Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In...
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From 'witty and endearing' to 'impossible to put down,' the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund's Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose. Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy 'Bugaboo' Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave...
Bad blood and gas don’t mix the thunder stretch — the stretch where the hellions of the deadly oval meet to drive their bargain for glory — or...
A hard-boiled young production expert finds himself saddled with a man of vision from Washington — and sparks fly...
Five in six weeks it had been: Rape and murder in the deserted park. When would the next one...
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Both coming-of-age story and cautionary tale. In her mother's absence, Jean is torn between the adult world and her surreal fantasies of escape as she and Fender build a fort to survey the rumors of their town.
Annie DeWitt is a fiction writer,...
“Lopez has the ability to give the reader whiplash with his unconventional and bewitching stories.” — Los Angeles Times
“Robert Lopez is the master of deadpan dread, of the elliptical koan, of the sudden turn of language that reveals...
We Five tells the story of five young female friends and co-workers through the voices of five different authors, the story unfolding against five distinct historic backdrops. The driving conceit is that an anonymously authored manuscript from the...
"A wonderful exercise in humanism. . [by] a prodigious and impressive storyteller". — Jakarta Globe
An epic saga of "families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history" (Time magazine), Home combines political repression and exile...