Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Julia Langbein on Our Debuts to Note Panel. Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. Lured by the promise of a big payday, she quits teaching and moves to […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Watch William Landay on Our Returning Favorites Panel. One afternoon in November 1975, ten-year-old Miranda Larkin comes home from school to find her house eerily quiet. Her mother is missing. Nothing else is out of place. There is no sign of struggle. Her mom’s pocketbook remains in […]
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Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Click for a Book Club Kit. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter. Birmingham is in its heyday, known as the […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Alyssa Wees on our Past Tense Panel. Growing up in Chicago’s Little Sicily in the years following the Great War, Grace Dragotta has always wanted to be a ballerina, ever since she first peered through the windows of the […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Tiffany McDaniel on our Literary Fiction Panel. Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Watch Janelle M. Williams on our Debuts to Note Panel. Gone Like Yesterday follows two Black women–Zahra, a listless college prep coach, and Sammie, a teenage girl and budding activist soon off to college–who are drawn to each other through the […]
Click to Read an Excerpt on First Look. Listen to a Clip from the Audiobook. Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico: two couples, strangers to each other. Two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short. Both in their thirties and too young to be widowed, Róisín swears she still feels Nico beside her in bed and Rasmus hears […]
