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When his son's mother dies and leaves him a single parent to Dean, a fourteen-year-old boy he has never met, Evan Wallace is forced to confront his music career and his epilepsy.

“Townsend’s wickedly funny novels are another reason to be grateful for the right of free speech.”—San Francisco Chronicle? “Townsend is [a] comic genius.”—The Village Voice (a Top Shelf selection) ?

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

Inspired by the local urban legend of night runners, this chilling, Kenyan-set debut blends horror and the mythical to tell a universal coming-of-age story about a girl facing impossible odds. Perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and White Smoke When Shani returns to her elite, isolated boarding school after her father's mysterious death, she just wants to finish senior year with her scholarship intact--which means focusing on her work and staying out of trouble. Even with her best friend, Pendo, by her side, she's never quite fit in at Taji Academy. But soon, strange things start happening at school--not only are students coming down with odd, grotesque skin maladies, someone is causing chaos on campus after curfew. Are they night runners, the supernatural entities that terrorize rural neighborhoods in the dark? The strict administration insists it's just students pulling pranks. Everyone knows that night runners are just an urban legend. But when one of the popular students, Adila,

“Some fine writer . . . Waugh rewired for the 80s.”—Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal? “She has a gift.”—Los Angeles Times? “Impressive.”—Chicago Tribune? “Her stories will do more than a score

"Clever and witty."—Chicago Tribune"The writing is offbeat, achieving the trick of seeming at once grounded and untethered. . . . Elemental acuity and the burlesque combine here to delicious

An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist. "The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very

A lyrical, mythology-tinged debut novel about a Chinese-Filipino teenager whose world of daydreams is destroyed by a family secret--perfect for fans of Emily X.R. Pan and Ann Liang. Jasmine Cheng has grown up on stories spun by her beautiful, free-spirited mother. Together, they're the Phoenix and Dragon. Jasmine's father is the god Pangu, creator of the heavens and earth. Her mother may have boyfriends, but Jasmine chases them away. For her mother, love brings chaos, sleepless nights, and frightening episodes, and it's Jasmine's job to keep their home life stable--especially now that a social worker has started to keep tabs on them. When the sudden arrival of Cal, her mother's old flame, fractures their delicate world, events unfold that will send Jasmine on a cross-country journey to the West Coast--and into her past. Trapped in a tangle of fantasy and reality, Jasmine becomes determined to find the truth, even while her mother's refusal to be honest drives a deeper wedge between the

From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past. The deluxe edition features a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Becky Albertalli, an exclusive short story, and much more When Griffin's first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But now, the future he's been imagining for himself has gone far off course. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin's downward spiral continues. He's losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he's been keeping are tearing him apart. If Griffin is ever to rebui

Fifteen-year-old Lourdes spends four months harvesting tobacco in the Cuban countryside and begins sessions on becoming a true Communist revolutionary like Che Guevara, and in the process experiences

A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survival at the height of an epidemic.It started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drin

“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

James and John Boswell come to London in 1763 for very different reasons--James hopes to enter society as a proper gentleman while John has just been released from an insane asylum and is secretly sta

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

“Townsend has a rare gift … wickedly funny.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)“It’s not pretty, it’s not subtle, but it’s wickedly funny and skewers London’s prime-time players.”—Columbus DispatchPraise for Su

Over the course of a year, the lives of three expatriate women--Elaine, an American scholar of Japanese Buddhism; Cathy, an Australian studying Japanese crafts; and Liz, escaping an uphappy past--inte

A womanizing, drunken, failed poet and recently fired drama critic, cantankerous Ted Wallace seeks refuge from his problems at the country estate of his old friend Logan, the site of mysterious incide

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 &

“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

Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura’s latest novel is a dark look into the human psyche―what turns someone into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you

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

When a woman from Washington, D.C., moves to a small town in Georgia and is found shot to death in her bedroom, local high school student Sterling O'Connor becomes the prime suspect in the crime. 15,0

"Kelly Cherry brings an unerring ear and a poet’s sensibility to her difficult task: unraveling the tangle of emotions in our all-too-human hearts."—Lee Smith "We Can Still Be Frie

A classic reference for students of the English language. Perfect for word fanatics, puzzlers, and writers. English is a hybrid of Greek, Latin, and some ten other languages. Word Stems defines and d

“A complex, deeply written and finely wrought double portrait of two women, one black, one white, picking their way through the debris of a shattered colonialism, discovering unexpected treasures buri

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