In this follow up to her acclaimed debut Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez tells a rich and unique story about two Latina women, living parallel lives a decade apart. Raquel is a working-class Puerto Rican art history student at an exclusive…
Athena Greyson hasn't made the best go of things in her life. She's got multiple degrees, multiple failed careers, and now she's also got a broken engagement, a house she bought as a gift for the ex-fiancé, and nothing better to do than…
Howley ponders the surreal implications of our hyper-connected, surveillance-prone era and how personal internet use is deployed by government intelligence agencies, politicians, hackers and the media. In this age of "radical…
Blitzer, a staff writer on immigration for The New Yorker, focuses on the experiences of several people to draw a line between U.S. foreign policy in Central America beginning during the Cold War, through the domestic policies related to…
Agnes is a resident of Eynhallow, a desolate and bleak isle off the northern coast of Scotland. She has a hard life and can barely feed the four children she has crammed into her tiny two-room cottage, let alone her ungrateful, drunken…
When a young woman is found frozen to death on the doorstep of a local business, the shop owner hires Bao, an amateur detective, to find out what happened. Bao, in his sixties and retired from his day job, has a supernatural knack for…
With her second book, Axelrod continues her contemporary romance series, following an all-female rock band (The Lillys) on the precipice of fame. Spotlighting Kayla Whitman, the band's drummer, this novel stands on its own and does not…
Andy loved Jen, and Jen thought she loved Andy...until she didn't. Freshly dumped by the love of his life after what was supposed to be a romantic trip to Paris, Andy finds himself without a home, his career as a stand-up comedian failing,…
Cyrus Shams is a recovering addict, poet, and orphan living in the Midwest and searching for a way to give his life (and death) some meaning. Haunted by the senseless murder of his mother, whose plane was shot down on accident by the…
In this short but satisfying and intriguing novella, a Scottish writer in an isolated coastal village decides to embark on a new project, a biography of a novelist and artist she has admired since childhood. But as she gets more deeply…
The death of a child in 1990 attracts the attention of a tabloid journalist looking for a story, and when early indications suggest possible murder by another child, he goes into stealthy investigative mode, corralling the family of the…
This lucid, imaginative exploration of the cultural and scientific legacies of our planet's expansive view of stars from cosmologist and educator Trotta draws connections from the cosmos to the mythological to the material innovations…
