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Jessica Knoll, author of Helpless

It's been 12 years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding's heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him and the intensity of their connection. Now, Faye is one-half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both of their lives have essentially gone to plan. When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. But Henry is one of a kind. The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended. The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink. The kind who drugs and kidnaps her.

Rachel Beanland, author of The Half Life

When 23-year-old Eileen O'Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But soon she has a ring on her finger and is following him to La Maddalena. Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, and she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from. Still, it doesn’t take long for her to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets --- and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.

Daniel Mason, author of Country People

Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, 12 years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms. No sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales. Then Miles stumbles upon a bizarre --- perhaps ridiculous --- local legend, which might not be just a legend after all.

Ben Reeves, author of Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgment. He’s stoic, gentle and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone’s fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life eventually must end. Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter, Layla, who live across the hall. Despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive --- and what might be irrevocably lost in death.

Editorial Content for Arrivals and Departures

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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE JETSETTERS comes a witty and wonderful novel about one unforgettable family and the journeys we take --- across oceans and through heartbreak --- to find our way back to love.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE JETSETTERS comes a witty and wonderful novel about one unforgettable family and the journeys we take --- across oceans and through heartbreak --- to find our way back to love.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of THE JETSETTERS comes a witty and wonderful new novel about one unforgettable family and the journeys we take --- across oceans and through heartbreak --- to find our way back to love.

The Perkins family has problems. They’re scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the spotlight. Regan, her younger sister, has fallen for a romance scammer. Cord, their charming brother, is one drink away from losing it all. And their mother, Charlotte, still longs for the love she let slip away a decade ago, a lover who sailed off with her heart to a remote island in Greece.

When Regan disappears, Lee flies first-class to Athens to save her family --- again. There, against the glittering Mediterranean and the shadow of the Acropolis, Lee contends with emotional nieces, relentless paparazzi, and her own fragile heart. Lee is desperately searching --- for her sister, and for the hope and joy she thought was gone forever.

Across continents and crises, each member of the Perkins family must face the same question: Is it ever too late to choose love?

Featuring characters from Ward’s bestselling novel, THE JETSETTERS, ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES is brimming with humor, honesty and hope. It’s the story of a family finding the courage to say the only words that can save us: I love you.

Editorial Content for A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams

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From war-torn streets to the chandeliered halls of power, A FOUNDING MOTHER is the unforgettable story of a woman ahead of her time --- one whose voice, vision and valor still resonate powerfully today.

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From war-torn streets to the chandeliered halls of power, A FOUNDING MOTHER is the unforgettable story of a woman ahead of her time --- one whose voice, vision and valor still resonate powerfully today.

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In time for the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States comes a sweeping, intimate portrayal of Abigail Adams --- wife of one president and mother to another --- whose wit, willpower and wisdom helped shape the fledgling republic. A stunning historical novel with modern-day implications from the New York Times bestselling authors of AMERICA'S FIRST DAUGHTER and MY DEAR HAMILTON.

In the heart of revolutionary Boston, Abigail Adams raises her children amid riots, blockades and the outbreak of war. While her husband, John Adams, rises from country lawyer to nation-builder, often away for years at a time, Abigail builds her own independence --- managing their farm, making lucrative investments, amassing savings, battling plague and loss, and defending their home. Unafraid to speak her mind, she famously offers fearless political counsel, urging John to “remember the ladies” in the new government. Through it all, she becomes his most trusted confidante and indispensable ally.

When peace is secured, Abigail steps onto the world stage --- exchanging ideas with Thomas Jefferson in the French countryside, navigating court life as the wife of the Minister to Great Britain, and presiding over the parlor politics of the early American republic in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Even after her husband’s presidential administration, she continues battling political foes and working behind the scenes to advance her family, secure independence for the women in her life, and ensure a better life for the next generation of Americans.

From war-torn streets to the chandeliered halls of power, A FOUNDING MOTHER is the unforgettable story of a woman ahead of her time --- one whose voice, vision and valor still resonate powerfully today.

Editorial Content for The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery

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THE HOUSEWIVES UNDERGROUND is the untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report --- a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak and the myth of the great American century.

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THE HOUSEWIVES UNDERGROUND is the untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report --- a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak and the myth of the great American century.

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The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report --- a riveting history of obsession, heartbreak and the myth of the great American century.

In the winter of 1967, the official account of the Kennedy assassination was beginning to unravel. A scattered group of Americans had pointed to major problems with the report prepared by President Johnson’s handpicked Warren Commission. Many of the most serious criticisms of the government’s work came from a source that surprised some: women who, within the community of critics, outnumbered the men two to one.

Politicians and reporters dismissed these women, referring to them as “scavengers” and suggesting they were eccentrics with murder-mystery fixations or crushes on the deceased President Kennedy. But in THE HOUSEWIVES UNDERGROUND, Kaitlyn Tiffany resurrects the story of Maggie Field, Shirley Martin and Sylvia Meagher, whose collaboration and friendship reshaped both their own lives and our national memory. Field hosted screenings of the Zapruder film and raised money to pursue new leads. Martin traveled frequently to Dallas, enlisted her children to help interview witnesses, and irritated J. Edgar Hoover with her “antagonistic” attitude toward the FBI.

