In a stunning literary achievement Luis (Always Running) Rodriguez captures the soul of a community and a little-known era in America’s history in his epic novel of love, family, workers’ rights, and cultural dislocation. Spanning sixty years, MUSIC OF THE MILL is set in the boom of post-WW II California, where jobs seemed plentiful, communities thriving, and racial harmony prevailing. In reality there was great struggle and racial discord—low-paying, backbreaking labor and the cruel manipulation by manufacturers who pitted groups of workers against one another.

Riley is a young boy who loves animals and exploring, helping endangered species and learning about the world. In the forth book in the series the ADVENTURES OF RILEY: Dolphins in Danger, Riley travels to the South Seas to study spinner dolphins with his aunt and uncle. But when the dolphins are caught in a local lagoon will Riley be able to help save them? Fun and learning go hand in hand in this wonderful series, created in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), who receives a portion from each book sold.

María Amparo Escandón is a writer who can find beauty in any setting, even a prison, or a truck cab. While in jail Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time, reading to her fellow inmates, but the story that emerges has nothing to do with what is on the page- a literature professor and fugitive from the Mexican government reinvents himself as a trucker in the US, falling in love, and then finding himself alone on the road with a baby girl. GONZÁLES & DAUGHTER TRUCKING CO. is born.

Martha O’Connor shares the confessions of THE BITCH POSSE. Cherry, Rennie, and Amy were outcasts who bonded to survive the pitfalls and perils of life in high school. In the present day, one is a wife and mother-to-be, trying to be ‘normal’. One is a writer who engages in self-destructive relationships. And one is in a mental hospital-and has been since one night fifteen years ago, when betrayal and the unraveling of relationships led to unimaginable consequences.

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Nicole (A Man Walks Into the Room) Krauss is proving herself as a preeminent storytellers of our time. THE HISTORY OF LOVE tells two profound, parallel stories. One story follows a man who lost his homeland to WWII, his love to another man, his only child to a lie and a great work of art to a friend’s theft. The other story follows a girl who was named for a character in a book that was written by a man who has lost his love, his child and his home. They unwittingly follow each other through modern New York in this lovely book.

High school has never been pretty, even for the beautiful, as Colleen Curran knows. Everybody calls Astrid, Juli and Thisbe the WHORES ON THE HILL, but they don’t care. It is the mid-’80s and they go to the last all-girls’ Catholic school in Milwaukee, where they waste afternoons at the mall, go to parties on the lake, and burn through casual sex. They believe they can take on the world, no matter what it calls them. But when euphoric sexuality mixes with dangerous, deadly pranks, their world at Sacred Heart Holy Angels can never be the same.