Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel Children's Weather Books making a “provocative and compelling”

making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it

inspired by a historical figure—“marvelous…readers of Esi Edugyan and Yaa Gyasi will be enthralled” (Publishers Weekly

The final volume of the critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Jane Austen as amateur sleuth

Once imprisoned for the long term in federal prisons

she has only her wits to keep her alive

Where the Axe Is Buried: A Novel Children's Weather Books making a “provocative and compelling”All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is