Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) BOTY_2025 and straight from the heart

and straight from the heart

A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain

The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large

1st Battalion—descended

definitive biography of Ted Kennedy—an immersive journey through the life of a complicated man and a sweeping history of the fall of liberalism and the collapse of political morality

Ship Breaker (National Book Award Finalist) BOTY_2025 and straight from the heartSet in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to