fiction

A 1939 novel based on the biblical story of the Exodus, blending the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of African-American folklore and song, and tracing his life from birth to emancipator of his people.

"A vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson . . . he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful future, one where humanity has managed to overcome our challenges and thrive"--Provided by publisher.

Living with her father in the Tower of London during the reign of Henry VIII, Moss is disgusted and revolted by both her father's job (executioner) and hers (collecting the freshly severed heads) and wants desperately to escape and find out more about her origins.

"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living"--Amazon.

Grace, a transgender runaway escaping Georgia and the threat of conscription during the Civil War, is kidnapped by the notorious outlaw The Ghost Hawk, who means to hold Grace for ransom. Learning of her plight, Flo, The Ghost Hawk's real identity, realizes that Grace won't make much of a hostage, and instead, the two ladies come up with a clever scheme to infiltrate a Confederate gala.

Sixteen-year-old Isabella "Izzy" Crawford is a trailer-park scholarship kid at a wealthy Catholic school in Virginia, and is desperate to keep her status a secret from everyone. One day she helps a new student, Aubrey Shackleton--the sister of Hot Sam, who Izzy and her best friend Roz secretly stalk--resolve a cyberbullying situation. Then Izzy's family is selected to receive a new house from Habitat for Humanity, right in the neighborhood where the Shackletons live, which threatens all of the secrets Izzy has so carefully kept.

"A You Choose adventure that takes place aboard the haunted ship, the Queen Mary"--Provided by publisher.

The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes comman and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice.

In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards. Includes section about the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.