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Brought to you by Penguin. From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick “Engrossing . . . Wilkerson masterfully weaves...

The Black Ledger is a grim western-horror chronicle set in the War for the Adamite Throne universe, following Elias Crowe, a hard, solitary hunter moving through the Western Deadlands where survival, memory, and violence are all tangled up with something older and more systemic than ordinary monsters.

Yellow dirt gathers in the creases of the toddler's dirty blue jeans and on the little hands used to brush away a pesky fly. The same yellow particles that cling to the walls of the Hogan, contaminates the drinking water and fills the air where his father works only to come home covered with yellow dust. Yellow dirt. That enriches the powerful, but at the expense of the unsuspecting Dine.

Stuck in a small town with dead-end friends and no future, Nick Curtis joins the Army to better his life. There he is persuaded to join a shadow organization within the military and sent on a covert operation within the United States. Facing abandonment and treachery, Nick turns to the only men he can count on—his friends from home. Unpolished but loyal, they join him on his mission, unaware that a dogged reporter with a dark past is tracking the trio’s path of destruction.

“From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” –Maggie O'Farrell "This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and...

The footpaths that we journey in our lifetimes, those we lead, those we follow, can often times bring us to situations of both diverse and adverse circumstances. Circumstances and conditions that can put designs and definitions upon our perceptions of ourselves. Some we allow, some we embrace, others we can’t let go of.