Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"-protecting his mom, his wild little b...

Ten-year-old hockey goalie Jace Osternack knows how to stop a puck. Protecting everything outside the net is a whole different game.When Jace earns a spot on an elite AAA hockey team, it should be the greatest season of his life.Instead, his father leaves for an oil job in Canada the same month his older half-brother moves across the country to live with the mother who abandoned him. Suddenly, Jace is "man of the house"—protecting his mom, his wild little brothers, the back...

19-year-old Maia works a kiosk at Philadelphia International Airport, waiting to be discovered and watching people's lives take off while hers stays stagnant. When a handsome commuter charms her with stories of the perfect life in the snow-capped mountains of Colorado, she rashly follows him into a future she was not expecting.Desperate to regain control of her life and sentenced to bedrest in her second pregnancy, Carolyn makes the dangerous decision to hire the young woman she su...

The summer after the loss of their spouses, Juliet and Dean meet over their children's sandcastle friendships on a remote beach in the Cayman Islands. Love blooms among the hibiscus. But as they navigate tentative steps out of grief, it becomes clear that neither has come to the island simply for fun in the sun.Mysterious emails from the States, an accident involving Dean's oldest son, and hazy memories from a night most of Rum Point would like to forget threaten the escapist summe...

“Gritty and suspenseful, Chosen draws us into the obstacle-strewn path of domestic adoption.”—Juliette Fay, author of Shelter MeA young caseworker increasingly entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents faces life-altering choices when an extortion attempt goes horribly wrong in Chosen. Written in the spirit of Jodi Picoult and Anna Quindlen, Chosen is an extraordinary debut novel from Chandra Hoffman that deals with the controve...

The summer after the loss of their spouses, Juliet and Dean meet over their children's sandcastle friendships on a remote beach in the Cayman Islands. Love blooms among the hibiscus. But as they navigate tentative steps out of grief, it becomes clear that neither has come to the island simply for fun in the sun.Mysterious emails from the States, an accident involving Dean's oldest son, and hazy memories from a night most of Rum Point would like to forget threaten the escapist summe...

"Masterfully written" this historical novel based on the inspiring story of a freed American slave "shines a new light onto our country's darkest history" (Brunonia Barry, New York Times– bestselling author of The Lace Reader ).All her life, Mary has been a slave to the wealthy Van Lew family of Richmond, Virginia. But when Bet, the willful Van Lew daughter, decides to send Mary...

“An irresistible novel that hurls forward at breathtaking speed toward an unpredictable climax.”—Thrity Umrigar, bestselling author of The Space Between Us“Beautifully written, atmospheric…contains entire worlds. I couldn’t put it down.”—Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and AbsurdistanMiss Timmins’ School for Girls is the truly dazzling debut of a major novelist, Nayana Currimbhoy. Set in Indi...

One woman's unforgettable quest for freedom, love, and god.

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali’s delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s years of endless matchmaking and the spreadsheets grading available Iranian-American bachelors. Having spent her childhood in Tehran and the rest of her life in New York City, Mina has experienced cultural clashes firsthand, but she’s learning that the greatest clashes ...

An Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin's Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River.Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin's lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world of hunting and fishing, gambling and losing, drinking and poaching—a world most of us have never seen.In the chilling title novella, t...

"Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity. . . . Extraordinarily well-made." — New York Times Book ReviewMarried Love is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today's most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emoti...