Jesse Vilinsky

After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn's first year of college back in Philadelphia should be safe and comparatively easy. All Quinn wants is to forget what happened and be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past won't leave her alone when she becomes the focus of a host of online conspiracy theories that claim to prove that the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It's a deranged but relentless fantasy,...

All her life, seventeen-year-old Chessie has had recurring dreams about a little white farmhouse. Quaint? Not quite. The house is the site of the unsolved murders of Villisca, Iowa, where eight people were slaughtered in 1912. With her parents on the verge of divorce, Chessie is stuck spending the summer with her grandparents in Villisca-right across the street from the axe murder house. She's soon hearing voices calling out for help and begins unraveling...

Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight...

Take a look at what the future holds-and how women are making it better. In The Future of Science is Female, author and award-winning journalist Zara Stone shares the fascinating, complicated stories of how a diverse group of powerful women got started-from the perspective of those still working it out as they go along. Take 22-year old Dominique Barnes, a female hero of the oceans. She was worried about all the dolphins and whales killed during...

Writing at Work covers everything professionals need to know about writing on the job today. HR and L&D managers can use this new course to train experienced employees who already know the basics of business writing but could use a refresher.

Emma's earning money left and right-but is she in over her head? When Mia asks the Cupcake Club girls to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding, everyone is super excited about the idea . . . especially when they find the perfect dress for the occasion! It's Emma's dream dress, except its a little more expensive than she expected. And with her mom recently out of work, there's not a lot of room at the Taylor house for extras. Not wanting to...

A sister's worst nightmare. A homicide detective's destiny. Everybody loves Claire's little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister's angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother. Twelve years later, more girls turn up dead in Newburgh exactly like Tina. Claire, now...

"Narrator Jesse Vilinsky creates plenty of suspense in this quirky mystery-sci-fi mix." - AudioFile Magazine For fans of David Mitchell and Joanne Harris, Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing reminds us that living our best life sometimes means embracing the imperfect one we already have. "Fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." -Booker Prize winner, George Saunders. If a picture paints a thousand worlds...

The Telorans just got pummeled in Meligorn space, but the victory came with unexpectedly bad news: there is another Teloran fleet heading in their direction. What will the Federation Navy decide to do? On Earth, Stephanie's plans to help rebuild are slowly taking shape. Will her team be able to figure out a plan to reduce the toxic radiation zones, or will they die of radiation sickness or magical destruction and sink the future of the planet? Regardless...

Mia finds that one more in the mix is always better in this treat of a tween series! Mia is getting used to her new family now that her mom is remarried to Eddie and she's gained a new stepbrother, Dan. She's in the groove of going to her dad's house on the weekends, and everything is going pretty well at home and at school. Well, except for Spanish class. Mia's parents and stepfather speak it and she does too-but speaking it and writing it are two...