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The chapter titles of Calamity Physics take on new and often humorous connotations informed by the events of each chapter. Blue filters every experience—even the harrowing and heart wrenching—through a certain book or two that she’s read. It’s how...

Patroclus, an awkward young prince, follows Achilles into war, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they have learned, everything they hold dear. And that, before he is ready, he will be forced to surrender his friend to...

Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks...

International bestselling and award-winning author Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum is "an intellectual adventure story, as sensational, thrilling, and packed with arcana as Raiders of the Lost Ark or The Count of Monte Cristo" (The Washington...

The story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender-- one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. We watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to...