Editorial Content for Hungered
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For readers of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and WE THE ANIMALS, this striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel and generous figures who make up her universe.
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For readers of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and WE THE ANIMALS, this striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel and generous figures who make up her universe.
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For readers of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and WE THE ANIMALS, this striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel and generous figures who make up her universe.
Sofia’s mother promises that soon she’ll have her own bedroom to decorate. Soon, too, she’ll be able to see her friends, go back to school, and eat the colorful, tempting cakes in the grocery store’s display case. For now, though, 12-year-old Sofia lives with her mother and younger brother in their car. For now, Sofia’s days are a blur of freeways and strip malls as her mother searches for a safe place to park for the night. For now, Sofia tries to carve out a space and an identity for herself while grappling with her family’s disintegration.
This haunting and lyrical novel captures the fault lines of an existence marked by economic insecurity, exploring what it means to come of age during a moment of displacement. Beautiful, evocative and emotionally charged, Amanda Rizkalla’s HUNGERED is an indelible ode to survival, memory and the search for home in its many forms.
Editorial Content for Miss Wolcott's Ghost
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When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache receives a puzzling phone call at his home in Three Pines, instructing him to go to a remote, forgotten area in Quebec to find a dead body, a mystery unravels that tangles the past, the present and the future.
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When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache receives a puzzling phone call at his home in Three Pines, instructing him to go to a remote, forgotten area in Quebec to find a dead body, a mystery unravels that tangles the past, the present and the future.
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Armand Gamache returns!
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.”
“Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed.
But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller.
The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does know is that the man was terrified.
And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body.
When he and his team of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste find both, the situation only grows more bizarre. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. He’s lying in a long-abandoned cemetery, on top of a grave with a date but no name.
Adding to the mystery, the early morning call appears to have come from Gamache’s friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. While she denies any knowledge of it, it becomes clear there is some connection between her, the Morrow family, and Lost Nation.
Soon, Gamache and his team are faced with tracking down not just the legend of Lost Nation, but a lost ship, lost documents belonging to an eccentric Victorian botanist, and a mysterious plant not seen in a century, that might save, or take, countless lives.
As the murder investigation deepens, nightmarish spectres from the past begin to haunt the Sûreté officers, only heightened by the appearance of one of Gamache’s former and now disgraced protégés, with whom he must form an uneasy alliance.
As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache, Beauvoir and Lacoste, with the help of Reine-Marie, Clara and the other villagers of Three Pines, realize that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe, they must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.
Editorial Content for The Occidental Book of the Dead
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This audacious and darkly funny literary crime masterpiece is centered on a Black cop in an Atlanta precinct, whose façade of white alliance begins to crumble after a highly publicized murder.
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This audacious and darkly funny literary crime masterpiece is centered on a Black cop in an Atlanta precinct, whose façade of white alliance begins to crumble after a highly publicized murder.
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From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and National Book Award longlisted author of WELCOME TO BRAGGSVILLE comes this audacious and darkly funny literary crime masterpiece centered on a Black cop in an Atlanta precinct, whose façade of white alliance begins to crumble after a highly publicized murder.
George Washington Jonson is determined to forge a new life. After growing up in one of Atlanta’s poorest housing projects, he enlists in the U.S. Army and finds some relief serving abroad. When events lead him back home, he joins the police force. It’s 1992, and Jonson is patrolling the streets he grew up on alongside his new partner, a shady legacy cop and self-described “redneck” who takes Jonson under his wing.
After a decade on the job, Jonson has fashioned a new life in an affluent suburb with his white wife and stepson, though he is still policing his old neighborhood and is now tasked with training hot-headed rookie recruits. One night on patrol, a split-second confrontation with a white teenager takes a violent turn. That single gunshot sets into motion a series of escalating lies.
When the white-washed veneer of Jonson’s life begins to crack, the story splits, presenting two contrasting versions of the American experience as he’s forced to confront the history that shaped him and the compromises required of a good man in a broken system.
