After one sister dies and another takes off in the middle of the night, fourteen-year-old MK Farnan comes of age as she searches her Connecticut beach town while trying to make peace with her grieving mother. It's a tale about the weight of guilt and and mental illness and the power of storytelling

With themes of love, world-weariness, beauty, and death, Charles Baudelaire's landmark poetry collection juxtaposes the sublime with the commonplace.

“The essence of a genius.” —The Guardian

When Nell Stillman’s boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

“More than forty years of history bookend a lifelong love affair with reading for the resilient heroine of [this] novel set in Harvester, Minnesota.” —Kirkus Reviews

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A classic novel by an author whose books have sold more than 80 million copies worldwide, this is the story of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression and an unsentimental, tragicomic account of the desperate lives of the rural poor.

“[A] story of force and beauty.” —New York Post

With echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of The Witches of Eastwick, Ellen Herrick’s debut novel spins an enchanting love story about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost anything is possible, if you aren’t afraid to listen.

“A haunting, magical, modern-day fairytale. A feast for the senses.” —Sarah Addison Allen, New York Times–bestselling author of First Frost

Tired of high-society life, Madeline Hammond heads west to her brother’s New Mexico ranch—and straight into the chaos of frontier life. When a rough-edged cowboy, Gene Stewart, vows to change for her, Madeline must find her own courage as tensions rise and the wild land tests them both.

The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour, style, excitement, and romance of a bygone era in this sumptuous novel—set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s—about an up-and-coming young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.

A powerful post-apartheid novel and winner of South Africa’s M-Net Literary Award, hailed by J.M. Coetzee as “a tremendous achievement.”

“This book is a huge step in the remaking of the South African novel.” —Library Journal

Trapped in a small-town life shattered by tragedy, Jess Creary finds solace in the ocean. A chance encounter transforms her into a mesmerizing mermaid, granting her power and freedom but tearing her from the world she knows. As the clock ticks, she must choose between a life of love and loss on land or an eternal, enchanting existence beneath the waves.