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It's easy to fall back into old habits with friends, but with Cole something is different. He's different with me. The touches are gentler. His eyes linger on me. There's something there that wasn't before. My heart flutters just a little too much every time I look at him. What's the worst that could happen if I stopped overthinking and just let go?

Idaho Territory, June 1887. A small-town judge takes his young daughter fishing, and she catches a man. Another body surfaces, then another. The final toll: over 30 Chinese gold miners brutally murdered. Their San Francisco employer hires Idaho lawman Joe Vincent to solve the case. Soon he journeys up the wild Snake River with Lee Loi, an ambitious young company investigator, and Grace Sundown, a metis mountain guide with too many secrets.

Seth Kinnaman's dream has always been to become the best fighter the world has ever seen. After spending his entire life training, he's finally ready to test his skills in the biggest tournament on Earth, where hundreds of the fiercest competitors vie for the supreme title. In the semifinals, Seth is getting the upper hand when his opponent uses an illegal blow to take him out. Upon waking up from a coma, Seth finds out he's lost his sight. He's become blind, and he's completely devastated. All his dreams are now shattered, and he soon falls into depression.

Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.

Now a Level 10 ronin, Seiki is slowly coming to terms with the death of Master Tsujihara and his new life in Shinshioka. Spending his days in the Wilderness, he’s venting his remaining frustration while staying away from the city drama and those griefers, like the Rogami Clan, who had made his in-game experience so challenging thus far. He has even taken up a trade skill. But when he’s presented with an offer he can’t refuse and accepts a simple mission to deliver a message to Kano Castle, he quickly finds his troubles are only just beginning.

An Atlanta ex-cop comes to Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet - but he hasn’t bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he’s ever met. Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anything - but it seems rude to embalm them and not say hello. Fortunately, at the McCready Family Funeral Home & Bait Shop, Frankie’s eccentricities fit right in. Lake Sackett’s embalmer and county coroner, Frankie’s goth styling and passion for nerd culture mean she’s not your typical Southern girl, but the McCreadys are hardly your typical Southern family.

Including pieces from The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, this collection is Bowden at his best. The titular article, "The Three Battles of Wanat", tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the war in Afghanistan and the extraordinary years-long fallout it generated within the United States military. In "The Killing Machines", Bowden examines the strategic, legal, and moral issues surrounding armed drones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

Rio de Janeiro, 1904. Johan Edward Jansson sbarca in Brasile in qualità di nuovo console svedese. Lui e la moglie Brigitta scelgono come domicilio una piccola stazione balneare lontana dal centro, che si affaccia sull'oceano con una lunga spiaggia bianca e immacolata. Johan decide di far costruire un castello per la sua famiglia e così ha inizio il mito di quella che diventerà una delle destinazione turistiche più apprezzate al mondo, sinonimo di bellezza, esotismo ed eccessi: Ipanema.

Un'eroina-reporter in bancarotta emotiva, un'ambientazione sospesa tra America e Centroamerica, una prosa di filo spinato, un narratore ellittico, un intrigo politico. Ecco Joan Didion al suo quinto e ultimo romanzo, ovvero le variazioni autobiografiche dell'autrice-reporter-saggista divenuta icona attraverso libri come "L'anno del pensiero magico" e "Verso Betlemme", consegnando a uno stile ruvido e nudo la propria epoca e il proprio dolore.

Seconda metà dell'Ottocento, Veracruz. John Riley, accanto all'amata Consuelo, torna con la memoria agli anni in cui si è battuto a fianco dei messicani contro l'esercito degli Stati Uniti e le milizie volontarie del Texas, i terribili ranger. In circa due anni di sanguinose battaglie, il paese a sud del Rio Bravo perde, oltre al Texas, buona parte del suo territorio. E si registra un fenomeno singolare: molti degli irlandesi arruolatisi nelle file statunitensi disertano per unirsi ai messicani.

New Jersey. 1914. Constance Kopp non è esattamente la tipica donna del suo tempo. È più alta di quasi tutti gli uomini che incontra, non è attratta dal matrimonio né dalle faccende domestiche, e vive isolata dal mondo da quindici anni - da quando, cioè, un segreto inconfessabile aveva spinto lei e le sue sorelle a lasciare la città per rintanarsi in una fattoria in campagna.

Gli alberi che non hanno radici sono gli abitanti di Ensenada de Barragán, il paese argentino dove arrivano, partono, ritornano emigranti di diverse generazioni, provenienti soprattutto dall'Istria italo-croata. Ma non si tratta di sradicati, perché non si sentono strappati alla loro terra, piuttosto animali randagi che amano ogni luogo in cui sostano, per breve tempo, a lungo o per sempre, aperti a nuovi incontri, mescolanze, congedi. Questo universo gagliardo e malinconico è pieno di personaggi e di storie comiche o tragiche, sempre epicamente vissute come radicali svolte di vita.

Come la Parigi di Baudelaire, la Londra di Eliot e la Berlino di Döblin, la New York di Dos Passos è un universo esiziale, realistico e fantastico al tempo stesso: la città - caleidoscopio di colori, suoni, odori - è un essere vivente fatto di nervi e cuore, un organismo che mette al mondo i propri figli, li cresce ma allo stesso tempo brama di divorarli. "Manhattan Transfer", romanzo lirico e visionario, è opera di linguaggio, di stile, di scrittura ma è anche una riflessione sulla condizione dell'uomo nella metropoli.

From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up troubled in working-class Hawaii and struggles to raise her young son alone. Alternating between the present and the past, Yamanaka depicts Sonia's difficult childhood, her addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her string of bad lovers. As she tries to gain control of her life, she is haunted by the ghosts of three children she never had.

When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It’s a beacon that draws people from everywhere seeking the end-of-the-line bohemian oasis that can still be found amidst the condo share towers, chain stores, and Redneck Riviera clientele. And it’s a mecca for gay men and the women who love them. Sue Kaufman Prize-winning author Michael Carroll knows the territory intimately. His stories wind in and out of the bars and guesthouses and lives of this singular paradise.

Desde las luchas sindicales de los años 80 en el puerto de Tampico a la violencia que aflige al pueblo mexicano en la actualidad, esta historia de equívocos, sospechas, secretos, asesinatos, amor y odio determinará las vidas de dos seres muy dispares a los que el destino se empeña en unir contra toda circunstancia.

Charles Willeford was a man of letters in all senses of the word. Poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and raconteur, his early paperback novels with their existential/immobilized heroes were the creations (to paraphrase Chandler) of a man not himself immobilized - a man who, instead, with his trademark black-humored prose, doggedly examined the mind-thrumming banalities of our materially sated but intellectually befuddled postwar world, crafting a body of work that is only now, 50-some years after his first appearance in print, beginning to be widely appreciated.

Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science, economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s writings provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a genius addressing the philosophical challenges of the Depression, the Second World War, and more.

Alice Chen doesn’t believe in true love, but she does believe in cold, hard cash. Buckling under the weight of student debt and her mother’s medical bills, Alice will do anything to make bank–even star on Dawn Tay’s Inferno, the hot new reality TV show designed to push couples to their breaking point. The show is Alice’s chance to sip cocktails on the beach and win a cash prize of a million dollars. But when her fiancé cheats on her with another contestant, Alice is faced with a choice.