Bad KidDavid Crabb has a smart mouth. His memoir Bad Kid is a delightfully funny, and devastatingly touching, portrait of the artist as a queer Goth kid growing up in San Antonio in the eighties among skinheads and preps, gays and geeks. Very School of John Waters in his infatuation with (and genius for evoking) trashy Americana, Crabb winds up taking us to the sweet spot of literature: the truth. I rarely laugh or cry when reading. Bad Kid moved me to both.

She is just as happy flattening a bee as playing a B flat

for the sabotage of Hell’s Court temple

and Rock and Roll: Uncensored stories from the tour bus

Fans of Fancy Nancy will delight as they experience the fun of sea life right alongside Nancy

When one of Stark’s closest friends is poisoned with the black liquid

recapitulating in a few short years the breakthroughs that took our species thousands of years to achieve

Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature

Sexual fitness goes hand in hand with overall health: Good sex means a man is most probably in good condition

What am I supposed to do with this miracle of survival

And Wylie isn’t the only one at risk

Brett returns to his groundbreaking Demon Cycle series with this enthralling novella—the latest story set in his much-loved fantasy world

he's remained free to woo any woman he chooses