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Why a Daughter Needs a Dad is a rhyming picture book drawn from Gregory E. Lang's New York Times bestselling series, written with Susanna Leonard Hill and illustrated by Sydney Hanson, designed to celebrate the bond between fathers and daughters through warm verse about growing, learning, and staying true to oneself.
Jul 6, 2026
Every Last Word is a New York Times bestselling young adult novel by Tamara Ireland Stone, originally published in June 2015 and later reissued, following sixteen-year-old Samantha McAllister as she navigates a double life — popular girl on the surface, secret OCD sufferer underneath — until a hidden poetry club called Poet's Corner cracks her world open. Kirkus Reviews calls it "Clueless meets Dead Poets Society with a whopping final twist," and the novel has earned a sustained readership as a BookTok sensation, praised for its internal, emotionally grounded portrayal of OCD and its genuinely surprising ending.
Mar 29, 2026
Odder: The Novel is a #1 New York Times bestselling verse novel by Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, illustrated by Charles Santoso, that follows a young sea otter's journey through danger, rehabilitation, and survival in Monterey Bay — a book praised for its naturalistic detail, its unvarnished emotional honesty, and its seamless weaving of marine science into lyrical free verse, though some reviewers note uneven pacing and a rushed ending.
Jul 19, 2026
Written in AD 523 by a condemned Roman statesman awaiting execution, The Consolation of Philosophy remains one of the most consequential works in Western intellectual history, and Victor Watts's Penguin Classics translation makes this dialogue between Boethius and Lady Philosophy available to modern readers in accessible English.
Jun 9, 2026
Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story is the New York Times bestselling memoir in which multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel — born Jewel Kilcher in Alaska — traces her life from an unconventional and often harsh childhood through homelessness, the meteoric rise of her debut album Pieces of You, marriage, divorce, and motherhood, weaving in her own lyrics and poetry throughout.
Jul 9, 2026
Toffee is a young adult verse novel by Sarah Crossan, Irish children's laureate and Carnegie Medal-winning author, in which a teenager fleeing domestic abuse forges an unexpected bond with an elderly woman living with dementia — a story built on borrowed identities, grief, and the slow, painful discovery of self.
Jul 7, 2026
Milton's Paradise Lost, presented here in the Penguin Classics edition edited and introduced by John Leonard, is widely considered the greatest epic poem in the English language — a work of over ten thousand lines that retells the biblical story of Satan's rebellion, the temptation of Adam and Eve, and humanity's expulsion from the Garden of Eden, while grappling with free will, obedience, and the possibility of redemption.
Apr 7, 2026
David Almond's Skellig is a Carnegie Medal–winning children's novel that blends the everyday anxieties of a ten-year-old boy with something altogether stranger — a decrepit, crotchety creature discovered in a crumbling garage — to produce one of the most celebrated works of British children's fiction of its era.
Feb 9, 2026Search
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