And at the center of the story is Sylvia Meagher --- a born-and-raised New Yorker who was devoted to the ballet and the Mets, cultivated fierce friendships and firm grudges, and dedicated 25 years to her conviction that the whole truth of JFK’s assassination had not been told.

Painstakingly researched and engrossing, THE HOUSEWIVES UNDERGROUND takes readers back to the turbulent 1960s and 1970s --- a time when Americans’ belief in their government was eroding --- introducing readers to the so-called housewives who asked the first, hardest questions about one of the most shocking events in American history.

Editorial Content for The Lady Imam: How amina wadud's Life and Faith Changed the World

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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author of IF THE OCEANS WERE INK and HOME, LAND, SECURITY comes a timely and soul-stirring biography of one of the most influential Islamic woman scholars of today.

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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author of IF THE OCEANS WERE INK and HOME, LAND, SECURITY comes a timely and soul-stirring biography of one of the most influential Islamic woman scholars of today.

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A timely and soul-stirring biography of one of the most influential Islamic woman scholars of today, from the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author of IF THE OCEANS WERE INK and HOME, LAND, SECURITY.

A feminist scholar-activist, single mother of five, and queer advocate, amina wadud has led a decades-long struggle against Islam’s patriarchal establishment. Like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X before her, wadud has mobilized faith’s moral power as an engine for justice and equality. Yet the extraordinary story of this American trailblazer has never been told in book form, until now.

Born Mary Teasley, the daughter of a Methodist preacher, wadud grew up in Maryland with a rare vantage on America’s socioeconomic divides, shaped by childhood poverty and the devastating loss of her sister to an illegal abortion. A gifted student, a teenage wadud was sent to live with affluent white families in Weston, Massachusetts. After cross-country hitchhiking and a stint in a Buddhist ashram, she converted to Islam as a 20-year-old Ivy League student --- beginning a lifelong spiritual and intellectual journey.

wadud devoted her life to studying the Qur’an, challenging centuries of patriarchal interpretations and uncovering a vision of radical equality within Islam’s sacred text. In Manhattan in 2005, she became the world’s most famous --- and infamous --- Islamic scholar when she led a mixed-gender Friday prayer service, becoming the first woman in 1,400 years to publicly lead women and men together in prayer. The historic act ignited global debate and inspired a generation of Muslim reformers.

THE LADY IMAM chronicles the life of a singular figure whose influence reaches beyond Islamic scholarship into feminism, Black history and global movements for gender justice. With unprecedented access through years of interviews and archival research, Carla Power delivers the definitive portrait of wadud’s extraordinary life while illuminating the enduring struggle to reconcile faith, family and the pursuit of justice.

Editorial Content for Nasty Little Secrets

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An infamous murder case is blown back open when a crime writer’s sister goes missing --- and her bestselling book might be the key to solving the disappearance.

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An infamous murder case is blown back open when a crime writer’s sister goes missing --- and her bestselling book might be the key to solving the disappearance.

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An infamous murder case is blown back open when a crime writer’s sister goes missing --- and her bestselling book might be the key to solving the disappearance.

Rose Dearling’s life changed forever when her brother was imprisoned for the murder of his high school sweetheart. Now, a decade after the crime ripped her family and Florida hometown apart, Rose is the only one who still believes he didn’t do it. So much so that she wrote a bestselling book about the case to cement his innocence. This may have gained her a bad reputation, but it also bought her a new life in Manhattan, far away from where it all began.

Then Rose gets a call that shatters her world for a second time: her younger sister has gone missing. Back home and under the same roof as her family for the first time in years, Rose begins the search for her sister. But when connections between both past and present cases emerge, Rose realizes that her own book could hold all the answers.

Propulsive and razor-sharp, NASTY LITTLE SECRETS is a crackling psychological suspense about family secrets and small-town scandal, which grips you until the final, jaw-dropping twist.

Editorial Content for Social Animals

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SOCIAL ANIMALS is a funny and sharp social commentary on community, privilege, dog ownership, and the ultimate power of finding your people (and your pets).

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SOCIAL ANIMALS is a funny and sharp social commentary on community, privilege, dog ownership, and the ultimate power of finding your people (and your pets).

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Three women. One dog park. Things are about to get messy.

Val Caruso, Alex Reed and June Kennerson come from completely different worlds. Val is a tough-talking private investigator; Alex is reticent, nervous and on the run from her past; and June is an athlete turned housewife whose true love is her pup.

When Val is hired by June’s husband to find out if June is cheating on him, it sets these three women on a collision course. Amid a colorful cast of characters who spend time at the shabby but beloved Hamilton Dog Park, they find they have more in common than they thought. Soon June is brave enough to aim for what she wants, Alex finds excitement she never expected, and Val is reluctantly opening her heart to the most high-maintenance dog she’s ever met.

But when their secrets catch up with them, will their newfound friendships be able to withstand the pressure? Or will they find themselves in the doghouse?

SOCIAL ANIMALS is a funny and sharp social commentary on community, privilege, dog ownership, and the ultimate power of finding your people (and your pets).