Employing a bold, inventive structure and spanning two fraught decades, vividly evoking the complexities of the South, and written with T. Geronimo Johnson's trademark virtuosic dissonance, THE OCCIDENTAL BOOK OF THE DEAD is a propulsive, pyrotechnic exploration of corruption and conspiracy in a nation divided.
Editorial Content for Partita
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of DEMON COPPERHEAD comes a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of DEMON COPPERHEAD comes a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of DEMON COPPERHEAD, a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.
Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.
With razor-sharp acuity and deep affection, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver’s unforgettable new novel reflects on class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the timeless, life-changing power of art.
Editorial Content for Peck & Peck
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns with an irresistible, delightful and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns with an irresistible, delightful and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY returns with an irresistible, delightful and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck.
Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.
It’s 1982, New York City. Crime is on the rise, muggings are in the streets, and Batter Gray, a recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants --- an “ear” for poetry --- is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he’s folding T-shirts at the Gap. As for love? No. Not unless you count Sallie Mae, the student loan tyrant. He hears from Sallie all the time.
But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers --- twins and enemies --- as well as being privy to the private affairs of their 39 editors, whose professed mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.
And by burn, they mean incinerate. Because at Peck & Peck, “good” isn’t good enough, “interesting” doesn’t cut it, plagiarists aren’t tolerated, and parolees run the mailroom. Still want to submit your poem? Go with God.
Welcome to another dazzling and unforgettable novel from Bonnie Garmus. If you loved LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, you will love PECK & PECK.
Editorial Content for The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times.
In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris. In the chaos of their arrest, 11-year-old Josephine runs to the only person she can trust: her piano teacher, Andrée Levallois, a secret French Resistance operative.
Andrée takes her in as a member of the family, spreading their rations and risking everything to keep her safe. But soon the authorities close in, and both Andrée and Josie are caught in a desperate race to stay alive.
Epic in scope and based on real people and historical events, Heather Morris has written a story of breathtaking beauty, at once gripping, heartbreaking and uplifting.
Editorial Content for The Queen of Roses
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Spanning the ballrooms of Pasadena and the sunlit gardens of Altadena, THE QUEEN OF ROSES is a novel of love and sacrifice from the international bestselling author of THE LIGHT OVER LONDON and THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND.
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Spanning the ballrooms of Pasadena and the sunlit gardens of Altadena, THE QUEEN OF ROSES is a novel of love and sacrifice from the international bestselling author of THE LIGHT OVER LONDON and THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND.
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Spanning the ballrooms of Pasadena and the sunlit gardens of Altadena, a new novel of love and sacrifice from the international bestselling author of THE LIGHT OVER LONDON and THE LAST GARDEN IN ENGLAND.
1960: Frustrated reporter Theresa Johnson’s life changes when she receives a phone call from a Miss Pearce who claims her obituary about one of Pasadena’s last great hoteliers is wildly inaccurate. Seeking the truth, Theresa drives to the mysterious Rosewood House nestled high in the Altadena foothills. Even more intriguing than the house’s beautiful garden is Miss Pearce’s proposal that Theresa help her settle old scores by writing her biography.
1903: Beautiful but haughty, Adele Pearce is reluctant to leave the London Season and her last hope of a proposal. When she arrives in California, she discovers the startling truth of why her mother has called her there: her father has squandered his fortune, and Adele must marry a wealthy American to save the family.
Stifled by expectation as Pasadena’s newest doyenne, Adele’s only comfort is Rosewood House and the beautiful garden she creates with the help of taciturn gardener Alexander Macalister. However, as Adele’s feelings for Alex flourish, a fire ignites in the San Gabriel Mountains above Rosewood House, threatening everything Adele holds dear, while in 1960, Miss Pearce learns that history has a terrible habit of repeating itself.
Editorial Content for Sophie, Standing There
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The much-beloved author of the critically acclaimed SORROW AND BLISS returns with a tender and hilarious novel about heartbreak and the journey from isolation and loneliness towards love.
