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"Andy and Terry live in a 91-story treehouse. (It used to be a 78-story treehouse, but they keep getting ideas for new stories!) It has a submarine sandwich shop that serves sandwiches the size of actual submarines, an air-traffic control tower, a human pinball machine, a spin-and-win prizewheel, a giant spider web--with a giant spider!--and a big red button, which they're not sure whether to push or not because they can't remember what it does. Good thing there's so many fun things to do in the treehouse, because Andy and Terry get stuck babysitting Mr. Big Nose's three grandchildren for the day. After all, how much trouble could they possibly get into in just one day?"--Back cover.

"Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina--nicknamed Puffina--is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds a network of artists simply trying to find work, make rent, and make Paris home. Years later, when a letter from her friend Martita resurfaces, Corina finds herself older and with enough distance to articulate her time in Paris. While Paris did not bring her the affirmation she was looking for as a writer, Corina finds an emotional connection to her friend that transcends space and time and demonstrates that we are most honest in our writing"--Provided by publisher.

Strange things happen around Glister Butterworth and her family's English estate, including being forced to type the last novel of a ghostly author found in a haunted teapot.

In Chinese, the closest expression to oh my god is wo de ma ya. It?s an interjection, a polite expletive, something to say when you?re out of words. Translated literally, it means oh my mother?the instinctual first person you think of when you?re on the cusp of losing it, or putting it all together. In each essay of this hilarious, heartfelt, and pitch-perfectly honest memoir, journalist Connie Wang explores her complicated relationship to her stubborn and charismatic mother, Qing Li, through the ?oh my god? moments in their travels together. From attending a Magic Mike strip show in Vegas to experimenting with edibles in Amsterdam to flip-flopping through Versailles, this iconic mother-daughter duo venture into the world to find their place in it, and sometimes rail against it?as well as against each other. There are hijinks, capers, and adventures. There is also tenderness, growth, and discovery. In telling these stories about the places they?ve gone and the things they?ve done, Wang reveals another story: the true story of two women who finally learned that once we are comfortable with the feeling of not belonging?once we can reject the need to belong to any place, community, census, designation, or nation?we can experience something almost like freedom.

Successful romance author Gaia Anders has a big secret: anything she dreams at night is magically written into her bestselling novels. So when she goes to a party one night and kisses Jacob, her best friend's brother, he ends up in her dreams as well, but things get complicated when it turns out he is fully aware of what's happening. As Gaia and Jacob try to navigate their new relationship, they both must face their own pasts and come to terms with what they want for the future.

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Young manga writer Christie, along with her friend, Bethany, promotes her new work at anime conventions and a college and has trouble with an ex-boyfriend and a new love interest.

"Christian Cooper is a self-described Blerd (Black nerd), an avid comics fan, and an expert birder who devotes every spring to gazing upon the migratory birds that stop to rest in Central Park . . . a routine encounter with a dog-walker escalates age old racial tensions, Cooper's viral video of the incident would send shockwaves through the nation . . . Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and primer on the art of birding, this is Cooper's story of learning to claim and defend space for himself and others like him, from his days as a writer for Marvel Comics, where Cooper introduced the first gay storyline, to vivid and life-changing birding expeditions through Africa, Australia, the Americas and the Himalayas. [An] . . . invitation into the wonderful world of birds, and what they can teach us about life, if only we would stop and listen"--Provided by publisher.

"Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books, he's ending their collaboration. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open in London's West End. The play is panned by critics--Sunday Times critic Harriet Throsby is particularly savage, especially about the writing. The next day she is stabbed in the heart by an ornamental dagger--one belonging to Anthony, and with his fingerprints all over it. When a second theatre critic is found to have died under mysterious circumstances, only one man can help him--but will Hawthorne take the call?--Adapted from jacket.