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Unbeknownst to 10-year-old Wil Wychwood, he comes from a long line of mages. But with the death of his grandmother and his world upended, Wil moves to live with “the Aunts” and finds himself in MiddleGate—where buses drive through brick walls and leaning houses dot streets named Wog’s Hollow and Half Moon Lane. The 494-year-old school, Gruffud’s Academy, is out of this world too. With classes in numeristics, botanicals, cartology, and verbology, this is no ordinary school. Yet something dark brews beneath the veneer of this idyllic hidden city.

Isabel Fontaine’s lavish lifestyle came to a crashing halt the night the General Chanzy sank. At 18, she had everything — fine luxuries, a prominent family, and an extravagant estate in Marseille. The one thing she didn’t have was her freedom. As the sole heir to the Fontaine fortune, her future was forged with a betrothal to a stranger from a foreign country, but when her family perishes at sea, Isabel sees this as a chance to hide her identity and change her fate.

Aliens hijacked Earth from orbit! As the only humans awake, Bruce and Lindy team up with an android friend to do something about it! Bruce, 11, and sister Lindy, 9, show up to school on a warm Spring morning. They discover that friendly aliens have arrived on Earth. Unfortunately, at lunch, things go awry when all of their classmates freeze in place.

Eliza Cartwright isn’t going to stop asking questions until she finds out what happened the night the Northside Residence Hall burned down. Her memories of that night are hazy, her best frenemy is missing, and the police are refusing to investigate. As a reporter, Eliza knows how to demand answers. Even if her newspaper is so small that some of those answers have, historically speaking, been about bake sales and library movie nights. But Eliza will do whatever it takes.

An action-packed novel following an unlikely duo as they race across Europe in a dangerously high-stakes competition worth millions “Romancing the Stone meets The DaVinci Code . . . You’ll find mile-a-minute pacing, Tracy-and-Hepburn chemistry with a dash of spice, and a twist around every...

In The Third Person, a collection of uncanny short stories by Emily Anglin, a sequence of tense professional and personal negotiations between two people is complicated when a third person arrives. Within these triangulated microworlds, disorienting gaps open up between words and reality: employees dissolve from job titles, neighbors overstep comfortable boundaries, voices distanced by space or time make their presence felt. Uneasiness builds among these separate but entangled lives.

The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it? Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. Honest and intimate, critical and hopeful, this collection offers solace and joy to creative mothers and asks how we can better support their work.

Cousins Sophie and Wil certainly have their hands full. Wil's old friend Mr. Bertram is blamed for the disappearance of a priceless manuscript and lands in jail, things are up in the air at Auntie Vis Fortune-Telling with a new competitor next door, Sophie and Wil have exams to study for, Aunt Rue doesn't get the new job at the Secretariat after all, and their neighbor, Mrs. Oleander, falls deathly ill.