"Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying--and often failing--to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home bat invasions, an obsession with online personality tests, and the mortification of taking ballroom dance lessons with her actor husband. She describes hilarious red-carpet fiascos and other observations from the sidelines of fame, while also touching...

"During the Earth's third incarnation, eight of the nine gods craft a warrior. He is Xavion, and at thirty years old, he is in the midst of warring empires in the continent of Nodin. Being mixed of all human ethnicities, Xavion is often discriminated against. As a champion representing five rival minorities, Xavion is hell-bent to purge imperialism from the north. Sareyus, the goddess of fire, protests Xavion's creation. Her anger of the pantheon's...

Ingmar Bergman once said that an artist should always have one work between himself and death. When renowned author Gail Godwin tripped and broke her neck while watering the dogwood tree in her garden at age eighty-five, a lifetime of writing and publishing behind her and a half-finished novel in tow, Bergman's idea quickly unfurled in front of her, forcing her to confront a creative life interrupted. In Getting to Know Death, Godwin shares what spoke...

"A child's eye view of the Arab-Israeli crisis. An Israeli boy and Arab girl find peace and common ground in the midst of turmoil."

Empowering and educational, this nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson, an NAACP leader who wrote the uplifting poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," shows how he led thousands of Black people in the Silent Protest Parade for civil rights down New York's Fifth Avenue.