Returning to her beloved New England, the New York Times bestselling author of SWEET SALT AIR explores the limits of love and asks what happens when the right man comes along at the wrong time?

Returning to her beloved New England, the New York Times bestselling author of SWEET SALT AIR explores the limits of love and asks what happens when the right man comes along at the wrong time?

Returning to her beloved New England, the New York Times bestselling author of SWEET SALT AIR explores the limits of love and asks what happens when the right man comes along at the wrong time?

Caroline and Jamie McAfee are close. Not only do they enjoy their relationship as mother and daughter, they're in business together as the team that fronts the popular home renovation show “Gut It!” All is well with these two strong women, but when the network tells Caroline that Jamie is to replace her as host, Caroline feels betrayed by her daughter and old in the eyes of the world.
Jamie is unsettled by the cast change and devastated by her mother's anger, but she has little time to brood when a tragic accident leaves her two-year-old half-brother in her care. Accustomed to a life of order and precision, Jamie suddenly finds herself out of her depth, grappling with a toddler who misses his parents and a fiancé who doesn't want the child.

Amid such devastation, Caroline and Jamie find themselves revising the blueprints they've built their lives around. With loyalties shifting and decisions looming, mother and daughter need each other; but the rift between them is proving difficult to mend. As the women try to remake themselves and rebuild their relationship with each other, they discover that strength and even passion can come from the unlikeliest places. For Caroline, it's an old friend, whose efforts to seduce her awaken desires that have been dormant for so long that she feels foreign to herself. For Jamie, it's a staggering new attraction that allows her to breathe again --- and breathe deeply --- for the first time in forever.

A riveting novel from a master storyteller, BLUEPRINTS reminds us that sometimes love appears when we least expect it, and when we need it most.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a classic work of short fiction, and this volume also includes 24 other stories encompassing the hilarious and the horrible, the unsettling and the ominous.

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a classic work of short fiction, and this volume also includes 24 other stories encompassing the hilarious and the horrible, the unsettling and the ominous.

One of the most terrifying stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Today it is considered a classic work of short fiction, a story remarkable for its combination of subtle suspense and pitch-perfect descriptions of both the chilling and the mundane. THE LOTTERY AND OTHER STORIES also includes 24 other stories encompassing the hilarious and the horrible, the unsettling and the ominous.

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro --- the Father of Impressionism.

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro --- the Father of Impressionism.

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro --- the Father of Impressionism.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.

“A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITES showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA Today). 

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the everyday to the existential.

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the everyday to the existential.

Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential.

SEX OBJECT explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation.

In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it.

“Deeply moving, honest, and unflinching, SEX OBJECT secures Jessica Valenti’s place as one of the foremost writers and thinkers of her generation. Her personal story highlights universal truths about being a woman, and makes the case for why feminism today is an unstoppable force.” — Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, THE SPORT OF KINGS is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery; it’s a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself --- a moral epic for our time.

A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, THE SPORT OF KINGS is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery; it’s a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself --- a moral epic for our time.

A radiant, compassionate look at three generations --- including in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses --- THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a modern take on timeless questions of love and loyalty. 

A radiant, compassionate look at three generations --- including in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses --- THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a modern take on timeless questions of love and loyalty. 

From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness and love.

Joy Bergman is not slipping into old age with the quiet grace her children, Molly and Daniel, would prefer. She won't take their advice, and she won't take an antidepressant. Her marriage to their father, Aaron, has lasted through health and dementia, as well as some phenomenally lousy business decisions. The Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws and same-sex spouses. But families don't just grow, they grow old. Cathleen Schine's THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a tender, sometimes hilarious intergenerational story about searching for where you belong as your family changes with age.

When Aaron dies, Molly and Daniel have no shortage of solutions for their mother's loneliness and despair, but there is one challenge they did not count on: the reappearance of an ardent suitor from Joy's college days. They didn't count on Joy suddenly becoming as willful and rebellious as their own kids.

With sympathy, humor and truth, Schine explores the intrusion of old age into a large and loving family. Schine's THEY MAY NOT MEAN TO, BUT THEY DO is a radiantly compassionate look at three generations, all coming of age together.

