out to face the uncertainties of conflict. Harriet is happy in her close-knit community until the horrors of war descend on her. Her two sons, David and Emrys, go off to fight despite Emrys only being sixteen. He soon discovers that joining the cyclist battalion is not the fun that he had expected. As the story unfolds, a chance meeting with suffragette...

New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking contemporary story about three boys, one teacher, and a day none of them will ever forget.“Kids won’t just love this book. They need it.” —Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil“Each page crackles as we embark on the greatest adventure of all.” —Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay for NowEveryone knows there are d...

When TV reporter Pete Lemaster gets an after-hours call from a college friend, he doesn’t expect it to catapult him into another big story in his reporting career. Scott “Uncle Scotty” Wilkins—a globe-trotting, charismatic businessman—has been arrested at a Singapore airport with enough drugs to guarantee a life sentence.The case explodes into an international spectacle. Viral images of Scotty charm the public, fuel conspiracy theories, and attract opportunists eag...

In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant appointed one of his regimental chaplains, John Eaton of Ohio, as general superintendent of contrabands for the Department of the Tennessee. As the American Civil War raged, the former chaplain’s approach to humanitarian aid and education for the newly freed people marked one of the first attempts to consider how an entire population of formerly enslaved people would be assimilated into and become citizens of the postwar Union. General superintendent Eaton...

**The sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the beloved 28-million-copy bestseller that became a worldwide sensation.Wall Street Journal Bestseller**In his trademark style that has won tens of millions of fans, Dr. Spencer Johnson once again shares a simple story that offers profound truths about how to transform your life.When we first met them in Who Moved My Cheese?, two mouse-sized characters named Hem and Haw were faced with unexpected chan...

What would you do if the person you loved betrayed you in the worst way possible?Domini Parrino's life is fantastic. She has a loving husband, son, and lifelong best friend. And her business is booming. Life couldn't be better.However, her perfect world is about to come crashing down around her. She has a viper in the nest—her cheating husband.Now his terrible secret is out. He's betrayed her in the worst way possible. And now he’s going to pay the ...

The deep hush of noon hovered over the vast solitude of Canadian forest. The moose and caribou had fed since early dawn, and were resting quietly in the warmth of the February sun; the lynx was curled away in his niche between the great rocks, waiting for the sun to sink farther into the north and west before resuming his marauding adventures; the fox was taking his midday slumber and the restless moose-birds were fluffing themselves lazily in the warm glow that was beginning to melt the s...

A lively, accessible introduction to the asymmetrical relationship between the United States and Mexico, one of the most formative international relationships in geopolitics today.The border between the US and Mexico is the world's longest between a wealthy industrialized nation and a part of the Global South. The economy, society, culture, and politics of the two nations have become inextricably linked.As the United States continues to assert its considera...

The award-winning author of Posted returns with the story of two kids searching for something—deep-fried, or otherwise—to believe in.Owen and Noah don’t always see the world the same way: While Noah frets about a dozen different global crises at once, Owen simply struggles to get his math homework done. But they’ve always been best friends. And like so many other kids in their school, they’re struggling—because whether your mom works two jobs to keep the l...

This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Frederick the Great to Catherine the Great, from Voltaire to Albrecht von Haller, from Pope Benedict XIV to Pope Cleme...