From the multi-award-winning author of An American Immigrant comes the story of a woman walking through paralyzing grief and the unlikely friendship that might unlock a path to healing. When Sandra and her family move from New York City to East Nashville for her husband's job, she is hopeful for a fresh start. While she will deeply miss her tight-knit family and thriving career, she is desperate to leave behind the city that holds her greatest loss. But Sandra quickly learns that moving into a new home she designed and having the freedom to be a stay-at-home mom for the first time is not what she thought it would be. Sorrow still follows her, and no new place can fix it. When she meets her next-door neighbor, Mark, who is an elderly, widowed, retired pastor, an unlikely friendship quickly forms. His humor, spiritual wisdom, and affinity for gardening--a skill he was forced to learn when his wife passed away--brings a welcome distraction from Sandra's suffocating grief, giving her hope for the first time since her tragic loss. Will this friendship be just what she needs to heal her broken heart? Or will unexpected news leave Sandra with even more heartache?

"Hobbies fill our world, yet many Christians still struggle to fully enjoy their benefits. Misplaced guilt and misunderstandings of leisure have kept us from the God-given beauty of avocation. Created to Play will invite readers into a richer understanding of leisure. By looking at ten different groups of hobbies, readers will discover how God uses play to bolster our faith and make us more human. Christian readers of all ages will be drawn into worship and challenged to rethink the way they experience their favorite pastimes"-- Provided by publisher.

1601 Iris Drive looks like any otherhouse on the quiet, residential street. But rumors are rampant about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors. When gunshots ring out, Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, discover a devastating crime scene. Allison Vickery has been murdered in her own kitchen, and her teenage daughter is bleeding upstairs, left for dead. Everyone thinks they know what happened. But secrets are buried everywhere in this small town. And it's up to Emmy Clifton to uncover the truth"--

"Grandmas can fix nearly any problem- but what if the problem is a world overrun by robots? There are only a few humans left. Two of them are a boy called Conor and his Gran who swapped her walking stick for a laser blaster. Together, they might be able to finally get rid of these evil metal monsters. The robots have returned and made a new machine based on the fiercest warrior in the wasteland. Introducing... Robo-Gran! Robo-Gran captures Conor, and it is up to Gran and the other survivors to save him." -- Back cover.

As Hazel struggles to adjust to her new position on the volleyball team, all while missing her father serving in the military overseas, she learns to block and attack the challenges that keep coming her way.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner. On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters. Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse--a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis--have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew. Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

"The United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political enemies, disappears people off the street, and undermines free and fair elections. Today nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarianism, the highest rate since the late 1970s. But even under repressive conditions, each of us holds the power to help defeat autocrats. Based on their acclaimed The New Yorker essay "So You Want to Be a Dissident?," veteran reporter Julia Angwin and political strategist Ami Fields-Meyer give us a captivating - and profoundly hopeful - guide to courage in an age of fear."--

Kai's world is turned upside down when his family leaves Hawai'i, but they help him understand that hula is a way for him to stay connected to his heritage and the legacy of their ancestors.

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives--in exciting, but also terrifying, ways. John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel brilliantly juxtaposes the on-screen study of Warhol's life at the dawn of celebrity culture with the intimate struggles of two young people figuring out who they are, both together and alone. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.

When Hot Dog, a lonely ghost haunting a New York food cart, is accidentally summoned, she is ecstatic that Logan, an eighteen-year-old senior grieving the loss of her best friend, can see her, but as the two become friends, a sinister presence in Logan's house threatens to pull them both into darkness unless they face their pasts.

New York Times bestselling author Roland Smith delivers the next installment of his bestselling series, this time taking the Wildes on a Galapagos Islands adventure. Ring and Asia Wilde are back with another outdoor adventure! These siblings' life is anything but ordinary. Some of their closest friends are endangered monkeys and rare birds. Instead of attending middle school, the siblings accompany their parents (scientists who work to save endangered species) on trips around the world. Now the Ring and Asia are thrilled to be heading to the Galapagos Islands aboard a cruise that will be much more luxurious--and safer!--that they're accustomed to. But on a day of island sightseeing, a volcano erupts and they need to flee. Ring and Asia are stranded on a broken-down Zodiac with a friend and their tutor's twin brother. What's worse is that the ship is long gone. They are well and truly adrift with little hope of rescue. Once again, Ring and Asia will need to use all their skills if they are going to get rescued.

"On April 15, 1912, at around 12:20 the RMS Carpathia received an urgent distress call from the Titanic. The Carpathia's captain, Arthur Rostron, didn't hesitate. He steamed his ship toward the disaster at top speed, navigating through a minefield of icebergs along the way. Through quick action, more than 700 souls survived the sinking of the Titanic. How did the Carpathia captain, crew, and passengers carry out the life-saving effort, and what is the enduring legacy of their heroic act?" --

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also lost, 12-years too late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he's a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in Vermont, he decides that this will be the year he finally moves forward with his life. But no sooner does he arrive in Vermont than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as that in any folktale and soon, he stumbles upon a bizarre local legend which, he suspects, may not be just a legend after all.

"Grandmas can fix nearly any problem- but what if the problem is a world overrun by robots? There are only a few humans left. Two of them are a boy called Conor and his Gran who swapped her walking stick for a laser blaster. Together, they might be able to finally get rid of these evil metal monsters. Conor and his Grandma are making their way through the world 10 years after a robot apocalypse. Their chance meeting with a group of survivors turns into a rescue mission, with a chance to deal with the robots for good!" -- Back cover

The perfect alibi. The perfect motive. The perfect lie?Jemma Stelling walks into a police station and confesses--not to a murder she's committed, but to the one she's terrified she might. Jemma can't stop herself from thinking about murdering her stepmother, Marianne Upton. The only way to stop herself might be to confess before she snaps and does the unthinkable.But while Jemma is still giving her statement, a call comes in: Marianne has just been found stabbed to death, killed in exactly the way Jemma described. Suddenly, the woman desperate to prevent a murder has an unshakeable alibi... and a disturbingly accurate description of the crime she couldn't have committed. Is Jemma an innocent bystander? Or a brilliant, cold-blooded killer who planned everything down to the minute?In The Opposite of Murder, New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah unveils another mind-bending mystery--an impossible puzzle guaranteed to hold readers spellbound to the very end.