Adult

In winter 1864, 19-year-old Summerfield Hayes leaves Brooklyn and his schoolteacher sister (for whom he harbors perhaps untoward feelings) and signs up to fight. Devastated by the slaughter and temporarily deafened by an exploding shell, he finds himself deserted by his comrades during the Wilderness Campaign, then battling his own suspicious captain at a military hospital in Washington. Fortunately, Walt Whitman, a daily visitor, becomes his advocate.

GAME OF THRONES mastermind Martin joins with award-winning editor Dozois to curate this collection of 15 all-original sf stories that hark back to the genre’s golden age, when works like Ray Bradbury’s THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES embodied a fascination with the interplanetary colonization and particularly the idea of ancient, doomed life on the red planet.

A taut and charged historical novel about two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of THE INDIAN CLERK.

After escaping the Texas brothel where she had been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate's buried treasure. Meanwhile, Nate Cannon is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed the lives of men, women and even children across the frontier. Who --- if anyone --- will survive when their paths finally cross?

The New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series delivers an eerie, compelling stand alone fantasy in which a young girl is caught between the worlds of the living and the dead.

Navajo Nation Police Officer Bernadette Manualito witnesses the cold-blooded shooting of someone very close to her. She wants in on the investigation, despite regulations forbidding eyewitness involvement. But that doesn't mean she's going to sit idly by, especially when her husband, Sergeant Jim Chee, is in charge of finding the shooter. Bernie and Chee discover that a cold case involving his former boss and partner, retired Inspector Joe Leaphorn, may hold the key.

Nearly 25 years after the publication of A TIME TO KILL, John Grisham returns to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial --- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

A ninth grader on a full scholarship at a fancy private school in Beverly Hills, Mexican American Perry Gonzalez aspires to something more than the cramped apartment where she lives with her mother. Perry is an aspiring writer, aiming for Bennington, and here we get her seven deadly stories --- all drawn from her observations of the privileged teens around her. Greed, for instance, is evoked by an ambitious youngster with a Ponzi scheme that could wreck his own grandmother, while lust surfaces dangerously at a private concert involving the Judas Brothers.

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE LAST WIFE OF HENRY VIII comes a powerful and moving novel about Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife and mother of Mary I.

When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him. Assured a position as a cartographer in London, he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief.