Elias Doever, accused of being a warlock by the residents of the Village of Bedfordshire, Massachusetts in 1692, is executed via the “ducking chair” into a well of holy water. A force erupts from his chest, killing him and escaping the well. Three hundred years later, the force from the well, Beladon, contacts Dorian Leeves, a young man with supernatural abilities, and informs him that he possesses the same powers as Elias Doever. Dorian will accomplish his ascension into powers beyond his...

Not long after their move into Blackstone, married couple Mitch and Buck begin to witness strange sightings of shadowy figures, physical manifestations and inexplicable events taking place in the former Sheppard family estate nestled in the Northern Poconos of Pennsylvania. Through séances, they learn from the spirit of Jedidiah Sheppard that he has not been able to cross over into the afterlife because the truth behind his sudden disappearance in 1965 has never been solved. During this jo...

Jodi Picoult’s powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment.Sometimes finding your own voiceis a matter of listening to the heart...For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca...

A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers’s Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure.Josie and her children’s father have split up, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancé...

The first collection of poems and short stories by young writer, Kate Greenlee. Thirteen poems and two short stories make up a varied selection of styles and subjects; from the supernatural to the political, Greenlee deals with themes around feminism and femininity, mathematics, body image and violence in the modern world. ‘Ghosts in the Attic’ is a short selection of crafted works, a well-fitting debut.

The eco-sci-fi adventure that began with Yesterday continues with a thriller which can also be read as a standalone.2063, United North America: Climate change has rendered great swathes of the country uninhabitable, the rise of robot workers has created mass unemployment, eco-terrorism is a constant threat and a 2059 nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India has torn large holes in the world's ozone layer and pushed humanity's existence towards a cliff.Nineteen-year-old G...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Survival is not a guarantee in this chilling horror novel where a teenage medium doesn’t know which is worse . . . confronting a school-shooter-turned-vengeful-ghost or enduring his racist high school.“Spine-chilling YA horror.”—The Boston Globe“A teenage version of Get Out . . . Douglass looks at race and trauma and death with a comical and horror-esque twist.”—The Root**Living in two worlds ...

Girl meets boy. Girl never thirsts again.In the desert, water becomes the central concern of life. When fetching that water becomes an excruciating ordeal both emotionally and spiritually, one woman wrestles with the decisions and events that have defined her existence. Obscure, ashamed and marginalized, everything changes one dusty afternoon when she meets a man beside a well.This is neither her story, nor his, but merely the moment when their stories coll...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZEScrubsThe Maltese Falcon and The Crying of Lot 49Janwar Gupta, a brilliant but neurotic medical student intern, has a patient die under suspicious circumstances during his placement at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. Certain of his innocence, Janwar bumbles his way through an amateur investigation of two feuding groups of anaesthesiologists and navigates a romance with journalism st...

A gripping, imaginative, and darkly funny debut novel about a young woman's struggle to find her place in a dystopian world ravaged by a memory-stealing epidemic.After two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us her highly anticipated debut novel, Find Me. Joy spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston, nursing an addiction to cough syrup to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins wit...

Angelina Fast-Vlaar recounts the true story of a dream camping trip through the Australian outback with her husband Peter, which produces an untimely encounter with death, and an adventure more amazing than they could have ever dreamed. We are told that we sometimes entertain angels unaware, but never did Angelina imagine that God would send “not one,” but seven encounters with “angels” in the remote outback to help her cope with a drastic turn of events. This amazing “trip of a lifetime” ...

Daniel Rose should be having a good night. He's a bestselling author; he's had film adaptations of his books; he's met movie stars. And there's a storm outside tonight, electric and wild. Dan's always liked storms.Tonight, though, he's stuck staring at his computer and suffering from writer's block, out of ideas and inspiration. But when an adorable young man knocks at his door, asks to borrow Dan's kitchen spices, and announces witchcraft's real and their apartment building needs ...