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Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart! They are monsters, legends, gods. They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of If I See You Again Tomorrow comes a delightful and heartwarming novel about family, love, grief, and one precocious houseplant, that reminds us of the beauty of living a life in full Bloom.

Former child star Anderson “Andy” Ducharme is hiding—has been for a long time, if she’s honest with herself, which she isn’t. When she suddenly cut off all ties and left LA six years earlier to work in a flower shop in coastal New England, she wasn’t just running away from toxic relationships, embezzling agents, and all the rest of her Hollywood life; she was running to something… sort of, if you squinted, and if you accepted that what she was running toward was little more than a vacation daydream she had made up with her (in)famous ex, and former costar, Nicole “Nikki” Price.

Sakura is the story of a family who is happy, until it isn’t. Skipping back and forth in time, it begins when the narrator, Kaoru, receives a letter from his estranged father announcing he will be home in Osaka for New Year’s. The letter spurs Kaoru to go back to his childhood home, and though he is apprehensive at returning, his spirits are unexpectedly lifted when he is greeted by Sakura, the family dog.

Sofie Muller can make you into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. Alice wants it. She wants Sofie's hand guiding hers to greatness, then the book deal, then the prizes and the plaudits. Still, there is gossip. Sofie will kill your darlings. Sofie will drive you too hard. Sofie's boundary-pushing is not just professional, it is personal. By the time Alice realizes the rumors may be true, is it too late to wriggle free? And if not, is it worth it to get what she always dreamed of?

Divided into three parts—Body, Mind, and Soul—Brianna Pastor’s intimate collection of poems invites us inside a highly sensitive mind and explores what it’s like to discover neurodivergence in adulthood and view life through an empathetic lens. Hopefully, by deepening our understanding of sensitivity and how it affects others, we can move one step closer to a more connected, healed world.

Drea Cordeira likes to have fun. She has quite the reputation for it, having slept with most of the queer women of New Orleans. But behind the humor, charm, and sexy drawl, there's a lot more to Drea, and she's not too keen on sharing it.

After inheriting his father's title, Earl Ash Barden has no choice but to find a wife to ensure the family line. Skilled bowman and unconventional widow Agnes Forrett wants two things: to be true to herself, and to avoid marrying the childhood friend her family is determined will take her hand. Agreeing to enter a marriage of convenience, their plan is set … until a roadside attack thrusts a familiar face back into Ash's life, and with it a choice about his future. Whilst his feelings for the ghost from his past remain as strong as ever, he can't deny his growing affection for Agnes too.

Simon has always been a good boy. But when his best and only friend, Josh, moves out of their shared flat, Simon is lonelier than ever – until in moves a new flatmate, the strange (and strangely sexy) Massimo. Massimo's brought something with him. Odd sounds emerge from Massimo's room, smells of earth and meat drift through the corridor and Simon's nights fill with disturbing and tantalizing dreams.

Megan is a struggling single mom who lies on her resume to get a job in a school as a personal assistant to the stern Headmistress.

Nothing Megan does seems to please her boss in any way. Megan is constantly in trouble for something.

Megan finds herself secretly enjoying being ordered around and disciplined.

Observing the fragility of the body and soul in a world of threat, these startling poems stem from a central boyhood memory—the author’s near-drowning in a swimming pool on Crete. The observant child was troubled that none of the statues they saw had arms—and then it was his father’s arms lifting him from the water, saving his life.

Der vierte Band der großen Green Creek-Saga. Um sich auf die Suche nach dem Mann zu machen, der ein großes Loch in seinem Herzen hinterlassen hat, verlässt Werwolf Carter Bennett die Geborgenheit seines Rudels. Doch die Einsamkeit setzt Carter stärker zu, als er jemals gedacht hätte, und mehr als einmal ist er kurz davor, den Verstand zu verlieren. Je näher er seinem Ziel Gavin Livingstone kommt, desto tiefer dringt er in die geheimnisvolle Geschichte seines Rudels vor. Eine Geschichte, die eng mit der der Familie Livingstone verbunden ist.

When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table – with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene – psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis assume it's an open-and-shut case. But the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him? Many miles away, a former LAPD officer is found brutally murdered in her garage.

In January, 1965, the growing town of Ballycrea has four new residents. The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O’Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past. As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define.

A week before Joey is set to marry his fiancé Luca, he and his best friend Kris set off to celebrate his bachelor weekend. Joey and Kris return to the town of Beacon Point, the place they called home during their college years. Kris planned a weekend filled with beach adventures, hitting up old haunts, and celebrating with old friends.

Nell has accepted, at age twelve, that hers will likely be a friendless existence. But then, a new girl arrives at school. Eve has short hair like a boy's, a wicked sense of humor and an unshakable confidence that she will one day find her place in the world. From their childhood to their twenties and thirties, Eve and Nell will love each other and hurt each other - through teenage feuds and the chlorine-scented savagery of all-girls' schools; through long, drunken nights in scruffy share houses; through the highs and lows of coparenting a child together without being romantically involved.

Bill Blair finds the land by accident, three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. Struck by a vision of his future family, Bill buys the property and proposes to Penny Greenway, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life appeals to him. In less than a decade they have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife, overwhelmed and undersatisfied, chafing at the conventions confining her.

Amelia Havisham has a secret. She's been underestimated for too long: by her former fiancé, Compeyson; by her family; and by society. But now her true heart's desire is within reach for the first time. And she will stop at nothing to get it. This is the story of Miss Havisham as you've never heard it before. And she will exceed all expectations.

When Judith Rice ran away from the house she grew up in, she thought she severed her abusive mother’s hold on her. Seventeen years later, she’s made a home for herself in a cottage secluded deep in the forests of northern Georgia. Jude believes she’s settled into a quiet life. But when an enigmatic woman shows up on her doorstep, Jude’s tentative peace is threatened by the stranger’s presence.

Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers a searing portrayal of resistance. From Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift, it's a must-hear for fans of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett. As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise.