A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family. Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away--then thinking about it for the rest of his life.

February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country. With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana, who refuse to abandon their home. As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians' unit to fight. Even elderly citizens like Petro and Oxana are given AK-47s, though soon starvation becomes as much of a threat as the encroaching troops. Sasha, an obstetrician, and Anton, a surgeon, who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple finds themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters. Through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton--each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity.

Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen with no plans to return. Eighteen years later, now frontman of the band Stone Mountain, he comes back for a one-night benefit concert for a childhood friend injured long ago. He finds the past still alive for many, and not everyone welcomes him. At the concert, resentment simmers as Tyler faces old and new acquaintances, including Freddi, his former lover, whose reappearance sparks a tragedy that threatens to prove his fear that Stone Mountain is a place you escape once, if you're lucky, but not twice. An unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become.

In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery. Then she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot. The prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a seance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one. Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin and the others stranded, the disappearances begin again.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, a new mystery in the wildly popular Cork O'Connor series. Cork O'Connor, preparing for a family trip into the Boundary Waters, is troubled by ominous visions about his future. Ignoring the warnings, he uncovers signs of violence while searching for his missing friend, Cordell Bishop. Soon, he is forced to negotiate with dangerous criminals, the Kennedy brothers, who are seeking their late father's hidden stash. Facing escalating danger and difficult choices, Cork grapples with his darkest instincts as he helps others escape and eventually takes justice into his own hands. God's Country is an action-packed thrill ride that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Once Upon a Time meets The Office in the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling sensations Assistant to the Villain, Apprentice to the Villain, and Accomplice to the Villain. The Assistant and the Villain series is best enjoyed in order. Evie Sage has always tried to be helpful, loyal, and only mildly involved in treason. But with a dangerous prophecy threatening the very magic of Rennedawn--not to mention the race to claim its necessary artifacts before King Benedict does--things are starting to feel less like a career path and more like a serious problem. The prophecy won't stop pointing in Evie's direction. The Villain's magic keeps choosing her. Unfortunately, the more Evie leans into her alleged villain era, the more her boss starts acting like the hero of a completely different story. Which is deeply inconvenient, because if Evie can't save the kingdom's magic, she might just become its greatest threat.

In 1964, four women participate in parapsychology experiments by a visionary university scientist. On the cusp of a breakthrough, the women vanished and the program was erased from history. Decades later, Riley Bell accepts a caretaker job for Betty, an elderly widow, who has microwave, TV, or cell phone, and has never heard of the internet. Why has she lived in isolation for so long, and why does she need Riley now? As the story unfolds across Betty's 1960s era of 5 o'clock martinis and high-stakes experiments, and Riley's modern quest to uncover the truth about the missing women - old secrets surface. The only way to survive is to confront the mystery that has lingered for sixty years.

Detective Michael Bennett and army-sniper-turned-NYPD-officer Rob Trilling travel to Montana to investigate a case that crosses state borders and family lines. In New York City, a series of deadly bombs explodes. Across the river, a military base is burglarized for munitions. In Montana, violence and arson rock a small town outside of Bozeman. Are the incidents related? Bennett, Trilling, and the ATF investigate. A single-minded group angry with the government keep turning up in unexpected places, insisting that they're only trying to make the world a better place. To law enforcement, their claims seem delusional. Will words or gunpowder light the next fuse?

Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages... But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down. This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who's been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel. But while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, and dragons, he may find it harder to protect his own heart.

When Anya Morris receives a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to work for the de Witt family, one of LA's most influential film dynasties, she's soon spending her days and nights at their Hollywood villa, and meets Jude, a recluse who is both the family's heir apparent and its most closely guarded secret. There's a magnetism to Jude that Anya cannot resist, despite the warning signs. The villa holds generations of bloodstained history, and an occult family curse may live within its walls - or within Jude himself. In LA, everyone cuts a deal with the devil. When Anya comes face to face with a devil of her own, she'll learn just how far she's willing to go to get everything she's ever wanted.

An unexpected inheritance from their late uncle brought Madison (Taylor) Wainwright and her brother Lincoln to Smuggler's Cove. But it's the quirky, close-knit locals who've convinced them to stay for the summer. The little town may be worlds away from the privileged existence the siblings knew before their father was arrested for fraud, but here, they've found a sense of belonging. After renovating the dilapidated boat house that once served as a local marina for crabbers and clammers, Madison and Lincoln are settling in for a true Jersey Shore summer, complete with the town's famous Seafood Festival. Visitors love learning about the area's history--the tales of pirates and privateers, cryptic maps and buried treasure. Those stories seem like harmless fantasy until a seemingly worthless map is stolen from their boathouse. Could their uncle's rudimentary map show the true location of Captain Kidd's treasure? Or was there another, more sinister motive behind the theft? As Madison and Lincoln dig deeper, they learn that the legends underpinning Smuggler's Cove's history may also have the power to tear it apart, unless they can quickly separate fiction from fact, and guilty from innocent...

Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents' house, he's shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there's clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself. As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It's the last person he ever would have expected to hear from. Reeling from the day's events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents--and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago. In order to protect the people he loves most, he'll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt--before he ends up paying for their sins.

It's been ten years for the women of Big Little Lies and their kids are now in high school, navigating all of the drama that accompanies teendom. When the school principal receives a threatening package, word quickly spreads and parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about. When a stranger begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven't shared with their kids. The stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating party - and the ice has never been thinner for any of them.

Australian writer Emma Callander has been recruited to complete the final historical mystery in a series by celebrated author Iris Blackburn. It's 1965, and Iris's memory is fading. She's certain that only Emma can do justice to her novel about a murder on the Isle of Skye. When Emma ventures to Scotland for research, she discovers the story is not fiction at all but rather a true crime, unsolved for more than fifty years. It was 1904 when a couple's suspicious drowning led to the disappearance of a mysterious young woman the locals called the Wild Girl. To this day the mystery is unforgettable, especially among the descendants of an aristocratic family who'll do anything to keep their secrets buried. From the misty Highlands to a medieval castle, Emma and Tony Gordon, Iris's handsome lawyer, work ever more closely to uncover them. But while Iris may be known for her fiendishly clever twists, there's one not even Emma could have seen coming.

Set in a fictional country in the present day, this is a story told through the eyes of an ex-military dog, Etna. After surviving years of a devastating war, Etna decides one night to leave the men he has fought alongside for years and return home--to the place where he was taken from when he was young, in the thin but persistent hope that if a home exists for him, it might be there. Thus begins an exhilarating odyssey told through the eyes of a dog as he traverses across ruined landscapes and fights to survive in a world that, even in peacetime, proves to be just as precarious. This is a novel about the power of an idea, never giving up, and finding hope in the most dire of times.

Griff Barlow, a retired Michelin-starred chef, lives in an aged care facility where bland meals and old regrets have dulled his will. After secretly baking a tart in the facility kitchen, he resumes cooking at night for other residents, whose health and spirits improve. His sister Lisa visits as she manages a late ADHD diagnosis, a new relationship, and destabilizing news. Hidden truths from Griff’s past threaten the fragile renewal and any chance of repairing their bond.

New Orleans, 1944. Odette has always been one of the Honore sisters, glamorous and admired in their Creole community. But while Odette's older sisters are content to be wives and mothers, Odette has always wanted something else. It is only with her beloved cousin, Delphine, that Odette can tell her secret: she is in love with a woman, and she longs to be an artist. Delphine has a secret lover, too, a white man. In the hidden garden they've discovered, Odette and Delphine can dream of futures full of passion and freedom. But five years later, Odette's life is nothing like what she'd planned. She's a widowed mother, living in Los Angeles, and she and Delphine, who is passing as white, have spiraled away from each other. When Delphine reaches a breaking point, Odette must make a shattering choice to try to hold her family together. Profound and expansive, a story of love and longing, art and motherhood, friendship and desire, Meet Me in the Garden is a decades-spanning tour de force, inspired by the author's family and tracing the history of the Great Migration.

