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Gardenpath is a graduate student who also happens to be an amoeba from an ancient civilization in the space between the stars. And when they turn their many eyes to researching a remote spot on one spiral arm of the galaxy, they stumble upon a mysterious planet teeming with unexpected life, language and culture.One of these alien animals is a creature named Murtis. Unfazed when her strange visitor says she’s from the stars, Murtis takes Gardenpath into her care. Before they met Murtis, Gardenpath expected to finish their research, present their discovery, and return home to become an acclaimed scientist. But as they look into their new friend’s bizarre sensor bulbs from within the suit, they are beginning to wonder if there’s more to life than academic achievement.

Parker Navarro’s debut novel was meant to define his career --- until critic Selina Chan’s blistering review made it the flop of the decade. Four years later, his new book is his shot at redemption; for Selina, reviewing him again is a professional risk she can’t refuse. When her second takedown ignites a viral feud, both their fortunes shift overnight. But as the literary world feeds on their public sparring, a quieter dialogue begins --- one that challenges everything they thought they knew about success, sincerity and each other.

Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists, often compared to Melville and Faulkner, and his epic western BLOOD MERIDIAN is widely considered a masterpiece of historical fiction. In his body of work, the nation’s story is told in incomparably vivid shades of violence, greed, and love. Early in life, McCarthy chose to devote himself almost exclusively to his literary pursuits. CORMAC McCARTHY: A LEGACY REVISITED movingly details what this choice cost him in his family relationships, marriages and friendships.

Hannah’s built a full life for herself in the warmth of her close-knit town And when her friend Morgan needs her help, Hannah temporarily steps in to care for Morgan’s children. But she never expected to run into Wes Kenner. Moving back home is the last thing K9 law enforcement officer Wes Kenner ever wanted. It’s where he fell in love with Hannah --- and where an accident changed his mother’s life forever. But when his grandfather needs a helping hand, he can’t say no. Still, seeing Hannah again fills him with regret --- and hope. After all this time, Hannah still represents all of the joy and light Wes pushed out of his life. And as Hannah brings much-needed holiday magic to Morgan --- and her kids --- he realizes this is his chance.

A forested road at night, slick from the pounding rain. Just before midnight, a car swerves to avoid something standing in the road, only to slam into a fallen tree instead. Four more cars follow in a pileup. Stumbling out of the wreckage, five strangers find themselves in a backwoods dive bar, waiting for daybreak and hoping for cell service. But as tensions rise and the storm rages on outside, the occupants of the dive bar start to notice that not everything is as it seems. Time is moving differently, and they quickly learn that going outside is a very bad idea. There’s something unnatural in the woods. Could the figure in the road have been a warning? None of this is normal, and they'll need to work together to figure out what’s happening if they have any hope of surviving the night.

When author Nicholas Child is dropped by his publisher, his agent sends him to spend the holidays at the Cape Cod mansion of her other client, Marco Tavares. Marco needs to finish the follow-up to his bestselling novel, and Nicholas is going to help him. But when Nicholas arrives at Marco’s estate, he finds himself in the middle of a gathering where holiday cheer is in short supply --- and every visitor seems to have a motive to kill their host.The most intriguing guest is named James Beers, another writer who believes that Marco’s bestselling novel was based on one of his ideas. As Christmas Day approaches, a single boozy night culminates in two corpses, and Nicholas becomes convinced that the whole thing was a setup from the start.

Three years ago, Wolo’s wife was killed in a tragic car accident. In the face of a loss that seemed insurmountable, Wolo has slowly rebuilt a semblance of a life. Until a letter arrives one day, unbidden, threatening to upend his life once again. It is from Victoria, the woman who was behind the wheel that terrible day. Wolo’s family pastor tells him the letter is the work of the devil; his mother expressly forbids him from making further mention of it; his father’s second wife calls, from Cameroon, to tell him to destroy it. But Wolo ponders it for days, and ultimately agrees to meet with the woman who killed his wife. When he does, the compassion and deep remorse of the woman affects him in ways he had never imagined, and he begins to wonder if the long road to healing can be shared.

Lydia Millet’s dialogue-driven, fast-moving double novel FAIR ONES follows two Brooklyn women in their 40s reeling from the sudden and baffling death of their friend Claire. Fair, Mara’s account, opens in the wake of initial shock as she and Jen come to grips with the enigma of Claire’s killing. Ones, told from Jen’s point of view, picks up a year later as she and Mara wrestle with new relationships and old secrets. In this vibrant, funny-sad fiction of companionship and solitude, Millet dazzles with dry wit and sharp prose. The narrators’ inner and outer conversations, and their ongoing entanglement with the memory of Claire, explore the ways we create and define ourselves through others. FAIR ONES is a love song to the intricate annoyances of families both chosen and unchosen --- and to the banality, bombast and humble beauties of midlife friendships.

Antigone is no stranger to death. For the women of her family, death always comes in the form of a black dog. When Antigone’s own black dog arrives, she isn’t afraid. She invites it inside, where it soon becomes a daily source of companionship and comfort. It also forces her to reflect on the life she’s led --- the parts of herself she’s hollowed out for the sake of others, and the bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounded her every step. Her Death’s arrival must be a sign, permission to finally let go. To rest. Because while mortality is inevitable, living is a choice. But a good death comes at a price.

