The Rare Bird

The Rare BirdCaldecott Honoree Elisha Cooper returns with a unique and playful tale about an imaginative house cat who dreams of all the wild things it can be. The imagination of one housecat takes him to unexpected adventures as he dreams of spreading his wings as a "Rare Bird". A Rare Bird can do anything! Fly fast through the forest, or splash in the bird baths, or meet animals from faraway lands.. Readers will fall head over heels for this extraordinary tale

A woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage

an estranged lover who shares a dark history with the Beast and a terrible secret with Sebastian

a missing resident at the local nursing home

and one ambitious man’s quest to bridge the ideological chasm separating two worlds

or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off

Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too

But how could this be

The Dark Forest

take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson

The idea is to drink gallons of cava

illustrated endpapers

no matter what it costs him… or her