'Sometimes you have to make a mark, to show you were first, to show you matter and make a difference to the world.' Damian Foley and his mate Chris Monk carry the weight of childhood illness and they have reached their teenage years with plenty to prove. It is the summer of 1966, a year of great change, the decimal currency has been introduced and the first troops from Australia are sent to the war in Vietnam, the largest overseas campaign since...

Bryan Borland's third poetry collection examines what it means to dig-to undertake the intense labor of unearthing the personal/political/artistic self and embracing the consequences of that knowledge. The poet recognizes that the world needs another love poem / like it needs blood in the throat," yet seeks to commune with the sanctity of flesh, offering the language of his body. These poems assert that to dig is to reveal the bedrock on which we...

This short story was written for you to read just prior to bedtime. You will have the sweetest dreams of your life. Joseph thought he was going to bid on a job, just like he has hundreds of times. Little did he know that today was the day for him to own up to past sins.

ne of Us is Lying meets Hitchcock in this novel from celebrated author of the #MurderTrending series, Gretchen McNeil. I did my part, BFF. Now it's your turn. Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn't really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl's empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when...

"Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape—for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents—is absolutely magnetic."—Sarah Waters

"A dark, tense, and vital short novel. . . . Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."—The Guardian

"It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."—Daily

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"A parade of colorful construction vehicles doing its work means plenty of joyful noise. Kids will love the irresistibly rhythmic text and the adorable, personality-filled vehicles with headlights that look like eyes."--Provided by publisher.

Reimagining the Sutton Hoo dig, the greatest Anglo-Saxon archaeological discovery on British soil, John Preston brilliantly dramatizes three months of intense activity on a small estate when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.

In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty,

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