SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the site of a civil war battle. At the edges of the ... more »

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With his critically acclaimed Among the Missing and Fitting Ends , award-winning author Dan Chaon proved himself a master of the short story form. He is a writer, observes the Chicago Tribune , who can "convincingly squeeze whole lives into a mere twenty pages or so." Now Chaon marshals his ... more »

E-book extras: Reading group guide; author interview. This is the story of Father Damien Modeste, priest to his beloved people, the Ojibwe. Modeste, nearing the end of his life, dreads the discovery of his physical identity -- for he is a woman who has lived as a man. National Book Award Finalist. For ... more »

This is the first book ever published in the United States on the subject of black women. In a tribute to the unheard voices of black women, Josephine Carson explores, in the American South, the lives of black women among whom she lived and traveled and interprets the voices that have never before been ... more »

Nina Reilly takes on the most dangerous and difficult case of her career in New York Times bestselling author Perri O'Shaughnessy's latest thriller. An ingenious blend of forensic science, history, and gripping suspense, Unlucky in Law pits the tough but compassionate attorney against the most unbeatable ... more »

"We are all walking around this city with our hearts sadly swimming in our chests, like dying fish on the surface of a still pond. It's enough to make you give up entirely." --from Instant Love But we don't give up. We keep trying. We're either too stupid to learn from our mistakes or we honestly ... more »

A mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods , Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped ... more »

Caroline is a perfect size 0 with the best blond hair money can buy, a wit as sharp as her stilettos, and a job at the center of the fashion universe: she's the accessories editor for a shopping magazine. Every day Gucci and Hermès send her their latest items, free, begging her to try them. Which is ... more »

Product Info In this remarkably assured debut collection, doctors, scientists, explorers, and collectors face the emotional battles of love, loss, and obsession in exotic locations. more »

E-book exclusive: A reading group guide to Pilgrim. Ageless. Sexless. Deathless. Timeless: Pilgrim. It is 1912 and Pilgrim has been admitted to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Switzerland, to be treated by one Dr. Carl Jung. On April 17, 1912 -- ironically, only two days after the sinking ... more »