Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.…
Silent Spring
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.…
Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
Megan Elias2026-10-01T08:59:00-04:00This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories.
Contained within this volume are the following: eleonora, the black cat, the masque of the Red death, the house of usher, the masque of the Red death, the murders in the Rue morg, the pit and the pendulum and the assignation.…
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – An American Slave
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
Black Boy Smile
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00At nine years old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad’s Lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of the crack epidemic just hours from the nation’s capital.…
Lady in the Lake
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline “Maddie” Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she’s bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life.…
Long Way Down
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s “tour de force” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) novel in verse takes place in sixty potent seconds: the time it takes a kid to go down an elevator—and decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother.…
The Hunt for Red October
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00The #1 New York Times bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Tom Clancy—a gripping military thriller that introduced the world to his unforgettable hero, Jack Ryan—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Somewhere under the freezing Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision.…