Alba DeTamble has never lived a life in order. Born with the same rare Chrono-Displacement Disorder as her father, Alba is an involuntary time traveler: Yet she strives to maintain a normal life.  As she dips in and out of time, Alba is haunted by secrets she must keep from those she loves most, including Zach, her supportive anchor in the chaos. Her journey takes her from the riot-torn Chicago streets, to the eerie “Yellow House” --- where she meets Oliver, a handsome fellow time traveler --- to the digital corridors of the Museum of Lost Souls, a virtual sanctuary of forgotten memories and lost artifacts. Curating the museum is Isadora, Alba’s mysterious stepsister and an increasingly unsettling presence in their family --- whose fate may be intertwined with Alba’s in more dangerous ways than she knows.

New York, 1932. Grace Verlander is the secret beating heart of Macy’s. She’s the go-to person for keeping everything running smoothly behind-the-scenes. It’s not every day you get a letter from Santa Claus, but three days before the Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, Grace arrives at work to find a note from the store Santa Claus in her locker: someone has sent him a death threat. Shocked, Grace promises to look into it and speaks to the store detective about the parade’s security. But on the day of the parade, a dead body is found on one of the floats. Using her wits and deep knowledge of the ways of the place, Grace is determined to find the killer and seek justice.

Beginning with his fractured childhood and a complex relationship with his superstar father, Michael Douglas gives the full and uncensored account of a remarkable life. Dismissed as just the handsome son of a legendary movie star, at age 31 he shook up Hollywood when he won his first Oscar for producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Told he would never be more than a “TV actor,” he became an international movie star, with a list of films that have grossed billions of dollars and a second Oscar for his performance in Wall Street. Yet as Douglas’s fame grew, so did his personal struggles. He recounts the unfiltered story of his turbulent first mar­riage; affairs with Hollywood actresses; his own struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the fight to save his son from addiction; and his battle with stage IV cancer. This is the deeply honest and vulnerable Michael Douglas you didn’t know --- until now.

Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime. Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.

The sun never sets on justice, but it may finally be setting on the beloved crime fighting duo of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. The two have called the detecting business quits, but when a prop plane holding the bodies of several kidnapped women crashes into their favorite watering hole, the boys know they’re in for one last effort. With the help of a victim’s sister, they learn that a network of men has stolen vulnerable young women on behalf of a horrifying, charismatic villain known as The Artist --- a sculptor of living things, including his own body, who is protected by the elite of the South. But The Artist refuses to be found, and every lead brings Hap and Leonard into the crosshairs of something even more dangerous. Finding The Artist is a long shot, and getting out alive is even less likely.

This daring and emotional tale of an illicit affair is narrated by a Mrs. Danowski, known as Danni, who is hired as housekeeper at Manderville Hall. A loyal and lonely woman troubled by childhood memories of alienation, Danni dreams of finding love. Those dreams are fulfilled when Daphne du Maurier arrives at Manderville Hall. Succumbing to her secret sexual desire for women, Daphne begins a love affair with Danni. For both women, this forbidden passion is both beautiful and terrifying. But of course such a love cannot last --- and both Danni and Daphne must deal with the aftermath of their passion. While Danni struggles to find a new place in the world, Daphne reconfigures the experience into her most famous work, REBECCA, with surprising results.

A ferocious superstorm strikes Minneapolis, and in the storm’s wake, three people forge an unlikely bond that will shape their lives for the next 25 years: Naomi is a Pacific Islander transplanted to the Midwest for her career; Amaré, an investment banker, and Raheem is a diesel mechanic. When Naomi recognizes that energy companies are responsible for the climate-induced superstorm, she initiates a bitter legal battle, one that culminates in her appointment to a powerful political office in DC with the potential to prevent future tragedies. Yet her rise risks a burgeoning romance with Amaré, whose own ambitions test Naomi’s ethical limits, while Raheem’s fate as a blue-collar business owner becomes dependent on the couple’s growing power.

George Washington Jonson is determined to forge a new life. After growing up in one of Atlanta’s poorest housing projects, he enlists in the U.S. Army. When events lead him back home, he joins the police force. Jonson is now patrolling the streets he grew up on with his new partner, a shady legacy cop. Jonson has fashioned a new life in an affluent suburb with his white wife and stepson, though he’s still policing his old neighborhood, and now tasked with training hot-headed rookie recruits. One night on patrol, a  confrontation with a white teenager takes a violent turn. That single gunshot sets into motion a series of escalating lies. When the white-washed veneer of Jonson’s life begins to crack, the story splits, presenting two contrasting versions of the American experience.

