From a former White House speechwriter: a middle grade series following two First Daughters who team up with historical presidential children to save the nation.Marissa and Clara's mom is the newly elected president of the United States, and they haven't experienced much freedom lately. While exploring the White House they discover a hidden tunnel that leads to an underground clubhouse full of antique curiosities, doors heading in all directions—and a mysterious invitation to join the ranks of White House kids. So they sign the pledge.Suddenly, the lights go out, and Marissa and Clara find themselves at the White House in 1903. There they meet Quentin, Ethel, Archie, and Alice, the irrepressible children of President Theodore Roosevelt. To get back home, Marissa and Clara must team up with the Roosevelt kids "to help the president" and "to make a difference."White House Clubhouse is a thrilling and hilarious adventure that takes...

Asteroid belt miner Collier South has hit rock bottom. Ever since finding the alien artifact that could transmute elements, he’s lost everything, including the artifact itself. His lover, Su, was killed on the ice plains of Ganymede, and his ship has been repossessed along with his longtime partner and friend, the shipboard computer Sancho. So, when Collier discovers nothing is ever truly lost, the question becomes—will he risk the chase again?

The new collection from Sean O'Brien is a book of halves. The first half, IT SAYS HERE, is a series of poems on memory, time, and recurrence; shorter, viciously focused pieces on the current political nightmare (there are some utterly scabrous political sketches); other pieces lay bare the current trials of mind like Sean's – expert, wise and literate – trying to navigate a world gone post-content and post-intellectual. As usual, all this is done through Sean's trademark lyricism, his subversion of folk-tale and folksong, and allegory. All this forms a lovely acoustic anteroom to the long poem HAMMERSMITH – a psychogeographic journey through the haunted landscapes of London, very shadowy and cinematic; it's a gripping – and at times semi-novelistic– navigation of the labyrinth of memory, with the contemporary political/climate apocalypses looming over it to make it even creepier. All in all, it has the feel and grandeur of a contemporary...