By: Kate Chopin

Mrs. Mallard, a woman with a heart condition, learns of her husband's untimely demise and pretends to be upset. How will she react when she finds out he is really alive?

By: Roald Dahl
Mary Maloney, a homemaker, is content with her husband and her life until he tells her something terrible and implies that he is leaving her. Upset, she does the unthinkable. What will she do with her unusual murder weapon?
By: Flannery O'Conner
A family with a talkative grandmother comes across a hardened and extremely dangerous criminal, The Misfit. Can the grandmother convince him to leave her family alone or will they be his next victims?
By: John Bemelmans Marciano
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Take a journey through the life of Renaissance man Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the beloved Madeline series and accomplished painter. This book was written by his grandson, John Bemelmans Marciano, who has since continued the legacy of Madeline.
By: John Bemelmans Marciano
Harold the squirrel is living the life in New York City, feasting on nuts from a kind old man in the park. The old man never feeds, the rats, though.
By: Mary Pope Osborne
In this latest installment of the ever-popular series, Jack and Annie go to New Orleans on All Saint's Day in 1915 to find a young musician named Louis Armstrong. Music, mystery and ghosts combine for another riveting quest for the sibling adventurers.
By: Emily Gravett
Dogs come in many shapes and sizes and with a variety of attitudes - all evident in inspired drawings and limited text. Join the canine walk presented with verve and humor - with a twist of tale (or maybe tail!) at the end.
By: Emily Gravett
It can be scary being very little especially if you're a small mouse with a big list of concerns. Droll humor is used to great effect in both text and illustration as the tiny rodent documents his worries.
House in the desert
By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Thousands of undocumented immigrants yearly scramble across the U.S.-Mexican border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Many do not make it out alive.

By: Emily Gravett
Tired of the togetherness of his large family, Sunny (a meerkat) sets off to visit his mongoose relations who live far away from the Kalahari Desert. Sunny chronicles his journey on postcards until he returns home and foils a hungry hyena.

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