The Birthday Party

The Birthday PartyBy: Stanley N. Alpert On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a car full of gun toting thugs looking to use his ATM card. He ended up blindfolded in a Brooklyn apartment as his captors changed their plans, alternately threatening him and his family, seeking legal advice, expounding on the "gangsta" life, and offering him the services of their

hit "delete

kids can enjoy a million hundred weird jokes

By: Sofie Kelly   | Series: Magical Cats Librarian Kathleen Paulson is always willing to help a friend

the snow blankets the ground and the trees have shed their leaves

Learn all about Cookie Monster in a new Sesame Street board book illustrated with bold

Then try printing

A Horn for Louis is perfect for aspiring young musicians and nonfiction fans alike

but she dies tragically in the 1919 flu epidemic

And don't miss the conclusion to the series

By: Ann Beattie   | Series: Vintage Contemporaries In her latest novel

it tells the story of Chatwin's search for the source and meaning of the ancient "dreaming tracks" of the Aborigines—the labyrinth of invisible pathways by which their ancestors "sang" the world into existence

tense and compelling