On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. Inside, you'll be welcomed by the smell of fresh-brewed coffee, a selection of baked goods...and the question, Where in time do you wish to go? When single mother Anna is offered a job at the agency, she glimpses the possibility of happiness. Meanwhile, Teddy's a customer hoping to untangle his recently imploded marriage. And Jade, who has a deeply buried secret, despises the agency for offering false hope.

Annie MacLeod is raised on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, shaped by life at sea with her parents and her closest friend, Evan. After a tsunami strands her on land, she rescues a silent man named Walker, whose touch brings visions of an unfamiliar ocean world. As she is pulled between Walker’s mystery and Evan’s stability, she must confront her identity. Years later, a haunting sound draws her back to the sea and unanswered questions.

They're baaaaaaaaaack! As any savvy horror fan knows: the monster never truly dies. The team that brought you the bestselling dark fiction anthology Never Whistle at Night has risen, hungry, from the grave to summon more dark delicacies for your delectation. In these twenty-one brand-new, groundbreaking, gruesome stories--authored by both established and newly unearthed Indigenous talent and illustrated by renowned Cheyenne and Arapaho painter Brent Learned--the contributors are fully embracing horror: both supernatural horrors and the everyday horror of living under colonialist rule. Featuring stories of unspeakable yet satisfying terror, from twisted psychological tales to gore-filled monster hunts, this new selection of sinister stories will sate your darkest appetites and leave you slavering for more. Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood is a further celebration of Indigenous survival and the enduring tradition of transforming adversity into art.

Detective Ana Dolabra must prove a condemned man's innocence and confront a terrifying magical technology in this fantasy-mystery from the bestselling author of The Tainted Cup, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy awards. The heir to one of the Empire's most powerful families sits in jail, accused of murder. His hands are covered in the victim's blood, and he can neither deny his guilt nor explain his actions. But if the great detective Ana Dolabra cannot save him from the noose, the farming canton of Sapirdad will explode into war, threatening to plunge the whole Empire into starvation and chaos. As Ana investigates--her assistant Dinios Kol, as ever, acting as her eyes and ears--she fears her task is even more daunting than it seemed. For this murder is just the latest in a deeper, subtler web of death, woven by a mastermind with an ancient weapon at his disposal. With their customary skill, Ana and Din pursue their adversary through the canton's wild ranges, sprawling ranches, and reeking slaughterhouses. Yet even they are not prepared to learn the horrifying secret behind their opponent's powers.

Val and Milly became best friends in France, bonded by shared identity and taken in by a glamorous older mentor, Helene. Now in their thirties, married and expecting daughters, they reunite in New York hoping to rekindle their closeness. But class differences, motherhood, and old tensions resurface, forcing both women to confront the past—and whether their sisterhood can survive.

After Jia Chung gets fired from her job (again), Mimi, her beloved grandmother, invites her to spend the summer in Palm Springs. Jia jumps at the chance to stay at Sunset Hills Senior Living Community. So what if they're all octogenarians? Henry Shin lives by the rules. It's what overworked corporate lawyers do. While helping his grandfather Henry move into Sunset Hills and making sure he's settled and safe, he recognizes Jia Chung. The same face he'd had a one-night stand with a few months back...and who he was forced to terminate at his company the morning after. The chemistry between Henry and Jia leads to steamy nights...but should what happens at the Sunset stay at the Sunset?

One matriarch. One powerful family. And one very suspicious fall.If you've spent your entire life running your family as ruthlessly as you've run the family business, it is perhaps not the best idea to gather them all on a cold and dark remote island to celebrate your eightieth birthday. At the very least, it makes for a tense dinner party. And at worst...When Margrethe Cullenberg-Franzen falls to her death during the celebration of her eightieth birthday, Ian Ahmed is convinced it's murder. Trapped in a wintery landscape of muted colors and creeping shadows, he and novelist Berit Gardner struggle to unravel the toxic family secrets behind Margrethe's imposing legacy. As winter deepens and the ice seals the islands in silence, the question echoes louder: who stood to gain the most from the matriarch's fall? And how long before the killer strikes again?