In January 2010, after a traumatic event, Nara flees Kamakura, Japan, for a communal Victorian on the Oakland/Berkeley border. In a Word doc, she tracks the half-truths she's telling her new roommates, Lily and Asha, along with her field notes on their queerdo hippunk vibes.In February, Nara accidentally tosses Lily's sourdough starter. In March, Nara crushes on Asha. In April, she escapes all the drama, isolating in the attic. In May, when the house hosts a naked party, Nara falls...

It's June 2020, and on top of the Covid shutdowns and racial justice revolution, Billie Knight's dad just died. She soon realizes he wasn't the one who hurt her when she was a kid-but then who the hell was?Billie, a fifty-year-old muralist and art teacher, sets out to solve the mystery of her trauma-from the off-grid queer community she built on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, through Seattle's autonomous zones and underground theaters, to her wild childhood home of Humboldt County...

Oakland, California. 2013.Anna is single mama to Phoenix, a teacher at the public school where he's starting kindergarten. In a Berkeley creative writing course, Anna meets Sam, a local tattoo artist and skateboarder who blogs about being gender-queer.Anna and Sam quickly fall in love, and the three become a family. But soon, Anna is given a death sentence: just six months to live. Wanting to enjoy the last of their time together, Anna decides to keep her b...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The disappearance of a beautiful, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies—from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything and the upcoming Pretty Things.“Watch Me Disappear is just as riveting as Gone Girl.”—San Francisco ChronicleWho you want people t...

"Passionate and poignant! Love in the Light will have readers falling in love with Caden and Makenna all over again!" ~ NYT Bestseller Jay CrownoverTwo hearts in the darkness…Makenna James and Caden Grayson have been inseparable since the scorching night they were trapped in a pitch-black elevator. But they're not strangers anymore, and Makenna hopes that night put them on the path to forever. All that stands in the way is introducing her tattooed, pierced...

Award-winning author Sheila Wright weaves a sensuous tale of love and longing in southern Italy. Insightful, humorous, warm and confiding, Amare evokes a true portrait of life in a land both breathtaking and heartbreaking. Sheila Wright takes us beyond the tourist trails and describes in detail the natural beauty and chaos of Italy. Wright passionately illustrates that 'Amare' to love means accepting the good as well as the not so perfect. Licia Canton, Author of Almond Wine and Fertility ...

State's Attorney Livvy Marini and Detective Ryan Ward have many reasons to dislike each other. Starting with Livvy's sister once arresting Ryan. But when Livvy's boss assigns her to interview Ryan about a case, they have to put aside their animosity and work together to keep Ryan's former partner in prison.Anson Bates is desperate to get out of jail. Livvy and Ryan unearth information that will destroy his chances for bail, but the more they uncover, the more risky their job become...

An Italian detective who brings his "case to a solution out of Agatha Christie as satisfying as it is unexpected" is "a memorable companion in crime" ( Kirkus Reviews).Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta: an espresso at home, breakfast in the piazza, and a morning joint in his office.A little self-medication he...

**A teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form an unlikely—and unwilling—vigilante girl gang.“The best mix of ‘90s girl power culture, compelling magic and creepy circumstances—all rolled together for the best kind of murder mystery.”—Bustle“The modern Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode we’ve been waiting for.”—Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost**

Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina, a Calabrian matriarch, who worked as a midwife in an area where only one doctor served three villages. She was also the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Written by Rosina’s great-great- gra...

“Let’s face facts: We may be the most boring twelve-year-olds on the planet.”Henry Mosley decides that he and his pals Riley and Reed have got to liven things up. They need to go on some earth-shaking adventures and make a name for themselves. Henry is the mastermind; Riley’s the cautious researcher who’s prepared for anything. And somehow fearful Reed always ends up with the scariest, craziest assignments.Roped into wacky attempts to break world records, reenact scenes from...

"Dark, seductive . . . Noirish and sexy, this provocative novel explores what it's like to be a woman on the edge." —Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire"[A] crispy biscotti of a novel . . . You'll feel indecent reading it in public." —Molly Young, VultureA trip to Italy reignites a woman's desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sexTo cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing,...