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It looks like a Merry Christmas is around the corner in Whiskey Springs. Fallon Foster’s ex-girlfriend, Olivia Nolan, has moved to Amsterdam. Fallon is settling into her life with Riley Main and their son, Owen. Andi Maguire has finally found love with Billie Steele. And the town is celebrating the birth of its newest resident, a little girl named Hope. The celebratory mood is cut short when Billie delivers the news that Olivia is dead. Olivia’s death sends shock waves through the small town. And it won’t be the last piece of unexpected news.

It’s taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the author of The Best Kind of People It’s 1997 and Missy’s...

Mit einer Pistole in den Händen und der Leiche des Vaters auf dem Rücken des Pferdes sind die chinesischen Waisenkinder Lucy und Sam auf der Flucht durch die Prärie. Es ist ein unbarmherziges Land, von Bisonknochen übersät und dem Goldrausch verfallen. Die Geschwister wollen den Vater gemäß dem chinesischen Ritual begraben - mit zwei Silberdollars auf den Augen. Nur auf diese Weise kann Ba nach Hause finden. Doch wo in dieser fremden Welt ist für Lucy und Sam das Zuhause, das so unerreichbar scheint wie das versprochene Gold in den Hügeln?

In Brooklyn, New York, in 2005, Ellen Portinari buys a lottery ticket on a whim; not long after, she realizes she’s won a hundred-million-dollar jackpot. With a month to redeem the ticket, she tells no one but her alcoholic brother - a talented composer whose girlfriend has died in a terrorist attack abroad - about her preposterous good luck. As the clock ticks, Ellen caroms from incredulity to giddiness to dread as she tries to reckon with the potential consequences of her win. She becomes unexpectedly involved with a man and boy she’s met at her local gym.

Tiny McAllister never thought she’d get married. Not because she didn’t want to, but because she didn’t think girls from Connecticut married other girls. Yet here she is with Caroline, the love of her life, at their destination wedding on the Bermuda coast. In attendance - their respective families and a few choice friends. The conflict-phobic Tiny hopes for a beautiful weekend with her bride-to-be. But as the weekend unfolds, it starts to feel like there’s a skeleton in every closet of the resort. 

When journalist Hunter MacIntyre is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s, he realizes that his life is about to change, not to mention that he’s been handed a certain death sentence. Alzheimer’s is a disease affecting the patient’s loved ones as much, if not more, than the patient themselves. In Hunter’s case, that’s his partner Ethan and their five-year-old daughter Amy. How will they react to, and deal with, Hunter’s changing behavior, his memory lapses, and the consequences for their everyday lives?

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this “hilarious, electric” (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community LAMBDA...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, READER'S DIGEST, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “A gripping read…Unabashedly queer, probing and unafraid…Exceedingly engaging.” –USA Today “Sublimely weird, fluently paced, brazenly funny and gayer still, and it richly...

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor National Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller USA Today Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny...

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of the celebrated...

Two years after his partner, Francesco, died, 28-year-old Kevin Doyle is dusting off his one good suit jacket for yet another funeral, yet another loss in their close-knit group. They had all been young, beautiful, and living the best days of their lives, though they didn't know it. That was before New York City began to feel like a war zone, its horrors somehow invisible, and ignored by the rest of the world. Some people might insist that Francesco is in a better place now, but Kevin definitely isn't.  

Take the ride of a lifetime with this mother/son, crime/revenge thriller James Patterson praises as “audacious, addictive, highly entertaining.” ​ Eighteen-year-old aspiring comic Joey Rossi just found out his boyfriend has been cheating on him for the past ten months. But what did he...

An entire family comes of age simultaneously in this funny and poignant novel, narrated by a gay 22-year-old son torn between embracing and rejecting his quirky suburban kin. After abandoning a planned suicide, Joshua Royalton returns to his childhood home to unravel the elaborate tales, theories, and neuroses he developed while growing up, including a fictional history of Chinese restaurants, a mortal fear of crows, an obsession with singer Carly Simon, and his parents' addiction to jigsaw puzzles.

Thomas is struggling to support his two younger brothers after the death of their parents. He’s only 22 himself and not ready to be a father. His life seems bleak, but then a job comes looking for him and he meets not one but two different men who might be the one.

Everyone knows Evelyn Hugo's seven husbands. Nobody knows who she really loved For decades, Evelyn Hugo was one of Hollywood's most glamorous and mysterious stars. Her beauty, ambition, and scandalous personal life captivated the world. Then she vanished from the spotlight, refusing to explain...

An international bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture starring Gal Gadot! “Inventive, bold and surprising.” — CHARLES YU "A breezy read that's surprisingly philosophical." - MASHABLE "Will break your heart in the best possible way." — POPSUGAR For readers of Life After...

An emotional, page-turning read about love, family and the secrets we keep, for fans of Amanda Prowse, Ayisha Malik and Balli Kaur Jaswal. Shortlisted for The Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award 2020. It was the perfect marriage... until they fell in love. After attending Oxford University, Chaya is torn between her duty to family and her life in the UK since her traditional Sri Lankan parents want her to settle down. Gimhana is hiding his sexuality from his family, and it's getting harder and harder to turn down the potential brides his parents keep finding for him.

Dusty Anderson left his hometown in Justin, Texas, for the Big Apple not long after graduating high school with dreams of becoming an actor. A year later, no closer to realizing his dream but pretty damn close to being broke, he comes across a flyer in a local gay bar that provides a solution to his dilemma. Six years later, Dusty has all but forgotten his dream to be an actor. The family he gained when he went to work at All Cocks and the job itself are enough for him - for now, at least.

"Ci sono loro, e ci saranno sempre. Una specie di famiglia. La chiamerei la famiglia X, come l'incognita di un'equazione, che non sai quanto vale finché non la risolvi. E io quanto vale l’ho capito eccome: infinito all’infinitesima potenza". Michael ha 13 anni e ama la matematica, per le sue regole chiare. Di chiaro c'è ben poco nella sua vita, in cui, dopo l'arresto dei suoi genitori, irrompono assistenti sociali, un'anziana signora, l'affascinante e ribelle figlia del sindaco e infine i suoi genitori affidatari, una coppia di papà.

Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term.