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From one of the foremost scholars on the subject, comes our most in-depth look at John Steinbeck as a writer deeply connected to the natural world. Among the many reasons that John Steinbeck has reached the highest tier of the American literary canon is what we have come to understand as his...

Diving back to bits of her past, A Sweet Embrace looks at aspects from Francesca's past, both childhood and some more recent events. Again also delving into the political sphere, A Sweet Embrace takes on a subject that is unfortunately common place in the United States, and less so in the rest of the world, Mass Shootings. Having examined the statistics between the 6 nations to have had a Mass Shooting in 2025, and for the majority of those 6 looking back at the past 30 years, and one only looking back a dozen, Francesca paints a stark reminder that gun control works to curb mass violence.

Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila Everwood has two fresh book ideas and dreams of quitting her barista job. She’s hopeful about her future—until her writing catches her literary idol’s attention in all the wrong ways. Elizabeth Lancaster, the queen of regency romance, hasn’t written a word in three years. Her publisher’s solution? A ghostwriter. Specifically, her favorite coffee server. It’s either brilliance or madness—and her literary agent son Grady thinks it’s definitely the latter.

That Dazzling Sun, Book 2 in The Tinsmith's Apprentice trilogy, continues the vivid coming-of-age story of Isaac Granger, slave to Thomas Jefferson, begun in Bechtel's marvelously adept debut novel, "A Partial Sun" in which Isaac begins his complicated apprenticeship at age fifteen as a tinsmith in Philadelphia in the fall of 1790.

They say youth is fleeting, but what if you could fake it for a little while longer—even forever? It’s possible thanks to the Crown Serum. As the twentieth anniversary for the world’s only legitimate wrinkle wonder cure approaches, newspaper reporter Goldie Hays lands an interview with its elusive maker, Sarah Crown. Too bad Goldie’s dealing with a broken heart at the same time. And to think, it was only a month ago on her fortieth birthday that she was saying “I love you” for the first time to her much younger boyfriend.

The selection of poems in this book by Janet Coplin includes aspects of the author’s life in some unexpected ways. The trip from childhood to adulthood is a trail of trial and error, love and laughter, and relationships with all living things. The title, Loose Change, is a metaphor for emotions and memories that float and for which there is no certain home. The inevitability of change is as loose as the coins in our pockets.

Bendito follows Maritza Cruz, a young woman who is the girlfriend of the talented and successful artist, Omar Rivera. Feeling distressed about her derailed creative dreams and jealous of her boyfriend, Maritza decides to start her own magazine, but it doesn’t get the attention she wants. She therefore accepts her best friend’s invitation to attend a Santería party and seeks the help of a santero, Baz Santiago, to hasten her success.

In this spellbinding fantasy debut set in a future where language magic reigns, a young Hawaiian woman must solve a murder to clear her name. Kea Petrova is dealing with more than her fair share of trouble. At just twenty-five years old, she’s the youngest of five Hawaiian clan leaders living...

A bracelet. A curse. And golden fishbones to be returned to the sea ... Guangdong, 1940. When Ha Yut Ying narrowly escapes Japanese soldiers by turning invisible, she knows her new-found magic must be kept a secret. But her mother, whose dreams foretell the future, suspects her daughter has...

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and...

" Je suis sur ta clavicule, sur ton poignet, dans tes mains. Je suis dans tes cheveux, sur ton sein, dans tes yeux. Je regarde ta bouche, tes mouvements, ta robe. Je te connais sans te connaître, Enriqueta. " La vie d'Enriqueta bascule le 18 août 1936, quand, en quelques minutes, elle doit...

A collection of the year’s best food and travel writing, selected by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most...

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by Olivie Blake, author of the bestselling Atlas Series, and series editor John Joseph Adams. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction...

From R.F. Kuang, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Katabasis and Yellowface, comes a wryly humorous and profoundly moving coming-of-age novel that grapples with grief, language, and culture shock—all set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei. College...

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author of The Future Is History and How to Survive Totalitarianism and New York Times columnist, M. Gessen. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short...

Roy Bowers wins a 160-acre lot in the 1832 Georgia land lottery. He leaves his successful Macon business in the hands of his oldest son and takes his sixteen-year-old boy with him on a long journey through the frontier to North Georgia. Roy finds the land rich in resources, and Tim meets a lovely half-Cherokee maiden. Still, the Bowers must overcome attacks and take big risks in developing a thriving community along the Toccoa River in the North Georgia mountains.

Step into the heart-wrenching world of "Sacred Duty," set on the eve of WWII in a quaint German village. A devoted anti-war activist Pastor faces an impossible choice: embrace pacifism or safeguard his family's well-being. His decision triggers a devastating chain of events, leading to his wife's torment and execution, and his son's transformation into a fervent Nazi.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man...

Brought to you by Penguin. Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive...

A swoonworthy and suspenseful holiday rom-com that will make fans of Ally Carter and Carlie Walker laugh out loud and fall completely in love this Christmas season. It’s the hap-happiest con of the year… Scarlett Payne and Nathan Lambros agree on exactly one thing: they both despise...