Editorial Content for Dear Missing Friend
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Sag Harbor, New York, 1844: An Irish immigrant is torn between becoming a governess, the missing seaman she married, and the wealthy speculator she didn’t.
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Sag Harbor, New York, 1844: An Irish immigrant is torn between becoming a governess, the missing seaman she married, and the wealthy speculator she didn’t.
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Sag Harbor, New York, 1840s: Catherine McGuirk leaves Ireland and a shipboard proposal behind, determined to forge a new life in America.
Amid the bustling height of the whaling era, she marries a dashing sailor who vows to give up life on the sea. But when he vanishes westward in pursuit of gold, she is forced to chart her own course as a governess in Manhattan society.
Torn between her ambition, the vanished whaleman she married, and the now-wealthy suitor she refused, Catherine must navigate love, loss, and the tides of a changing world.
Editorial Content for Enormous Wings
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ENORMOUS WINGS is an urgent novel about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks --- even so late in the day --- can still change and then change everything.
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ENORMOUS WINGS is an urgent novel about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks --- even so late in the day --- can still change and then change everything.
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From beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel comes an exuberant and timely new novel.
At 77, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas --- that would be her three grown children --- but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubberneckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make --- and some she’s not allowed to make.
ENORMOUS WINGS is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks --- even so late in the day --- can still change and then change everything.
Editorial Content for Ghost Town
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From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life.
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From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life.
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From New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as “the Steinbeck of Suburbia” (Time), “our Balzac of the burbs” (Chicago Sun-Times), and “an American Chekhov” (The New York Times), comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey from the perspective of a middle-aged writer looking back on a series of events that changed his life --- and the story he finally has the courage to tell.
Jimmy Perrini lives in 1970s suburban New Jersey, a few miles from Manhattan, but a world apart. At the end of eighth grade, after tragedy strikes, Jimmy finds himself lost in a fog of grief that alienates him from friends and family, drifting instead into troubling friendships with two older teenagers. One is a notorious local burnout with a fast car, an endless supply of weed, and a shaky grasp of reality. The other is a smart, eccentric girl, to whom Jimmy finds himself drawn as they become entranced by her Ouija board, which just may offer the only salve to their grief.
As a fateful public drama unfolds, Jimmy is torn between the occult beyond and the cold realities of the place he has called home. Narrated by a much older Jimmy, a literary-turned-commercial novelist, GHOST TOWN reveals how the past haunts the present --- the way our ghosts are always with us, even when we think we’ve left them behind.
Editorial Content for Homebound
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A novel about our deep interconnectedness, HOMEBOUND is a clear-eyed, hopeful adventure into humanity’s future and capacity for love.
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A novel about our deep interconnectedness, HOMEBOUND is a clear-eyed, hopeful adventure into humanity’s future and capacity for love.
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Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together.
It’s 1983, and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. She’s 19, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, the only person who understood her, is dead. But she has work to do: he left her a half-finished game to complete --- one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness.
Little does she know, what Becks is making will echo far into the future and shape the lives of a scientist, a sentient automaton, and a flinty sea captain in ways she cannot imagine. All are bound together by their search for connection --- and by a futuristic traveler on a mysterious mission through space.
A novel about our deep interconnectedness, HOMEBOUND is a clear-eyed, hopeful adventure into humanity’s future and capacity for love.
Editorial Content for How to Cheat Your Own Death
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From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest installment in the award-winning Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series.
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From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest installment in the award-winning Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series.
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From the gritty streets of 1960s Soho to the lofty galleries of present-day West London, two interlocking mysteries decades apart unfold in this latest installment in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series.
Some secrets are deadlier than others.
1968: Frances Adams is loving her new London life, and she’s stepped into a world of glamour thanks to her new friend, Vera Huntington --- a magnetic socialite as mysterious as she is provocative. Vera dances around London like she owns it, taking Frances with her.
Present day: When Annie Adams heads to London to visit her famous artist mother, Laura, the last thing she expects to find is a dead body. Least of all for it to be Laura’s new protégée, left in an alley with her heart surgically removed from her chest.
Annie is no stranger to murder; after all, she’s solved a few already. And something about this case feels familiar. She’s read about one just like it in the journals of her late great aunt Frances, whose friend Vera was killed in the 1960s in the exact same way.
As Annie investigates, threats pile up on Laura’s doorstep, and it soon becomes clear that she’s next. With her mother’s life on the line, can Annie find the killer before it’s too late?
Editorial Content for John of John
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From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.
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From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.
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From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father’s expectations and a son’s desires.
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry back home to the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides to find that little has changed except for him. He returns to the windswept croft and the two pillars of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, tweed weaver and lay preacher in the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother Ella, a profanity-loving Glaswegian whose steady warmth helped Cal weather the sudden departure of his mother.
Cal privately wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, while John is dismayed by his son’s long hair, strange clothes, and seeming unwillingness to be Saved. But Cal isn't the only one in the croft house who is keeping secrets. As lambing season turns to shearing season, the threads holding the community together become increasingly frayed, and nothing will remain as it was before.
JOHN OF JOHN is a singular novel about duty, passion and the transformative power of the truth. It is a magnificent literary work that cements Douglas Stuart's reputation as one of our greatest novelists working today.
Editorial Content for Keeper of Lost Children
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In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of THE HOUSE OF EVE, one American woman’s vision in post-WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.
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In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of THE HOUSE OF EVE, one American woman’s vision in post-WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.