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The much-beloved author of the critically acclaimed SORROW AND BLISS returns with a tender and hilarious novel about heartbreak and the journey from isolation and loneliness towards love.
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The “brilliant” (Ann Patchett) and much-beloved author of the critically acclaimed SORROW AND BLISS returns with a tender and hilarious novel about heartbreak and the journey from isolation and loneliness towards love.
Sophie Pattison loves books. Along with a dream job at a local book festival, she has a husband she adores; a lifelong best friend, Emma; and a brother she’s always been close to. Which makes you wonder why since Christmas, Sophie has been living alone, estranged from Emma, avoiding her brother, and about to be fired.
Now it feels like the only thing she has left is reading. When Sophie rediscovers an author she first read in her 20s, the words on the page reach her in a new way --- becoming both solace and company. Sophie devours every one of the author's novels and begins to dream of meeting her, but knows they never will. But what if she did? What if, by then, the author feels like a friend? What if, for Sophie, it feels almost like love?
In this much anticipated novel, Meg Mason captures the heartache and dark humor of our relationships in all their complexity, with a story about the power of connection and an ode to the inexplicable nature of the human heart.
Editorial Content for Trad Wife
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A journalist descends into horror as she uncovers the sinister truth behind a trad wife influencer in this enthralling blend of chilling suspense and razor-sharp commentary on modern femininity, performative domesticity and social media.
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A journalist descends into horror as she uncovers the sinister truth behind a trad wife influencer in this enthralling blend of chilling suspense and razor-sharp commentary on modern femininity, performative domesticity and social media.
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A journalist descends into horror as she uncovers the sinister truth behind a trad wife influencer in this “flat-out brilliant” (Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author) blend of chilling suspense and razor-sharp commentary on modern femininity, performative domesticity and social media --- perfect for readers of YESTERYEAR, MEXICAN GOTHIC and THE YELLOW WALLPAPER.
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. With her handsome husband, seven well-behaved children, and a life of from-scratch meals and pastoral bliss, she’s an icon of modern femininity. But behind every perfect image is a secret. And in this case, the secret is a horror.
Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia. Jenny is ready to write a scathing exposé, determined to expose the deception behind Mia’s curated life. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos and camera-ready poses. There’s something wrong at the farmhouse. Something slithers through Jenny’s dreams, and at night, the children sing strange nursery rhymes.
She’s losing time. She’s losing her hair. She starts to worry that she’s losing her mind.
There is a horror at the heart of Black Swan, and it’s waiting just for Jenny. TRAD WIFE will make you question what’s real and what’s just a perfectly curated deception.
Will you see the lie?
Editorial Content for The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
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The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secret past comes roaring into the spotlight.
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The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secret past comes roaring into the spotlight.
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The wife of a popular and powerful megachurch pastor upends her charmed “rags-to-Rolex” life when her secret past comes roaring into the spotlight --- in this "funny and juicy and sexy and delicious peek behind the pulpit" (Samantha Irby) from the acclaimed and beloved author of THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
From the moment Scharisse Freeman ditched her humble roots and married a megachurch pastor 15 years her senior, she’s been labeled too brash and too “of the world” by church folks who grudgingly accepted her into their fold, and too holy by her estranged childhood bestie, Petra. Schar doesn’t have many allies, but that hasn’t stopped her from building an enviable business empire spanning books to clothing to branded products, and living the comfortable life her husband's power affords her.
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Schar gets the final bit of validation she’s always dreamt of: a coveted invitation to participate in the First Lady USA pageant. This is her chance to be accepted by the other pastors’ wives --- First Ladies --- who are “like Jesus’ disciples if they had been a group of mean girls.” Finally, blissfully, the ice between Schar and the other First Ladies begins to thaw.
But as the pageant nears, a sensational scandal breaks with Schar at its center, and her carefully curated life implodes. Schar faces down shame and terrible secrets from her childhood and is reminded that in the eyes of the church, optics can matter more than the truth.
Unflinchingly funny, frank and splendidly unruly, THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN exults in the luscious, messy pleasure of finally feeling free.





