Matthew Newton

" Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From a young age, Matthew Newton understood that the shopping mall offered visitors far more than a collection of stores, it was a place of curiosity, ritual, and fantasy. The mall near Newton's childhood home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-the state's first enclosed shopping mall, and the backdrop for filmmaker George A. Romero's zombie opus...

"Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong, she is forced to fight for her own survival"--Container.

Three undocumented teenagers are just about to graduate high school in the Bronx. But unlike the everyday problems of New York adolescents, these three live with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and deported. When one of their teachers connects them with a lawyer to help them get their papers, the teens start to dig into their family histories to assist their immigration cases. Winner of the Audience Award for Narrative Spotlight...

"Australia, 1976. Hard drugs hit the nation like a tsunami. Drug money flooded the underworld. With the new money came a new breed of hard men and willing women. Two names stood above all others--blazing across the underworld and changing the face of organized crime in Australia forever--Aussie Bob Trimbole and Kiwi Terry Clark"--Container.

Ava: A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong. Molly's game: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Miss Julie: A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire--Adapted from container. A most violent...