Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'....

Aster and the Accidental Magic #1

Thom Pico; Karensac (Illustrator); Owen Smith; Anne Collins Smith

A fun, action-packed fantasy adventure about a girl, her dog, and magic gone wrong   Quiet . . . birds . . . nature. . . .   That's what Aster expects when her parents move their whole family to the middle of nowhere. It's just her (status: super-bored), her mom and dad (status: busy with science),...