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As the obituary writer in a spectacularly beautiful but often dangerous spit of land in Alaska, Heather Lende knows something about last words and lives well lived. Now she's distilled what she's learned about how to live a more exhilarating and meaningful life into three words: find the good. It's that simple--and that hard. Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Find the Good offers up short chapters that help us unlearn the habit--a...

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“Reading Ellen Gilchrist is addictive . . .   Her new work is filled with good people who show fortitude and even heroism under duress . . . In this age of edgy irony, her warm-hearted view of humanity is refreshing.” —NPR.org   In her first story collection in over eight years, National Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist presents readers with ten different scenarios in which people dealing with forces beyond their control somehow manage to sur...

At Armstead Academy, everyone knows everything about everyone. Well, everyone thinks they know everything . . . Leila has made it most of the way through Armstead Academy without having a crush on anyone, which is a relief. As an Iranian American, she’s different enough, if word got out that Leila liked girls, life would be twice as hard. But when beautiful new girl Saskia shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would. As sh...

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“Some girls work in shops or sell flowers. Some girls find husbands and play house. I assist a mad detective in investigating unexplained phenomena. My name is Abigail Rook, and this is what I do.” “Recommend this to readers who enjoy Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm, the Dresden Files, Harry Potter, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes stories, and who are ready to stay up into the wee hours reading.”  —VOYA, starred review “Fast-paced . . . As bon...

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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the 1930s circus world, by the bestselling author of

After a great loss, a teenager with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver venture out in a hair-raising road trip across the American West, in this lively, soulful novel by the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "West of Here.

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A ghostly landlady enlists the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve her own murder, in this fantastical mystery.

“There is magic in starlight, of course. This is well known. Moonlight, however. That is a different story. Moonlight is magic. Ask anyone you like.” PRAISE FOR THE WITCH’S BOY: “Barnhill is a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “[The Witch’s Boy] should open young readers’ eyes to something that is all around them in the very world we live in: the magic of words.”—The New York Times “This spellbinding fantasy begs...

“My son is dead!” Odin declared. “Baldur, the best of us, is dead.” ABE clutched the table to steady himself. The room swayed in the flickering torchlight. “That’s it then?” ABE said. “It’s started?” “What’s started?” Pru asked.“Ragnarok. It’s the end of the world.”

Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, "Mudbound" is storytelling at the height of it's powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made real (Barbara Kingsolver), as men and women from two families become players in a tragedy on the grandest scale.

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