"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...

The mighty Roman army faces Britain's defiant tribes in late summer AD 44 under General Plautius. Macro and Cato are with the Second Legion under the precarious leadership of Centurian Maximus, and it's their task to hold a fort across the Tamesis when the natives are forced into a trap. But Maximus' nerve breaks at a critical moment and the enemies escape. General Plautius is outraged at the escape and orders the decimation of Macro and Cato's...

It is spring 45 AD and centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse.

Sent to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad, Rika meets a group of kids with elemental powers called Minders, who reveal that her long-lost mom is in danger, sending Rika on a magical adventure where she must learn to believe in herself to destroy evil.