In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns follows one family through nearly two centuries of indentured servitude and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of the Catholic Church in the United States.

A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get — and sell — the story.

Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand — and fail to understand — mental illness.

A multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification.

An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

Daughter of the Moon Goddess is my debut novel—inspired by the beloved legend of Chang'e, the Chinese moon goddess, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm. It is an enchanting and romantic fantasy of immortals and magic, of loss and love.

The books in the series all focus on Mildred Hubble, a young witch who attends Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, a school of magic. Although well-intentioned, Mildred's clumsy personality leads the girl to disastrous situations, and she is thus considered the worst student in the school

In Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, we are introduced to Alina Starkov, an orphaned mapmaker in the First Army of Ravka. The story is set in a war-torn world divided by the Shadow Fold, a swath of darkness filled with flesh-eating monsters. During a mission to cross the Fold, Alina's regiment is attacked, and in a moment of fear, she discovers a dormant power within her, a power that could save her country.

n The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is unmoored and adrift as the ship arrives in New York harbor in 1899.

A boy called Christopher is visiting his reclusive grandfather when he witnesses an avalanche of mythical creatures come tearing down the hill. This is how Christopher learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and a place called the Archipelago, a cluster of magical islands where all the creatures we tell of in myth live and breed and thrive alongside humans. They have been protected from being discovered for thousands of years; now, terrifyingly, the protection has worn thin, and creatures are breaking through.

Mexikid, a graphic novel memoir of a time when Martín’s family headed South to Pegueros to pick up his grandfather and bring him back to the States, is a epic in every sense of the word. It has laughs, music, snot, baby coffins, live amputations, feats of strength, bad haircuts, and (of course) family, family, family. It may also well be the most ambitious comic I’ve ever read, and that’s saying something.

In the final section of Wings of Fire, Kalam provides reflections on the events described and the life lessons drawn. Known for his humility, he gives credit to his teachers and mentors who stood by him and guided him during difficult times. He emphasizes the essence of hard work, resilience, perseverance, and a never-give-up attitude behind every success story.

This is the story how the ‘Famous Five’ came into being, and of their very first adventure together. And what an andventure it was-involving an island, a ruined castle, an ancient wreck-and a desperate treasure hunt! The children’s pluck and recourcefulness saved the family fortunes.

A story of how Sr. Christine Tan gave hope to the squatters of Leveriza by teaching them about rights, obligations and prayers in silence until the squatters got their rights for the land where they lived in through persistence and determination.

The I Survived series is about epic disasters, but it also tells the human stories that are glossed over in history books. Many of the kids in the stories have recently lost a parent, adding another emotional layer to the terror they face navigating the 1871 Chicago fire, or the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.