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Spanning the American twentieth century, The Marston Ledger follows one family shaped by the interplay of memory and records of two world wars and the flu pandemic. At its center is Helen Marston, who raises her children in the shadow of their father’s wartime service and a household ruled as much by reticence as by love. As the siblings scatter into work, into study, into distance, the family’s story unfolds through crossings both literal and emotional.

“Each page is sharp, piercing, and totally defiant of the expected.” —Douglas Stuart From the Booker Prize finalist author of Burnt Sugar comes a riveting novel of rupture and rebirth, of one woman’s journey to understand the fault lines in her marriage, her home, and her family. When my...

On May 17, 1536, a young court musician was executed, accused of adultery and treason with the queen. Most historians believe both he and Anne Boleyn were innocent—victims of Henry VIII’s rage. Mark Smeaton was a talented performer who rose from poverty to become a royal favorite. He played for the king in private and entertained at sumptuous feasts. He witnessed Anne Boleyn’s astonishing rise and fall—her reign of a thousand days. History tells us little about him, other than noting his confession and execution.

“Tim O’Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most.” —Haruki Murakami The author of the American classic The Things They Carried returns with what may be his finest novel yet, an unconventional love story that unspools over decades and across continents...

From the author of the “exquisite” (The New York Times) Backhanded Compliments, a steamy sports romance about a disgraced tennis star, the ex-pro who becomes her coach, and the soulmate they share. Perfect for fans of Challengers and Carrie Soto Is Back. Octavia Ricci has spent her entire...

This visionary portrait of a technology-dominated near future from the author of The Object asks: Is humanity engineering its own extinction? By the end of the twenty-first century, cities are surrounded by rising oceans and society has fractured beyond repair. Half the population thrives...

When a catastrophe at Mogor's imperial palace threatens the citizens' lives, Cale miraculously swoops in to save them. Little do they know that this display of heroism slots perfectly into his plans. The next leg of his journey takes him north, where he braves a killer storm to converse with the nigh omniscient World Tree—but the tree's insights come at a cost. With the northern armies gearing up to march on the continent, Cale is eager to cash in on his exploits and alliances. The long-awaited war has finally arrived, and Cale's fate hangs in the balance!

Bestselling author and esteemed Ohio University Professor Emmet Maze is at the height of his career—and a world away from his troubled New Jersey youth. But when a young woman enters his office with a desperate plea, it changes his life forever. Jenn Newlin is the spitting image of her mother, Kaya, a face Emmet could never forget. As college students in the ’70s, he and Kaya were inseparable, falling in love and supporting each other’s dreams in a post-Vietnam America.

A sweeping epic of exile, endurance, and truth forgotten. From one of the most courageous and controversial historians of our time comes an electrifying trilogy of novels—Moses, Elie, and Ghazal—that bring to life the vanished world of Middle Eastern Jewry and Christianity and their dramatic dissolution under the rising tide of Arab nationalism and Islamist totalitarianism. Bat Ye'or—"Daughter of the Nile," exile of Nasser's Egypt, and indomitable witness to the historical fate of Jews and Christians under Islam—has spent a lifetime unearthing hidden truths.

Set in a future that grows more plausible by the day, Stranger Beauty asks what traces will remain after a life has ended. There are novels that describe consciousness and novels that enact it. Stranger Beauty is of the latter. With its narrative spun out of three notebooks, an embedded screenplay, and a final monologue delivered by an AI that has legally consumed a dead man's life's work, Matthew Gasda's formally daring prose carries a powerful emotional resonance. The architecture of the novel is not a stunt.

The Last Wind Walker delivers a powerful blend of medical drama, legal intrigue, supernatural mystery, and emotional depth. When young doctor Ashe Carter begins experiencing vivid past-life memories and an uncanny new talent for classical piano, he's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Surgery saves his life but ends his dream of becoming a surgeon—driving him to file a devastating malpractice lawsuit that strains his marriage to his beloved wife, Mattie.

Four generations converge in one woman's choice between her principles and heritage. In July 1999, Sidone Russo, a single, high-powered attorney, is stopped at a red light in Chicago's infamous Cabrini-Green neighborhood when a little girl jumps into her car and cries, "Go, Lady! They gonna kill me!" Panicked, Sidone takes off with the girl crouched in the back seat, sobbing.

A mosaic of grief, a lifetime of love and loss, rendered with the cadence of Hemingway. South is a novel about grief, marriage, artistic ambition, and the search for home. Told through interconnected stories and journal entries, it follows Bert Staub, an aspiring writer, and Trudy Steiner, a painter, from their first meeting in upstate New York through years in rural Vermont, New Haven, and New York City. Within their seemingly idyllic marriage, the fissures that were once obscured become evident as the couple grapples with the loss of their child in a premature birth.

When Grandma Olivia Hollis passes away, her funeral reunites four generations of heirs, complete with a surprise will. Grandma has orchestrated a New Orleans scavenger hunt for her female relatives, determined to bring her family back together if it’s the last thing she does. Everyone game? If not, no one gets a dime.

With only one summer to turn things around, one woman finds herself fighting to hold together the one place that’s always felt like home with the people who have become like family, in this summery novel from USA TODAY bestselling author of The Sandy Page Bookshop. Thirty-year-old Holly has...

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing a certain piece of his anatomy.

“A dazzling fictional debut, Jason Diamond’s Kaplan’s Plot calls to mind both John Irving’s darkly funny tales of family dysfunction and E. L. Doctorow’s evocative dives into the early 20th century American underworld. At the same, Diamond sneaks in deeper truths about family history...

A true crimes podcaster stumbles upon a cache of journals which could reveal the identity of Calgary's most prolific serial killer.