by Barb Langridge | Dec 16, 2022 | Fantasy
From F.C. Yee, the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Shadow of Kyoshi, comes a thrilling new chapter in the Chronicles of the Avatar series. Yangchen’s inexperience may prove to be...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
In the dark and stunning sequel to The Initial Insult, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis concludes this suspenseful YA duology as long-held family secrets finally come to light . . . changing Amontillado forevermore. Perfect for fans of Truly Devious and Sadie!...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Non-Fiction
A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state. Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Non-Fiction
In this harrowing survival story, Brian Koonoo takes off on a hunting trip in Canada’s Arctic. After his snowmobile breaks down, his GPS loses signal, and his camping fuel runs low, he is left alone to survive for seven days. Inuunira is an Inuktitut term that means...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Non-Fiction
Birds are disappearing. Birds are nature’s essential workers, and they are crucial members of ecosystems around the world. Hummingbirds pollinate our flowers; cardinals munch on beetles, grasshoppers, and other pests that damage crops; owls eat rodents that can...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Non-Fiction
The incredible story of Catherine Leroy, one of the few woman photographers during the Vietnam War, told by an award-winning journalist and children’s author From award-winning journalist and children’s book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country’s colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts—each of which is illustrated by a different South...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams for the future have turned into survival. Seventeen-year-old Rania is shaken awake in her family’s apartment in Brooklyn. ICE is at the door, taking her mother away....
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Graphic Non-Fiction
In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical holding pattern, housebound and often alone. In 2017, she found a strategy that...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Faith Navarro has landed a scholarship to an arts high school for violin. But her struggles at home threaten to take away everything she’s ever worked for. Her older sister’s drug addiction has caused Faith to miss school one too many times. Her school offers her one...
