What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.

What Happened to Us is about searchers, dreamers, and second-chancers. From a firefighter with a secret, to a woman with a skin disease desperate for human touch, to a pregnant woman living on the streets, these are ordinary people striving with everyday hardships and joys. While the places may be familiar, the desires pulse with the extraordinary.These are beautiful stories, at once heartbreaking and hopeful, of people finding their way past the impossible, everyday trage...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Audacious and instantly gripping . . . hums with cinematic tension, echoing classic thrillers without tipping into pastiche. . . . In Madden’s vision, justice is partial at best and closure rare—and yet Whidbey is deeply satisfying." — Catherine Chidgey, New York Times Book Review"There is, to put it simply, no book quite like Whidbey." —VogueA portrait...

Stonewall Book Award Honor Book winner; Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction finalistIvan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada’s Yuk...

The New York Times #1 Bestselling Series**“Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice.”**—San Francisco ChronicleThe first 15 books in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone mysteries are now available in one collection! From the sensational blockbuster A is for Alibi to the thrilling case in O is for Outlaw, you won't want to miss a page!

Twenty one stories and one novella from Chuck Palahniuk, literature's favorite transgressive author, Make Something Up is a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In "Expedition," fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display; in "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted ...

A fearless, darkly playful debut exploring the many impossible choices that accompany 21st century femaleness.What is the right way to handle an abusive partner? An unexpected pregnancy? A toxic friendship? Chronic unemployment? Gender dysphoria? A family member going to war? A disability? Anger? Loneliness?Finding themselves in disempowering, frightening, or otherwise unendurable circumstances, the girls, women, and non-binary characters in Maria Adelmann'...

“Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder.Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked, they were uprooted and brought to Toronto by their dad. Their mother’s mental il...

Meredith Moore is the perfect continuity girl. An on-set script supervisor, she is the error catcher, the one who makes sure every take matches seamlessly with the one that came before it. But when Meredith wakes up on her 35th birthday with a sudden acute yearning for a baby, her personal sense of continuity is thrown into flux. Determined not to marry, she impulsively flees humdrum Canada and heads to London to reunite with her notoriously eccentric mother, Irma, and accept a job on a fa...

“In luminous prose that effortlessly portrays the intimate and familiar pangs of growing up, Funk captivates from the get-go, and the ’80s nostalgia will hit the spot for those who came of age amid skyscraper bangs, acid-washed jeans, and the ubiquity of teen heartthrob Kirk Cameron. These small-town stories are big on charm.”—Publishers WeeklyA funny and whip-smart memoir about a feisty young woman’s quest for independence in an isolated Me...

" Nikki Griffin is one spectacular heroine… One Got Away is one seriously entertaining read." —USA TodayPrivate investigator Nikki Griffin is on a case.The reclusive matriarch of one of San Francisco's wealthiest and most private families has been defrauded by a con-man, and her furious son enlists Nikki to find the money. And find the con-man, Dr. Geoffrey Coombs.Nikki isn't a fan of men who hurt pe...

Soon to be a major motion picture--"poignant and insightful and also surprisingly funny, thanks to its nasty, charming narrator" (Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl ).She's got the wit and sharp tongue of Dorothy Parker, the talent of Picasso, and an ex-husband who still wants her. But all that isn't enough to keep Clementine alive, and in thirty days...