Step into the world of mystery, friendship, and adventure with The Adventures of JD & Marcus: The Secrets of Linden Avenue-a captivating chapter book that brings imagination to life through the eyes of two unforgettable best friends.When JD, a quiet and creative thinker, moves into a lively new neighborhood, he never expects his life to change overnight. Enter Marcus-bold, energetic, and always ready for action. Together, they quickly form an unbreakable bond, discovering ...

Discover where the adventure begins in The Adventures of JD & Marcus-a heartwarming and hilarious chapter book about friendship, imagination, and finding your place in a brand-new world.When JD, a quiet and creative kid, moves to a new neighborhood, everything feels unfamiliar. New streets, new faces, and a whole new environment leave him unsure of where he fits in. But everything changes when he meets Marcus-a bold, energetic, and candy-loving kid who lives life at full s...

The mystery didn't end on Linden Avenue...it only got bigger.Just when JD and Marcus think their summer adventure is finally behind them, a small detail in a newspaper article changes everything. What if the clues they followed weren't leading to the past-but to something still hidden?In The Adventures of JD & Marcus: The Secrets Beyond Linden Avenue, the boys quickly realize they may have missed the most important clue of all. What begins as a lingering question t...

In this collection of essays, 13 foreign exchange students write their compelling stories detailing their experiences studying at Dartmouth College. They not only convey their own joys and sorrows, but illuminate U.S. culture from a perspective not seen by many American students or citizens.

For most of his life, John Creed never gave much thought to an afterlife.That all changed the day he died.He'd been clinically dead for ten minutes. At least, that's what the doctors told him when he woke up in intensive care. It had been a freak accident, they said. A school bus suddenly turned in front of his red convertible, smashing it to bits.By all odds, that should have been it. John's injuries had been grave. His heart had stopped and been restarted. He'd flatl...

A cop investigating serial murders in Chicago discovers the killer he's hunting is a vampire in this urban fantasy.A serial killer is stalking the nighttime streets of Chicago.He leaves his victims with their throats torn out and their bodies completely drained of blood. He's killed dozens. His first two victims were cops. Detective Dennis Coglin is desperate to catch him before he kills again, but is this murderer just a vicious maniac, or is he something el...

Shaped by Japanese Music is an in-depth analysis of the musical world of an individual performer, composer, and teacher. Using an ethnographic approach, this study situates musical analysis in the context of its creation, demonstrating that traditional Japanese music is hardly an archaic song form frozen in the present, but an active sociocultural system that has been reproduced in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present day. The dynamics of this cultural system unfold in the mus...

The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing...

"This is a moving story, well told and beautifully written."--Jeffrey ArcherIn celebration of Jeffrey Archer's latest short story collection, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, St. Martin's Press sponsored the "Jeffrey Archer Presents" Short Story Competition. #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of the short story Jeffrey Archer is known for the precise wit and timely revelations in his tales, and now with this short story competition he has had the oppo...

Free Play is about the inner sources of spontaneous creation. It is about why we create and what we learn when we do. It is about the flow of unhindered creative energy: the joy of making art in all its varied forms.An international bestseller and beloved classic, Free Play is an inspiring and provocative book, directed toward people in any field who want to contact, honor, and strengthen their own creative powers. It reveals how inspiration arise...

“Without self-esteem, the only change is an exchange of masters; with it, there is no need for masters.” —Gloria SteinemWhen trying to find books to give to “the countless brave and smart women I met who didn’t think of themselves as either brave or smart,” Gloria Steinem realized that books either supposed that external political change would cure everything or that internal change would. None linked internal and external change together in a seamless circle of ca...

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes "a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR).Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept into the popular crowd, while mousy, sullen Addie becomes her school’s scapegoat.Flash-forward fif...