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Moving in with the grandfather she never knew after the death of her mother, 17-year-old Emily witnesses bizarre supernatural activities in her new North Carolina community while befriending its remarkable residents. By the author of The Sugar Queen.

In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.

In his debut collection How They Were Found, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a mechanical messiah. In another, a tyrannical army commander watches his apocalyptic command slip away as the memories of his men begin to fade and fail. Elsewhere, murders are indexed, new worlds are mapped, fairy tales are fractured and retold and then fractured again.

A retelling of the story of Anne Frank imagines life in the secret annex from the perspective of Peter, who overcomes an initial loathing for the precocious young diarist before falling in love with her and questioning his faith in light of frightening persecutions.

Working side-by-side for a record label, former punk rocker Bennie Salazar and the passionate Sasha hide illicit secrets from one another while interacting with a motley assortment of equally troubled people from 1970s San Francisco to the post-war future. By the National Book Award-nominated author of Look at Me.

Possessing an absolute view of the world that categorizes everything as good or bad, Caitlin, an 11-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome, relies on her older brother to explain in-between things until his death forces her to cope with confusing feelings and develop greater self-reliance.

Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russet experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge. By the author of Thursday Next.

Sarah Nickerson, a career-driven young mother, suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that leaves her unable to perceive left-side information, a disability that causes her to struggle through an uncertain recovery as she adapts to her new life.

Describes how the author’s three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers.

A continuation of the author’s story in “The Lion’s Tale” chronicles his rise to wrestling stardom in the WWE and the hard lessons that came with his success.

Entering British-occupied Palestine in 1918, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes soon find themselves engaged in a desperate mission for His Majesty’s government, accompanied by two mysterious Arab figures and pursued by murderous strangers.

When Arlen Wagner, who can see impending death in people’s eyes, warns fellow rail passengers that the train is going to crash, only 19-year-old Paul Brickhall heeds his warning, but the two end up stranded at The Cypress House, an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house where death awaits them yet again. By the author of So Cold the River.

A follow-up to Gentlemen finds three boys trapped at school by a record-breaking blizzard that forces them to employ extreme measures to survive and keep their heads, an effort that is complicated by the presence of two attractive fellow shut-ins.

Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.

Ex-convict Piet Hoffman—a family man, a rising member of Stockholm’s Polish mafia, and an undercover police informant—is sent to a maximum security prison to make himself the boss of the amphetamine trade so the police can shut it down.

n the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.

Traces the emotionally wrenching experiences of the authors, who after conceiving through in vitro fertilization learned that the wrong embryo was implanted and who made the difficult choice to carry the baby to term and release him to his biological family.

Golden Richards, a polygamist with four wives and 28 children has a midlife-crisis affair that threatens to destroy his family’s future, in this tale of a dysfunctional American family from the author of Letting Loose the Hounds.