Now in trade paperback, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of MRS. POE comes a fictionalized imagining of the fraught relationship between one of America's most iconic figures --- Mark Twain --- and his close personal secretary, Isabel Lyon, who became a silenced woman until now with Lynn Cullen's fascinating new novel.

Now in trade paperback, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of MRS. POE comes a fictionalized imagining of the fraught relationship between one of America's most iconic figures --- Mark Twain --- and his close personal secretary, Isabel Lyon, who became a silenced woman until now with Lynn Cullen's fascinating new novel.

In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair, calling Isabel “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction.” Twain and his daughter, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted service to the family. Isabel Lyon has gone down in history as the villainess who swindled Twain in his final decade. She never rebutted Twain’s claims, never spoke badly of the man she called “The King.” She kept her silence until she died in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment in 1958, although the actor Hal Holbrook met with her often while developing his Mark Twain show, acknowledging that Isabel knew Twain better than anyone else in the world. How did Lyon go from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain’s life to a woman whom he was determined to destroy?

On January 11, 1909, Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Mrs. Macy’s husband, John, visit Mark Twain in the Connecticut mansion built for him by his secretary, Isabel Lyon. The trio, themselves in the middle of an intolerable love triangle, unknowingly walk into a crisis brewing between Twain and Isabel, and worsened by his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. Then Clara Clemens enters, on a mission to fight for her paramour and accompanist on the piano, the very married Will Wark, setting off an explosion between all the lovers. Based on Isabel Lyon’s extant diary, Twain’s writings and letters, and events in Twain’s boyhood which may have altered his ability to love, TWAIN’S END explores this real-life tale of doomed love.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics --- from art and artists to dreams, myths and memories --- observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics --- from art and artists to dreams, myths and memories --- observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An enthralling collection of nonfiction pieces on myriad topics--- from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memoriesto comics, films, and literature--- observed in award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing and distinctive style.

An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his fiction. Now, THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS brings together, for the first time ever, more than 60 works of his outstanding nonfiction on topics and people close to his heart.

As Neil explains, “This book is not ‘the complete nonfiction of Neil Gaiman.’ It is, instead, a motley bunch of speeches and articles, introductions and essays. Some of them are serious and some of them are frivolous and some of them are earnest and some of them I wrote to try and make people listen.”

In prose analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, Neil explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts his experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Neil ponders the truth of fiction and the power of stories (and why we tell them), and offers his own profiles of and insights into writers who have influenced him, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, Diana Wynne Jones, Stephen King, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber and his dear friend, Terry Pratchett. He offers unlikely perspectives on subjects as diverse as The Bride of Frankenstein, “Doctor Who,” Batman, Tori Amos, Lou Reed, They Might Be Giants and Amanda Palmer. And he includes a moving essay on the plight of Syrian refugees in a United Nations’camp in Jordan.

Illuminating and incisive, witty and wise, THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS explores some of the issues, subjects and people that matter most to Neil Gaiman--- and offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time.

The new novel from the author of the international bestseller THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING and THE LIFE INTENDED follows a Georgia journalist on the trail of a mysterious painter --- a trail that may lead her to a stunning story in her own past.

The new novel from the author of the international bestseller THE SWEETNESS OF FORGETTING and THE LIFE INTENDED follows a Georgia journalist on the trail of a mysterious painter --- a trail that may lead her to a stunning story in her own past.

Emily Lyons has been laid off from her investigative reporting job and finds herself at loose ends, in a dead-end relationship and without the high-pressure career she loved. Into that void steps someone she thought she'd never hear from again, her estranged father --- and he needs her help.

Emily's not much interested in helping her deadbeat dad, but he swears he's changed his ways --- and to prove it, he wants her to help him track down his own father, who disappeared after the war. Dad always assumed Peter had abandoned him and his mother, until the day he receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a field under a violet sky. That woman is recognizable as his mother --- and the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, "I always loved her."

Despite her misgivings, Emily is hungry for roots and family, so she begins to dig. And as she does, she uncovers a fascinating era in American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of Georgia and Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers...and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting? If Emily finds the answer to that question, she may discover more than she ever imagined....

Harmel's trademark emotional storytelling is once again on display, married to a fascinating story that has its roots in our nation's postwar history.