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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

The author describes how the loss of her job and the subsequent need to economize inspired her to look for wisdom from her own family’s past in the stories told by her mother and in the recipes of her indomitable grandmother.

Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate—until Ky Markham’s face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.

While Cornelia gains unexpected insight into her troubled marriage, Piper finds her carefully controlled life unraveling in the wake of a friend’s crisis, and Lake tells a complex series of lies to gain her son’s entry into a school for gifted students.

Brooklyn teen Andi acts out in her rage and grief over her younger brother’s death to the point that she is forced to spend winter break with her estranged father in France; while in Paris, she discovers and becomes obsessed with a journal she finds that belonged to Alexandrine Paradis, an aspiring Parisian actress who lived two centuries earlier and who had a fateful encounter with the doomed French king and his young son. By the award-winning author of A Northern Light.

Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, 70-year-old Percy haplessly allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made in the decades after his wife’s death.

Attending the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 Chicago to compete against famous detectives for the title of “World’s Greatest Sleuth,” the Amlingmeyers find the contest complicated by a reunion with the elusive Diana Corvus.

Despite her deafness, 18-year-old Piper becomes the manager for her classmates’ popular rock band, called Dumb, giving her the chance to prove her capabilities to her parents and others, if only she can get the band members to get along.

Profiles technology as an evolving international system with predictable trends, counseling readers on how to prepare themselves and future generations by anticipating and steering their choices toward developing needs. By the author of New Rules for a New Economy.

While romantically optimistic Lily embraces the forthcoming season and surly Dash dreads the holidays with his divorced parents, a mysterious red notebook and a scavenger hunt brings about a Christmas miracle. By the authors of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer and inadvertently brings himself to the attention of Douglas, a rather creepy guy with an intensely violent streak who also happens to be a necromancer—and one who now wants to team up, or else.

The author’s latest collection of true adventures traces her post-divorce life after her daughter has moved out, which is rendered even more colorful by her feisty octogenarian mother, Mary.

In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives “unwound” and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to survive until they turn eighteen.

A treasury of lyrics by the Tony Award-, Grammy Award-, Oscar- and Pulitzer Prize-winning music artist includes all of his works from West Side Story to Sweeney Todd, in a volume that also offers a rare glimpse into relationships and creative process.

A cultural profile of Puritan life covers a wide range of topics, from their covenant communities and deep-rooted ideologies to their beliefs about church and state and their perspectives on other faiths, in an account that also evaluates their legacy in today’s world.

Joining the Selwick Spy School to pursue an adventurous life, governess Laura Grey is assigned to the home of Bonaparte police insider Andre Jaouen, who is investigating a suspected Royalist plot. By the author of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation.