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“A strikingly wise exploration of the bonds people forge and break. Fox delivers on plot, but it’s her insight, emotion, and eye for universal truths that make Friends Like Us memorable.”—People

“Two best friends in their 20s wrestle with love and jealousy in Lauren Fox’s hilarious, heartbreaking novel.”—Marie Claire

“Punctuated by moments of desperate tenderness, this unusually demanding and grim tale provokes troubling reflections on guilt and innocence, good and evil, revenge and redemption.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“Urrea has given us that rare breed of literary sequel, a story that will satisfy fans of the original while standing solidly on its own… At once magical and corporeal, grounding and transporting.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Queen of America reads like a thrill, and in its conclusion feels like a blessing. —Cleveland Plain Dealer

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and Instant Indie Bestseller, an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month, an Indie Next Pick, a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, and a TIME Best Book of 2011.

“Totally weird, and pretty wonderful… manages to be brainy without sacrificing heart.” —O: The Oprah Magazine

“I am unaware of a book that so intimately captures the strange and strangely beguiling place in which [diamonds] are bought and sold.” —The Washington Post

“[Alicia Oltuski] writes most fascinatingly about the strange characters that clutter the streets.” —The New York Post

“An absorbing, old-fashioned tale about how, as in Flannery O’Connor’s stories, ‘Grace changes a person… And change is painful.’” —The Washington Post

“Using O’Connor as a central character in this novel is a stroke of genius.” —NPR

“Darcy is a hero in the true sense of the word, and this is a story about her heroics, a plot propelled almost entirely by her courageousness, her persistence – an adventure story with a literary personality.” —The Rumpus

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller

“A gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience and the responsibilities of parenthood.” —People Magazine

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book and an Amazon.com Best Book of the Month.

“[An] expansive yarn…in lilting prose.” —The New Yorker

“A glittering, fabulist tale.” —Los Angeles Times

A New York Times Bestseller and a #1 Indie Next Pick

“By making the ordinary come to life, McLain has written a beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s — as a wife and one’s own woman.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Kent has managed a muscular genre exercise; her narrative moves so swiftly that its intermittent moments of genuine pity and terror catch you with your guard down.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Stellar…a searing portrait of the religious and cultural veils that separate Muslim women from the modern world.” —Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)

“[An] unforgettable memoir of a shattered family, a mother’s abiding love, and the frightening permutations of the human mind. —Elle Magazine

A New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Indie Next Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, and an Amazon Best Book of the Month

“A beautiful little love story…Deserves all available prizes.” —The New York Times Book Review

A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, an Indie Next Pick, and a Borders Original Voices Selection

“Delightful…Bognanni captures that breath we take before we jump out into our life, the moment when, as he puts it, we ‘brace for the noise.’” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

“I adore this book…it makes dividing questions about whether good literature comes from the heart or the mind seem like nonsense.” —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances

Longlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

“[Ochsner] manages…to capture our sundry human moments and make raw and unforgettable music of them” —Colum McCann, National Book Award winning author of Let the Great World Spin

It’s the unremarkable tremors of daily life that gradually shake off the mud to reveal something infinite and hopeful… Ochsner is a true artist. —The Times (UK)

“[A] well-crafted and cunning debut novel … a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the importance of family ties regardless of family history, making this an endearing and easy-to-relate-to dysfunctional family drama.” —Publisher’s Weekly

“Antalek captures the love-hate sibling dynamic perfectly in this absorbing novel, and she conveys an understanding that, while family is vital, you can’t ever truly expect them to be what you want them to be.” —BookPage

A #1 Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

“The Unnamed is an accomplished and daring work by a writer just now realizing what he is capable of creating…The Unnamed lays bare the fabric of families, the lengths people will go for the ones they love and the lack of value we place on the simple ability to pause, to stop and to reconsider all the steps we’ve made.” —The LA Times

“At once riveting, horrifying and deeply sad, “The Unnamed,” like Tim’s feet, moves with a propulsion all its own. This is fiction with the force of an avalanche, snowballing unstoppably until it finally comes to rest…” —San Francisco Chronicle

An Indie Next Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

“…such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational America that someone should hand out copies at Little League games and ballet recitals.” —The Washington Post

“Unfolds with suspense worthy of Hitchcock…[Grodstein] is a terrific storyteller and an even better ventriloquist. She beautifully captures Pete’s sly self-deceptions…Ultimately, though, this is less a novel about one imperfect citizen than a sharp account of the status-driven suburban culture that turned him into a monster of conformity.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Evocative and moving. Ru Freeman is a marvelous storyteller who sees deeply into the complex layers of compassion and love, of sorrow and betrayal. An amazing first novel.” —Ursula Hegi, New York Times bestselling author of The Worst Thing I’ve Done and Stones From the River

“A thrilling debut: Ru Freeman has given us a wonderfully bold and determined protagonist in a richly drawn, complex, fascinating story. I loved it.” —Lynn Freed

“A heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting novel that celebrates our ability to transcend tragedy.” —Rishi Reddi

A National Bestseller

“Kent excels at showing both the horrors and petty injustices the imprisoned endured…an eminently readable novel, and a tribute to a woman who held steadfastly to the courage of her convictions.” —Christian Science Monitor

“It is the fundamental outrageousness of these tragic events that Kathleen Kent portrays to great effect in her debut novel, The Heretic’s Daughter…Kent tells a heart-wrenching story of family love and sacrifice. Its warnings about the dire consequences of intolerance and fundamentalism still have meaning in the modern world.” —USA Today

Winner of the LA Times Award for First Fiction, Winner of an ALA Alex Award, A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller, A Book Sense Pick, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.

“[An] imaginative and closely observed murder mystery set in the Saudi port town of Jeddah … a literary detective novel that balances the pleasure of plot with finely milled prose.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“What’s remarkable about this debut is that its mystery takes place within a culture that has itself largely been under wraps….it’s the individual journeys of Nayir and Katya, who abide by their society’s strictures even as they are frustrated by them, that elevate Finding Nouf to a larger human drama.” —Entertainment Weekly

National Book Award Finalist, Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, Winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award

“What looks at first glance like a sweet-tempered satire of workplace culture is revealed upon closer inspection to be a very serious novel about, well, America. It may even be, in its own modest way, a great American novel.”— The LA Times

“Then We Came to the End, it turns out, is neither small nor angry, but expansive, great-hearted and acidly funny…. [A] perceptive and darkly entertaining novel.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Engrossing.”— ESquire