Sharon Biggs Waller

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Best Books of 2019 —Cosmopolitan Camille couldn't be having a better summer—she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also finds out she’s pregnant. She definitely can’t tell her parents. And her best friend Bea doesn’t agree with the decision Camille has made. Camille is forced to try to solve her problem alone...and the system is very much working against her. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Happily, Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go. And in a last minute change of heart, Bea decides to come with. Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. But ultimately, the girls will realize that friends are the real heroes in every story. Girls on the Verge is an incredibly timely novel about a woman’s right to choose. Sharon Biggs Waller brings to life a narrative that has to continue to fight for its right to be told, and honored. "[C]ompelling... This title offers realistic viewpoints on teenage pregnancy, along with what it is like to have the right to choose, wanting that right, and living knowing that you will be judged for having exercised it." —School Library Journal, Starred Review

Girls on the Verge

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Edward Humes

Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul

What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution good science? Is it a lie? Is it incompatible with faith? Did Charles Darwin really say man came from monkeys? Have scientists really detected "intelligent design"—evidence of a creator—in nature? What happens when a town school board decides to confront such questions head-on, thrusting its students, then an entire community, onto the front lines of America’s culture wars? From bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize– winning journalist Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Monkey Girl takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, the epic court case on teaching "intelligent design" it spawned, and the national struggle over what Americans believe about human origins. Told from the perspectives of all sides of the battle, Monkey Girl is about what happens when science and religion collide.

Monkey Girl

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B. J. Novak

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Stories and Other Stories

A debut collection by a writer for the Emmy Award-winning series The Office includes the title story, in which a boy's lucrative sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.

One More Thing

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William Deresiewicz

The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

A Yale professor and author of A Jane Austen Education evaluates the consequences of high-pressure educational and parenting approaches that challenge the mind's ability to think critically and creatively, calling for strategic changes that can offer college students a self-directed sense of purpose.

Excellent Sheep

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Bethenny Frankel

Eve Adamson

10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

A Place of Yes

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Jeff Gordinier

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.

X Saves the World

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Julie Buxbaum

From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes an of-the-moment novel that explores a seductive world of privilege, wealth, and status by way of a college admissions bribery scandal story. LA prep-school student Chloe Wynn Berringer, who is knee-deep in the misery of the college applications process, is shocked when FBI agents arrive at her front door to arrest her B-list TV and film celebrity mother in connection with a massive college admissions bribery scandal. Who is involved? Who knew what and when? And who is talking to the authorities? As the scope of the investigation is revealed, it is evident that the downfall will be swift--the general public demands that the guilty be punished. A riveting novel that examines the pressures and expectations of an increasingly competitive landscape for teens during college applications year and what some parents will risk to guarantee that their kids succeed.

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