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In this encouraging, reassuring picture book, National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins invokes the Indian custom of namaste, meaning "I bow to you, " to show how little hands are capable of great love. What's between your handswhen you namaste the world? Maya is only three days into summer vacation and already bored. Outside her window, the street is full of neighbors. Coming and going. Earning and spending. Fixing and mending. Everyone has ...

Mr. Fish helps his friend Willa Whale overcome her social anxiety in the next installment of the New York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna - now available in board book!Willa Whale is full of worries! Will the party be too loud?Will she find someone to talk to? Will she get lost in the crowd?Mr. Fish is Willa's friend, and he'd like to help her out.Can some of his suggestions help Willa with her doubt?S...

First introduced in The Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry Whale, Willa Whale is the star of her own spin-off series, inspired by the New York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish books from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna. In this story, Willa overcomes her fear of getting called on in class.Circle Time is starting, But Willa's feeling worried."What if I get called upon?"Her tummy's getting flurried!Swim along with Willa Whale as she develops strate...

Sweet and Sour is a dill-ightfully silly and heartfelt picture book about two rival pickles fermenting their way to friendship-perfect for fans of Stick and Stone and The Day the Crayons Quit. Sweet and Sour are in a serious pickle. Opposites in almost every way, they are next-door neighbors who just can't seem to get along. As competition between them ramps up, it may be that their backyard battles will consume them. Or can these persnickety ...

What is the best thing about where you live? Share something unusual about it."I smiled as I wrote "Peaches."The peaches grown in Bucheon are the best in all of South Korea, and a rare treat for a young Yangsook. She dreams of a peach orchard where she can play and eat as much of the delicious fruit as she wishes. Then one day, after hours of a sudden heavy downpour, the sky begins to rain peaches. Yangsook finds herself in peach heaven-until ...

From Yangsook Choi comes an empowering picture book about a child learning a new language to keep in touch with an old friend.Today is the day I'll make friends.At least, that's what I promise myself.Jihun recently moved to the United States. In his new classroom, he receives an assignment to write a letter to his best friend-but he's not sure how it will turn out. First off, he's still learning English. Second, he doesn't have any friends at ...

A hilarious picture book that follows the adventures of a well-meaning grizzly bear trying to help her forest friends.Don't look at this bear and think she is ferocious. Quite the opposite of grizzly. She is friendly!Need directions? She's your bear. What about an afternoon snack? Look no further. Being this thoughtful has always come naturally to her, and she just knows it's appreciated by all her forest friends. Keep an eye out! There's alwa...

Dawn breaksnew dayhearts lightsisters play.In this lyrical and spare picture book with beautiful illustrations from Fanny Liem, author Jyoti Rajan Gopal tells the story of two sisters who are excited to go on a backyard adventure. But when their make-believe meets with disaster, the sisters take some time apart. They learn to forgive each other's mistakes, and soon the sisters are combining their ideas to make the most beautiful backyard kingd...

In a career-spanning selection of poems, August Kleinzahler captures the essence of the West's greatest music. In A History of Western Music, August Kleinzahler's rhythmic, wry, kinetic style captures the ineffable power and beauty of great songs and artists, as well as the potency of our response to them. In this collection, music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it. The poet inhabits the mind...

A brisk, seductive, and dazzlingly inventive novel that shows us the dark side of early twentieth-century Vienna. Vienna, 1919. A once-mighty empire has finally come crashing down--and a mysterious young woman, unable to speak, has turned up on the streets. A doctor appeals to the public for information about her past and receives a single response, from a sanatorium patient who claims to be her father. The man reveals only her name: Gretel. B...

A bristling, beautiful new collection from "the Dark Prince of American Poetry" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap WOW!" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout t...

An anthology of texts about mass incarceration that will give readers the tools to understand and help address the issue"--

A new book of poems by the three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a writer "rarely equalled" (Louise Glück). Robert Pinsky, one of our most ambitious, inventive, and finely tuned poets, takes an original approach to the fraught, central matter of borders in Proverbs of Limbo, his first new book of poetry in eight years. In this collection, the poet mines and maps limbal regions: those spaces between differences that can be at once creative an...

From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do. Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contempla...

An intimate history of the Afghan war--and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed. No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the upheaval that began that day. Young Afghans knew the promise of freedom, democracy, and safety, fought with each other over its meaning--and then witnessed its collapse. In Twenty Years, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen draw...

A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer's crimes in the lives of everyday people. >Highway Thirteen, Fiona McFarlane's newest collection, takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer's childhood town to Texas, Rome, and tropical northern Australia, McFarlan...

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory"--

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly, from a reality-warping storyteller. Along with her husband, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author returns to her mother's house in the Florida town where she grew up. As the summer heat sets in, she wrestles with family secrets and memories of her own troubled youth. Her mercurial sister, who lives next door, spends a growing amount of time using MIND'S EYE, a virtual...

Role Play is a fresh satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.>In Vivian's world, everything comes in excess, including her own caustic self-awareness. As she informs us, "I'm a misandrist and a misogynist, " but she is fond of gay men, "the one type of human you can get along with as equals." The gravity of real life breaks through Vivian's ongoing act when she's confronted with an unexpe...

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. >Lorde's understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde's quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems,...