With a scope never seen before or since, the Manhattan Project—to develop and build the first nuclear weapons—was a major scientific and industrial undertaking. This is the story of the people who ...

Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three stomps, a crack, a drip, and a “POOF!”—he finds himself utterly changed. Bob is now a vampire! He’s also ...

When you sit down to write a story, sometimes the hardest part can be just getting started. After all, the beginning of a tale ...

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The author, an integrative healthcare practitioner, takes readers on a journey through the ins and outs of reiki, framing it as a method of healing and rejuvenation—and not, she clarifies, as a kind ...

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According to the acknowledgments, this memoir started as "a fifty-page poem and then grew into hundreds of pages of…more poetry." Readers will be glad that Anderson eventually turned to writing prose, ...

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E. Lockhart’s Kirkus-starred YA bestseller We Were Liars (2014) initially seems like a straightforward tale of poor little rich teens, but near the end it reveals itself as a more ambitious work—if, ...