Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.In a pandemic-hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who stirs up hurts from the past, to houseplants wilting in a dark apartment on a once-vibrant street.Through a yearlong ...

Christmas promises to be anything but merry for Robin Matthews who is waging a losing battle to keep her ranch and her family together. So when rugged ex-Marshal Nathaniel Hollister grudgingly agrees to help her run the Rocking M temporarily, he appears to be the answer to her prayers. But with Christmas fast approaching, Robin is going to need a miracle to keep from losing everything, including her heart, to this kind but bitter man.Though his attraction to her is growing by the da...

Lang Nelson didn't know if he was hiring a cook or taking in a stray. Beth Richards claimed to know her way around a kitchen and the Rafter N, the Colorado ranch that had been in the Nelson family for generations, needed help in the worst way. Still, Lang's common sense and the frightened look in Beth's eyes told him the lovely lady was on the run.Fleeing a glittering life of wealth and status, Beth found herself drawn to the ruggedly handsome cowboy. Lang Nelson made her feel safe...

Fleeing her beloved country while her brother fights their cruel cousin to claim the throne of Valdavia, Princess Sophia Eugenie Tamaroff flees to New York City without money or protection. Forced to work as a parlor maid, she soon discovers she is dangerously attracted to her ruggedly handsome, enigmatic employer.Jared Grayson, former U.S. Marshal and current cattle baron, knows his beautiful new maid is lying about her past. Determined to uncover her secrets and get to know the r...

Sacrificing her reputation to provide for her orphaned nephews, Miranda Kilpatrick took over the saloon she inherited from her uncle, along with a world of trouble. Knowing she can never marry, Miranda tries not to care if Tobias Johnston, the handsome new schoolmaster, believes she is a fallen woman. But when Miranda sees kindness, humor and desire in Tobias's gray eyes, her vow never to risk her heart again begins to weaken.Despite the somber gray suit and gold spectacles he wear...

This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminaria...

This “brutal and brave” (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation—physical, spiritual, or both.A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student doctor. So begins this powerful debut, which follows our unnamed narrator through cadaver dissection, surgical rotation, difficult births, sudden deaths, and a budding relationship with a seminaria...

Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.In a pandemic-hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who stirs up hurts from the past, to houseplants wilting in a dark apartment on a once-vibrant street.Through a yearlong ...

When sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from within.Twelve years and a multitude of infuriating applications later, Merith is finally hired by York Regional Police. Subjected to unfair treatment and microaggressions, he perseveres and gradually rises through ...

Winner of the Prix GoncourtA powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fatePaced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41.The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chai...

**“Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy.”—Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review“Suspenseful, seductive . . . A thrill ride from cover to cover.”—Oprah Daily, “The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022”**The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of Sugar Run, Perpetual West is a brilliant and evocative story of borders—between co...

“The Wonders is a poet’s novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.” —Hilary MantelNOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGESFrom award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the streets of Madrid, from job to job and apartment to apartment, as they search f...