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In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of THE HOUSE OF EVE, one American woman’s vision in post-WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.
Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.
Philadelphia-born Ozzie Phillips volunteers for the recently desegregated army in 1948, eager to make his mark in the world. While serving in Mannheim, Germany, he meets a local woman, Jelka, and the two embark on a relationship that will impact their lives forever.
In 1965 Maryland, Sophia Clark is given an opportunity to attend a prestigious all-white boarding school and escape her heartless parents. While at the school, she discovers a secret that upends her world and sends her on a quest to unravel her own identity.
Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN explores how one woman’s vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms --- familial, parental and forbidden, even love of self --- can be transcendent.
Editorial Content for Leave Your Mess at Home
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LEAVE YOUR MESS AT HOME is a poignant exploration of forgiveness, unconditional love and becoming who you want to be, asking the question: What do we owe to our families, and what do we owe to ourselves?
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LEAVE YOUR MESS AT HOME is a poignant exploration of forgiveness, unconditional love and becoming who you want to be, asking the question: What do we owe to our families, and what do we owe to ourselves?
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The Longe siblings are really botching their parents' American Dream.
Sola Longe --- eldest daughter, estranged from the family --- is secretly back home in Chicago for the first time in a decade. She’s a newly single and recently disgraced influencer trying to quietly put her life back together again. The other three Longe siblings aren't doing much better.
Anjola is in love with her best friend, who just got engaged to someone else; Karen, a college junior and the baby of the family, is grappling with her sexuality and self-image; and Ola, the golden child with a baby of his own on the way, is questioning his marriage and how to raise a Black son in America.
Sola’s unexpected return sets them on a crash course towards each other, and when the four siblings find themselves together again at their Nigerian immigrant parents' Thanksgiving table, a decade’s worth of secrets and a lifetime of resentments explode to the fore.
In the wreckage of their fateful reunion, each Longe is forced to reckon with the past, take stock of what really matters, and find a way back to each other. Big-hearted, hilarious and wise, LEAVE YOUR MESS AT HOME is a poignant exploration of forgiveness, unconditional love and becoming who you want to be, asking the question: What do we owe to our families, and what do we owe to ourselves?
Editorial Content for Lives of a Salvager: Ancient Language of the Earth, Book Two
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One Salvager. Two thousand years. An unstoppable empire is destroying the world. LIVES OF A SALVAGER is a stand-alone book in this multigenerational fantasy series about plant magic, memory, and the cost of saving a dying planet.
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One Salvager. Two thousand years. An unstoppable empire is destroying the world. LIVES OF A SALVAGER is a stand-alone book in this multigenerational fantasy series about plant magic, memory, and the cost of saving a dying planet.
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“…The storytelling is propulsive… the lasting costs of ecological devotion are attended to with precise emotional weight.”
— Foreword Reviews
One Salvager. Two thousand years. An unstoppable empire is destroying the world. LIVES OF A SALVAGER is a stand-alone book in this multigenerational fantasy series about plant magic, memory, and the cost of saving a dying planet.
In the ancient world of Aligaea, Laurel serves the Anima’s army, wielding plant magic, potions and powerful artifacts in the ongoing Task to restore ecological balance. Across centuries, she witnesses empires rise and fall, magical forces evolve, and the fragile order of the natural world begins to collapse. As a master of botanical magic, she crafts deadly charms, invisibility tinctures, and Birch Skin armor --- magical tools shaped by the pressures of war.
But as the Imperium rises --- the greatest threat Aligaea has ever faced --- Laurel begins to question the ethics of everything to which she has devoted her life. If saving the world requires endless war, sacrifice and manipulation, is it a mission worth completing? Is the Task truly restoring balance?
Haunted by memory, burdened by time, and pushed to the edge of insanity, Laurel must confront a devastating truth: some knowledge cannot be forgotten, and some power comes at a cost too great to bear.
A sweeping work of epic fantasy rooted in nature, magic and moral complexity, LIVES OF A SALVAGER explores memory, environmental change, and the price of shaping a world.
Editorial Content for Mad Mabel
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From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth comes a twisty tale of justice, redemption, and one irrepressible woman who’s not done breaking the rules just yet.
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From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth comes a twisty tale of justice, redemption, and one irrepressible woman who’s not done breaking the rules just yet.
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From New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth comes a twisty tale of justice, redemption, and one irrepressible woman who’s not done breaking the rules just yet.
Meet Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick: 81 years old, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and never without a hot cup of tea --- or a cutting remark. She minds her own business in her quiet Melbourne suburb, until a neighbor turns up dead and the whispers start flying.
Because Elsie hasn’t always been Elsie. Once upon a headline, she was Mad Mabel Waller --- Australia’s youngest convicted murderer. But was she really mad, or just misunderstood? Either way, she’s kept her secret buried for decades.
Enter seven-year-old Persephone, a relentless little chatterbox who has just moved in across the road (armed with stickers, questions, and no sense of personal boundaries); Joan, who appears to have it in for Elsie; and a healthy dose of public interest --- the cops are sniffing around, and the media is circling like seagulls at a picnic.
So Mabel does what she’s always done best --- she takes matters into her own hands.
Is she a cantankerous old lady with a shady past? A cold-blooded killer with arthritis? Or just someone who’s finally ready to tell her side of the story?
Sharp, surprising and wickedly funny, this is the unforgettable story of a woman who has spent a lifetime being underestimated --- and is about to prove everyone wrong. Again.





