A heartfelt and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets --- and of one’s own nature --- when he returns home.
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, STATION ELEVEN tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolutionary War, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of a family --- fathers and daughters, mother and son, white and slave --- whose members search for redemption amidst a heady brew of war, kidnapping, slavery and violence.
From Thrity Umrigar, the critically beloved, best-selling author of THE WORLD WE FOUND and THE SPACE BETWEEN US comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about the beauty of forgiveness.
An inspiring follow-up memoir in the spirit of WILD from the author of international bestseller KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL about her quest to find herself after leaving her life behind in Afghanistan and starting over in Mexico.
Filled with her trademark wit, sassy, heartwarming characters and the steamy Southern atmosphere and beauty of her beloved Carolina Lowcountry, THE HURRICANE SISTERS is New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank’s enchanting tale of the ties and lies between generations.
Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's BRUTAL YOUTH.
An addictively suspenseful and tautly written thriller, THE GOOD GIRL by Mary Kubica is a propulsive debut that reveals how even in the perfect family, nothing is as it seems…
