An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood…
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The Wilderness
a Novel
- A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition.
- Celebrated authoress Lady Georgiana Cleeve has achieved fame and fortune. Unfortunately, she’s also acquired an the enigmatic Lady Darling, whose spine-tingling plots appear to be pulled straight from Georgiana’s own manuscripts. What’s a stubborn,…
- After eating a magical dumpling at a Toronto night market, Noelle Tom finds herself living the same June day over and over — and running into the same attractive brew pub owner.
- Novik spins a coming-of-age tale of magic, forbidden love and political maneuvering in which Celia, a young witch, seeks to reunite two war-torn lands. To do so, she must enlist her eldest brother, whom she unwittingly cursed to a life of solitude.
- The sudden appearance of seven mysterious doors across the world draws attention from religious sects, covetous billionaires and everyday people who speculate over what lies on the other side. Olivia and Ayanna, two Black teenage siblings in the…
- The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available-- sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs…
- One young woman’s relentless quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut will irrevocably alter the fates of the people she loves most in this tour de force of a debut about ambition, belonging, and family.
- When two rival editors are forced to share a “hot desk” following the pandemic, neither of them expected that their relationship would progress passed their passive-aggressive Post-it note exchanges. The death of a well-known author has them…
- Though his parents banned rock and roll from their house, Cameron Crowe nonetheless dove headfirst into the world of music. At 15, he was contributing to Rolling Stone. His parents became believers, allowing him to interview and tour with many rock…
- Vianne is the long-awaited story of Vianne Rocher and begins six years before she opens her scandalous chocolaterie in the small French village of Lansquenet. Just twenty-one years old, Sylviane arrives in Marseille to start a new life, and charms…
- Charlie Sheen should not be alive to write this book. Sheen broke into movies in the 1980s, playing a hoodlum in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a young soldier in Platoon, and an ethically compromised trader in Wall Street. But somewhere along the way,…
- A monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.
- Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shops, and an unusually high body count. With tourists comes trouble, and Harper Starling won’t let anyone ruin her picture-perfect home. A skilled gardener with killer instincts, Harper…
- London, 1885: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club—a…
- In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward…
- A romantic fantasy features a warrior general who must kidnap and train a husband to take her rightful place as queen.
- John Irving returns to the world of his classic novel, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther Nacht - a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. Orphaned after…
- A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity.
- A spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the time space, a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until…
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