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Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister’s horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family’s mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man’s murder where her father is the main suspect.

The Yale Law School professor and author of the best-selling World on Fire traces the rewards and pitfalls of a Chinese mother’s exercise in extreme parenting, describing the exacting standards applied to grades, music lessons and avoidance of Western cultural practices.

Eighth-grader Molly’s ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, but also helps in other aspects of her life.

After advertising executive Alan Christoffersen loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on a walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.

When artifacts from Japanese families sent to internment camps during World War II are uncovered during renovations at a Seattle hotel, Henry Lee embarks on a quest that leads to memories of growing up Chinese in a city rife with anti-Japanese sentiment.

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

The author of Half-Assed recounts her two-year struggle with a perpetual headache and the considerable measures that were attempted for its cure, describing the litany of tests and medications she endured, the wacky advice offered by blog readers and her consumption of chocolate as a coping mechanism.

A first installment in a new series by the author of To the Elephant Graveyard introduces mustachioed Vish Puri, a respectable family man who styles himself as India’s forefront private investigator and who runs background checks for prospective brides and grooms until more sensational cases take him into India’s increasingly divergent communities.

A new collection of irreverent wisdom and cartoons celebrates offbeat examples of how to enjoy work and life by engaging in happiness-promoting activities that are likely to incite the wrath of others.

A reimagining of the classic story of Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy creates alternative episodes, fragment interpretations and revisions of Homer’s original tale.

Refusing to believe a ruling that his research partner, an eminent biologist, committed suicide, Cornell nanoscience professor Jake teams up with the man’s grieving granddaughter to investigate a series of cryptic messages that leads them to the shores of Japan and the site of a doomsday plot.

While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds and unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon’s art.

The author explains how her and her husband headed west and failed in their endeavors, but still came out of it with a new-found faith in strangers and gratitude for family.

Delivers the story of a fearless young woman who became a dress-making entrepreneur in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, thus saving her family and bringing hope to the lives of dozens of women in her war-torn nation.

The twin sons of a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone are orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and father’s disappearance, coming of age in an Ethiopia on the brink of revolution, bound together by a shared interest in medicine and forever divided by their love for the same woman.

A follow-up to the Printz Honor-winning The Monstrumologist finds skeptic Dr. Warthrop reluctantly agreeing to rescue his ex-fiancée’s husband from a supposed Wendigo—a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh—and teaming up with Will Henry to track down the predatory creature.