by Melanie K. Summers It was the summer of 2005, somewhere along the touristy coast of the Atlantic Ocean. I was thirteen—old enough to think I was too cool for family vacations, young enoug…| The Lit Nerds
Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger,…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Ariel Price wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone, no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong. She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can’t fully answer. The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Theodore Finch constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, he finds something good that stops him. Violet Markey is aching with grief and struggling to continue on living in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses. When she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms, she lands herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust