**A Goodreads Editors’ Pick | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer ReadA spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned**In this spirited and emotionally resonant collection, award-winning novelist...

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.“Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner, emotional-labor abstainer, non-wiper of kitchen counters. Trying to raise good sons suddenly felt like a hopeles...

**Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction“No one writes like Ruth Ozeki—a triumph.” —Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library“Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder.” —TIME“If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.” —David Mitchell, Booker Prize-finalist author of Cloud AtlasA boy who hears the voices of objects a...

**A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and EmptinessFinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she end...

**NEWBERY HONOR WINNERSYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD HONOR WINNER"As lyrical as it is epic, Across So Many Seas reminds us that while the past may be another country, it's also a living, breathing song of sadness and joy that helps define who we are." --Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of RefugeeSpanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Je...

"THE VALE FAMILY SERIES " BOOK 1*Some marriages end with a fight. Hers ended with a marriage certificate she never signed.*When an anniversary morning brings twelve white roses and a promise that "tomorrow changes everything," Elowen Vale believes her husband is about to renew their vows. Instead, she follows him into a Chelsea townhouse and discovers a second wife, a hidden daughter, and a fortune built on fraud that reaches back into her own family's ruin.The Vale...

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs three tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.'An extraordinary story.' Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a BooksellerRuth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life.She's sailed through the Pa...

Perfect for fans of New Kid and A First Time for Everything, a joyful and tearful debut middle grade graphic memoir about one girl being uprooted when she moves to Hong Kong, a place where her family fits in but, for her, it's nothing like home.Ruth Chan loves her hometown in Toronto, hanging out with her best friends for life, and snacking on ketchup flavored potato chips, which are the best. What Ruth doesn’t love is having to move to Hong Kong ...

The uplifting, inspiring memoir from beloved Loose Women presenter Ruth Langsford'Such a lovely easy read. Ruth writes with such openness and honesty. I smiled (and cried) throughout it; what an absolutely lovely sensitive person she is.' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Really enjoyed this book - gutted to get to the end of it. If you are struggling with anything this is one to read.' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'This book ...

"No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae" and this "engaging . . .deeply informative" book gives algae its due. —Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times –bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winner The Sixth ExtinctionSay "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of us would exist. Algae created the Earth we know today, wi...

THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM RUTH MANCINI, THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN ON THE LEDGE.'Lisa Jewell meets the Secret Barrister' Imran Mahmood'Brilliantly smart, unsettlingly human and impossible to put down' Rob Rinder'A propulsive, heart-thumping read' Gill Perdue'A cleverly crafted chilling psychological thriller' Louise ...

Ghosts, gowns, and grand finales—this drama refuses to stay buried.Books 4–6 of the Parisian Ghosts seriesA murder at the Paris opera, a wedding on the brink of disaster, and a once-in-an-afterlifetime World Fair—Paris is about to be more haunted than ever. With ghostly prophecies, rising tensions among the living and the dead, and the ghost police closing in, keeping the peace is about to get a whole lot harder.I’m juggling secrets—and a f...