**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life...

**Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionWinner of the Edmund White Award for Debut FictionWinner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary AwardFinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist AwardA Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick“Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life...

**"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington PostAn irresistible, intimate novel about how those know us longest—even when they hurt us most—can also set the benchmark for love, from the National Book Award finalist a...

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham PrizeA vibrant debut story collection—poignant, unflinching, and immersive—masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer doRanging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San Simon, the patron...

Told through the stories of six former foster youth, a jolting exploration of a broken system from an award-winning journalistBy the time Maryanne was 16 years old, she had been arrested for murder. In and out of foster and adoptive homes since age 10, she’d run away, been trafficked and assaulted, and finally pointed a gun at the latest man to take her into his car. She pulled the trigger and fled. But with no family to turn to and few reliable friends, it didn’t ...

**A 2025 Lamda Literary Award finalist • Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled.” —Matt Berninger, The National“Anyone’s Ghost is about so very many things: the pains of growing up, friendship and pining, drugs, sex, the frustrations of masculinity and the thrill of testin...

In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA*.* Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. Lily feels out of place in this ne...

**FINALIST FOR THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATUREA sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria’s civil war—a story of love, friendship, and personal triumph by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and “the heir to Chinua Achebe” (New York Times)“A wondrous novel.”—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All Stars, finalist for the National Book Award

""Funny, charming...you can do no better than to curl up with this sparkling book.""--The Washington Post""By turns insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, How To Sleep at Night is a delight.""— J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Bestselling author of Friends and Strangers“This wonderful debut is about the rough and tumble road that true love represents for all of us."" --James McBride,

**From the bestselling author of Darius the Great is Not Okay comes a sweet queer love story where a high school stage manager (who is a realist not a cynic, thank you) finds love despite everything.“Rivals Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper in its cuteness and appeal.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“A heartwarming romance where creating authentic connections takes center stage.”—School Library Journal, starred review**Jackson G...

From New York Times best-selling author Jason June, a story of spell-slinging, lasso-swinging, and star-crossed love perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys and Carry On. “The most magical and swoony page-turner I've read in ages.”—Adam Silvera, #1 New York Times best-selling author of They Both Die at the End Nigel Barrett has spent his whole life preparing for the Culling, a spell-casting competition that determines which of the world’s teenage magicians will be stripped of their powers to pre...

**A profound, heartfelt, and inspiring exploration into living a meaningful life, filled with passion, joy, gratitude, and peace.AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVER**In her unique work as a death doula, Diane Button has had the privilege of guiding clients to a peaceful transition for almost two decades. Each client has imparted wisdom that has left an indelible mark, offering her profound reflections and clarity of what it means to both live well and die well. Now...