Ransom Riggs

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of vintage photography. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, a spine-tingling YA fantasy illustrated with haunting black-and-white photography. The hardcover edition spent more than 52 consecutive weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List. This beautifully designed paperback edition features an exclusive interview with author Ransom Riggs and a sneak preview of the upcoming Miss Peregrine novel.

Untitled Miss Peregrine Sequel

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. Publishers Weekly called it “an enjoyable, eccentric read, distinguished by well-developed characters, a believable Welsh setting, and some very creepy monsters.”

Quirk Books Summer Reads Sampler

Welcome! You've discovered the Quirk Books Summer Reads Sampler.

Here we’ve rounded up some of the best fiction that Quirk has to offer. Inside, you'll find the first few chapters of:

The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Sherlock Holmes Handbook

The first Sherlock Holmes adventure appeared in 1887, but today the detective is more popular than ever-witness the upcoming release date of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. For every reader who dreams of solving crimes in turn-of-the-century London, The Sherlock Holmes Handbook features skills that all would-be sleuths should know:

    * How to Use Deductive Reasoning
    * How to Analyze Fingerprints-Without Computers
    * How to Master a Dozen Disguises
    * How to Survive a Plunge over a Waterfall

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