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Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. “A thrilling, transportive ride from a powerful and evocative new voice.” —Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, and...

Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across is read by Mary Lambert and includes original music exclusive to the audiobook. Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down—and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault...

Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon cruise, leaving Emilia devastated—and the prime suspect in his disappearance. So, she ran for her life, leaving behind her love, her dreams, and her identity. Today “Emily Oliver” is a divorced music teacher and mother of two daughters who know nothing about her past: Gracie, a talented attorney who excels in the courtroom but grapples with personal relationships, and Meg, a gifted concert pianist who wrestles with her ambition and purpose.

This “authentic, generous, and heartfelt” (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author) instant New York Times bestseller from the author of The Summer of Lost and Found recounts one family’s summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural...

NAMED AN ESSENTIAL READ OF THE YEAR BY THE New Yorker In his fourth book of poems, award-winning poet Garrett Hongo sees coastlines and waters, skylines and ancestral lines for what they inspire and teach. In a surpassingly beautiful collection of poems, with his characteristic long-lined...

William Bernhardt's second poetry collection explores the complex tapestry of family and the subtle interconnections that bind us to our past and forms the ballast to identity. Popular culture merges with classical allusions, weaving the colorful threads of a fabric composed of moments lived and still to be lived. These poems remind us that we are part of a collective history and that we are never alone.

A deeply moving story of a young couple and their struggle when the baby they had hoped might keep them together might just pull them apart.

A collection of more than 40 poems of various styles and lengths, many of which have an ocean theme. As well as having an ocean theme in many cases, the poems in this collection explore a variety of other themes, using a variety of different tones; some funny, and others of a more serious nature. Themes include holidays, animals, imagination and creativity, and depression and grief, among others. These themes often overlap with the ocean theme.

Manchmal ist das Glück näher, als du ahnst Naya Clarkson ist Sozialarbeiterin mit Herz und Seele. Wie eine Löwin kämpft sie für die Jugendlichen ihres Wohnprojekts in Rhode Island, die ohne sie auf der Straße stehen würden – ein Schicksal, das Naya nur zu gut versteht, auch wenn inzwischen die Ocean View Avenue zu ihrer zweiten Heimat geworden ist. Als die Straftaten und der Vandalismus zunehmen, geraten ihre Schützlinge ins Visier von Carter Sloan, einem Polizisten, für den es nur Gut und Böse gibt, und der Nayas Einsatz für die Kids nicht versteht.