When a devastating event breaks her heart open, aspiring writer Alice creates a stunning debut novel in which her words find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness to a widower rent by grief, who, due to her book, find new paths forward.

While chaperoning her half-brother, who is in a robotics competition at the local library, chef Samantha Gale meets Bennett Reynolds, who has come to Martha’s Vineyard to find his father, and as their summer fling heats up, they both realize they may have stumbled upon happily-ever-after.

Clarisse, a street cat who loves books, finds a new home in the library as a read-aloud cat.

After an incident, Angel finds herself in Brooklyn, far from her California home, where she finds solace and healing in a revolutionary literature course in which her classmates share their own stories of pain, joy and fortitude.

Attending a conference in Chicago, library directory Lindsey Norris discovers under her chair a rare, first edition book inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock and tied to a murder.

Library Fish is very happy in her bowl on Mr. Hughes the librarian's desk. She listens to story time and watches Mr. Hughes teach children the alphabet. He says the alphabet is made of letters, letters make sounds, those sounds make words, and words make stories. Library Fish wants to read, too! Can Library Fish become a reader all on her own?

In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. This is the last summer of Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. America's take on it is different and profoundly personal. As their friendship...