From the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Little
Bee, a spellbinding novel about three unforgettable individuals thrown together
by war, love, and their search for belonging in the ever-changing landscape of
WWII London.
A sweeping epic with the kind of unforgettable characters,
cultural insights, and indelible scenes that made Little Bee so incredible,
Chris Cleave’s latest novel explores the disenfranchised, the bereaved, the
elite, the embattled. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven is a
heartbreakingly beautiful story of love, loss, and incredible courage.
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the
mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told
through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota
with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his
classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to
perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the
inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries,
of scientific work.
Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship
Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab
partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them
from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to
the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and
her lab currently make their home.
Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty,
not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the
big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York
Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical
ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and
the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown
arts scene, dual tragedies strike, and each is faced with a loss that acutely
affects his relationship to life and to art. It is not until they are
inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason—a small town beauty and Raul’s
muse—and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires, that James and
Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they’ve lost.
New York socialite Caroline has her hands full with
her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s
world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September
1939—and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia, a Polish teenager, senses her
carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for
the underground resistance movement. For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta, an ad for a government
medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though,
she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the
unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi
concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to
Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to
those whom history has forgotten.
Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age
journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D.
Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member
named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage
boys—including East's hothead younger brother—to kill a key witness hiding out
in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an
America that is entirely alien to him, ultimately forcing him to grapple with
his place in the world and decide what kind of man he wants to become.
The unmissable and highly anticipated new literary
thriller from the author of the international phenomenon The Girl With
All the Gifts. Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of
the Yorkshire Moors. It's not the kind of place you'd want to end up. But it's
where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her life. It's a place
where even the walls whisper. And one voice belongs to a little boy with a
message for Jess. Will she listen?
