Leisure Reading

Set against the Gothic landscape of magnolia tress and majestic antebellum homes, Born on the Bayou gets to the heart of being a southerner with rawness and grace.

Unwavering. Uncompromising. Unforgettable. How's a kid supposed to believe there's good in him when he's only ever heard the opposite?

Justyce is a good kid. An honor student. Always there to help a friend. So why is he the one in handcuffs?

Despite lives headed in opposite directions, McKenna and Sam fall in love on an emotionally charged journey of dizzying highs and devastating lows. When their punch-drunk love leads them off the trail, McKenna has to persevere in a way she never thought possible to beat the odds or risk both their lives.

Each student at Robert E. Lee High School is required to preform two hundred hours of community service in order to graduate. Their responses to the assignment are as varied as the organizations for which they volunteer.

Sometimes people want to be lost. Madison - Mads to everyone who knows her - is trying her best to escape herself during one last summer away from a mother who needs more from her than she can give, and from a future that has been decided by everyone but her.

George Warren is well aware that she's sometimes too tough for her own good. She didn't mean to make the hot new guy cry - twice. And maybe she shouldn't have hit the school's mean girl in the face. George's loyalty and impulsiveness are what her friends love about her - they know she's got their backs.

Emma has always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an odder sister, and the two have always been best friends. Until something happens that wrecks them. Then the unthinkable occurs - a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast.

In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. He wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in NYC/

A wild river, deep and unexplored. A monstrous sea beast, newly awakened. A teenage boy, desperate to save his father. A journey infused with magic and danger. An unforgettable debut.

Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars. So this would be an adventure.

It's not easy to make friends when your heart ticks like a clock. Like a bomb. When your father is a genius who saved you - and many others - from a devastating virus with his invention of biomechanical limbs. When everyone expects the same revolutionary ideas from you.

Stan Lee didn't have hulking strength. Or fantastic flexibility. Or catlike reflexes. His superpower was creating heroes who did.

1945. Berlin has fallen. Hitler's Third Reich has finally surrendered, leaving Germany's capital in ruins. Sixteen year old Otto is living on the edge of survival with his brother and friends in a desperate, bombed-out city. The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows of the wreckage.