Some women keep secrets, and some women are kept by their secrets. Like shadows they follow, intimately connected to flesh and blood, a lingering reminder of something past, something dark… Pinned in India, Japan, and America, BACKSHADOW is the story of three women from three very different worlds. Three whose secrets keep them silent, haunted captives. When lives ultimately intersect in a San Francisco college creative writing class, the women are drawn into the tentative beginnings of wh...

Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.**Best Horror of the Year—**Esquire, Paste Magazine, CrimeRead | Harper's Bazaar 15 Best Books for Spooky Season | The Lineup Best D...

Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, forty-three weeks, and two days. Or so she thinks.The boy she maybe-sort-of-definitely loved and sort-of-maybe-definitely hated has dropped off the face of the planet in the face of tragedy, leaving a Jack Hunter–shaped hole. Determined to be happy, Isis fills it in with lies and puts on a brave smile for her new life at Ohio State University.But the smile lasts only until he shows up. The menace from her past—her da...

He thought he'd return from Hell a hero. But things are never easy when your business is Death.Steven de Selby gave up his love, his life, and his lucrative position as Head of Mortmax, the corporation in charge of Death. Then he found himself banished to the briny depths of hell. But hell has never held him before ...Now Steven's back from hell, after escaping from the cruel Death of the Water, but he's not sure how or why, or even if. No one at Mortmax tr...

From the bestselling author of P.S., I Love You, a fiercely feminist story collection that illuminates, sometimes in fantastical ways, how women of all kinds navigate the world today**—now** an Apple TV+ series from the creators of GLOW starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever, and Alison Brie!In this singular and imaginative story collection, Cecelia Ahern explores the endless ways in which wo...

The bestselling and critically acclaimed novel from Paul Murray, Skippy Dies, shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards, longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determi...

**Can playing dead bring you back to life? Maybe on Dead Wednesday… On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever. A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl."Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece."** —BookPage, starred reviewOn Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned...

Philip K. Dick Award finalistWashington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018Abbey Mei Otis’s short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, putting kids from the moon into a small beach town and then the putting the rest of the town under the microscope as they reac...

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound up in even the most everyday items, The Second Chance Store is a tale of friendship, loss, and dusting yourself off and starting over—a novel filled with humor and a testament to the enduring power and joy of charity shops.City dweller Gwen feels like she’s living a secondhand life. She’s thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentist’s appoin...

Press 9 For Pig Latin is a moving and humorous story collection on mental health issues, infidelity, addiction and garden-variety heartbreak. When life hits hard, characters must figure out how to hit back, turn the other cheek, or dodge the punches and run.In this contemporary fiction collection, characters find themselves in desperate and unforgiving circumstances when at their most fragile and raw. A mother learns of the sudden death of her husband and must juggle grieving, sing...

"Part One: family and childhood from the outside looking in" is the first installment of the four-part Based on a True Story series that asks the question: Can anyone ever truly be more than the sum of his experiences?Part One is a selection of 14 memories exploring childhood alienation, family bonds, brother and sister competition, and the blood ties that never fade.Also available:Part Two: love and hate and the stuff in betweenPart Three: friends and stran...

Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it moves between reverence and irreverence, sincerity and irony as it grapples with love, loss, loneliness and simple lack of luck--the "three-leaf clovers" so much more plentiful than the four. Dempster's wit and playful metaphoric turns let us take for granted the courage needed to admit to lif'’s ongoing intensities, disruptions, and indignities. In these poems, ...