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**A Seattle Times BestsellerOne of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for JanuaryOne of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in JanuaryOne of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in JanuaryThe extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, a...

“Insightful, richly entertaining . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that’s a pleasure to read.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewWith Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise that her l...

**A “wickedly funny and sublimely moving” debut from the New York Times–bestselling author of This is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World)A quirky coming-of-age novel about a gawky vegetarian in an off-the-wall bodybuilding family, who develops an inconvenient obsession with his new stepsister . . .**Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of competitive bod...

**Winner of the Housatonic Book AwardA New York Times Editors' Choice!One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022”One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List”****One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads“A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred re...

From one of America’s greatest, most creative novelists comes Again and Again, a poignant and endlessly surprising story about love lost, found, and redeemedEugene “Geno” Miles is living out his final days in a nursing home, bored, curmudgeonly, and struggling to connect with his new nursing assistant, Angel, who is understandably skeptical of Geno’s insistence on having lived not just one life but many—all the way back to medieval Spain, where, as a petty...

One of the American Library Association's Top 10 Most Banned Books for the past two years, this award-winning coming-of-age novel takes readers into the heart and humor of a young man determined to achieve the ever-changing American dream. He just happens to find himself along the way.“Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium.” --The New York Times Book ReviewFor Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot o...

At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman he loves and start a family. Ethan’s obsession with a brighter future impels the damming of the mighty Elwha to harness its power and put Port Bonita on the map.More than a cent...

“A beautifully rendered and cinematic portrait of a place and its evolution through time . . . A story of survival and the love and devotion between parent and child.”—Jill McCorkle, author of HieroglyphicsDave Cartwright used to be good at a lot of things: good with his hands, good at solving problems, good at staying calm in a crisis. But on the heels of his third tour in Iraq, the fabric of Dave’s life has begun to unravel. Gripp...

In The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (releasing June 24, 2016 as a Netflix Original Film titled The Fundamentals of Caring, starring Paul Rudd and Selena Gomez), Jonathan Evison, author of the new novel This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! and the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a novel of the heart, a story of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape.For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost--his wife, his family, ...

Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller. Growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new stepmother, and his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself— discovering Western philosophy, a cruel datin...

Benjamin Benjamin has lost virtually everything—his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. With few options, Ben enrolls in a night class called The Fundamentals of Caregiving taught in the basement of a local church. There Ben is instructed in the art of inserting catheters and avoiding liability, about professionalism, and how to keep physical and emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned to nineteen-year-old Trev, who is in the advanced stages of Duch...

**A Seattle Times BestsellerOne of The Washington Post’s 10 Noteworthy Books for JanuaryOne of The Los Angeles Times’ 10 Books to Add to Your Reading List in JanuaryOne of The Seattle Times’ 24 Books to Look Out for in 2025One of Kirkus' Best 20 Books to Read in JanuaryThe extraordinary new novel by Jonathan Evison, about a married couple in their golden years, from when they met across big ups, deep downs, a...