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**One of NPR's Best Books of 2017** "Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is crucial reading if we are ever to be...

Captivating...Drager's plot is ambitious and emotionally resonant, making for a clever, beguiling novel. --Publishers Weekly starred review Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are...

Transgender insurance investigator Scotti House gets caught up in a kidnapping plot among the rich in the Hamptons.

A broken cable, a useless speaker, darkness. Five frightened people huddled in a crippled elevator about to take its final plunge. And the old games are played out.A novel of shattering human revelation. It hurls five strangers - an aggressive businessman, a neurotic housewife,...

James Mills Peirce (1834-1906) was a respected--and secretly gay--mathematics professor at Harvard University. This imaginative biography recreates college life at Harvard in the late nineteenth century and gives a realistic portrait of the life of an intellectual coming to terms with his homosexuality. The...

Unveiling secrets of an uncertain future as a nun Erin Meathe witnesses, first hand, the outcome of illegal abortions during the 1960's, through the death of her mother. This event has a major impact on a decision Erin makes in college, after having been...

A New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and IndieBound bestseller!Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, bestselling author Adam Silvera's Infinity Son is a gritty, fast-paced adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making. Growing up in New York, brothers...

In this gripping sequel to the New York Times bestselling Infinity Son, Adam Silvera brings a diverse cast of heroes and villains to life in an alternate New York where some people are born with powers, while others steal them from the blood of...

A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world" (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. - "A major work of art." --Time Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of...

"A propulsive, madcap story" (The New York Times) about a salaryman who decides to put his life up for sale in the classifieds section of a Tokyo newspaper after a botched suicide attempt. - "An outstanding writer not only of Japan, but of the...

A love story set in Tokyo in 1912, when the supremacy of the ancient aristocracy is being challenged for the first time by rich provincial families whose wealth make them formidable contenders for political power.

The Tea Dragon Society is the two-time Eisner Award-winning gentle fantasy that follows the story of a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons. Winner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Publication...

Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments, including three poems discovered...

The second novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility--and "a modern masterpiece" (The Baltimore Sun)--narrated by a judge in Osaka who believes he has met the successive reincarnation of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigekuni Honda has become a judge...

In The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S., Hernandez refined his artistic storytelling approach, settling into the more naturalistic environment of a fictional Los Angeles neighborhood, Hoppers, and the lives of the people who live there. In stories like "The Death of Speedy," such is Jaime's mastery...

The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, finds Shigekuni Honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend. - "One of the best final scenes in...

"Fantastical, thoughtful, and un-put-downable, I flew through Stormsong and want the third in the series NOW." --Elizabeth HoytA Reader's Digest Top 25 Best Fantasy Series Ever WrittenAfter spinning an enthralling world in Witchmark, the winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel that...

Wren Hanks' Lily-Livered is a stunning portrayal of trans experiences, mixing deft prose poetry and lush lyricism to profound effect.Wren Hanks' new collection is a lyrical and narrative masterpiece, examining his own trans experiences against the larger context of difficult-to-navigate modern world.Told primarily in...

In the tradition of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a beautiful novel destined to become a classic Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, a worn, jaded professor comes to our nation's capital to recuperate from his loss. What he finds there--in his...

A damaged ship, a dying shipmate-can she save them both?Under attack! The flight back to Hyvilma should have been the easy part for the crew of the Majera-until a deadly ambush by pirates sends them reeling through hyperspace. Now getting to the planet in...

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way...

James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM - The most famous horror story in world literature--the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster--is also a profoundly moving masterpiece. Features a New Introduction by Jeanette Winterson When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in...

A New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2017"Nowhere is [Winterson's] faith in the transporting power of storytelling more on display than in her new book, Christmas Days . . . dark, otherworldly and (trademark Winterson) wickedly funny . . . [a]...

"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her."--O, the Oprah MagazineThe 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofiction--a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl's quirky passage into adulthoodWith a new introduction and afterword by the authorJeanette Winterson's...

"Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." -- Vanity FairFirst published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean's Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an...

This "thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms" (Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review).Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a...

A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless...

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew...

"Mixing historical detail and dark horror, [Winterson] brilliantly brews a spellbinding take on the 1612 English witch trials."--People An instant bestseller in the UK, The Daylight Gate is Jeanette Winterson's singular vision of a dark period of complicated morality, sex, and tragic plays for...

Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion) presents a stunning novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet. Ali writes stories on...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR - A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOWEnter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. New York Times and USA...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOWEnter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. It all starts here with...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere and Daisy Jones & the Six--an entrancing and "wildly addictive journey of a reclusive Hollywood starlet" (PopSugar) as she reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she...

With Aya's encouragement and inspiration from a music festival they attend together, Mitsuki begins to pursue her passion for music in earnest! But when a certain video of her singing goes viral on social media, Mitsuki ends up becoming somewhat of a celebrity at...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads Pick--October 2020#1 Indie Next Pick--October 2020BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST--Book of The Month ClubA "Best Of" Book...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOWEnter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. Opposites attract when a hockey...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOWEnter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. A grumpy hockey player meets...

"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at...

Aya's found out that the guy she was interested in isn't a guy at all--and she's also realized that she just can't keep her cool around Mitsuki! The two haven't quite put a name on their complex, earnest feelings, but they only grow as...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants and The Guncle, a heartwarming story about finding oneself in one of the most romantic cities on Earth. After months of planning a romantic holiday getaway in Venice, Paul...

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! CG Drews, instant New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In, returns with another deeply unsettling and yet hauntingly beautiful tale of murder and botanical body horror, perfect for fans of Andrew Joseph White, Annihilation,...

An almost-mage discovers friendship--and maybe something more--in the unlikeliest of places in this delightfully charming novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Teller of Small Fortunes. Certainty Bulrush wants to be useful--to the Guild of Mages that took her in as a...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People It...

THE SERIES THAT INSPIRED HEATED RIVALRY - NOW A #1 STREAMING SHOWEnter the world of Game Changers, the series behind the epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance Heated Rivalry, streaming on Crave in Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S. A friends-with-benefits arrangement between a...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST!** "Intimate and astonishing."--Jason Reynolds, New York Times Bestselling AuthorFor fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Gospel...

A New York Times Bestseller and the #1 Most Challenged Book in America according to the American Library AssociationIn a series of personal essays, award-winning author and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in...

They don't play for the same team. Or do they?Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Fall in love all over again with Oliver's story in the hotly-anticipated companion novel to bestselling sensation You've Reached Sam. "A captivating and gorgeously written story about longing, destiny, and the infinite possibilities, and versions, of love. No one...