Love in the Time of Global Warming

After floodwaters snatch away her entire family from their Los Angeles home, 17-year-old Penelope must navigate an underwater fantasy world to retrieve them in this engaging tale of a teenage Odysseus.

Human Chain

The final poetry collection from Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) is a triumphant swan song, making its way from the dark underworld of Virgil’s Aeneid to the kitchen of Heaney’s rural Irish childhood.

Kerouac’s Road

September 5: “It was drizzling and mysterious at the beginning of our journey. I could see that it was all going to be one big saga of the mist.”