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To be extraordinary is rare, to be unique is downright dangerous.Rebecca Hunter thought senior year would be all about basketball games, parties, dances, and college applications. But when Becca's absentee mom dies, things take a drastic turn. She has just inherited a superpower, but has no idea what it is. And now instead of worrying about homework, she's got secret agents from the FBI at her door looking to recruit her.Her days of being an o...

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Being extraordinary means being alone. And no one understands that more than Rebecca Hunter. Becca was sure she'd be able use her multiple powers to stop whoever was kidnapping the Extraordinary and manipulating their DNA. But she didn't plan on her life burning to ash all around her. After Becca's crippling loss, she leaves Project Lightning behind her, becoming a vigilante on a quest for vengeance. Hardened, reckless, and single-minded, Becc...

It's never been so dangerous to be extraordinarily rare.Rebecca Hunter thought being one of only a hundred people in the world with super powers would be amazing, especially since she can transport to anywhere on the globe. But in Becca 's time with Project Lightning she's lost one friend, another was taken, and another decimated her trust. And that all happened during her first and only operation.They might have found what they were looking f...

Fearn by Linda Dove is collection where Fear is transforming, and doesn't just become, but is a spectrum of objects, actions, and sensations. Fear is not something that's crushing a person, or destroying the world like a weapon. It is a part of nature, dynamics, and an essential creating element of the world. These are poems of moments when fear is something that's vulnerable and even evocative of a sympathy. Fearn is a force, but one that's j...

As the title of this gorgeous collection suggests, Would-Land is an adventure in wordplay and the discoveries of our heart- and hearth-truths that language (in its inevitable slippage) can reveal. And the slips of both language and self are what's at stake here. Oscillating between elegiac and epigrammatic, Essbaum's poems share at once the ecstasies of sound and syncopation of a modern-day Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the acerbic insights of a ...

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A flavorful account of New York City politics during the 1920s Jazz Age centering on the intersecting careers of the city's popular "Night Mayor, " Jimmy Walker, and the state's patrician governor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mitgang's extensive use of newspaper quotes and legal transcripts helps paint vivid portraits of Walker, Roosevelt and the large cast of characters who played a part in Walker's fall from grace and Roosevelt's meteoric rise to...

The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty tha...

Alien crop circles? Really?" No-fuss Natalie doesn't have time for such nonsense. When she's not busy corralling her younger brother Chase, she grounds herself in schoolwork, volunteering, and sports. Enter mysterious foreign exchange student Fletcher Jain with talk of folklore, crop circles, and alien abductions. Despite suspicions that her cute new houseguest hides a secret about her and Chase, she follows Fletcher into a world of UFOs, anci...

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