Poor Your Soul—moving, wise, and passionately written—is a beautiful reflection on sexuality, free will, and the fierce bonds of family.At twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though
The war with no name rages on, setting the world on fire. Humanity faces extinction at the hands of the Colony, a race of intelligent ants seeking to overthrow the humans and establish a new order. To
Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentar
A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a
For fans of The Dog Stars and Station Eleven, Scrapper traces one man’s desperate quest for redemption in a devastated Detroit."Has the feel of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road set in present-day Motor
Ruth Galm’s spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety.Into the Valley ope
Operating Base Cornucopia. A three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Private Toby Durrant, a self-described "br
In April 1945, Hitler’s Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.?John
In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longt
In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room
Disguising herself as a boy and hiding in the melee of the gold rush to escape her past, Alex endures alongside hardscrabble prospectors and raises suspicions in formidable proprietor Emaline, who ext
"Laura is a happily married mother of two. But when her college boyfriend resurfaces after twenty years, she's forced to compare the passion of that first love with the domesticity of her suburban lif
When a chance encounter with a Muslim fugitive drops her down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, Ellie must decide whom to trust among the artists, dealers, collectors, and operatives claiming to be on he
In this vivid reimagining of a classical Greek myth, the eponymous Greek heroine Alcetis, known as the good wife because she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life, tells about her c
“Enthralling. . . . Chamberlain’s ear is finely attuned to every nuance of The Rose Variations, a novel graced by a profound respect for the humble particulars of life.”&
In 1960, when her husband, Rupert, a British diplomat, is posted to the remote Seychelle Islands in the Indian Ocean, Penelope is less than thrilled. But she never imagined the danger that awaited he
“Levison is a sly storyteller . . . by turns funny, sad, and insightful.”—Booklist“Plenty of humor in [Levison's] gruff caper, but he punctuates the laughs with
Billy Boyle is sent by his "Uncle" Ike Eisenhower to Northern Ireland to find stolen weapons and to prevent the Irish Republic from joining the Axis in World War II. Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles h
Expatriates of many nationalities are gathered in Sweden, which has granted asylum to American protesters against the Vietnam War. A number are eking out their lives on a meager Swedish dole in Uppsa
In 1763, James Boswell and the literary celebrity Dr. Samuel Johnson take a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich. Unknown to this pair, they are being stalked by John Boswell, James's younger brot
“Vividly honest, deeply moving.”—Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American “It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being com
In a novel set in Bombay in the 1960s, teenager Pinky Mittal, who is being raised by her grandmother, opens a door that has been bolted all her life and frees the ghost of a stillborn infant that tota
“ Touching. . . . It raises brave questions about the nature of family and betrayal, rupture and healing.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A stirring exploration of o
Leah Kolbe's father, a dealer in antiquities, left the business to her when he died. Now the Japanese have occupied most of mainland China and threaten the British colony of Hong Kong where Leah live
In this attempt to understand the true inner nerd of the adolescent male, Barrowcliffe relates how he and twenty million other boys grew up in the '70s and '80s absorbed in the world of fantasy role-p
Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category). “Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion.”—J.M. Coetzee &
When Naomi Jenkins arrives at the police station, she is sure that Robert, her married boyfriend, has come to harm. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse and Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer are not c
Billy Boyle has been landed in Sicily in advance of the main Allied invasion forces. But when he awakens in a field hospital after suffering a concussion, he has amnesia. He doesn't know who he is or
Happily living with his wife, Bo See, and raising silkworms, Ah Lung's life is changed forever when he is kidnapped and shipped across the Pacific to Peru where he is forced to work in the dangerous g
“Fans of Palahniuk and Irvine Welsh will relish the graphic fight sequences and gritty social commentary.”—Rocky Mountain News“How to Allocate Your Free Time Th
When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA she didn't know that Lay Me Down's loving nature would touch her heart - and change her life. Susan, a writing teacher, had lost
For Asa the summer of 1876 was a time of fear and uncertainty, when his mysterious aunt, Hazel, arrives and turns his entire life upside-down with her tales and secrets from the past.
Returning home to Berlin in July 1939, British journalist John Russell learns that his girlfriend Effi has been arrested by the Gestapo. Having agreed to work for American intelligence in exchange for
“The clever denouement will have readers clamoring for a sequel.”—BookPage“Zoo Station is a beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping en
After freakishly foretelling the death of a friend, seventeen-year-old Luke becomes big news in his tiny hometown of Stokum, Michigan. Terrified, he holds everyone - his parents, the local media, his
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left behind his entire life - his wife Rebecca, his five sons, his father, and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up - when he fell in love wit
Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category). “Anne Landsman’s glittering, shimmering new novel is a tour de force. . . . Elation and pain, anxiety and exube
