Adult

From the Booker Prize Finalist and bestselling author comes a collection of three short stories that probe the dynamics that corrupt what could be between women and men: a lack of generosity, the weight of expectation, the looming threat of violence. Potent, charged and breathtakingly insightful.

Powerful novel about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island, in all its shattered reality. This one takes you through a roller coaster of emotions, as Jiménez does what the best writers do – she makes you laugh, cry and think. Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

When a veteran Washington journalist moved to Kansas, he met a new neighbor who was more than a century old. Little did he know that he was beginning a long friendship – and a profound lesson in the meaning of life. The inspiring story of one man’s journey through a century of upheaval.

Eleven short stories looking at the bruises of guilt, love and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something: hope, reconciliation, freedom. Throughout, we see love lost and gained, and grief turned to hope.

There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. Thrilling novel about a new mother struggling with post-partum depression.

Through a chaotic life journey riddled with adversity, White guides readers through how they can overcome their own trials and tribulations. At times heartbreaking and at others laugh-out-loud funny.

An Iraq war veteran finds himself coping with the feeling that the country he loves is fracturing in front of his eyes. Raised to believe in a vision of America that values fairness, honesty, and respect for others, he is increasingly surprised by the behavior and beliefs of others, and engulfed by the fear, anger and confusion that is sweeping through his beloved country as he tries to hold on to his values and his hope for America’s future. Timely story of how he navigates the deep divisions in America today and discovers that sometimes change can start by finding common ground with your neighbors in this immersive account, beautifully chronicled by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Finkel.

In the middle of a raging storm in Alaska, Bess stops to tie her shoes. And just like that, the boy is lost, gone in a flash, swallowed up by the snow. A breathless panorama of lonely souls making a life for themselves in the Far North, and of the dark truths they carry.

A beautiful personal narrative of Love’s story of transformation journey – which is still ongoing. Through self-realization, plant medicines, meditation, affirmations, vision boards and daily rituals, she shows readers how she reprogrammed herself and rewrote her human love story. Perfect book for those seeking more than a paycheck out of life.

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. The first in a compelling series.

San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander “Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective – but his business hasn’t exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. The second entry in Rosen’s Evander Mills series, this dazzling historical mystery asks, “Once you have finally found a family, how far would you go to prove yourself to them?”

Spikes knows what’s it like to be an outsider. He certainly knew he didn’t fit the mold of a successful future tech entrepreneur. But he marshaled his resilience and ultimately set out to shatter that mold – along with the glass ceiling that came with it. Finding his footing in the tech world was an education in the complexities of being an outsider – but as Spikes came to see, rather than a hindrance, it afforded him a unique position of power.

A kindhearted widow with a small inheritance risks everything to open the only bookshop in a small seaside town. By daring to enlarge her neighbors’ lives, she learns only too late the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn’t always a town that wants one!

A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village in this pleasant, timeless story.

At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives – each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now.