Something stirs in the shadows of the trees...Memories stir in the mind of a man...JayDee Svendsen is planning to end his life. Facing a devastating diagnosis, he decides to leave the warm comfort of Arizona to return to the tip of Death's Door in Wisconsin and the surroundings of his youth. It is there that the memories haunt him...But memory is fickle. And though he sets out to exorcise the inner demons of his childhood, he soon r...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, sh...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no ...

Forgotten memories. Supernatural abilities. Mysterious tattoos.After waking in an alleyway with no memories, a strange tattoo, and a supernatural ability—Lena knows something extraordinary happened to her. When a deep guiding instinct hums to life inside her, she sets out into the unknown in hopes of unlocking secrets to her past.Now, hitchhiking around the country with nothing but a personalized bracelet as proof of a life she once led, Lena must ...

**From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence“A tour de force… One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood.” —The Atlantic"[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book." —The Boston Globe“Moving… a classic bildungsroman.” —The New York Times Book Review"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great Americ...

The second volume of collected short fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring fifty-eight short stories that “mix brilliance with high-concept pyrotechnics” (Los Angeles Times), including fourteen never-before-published tales“Whether he’s writing about survival in a wasted environment or people and animals coming unhinged, Boyle never fails to captivate, to deliver his ideas within the ...

NAMED A BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE & SHELF AWARENESSA SOUTHWEST BOOK OF THE YEARA striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest.Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë’s world becomes one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees. With the family’s move ...

"Poetic, insightful, and deeply moving. David Means is one of my very favorite writers." —Tara Westover, author of EducatedFollowing the publication of his widely acclaimed, Man Booker-nominated novel Hystopia, David Means here returns to his signature form: the short story. Thanks to his four previous story collections, Means has won himself an international reputation as one of the most innovative short fiction writers working today: an "establi...

"Utterly unique . . . examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a Makah reservation in the Pacific Northwest." — Ms. MagazineSelected as a Staff Pick by The Paris ReviewSilver Medal winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Multicultural FictionFleeing the shattered remains of her marriage and treachery by her sister, a Latina anthropologist ...

Finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA new collection of stories by David Means, a visionary "master of the form" (The Observer).Two nurses meet in the hospital parking lot to share a cigarette. They flirt and imagine a future together. They tell stories of patients lost and patients saved, of the darkest corners of human suffering and the luminous moments that break through, even here, in the shadow of death.In Dav...

Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and experiences, this story collection now stands as one of the finest of our time.

The world's first two-author, husband-and-wife short story collection.Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini are two of the world's most popular and respected mystery authors. Their new collection demonstrates why this team has so many fans.Here you'll find Muller's famous Sharon McCone searching for the dark truth in "Somewhere in the City." Pronzini's long-heralded private eye Nameless is tracking down a clever killer in "Home is the Place Where." McCone and Nameless team up in ...