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It's the Philippines in the 1800s. The Filipino gentleman Crisostomo Ibarra returns from his studies abroad and finds the city of Manila changed, especially after he learns of his father's mysterious death. After a violent encounter with a monk, Ibarra is excommunicated. Maria Clara has to choose between being a dutiful daughter and the love of her life. Poor Sisa searches for her children, while municipal guards try to capture her for the alleged gold coins that have gone missing from the church. Elias wrestles with a mysterious crocodile in the dark waters of the Pasig.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town pariah, left destitute after her parents...

“Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values,” writes guest editor Celeste Ng. “In a time when our values are being tested daily, it’s hard to think of anything more important.” The Best American Short Stories 2025 resonates precisely at this...

Filipina-American Emilyn Padilla has a secret. While her parents believe their daughter is following her older sister Aprilette's path toward medical school, Emilyn is actually preparing for a photography competition that could win her a scholarship to art school. Science makes Aprilette shine...

There can be no victory without betrayal. Hara Duja Gatdula, queen of the island nation of Maynara, holds the divine power to move the earth. But her strength is failing and the line of succession gives her little comfort. Her heir, Laya, is a danger—a petty and passionate princess who wields...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and Other Wonders celebrates the extraordinary that is so often hiding in plain sight —true stories of unexpected grace, everyday magic, and moments that remind us life is bigger, kinder, and more mysterious than we realize. Miracles happen every day to...

Frankie Locke "...I was a fighter. And my marriage was something I wanted to fight for." I've loved Drew since I was twenty years old—and after twelve years of marriage, that love has only grown stronger. But lately, the man I married has become someone I no longer recognize. He's moody...

Agnes Chan never expected to be the punchline of her own life . . . But how else do you explain getting accidentally run over and seeing a lifetime of careful preparation, endless training, and all your hopes of a track scholarship to college destroyed in a split second? Not to mention the only witness to your humiliation being your #1 archnemesis, Royce Taslim. So, when Agnes finds a new answer to her scholarship predicament in the form of an international stand-up comedy contest for teens, the last person she expects to be up against is also the last person she wants to see: Royce.

The Gamer Girls love playing their newest racing video game, Fast Pursuit Horizon, together. But what happens when Lucy's cousin comes to visit and throws every thing out of control? This is the third book in the Gamer Girls series! Lucy is the newest member of the Gamer Girls. She loves her new...

New and Noteworthy from USA Today A Best New Book of the Week from People "This book will grab your heart and not let go." —John Grogan, author of Marley & Me “A wise, engaging meditation on dogs, love, and recovery from pain. Come. Sit. Read!” —Lily King, author of Euphoriaand The...

Longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award * A Martin Cruz Smith Award for Emerging Diverse Voices Finalist in the CALIBA 2024 Golden Poppy Book Awards * “This debut novel breaks all the rules…capturing loss in all its belligerent rage and raw humor.” —Oprah Daily * “Full of heart.”...

Pippa Fleming is a woman who always has a plan…until she finally secures a coveted promotion and her dream job suddenly feels worse than getting caught under the sun as a redhead with no sunscreen. Exhausted and confused, Pippa seeks an escape by signing up for a reality dating show. Everyone is allowed one identity crisis, right? And where better to recharge than on a beach sipping cocktails with little umbrellas? As long as she remembers she’s only here to have fun not to lose her heart…

From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell. An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub...

Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one that she longed to close. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn’t say.

Rosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of her mother's death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her family's history and her mother's supposed inheritance, a place called La Tercera, which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogs generations of Delgado family bequests and detritus: maps of uncertain purpose, rusted chicken coops, a secret journal, the words to songs sung at the family home during visits from Imelda Marcos.

“Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become little more than anecdotal...

In Brunemar, Lord Luceran Frostwyn commands all: the Aurevault mine, the land locked in eternal winter, and every human who lives beneath his rule. Every year, a tithe is owed. This year, my father cannot pay. When he is summoned to the Winter Lord's castle to answer for his debt, I make a...

The best way to make yourself feel great? Do a random act of kindness for someone! These stories will make you smile...because kindness really does matter. Make miracles happen for yourself and others. It’s easy. Just open your mind and your heart. There are so many ways that you can...

Featuring multiple narrators, each essay is brought uniquely and vivdly to life. “The essayist needs the objective world,” writes M. Gessen, the guest editor of The Best American Essays 2026, asking, “But does the objective world need the essayist?” There is no straightforward answer to...