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TONESamatar, author of The White Mosque , and Zambreno, author of The Light Room , offer a lyrical, erudite meditation on the enigmatic concept of...
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GASLIGHTWhen Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, the head of a Nigerian megachurch, is arrested on suspicion that he murdered his missing wife, Folasade,...
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WINGS OF REDJune Papers has bet, and lost, his last $10 in a game of dice. He can’t pay the rent and, after that night, he’ll be homeless on the streets of...
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THREE IMPORTANT JOBSWolf Cub has been assigned three “important” jobs by Big Wolf and sets about completing them with a sense of purpose, but without any...
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THE WINTHROP AGREEMENTRivkah Milmanovitch arrives at Ellis Island in 1893, pregnant and planning to make a new life with her husband, who had made the trip from...
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THE DESERET RECKONINGThe novel explores two moments in a family’s history, taking place 112 years apart, both concluding in violence. Their convergence point is a...
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THE POLLUTANT SPEAKSEvans Ezra Evans is a bankrupt and hunted poet: Not only does Evans lack a source of income, but his work has people out to kill him. The...
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THE BLACK CEILINGAlthough racial bias is mostly muted in highly competitive and prestigious law firms, consulting companies, and investment banks, according to...
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WEAVERIn this SF novel, Jacobson uses an epistolary style to describe—via ingredients in some kind of multimedia “virtual exhibit”—a fateful clash of...
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ECHOES FROM THE HOCKER HOUSEIn “The Bitterest Winter,” Laurel reluctantly moves to Chicago, her lawyer husband’s choice for their growing family. She struggles to fit into...
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A LIFE FOR A LIFE AND OTHER STORIESIn “The Pit,” an unnamed narrator details their blue-collar job at the Basic Oxygen Lance Furnace. The “unbearable” heat that comes with...
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SAM'S NEW SISTERSam is used to being the littlest button in the craft box. Sometimes that’s a pain, but it also means Sam gets a lot of attention for being the...
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WHO NEEDS PARIS?In 1977, Kate Miller works in documentary production in Los Angeles, living comfortably in her own house with her loving dog. When her longtime...
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ABBEYDON ABANDON (BRISTOL PARK)In this third installment of the Bristol Park series, New York City resident Stacy Barclay heads off for a much-needed getaway with her two best...
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8 DAYSThe third installment of Selbo’s Dee Rommel series finds the 20-something private eye and former Portland police officer, who lost half of her...
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THE CODEX OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT, VOLUME IIAttorney Baier follows up the examination of the ESA from Volume I: The First Fifty Years (2023) with a look toward the future. Since the...
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CHANGELINGS:Four hundred years have passed since nuclear fallout from the Resource Wars left Terra uninhabitable and reduced the human population from 16...
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IN THE PACE OF THE PATHIn 2021, a bookish man named Maddux, who generally if uneasily responds to “Max,” works as a reference librarian in Berkeley, California, where...
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LOOKS LIKE WE'RE RUNNINGDistance running is one of the simplest activities known to man, one that our bodies have evolved to be good at. Early in this book, the author...
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NAKED IN THE RIDESHAREDynamic duo Shaw and Kronengold met at Yale in 2014. Since then, they’ve become a sensation as the youngest-ever writers for the Tonight Show...
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DIABETES AND METhe author was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 7. She inherited the condition from her father, who was diagnosed with the disease...
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BILLY AND THE GIANT ADVENTUREWaking to a savory bacon sandwich served by his publican mother, 9 ½-year-old Billy throws off the sheets and rises to join his best friends on...
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A VERY INCONVENIENT SCANDALA year ago, Frankie Attleboro’s mother died at age 52 and the family fell apart. Frankie’s father, famous scientist Mack Attleboro, who had...
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TOO MANY INTERESTING THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ETHAN FAIRMONTEthan had a wild summer that included befriending an alien named Cheese, defeating evil alien hunters, and starting the Create Space, a science...
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RUPTUREDIn her second verse novel, Fritz uses narrative free verse and the imagery of oceans and lighthouses in rhythmic poetry to tell the story of...