Major Pierre “Pete” Ortiz was a Manhattan-born and Paris-educated polymath. An adventuresome French Foreign Legion veteran specifically recruited by "Wild" Bill Donovan’s Office of Strategic Services upon his enlistment in the Marines, Ortiz was the officer “Wild Bill” knew he needed and could rely on. While recuperating from gunshot wounds received during a behind-the-lines excursion into enemy-held North Africa, Ortiz delivered his After-Action Report directly to Donovan in Washington. After reading it, “Wild Bill” scrawled across the top of the report: “Please re-employ this man as soon as possible.” Within a year Ortiz was parachuted into the Haute Savoie region of Occupied France, where he made contact with the resistance fighters who called themselves Maquisards.

Judith Ban is on the lookout for her next identity. She’s no stranger to risk, but she’s unprepared for the secrets of New York’s Four Hundred, or for the women who build their power at the city’s heart through rituals of demonic marriage. In exchange for wealth, Judith will stand in for the missing Howard granddaughter, who was poised to make her debut when she disappeared. With Miss Iphigenia Marshall’s face stitched over her own, Judith is white, rich, and about to risk body and soul in the deadly games that determine which girls will find a match or be devoured. If she can keep her wits and her life, her reward will be a husband with undreamt-of power who will be hers to command, But to survive the season, Judith will have to seduce a storm in the shape of a man, before the Scarlet Ball.

Throughout their political marriage, Alaric and Talasyn struggled to resist the undeniable pull between them, even as rising tensions forced them on opposite sides of a looming war. Hand in hand, they vanquished the cataclysmic threat of the Moonless Dark --- and started to hope for a future together. That hope is shattered when a devastating attack sets off a chain of events that tears them apart once more. Now, as two rival nations prepare for a final, decisive clash, the Master of the Shadowforged Legion and the last Lightweaver fight to find their way back to each other. But the odds are stacked against them, and time is running out...

Recently laid off and searching for purpose, Jess reluctantly joins her best friend on a nighttime cemetery tour. Separated from her group by accident, she discovers a bunch of terrified boys and an ancient key. Both lead to Green-Wood’s handsome resident arborist, Adam Chervinsky as his children start acting strangely. A haunting is afoot, and Jess seems to know more than she’s letting on. Sparks fly between Jess and Adam --- and the spirits of Green-Wood rise from their century-long slumber. As Jess and Adam delve deeper into the cemetery’s haunted history, they uncover many strange happenings. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, Jess must confront the supernatural forces and a shocking connection to the past if she and Adam truly want to live happily ever after.

Caleb Silver --- lovingly referred to as Silver --- was never as warm, loving or empathetic as his two best friends Honey Childs and Malaika Khan. And he never felt nearly as brave. But when a fire breaks out at their middle school, Silver brings his fellow classmates to safety. Except the individual responsible used Silver’s lighter to cause the incident. And as they barrel towards a nasty court case, it becomes clear that Honey knows more than she’s let on. Decades later, Silver is living in London as a mycology professor. His wife has just died. Everything seems to link back to that day in the halls, when he let a bully take his lighter. As the net tightens, Silver must confront his past in a quest for truth --- and vengeance --- unearthing shattering secrets that may destroy them all...

After leaving evangelical Christianity in her early 20s, kicking an addiction and building a life as a writer, Meghan O’Gieblyn was admired by her friends for having a strong will. Then, after 11 years of sobriety, she began drinking again. In WILL AND ATTENTION, O’Gieblyn captures those perplexing days. Soon after her return to sobriety, she looked to a series of spiritual texts for answers and began putting them in conversation with her life. The book tracks her pursuit as she practices social distancing among the academics and artists of her Midwestern college town; traces her evangelical roots at a Bible camp on the dunes of Lake Michigan, and reminisces about her early years lost to drinking. Faced at midlife with the temptation to blow it all up, she seeks the grounding consolations of marriage, friendship, political engagement and art. She makes a case for finding beauty in what is good.

For single career woman Sage Madison, Christmas means premade cookies and artificial trees. But when her sister needs her help, Sage volunteers to care for her five-year-old nephew, Ricky. Determined to give Ricky a memorable Christmas, Sage enlists help from her colleague Ethan, who agrees to dress up as Santa --- if Sage and Ricky join him in holiday fun to get in the spirit. As Sage navigates the challenges of caring for her nephew and the prospect of romance with Ethan, she begins to discover the true magic of the season. Ethan’s bond with Ricky and his kindness toward Sage bring unexpected joy and new adventures --- filled with ice skating, baking and a sense of fulfillment she never expected. But when her old life threatens to interfere with the festivities, Sage must decide what she truly wants before the season’s magic slips away.

Anita Brookner is famous for her quiet, incisive studies of solitary and emotionally restrained characters --- often middle-class women --- navigating loneliness, disappointment and small eruptions of desire beneath a façade of reserve. Yet as Hermione Lee demonstrates in her captivating and absorbing biography, Brookner the writer was the inventor of those lonely women, not their alter ego. Brookner herself was formidable, witty, elegant, precise and controlled. She was the first woman to hold the Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge. At her death in 2016, she left behind 25 novels, but very few personal papers survived. Now, in Hermione Lee’s book, Brookner’s character is revealed to us. This luminous portrait seamlessly weaves life and work into a vivid, insightful and riveting narrative that sheds a penetrating light on a writer --- and woman --- like no other.