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"Through this pitch-perfect rom-com, Kristina Forest explores the legacy of family and what it means to be young and full of artistic passion. I was utterly charmed from start to finish." —Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know - Now That I've Found You is a YA novel about searching for answers, love, and your eccentric grandma in all the wrong places - Following in the footsteps of her überfamous grandma, eighteen-year-old Evie Jones is poised to be Hollywood's next big star. That is until a close friend's betrayal leads to her being blacklisted . . .

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick Seven Days in June comes a hot and hilarious borough-crossed love story about a Manhattan beauty editor, a Brooklyn writer, and the attraction that takes them by storm. Billie Burke is smart, endlessly driven, and fabulous—it’s no accident she landed a job as the beauty editor at the world’s leading fashion magazine. Caught in a whirlwind of long office hours and fashion industry party-hopping, she hasn’t had time to focus on her nonexistent love life.

One of NPR's Best Books of 2016 — winner of the Shirley Jackson Award — the British Fantasy Award — the This Is Horror Award for Novella of the Year — and a finalist for the Hugo — Nebula — Locus — World Fantasy — and Bram Stoker Awards. People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook.

A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book. Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can't handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who's dealt with a lot more—and who just might be able to clue him in on how to rise up when life keeps knocking him down—in this "vivid, satisfying, and ultimately upbeat tale of grief, redemption, and grace" (Kirkus Reviews) from the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award–winning author of When I Was the Greatest. Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died—although she did, and it sucks.

From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine "Lilo" Galante — the prime mover behind the legendary French Connection. His war cry: "I rule everything." For half a century he almost did. The brutal and blood-stained true story of one of the most feared bosses in American Mafia history, who rose from tenement street thug to notorious hit man to a prime mover behind the legendary French Connection. And the bodies piled up.

Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR. "This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover's emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer's take on death and grieving is profound enough to feel genuinely instructional." ––The New York Times Book Review. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life?

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children.

Recommended by The New York Times • Elle • Good Morning America • TIME • People • New York Post • Real Simple • Goodreads • LibraryReads • and many more. An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women—from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. "Intriguing... Kwok is a skilled writer of suspenseful family drama...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry — Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Harryette Mullen. By turns aggressively reckless and fiercely protective, always guided by faith and ancestry, Threa Almontaser's incendiary debut asks how mistranslation can be a form of self-knowledge and survival.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction -- One of The New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century -- A New York Times Bestseller -- One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2022 -- Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. "Buzzy and enthralling. A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery. Fun as hell to read." -- Oprah Daily. "A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression." -- Vanity Fair.