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We Are Still Here: Stories & A Novella

by Emily Koon

Published: 2019-07-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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We Are Still Here contains an eclectic mix of stories and fairy tales in which readers encounter ghosts, UPS drivers, Lizzie Borden, and goblins. In the title story, a family visiting an amusement park flees after a fatal roller coaster accident, only to find the real horror is on the chai...

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Tokyo Ueno Station

by Yu Miri

Published: 2019-03-04

Paperback: 180 pages

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As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people.Kazu is dead. Born in Fukush...

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The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious)

by Maureen Johnson

Published: 2019-01-22

Hardcover: 384 pages

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New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller!In New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s second novel in the Truly Devious series, there are more twists and turns than Stevie Bell can imagine. No answer is given freely, and someone will pay for the truth with their life. T...

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 146 pages

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Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the ...

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The Butterfly Girl: A Novel

by Rene Denfeld

Published: 2019-10-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not ...

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Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World

by Lucy Ives

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tale of two idiots?the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego?who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country It’s the end of ...

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Ghost Wall: A Novel

by Sarah Moss

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 144 pages

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A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019“Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant clas...

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My Life as a Rat: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling...

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

by Louise Aronson

Published: 2019-06-11

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A New York Times bestseller As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between ...

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The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

by Jeanette Winterson

Published: 2016-06-21

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of ...