Summer Reads

(Available after November 30th, 22022)A true multigenerational story of how one family had and lost it all along the US-Mexican border.   Pietro La Greca Sr. was an intimidating Napolitano con man dubbed “Mexico’s real-life Don Corleone.” He ran Mexico’s...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. A daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity.NAMED A BEST FALL BOOK BY People * Refinery29 * Entertainment Weekly * BuzzFeed * NPR’s On Point * Town...

(Available after April 30th, 2022)For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature...

A man mourning his alcoholic father faces a paradox: to pay tribute, lay scorn upon, or pour a drink. A wrenching, dazzling, revelatory debutWeaving between the preparations for his father's funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico...

An affecting memoir from the country’s youngest sommelier, tracing her path through the glamorous but famously toxic restaurant world    At just twenty-one, the age when most people are starting to drink (well, legally at least), Victoria James became...

This love letter to the cities of the world—from the airline pilot–author of Skyfaring—is "a journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energized, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our...

“Filled with top-notch research, practical insight, and stories from the most inspiring women in business, Julia Boorstin lays out a new, inclusive vision for leadership and our world at large.” —Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive“A must-read...

(Available after October 30th, 2022)End resentment, burnout, and anxiety—and reclaim your time, energy, health, and relationships. As the co-founder of the Whole30, Melissa Urban helped millions of people transform their relationship with food. Now, in...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)From filmmaker, actor, and author Justin Baldoni comes a real-talk, self-esteem-building guidebook that helps boys ages 11 and up embrace their feelings and fears instead of repress them.   Highly designed and filled...

A compulsive, propulsive debut about a young woman’s haunting experience of love, abuse, and sex in an era of pornification by one of Iceland’s most provocative writers.   20-year old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly...

A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alike   Federico and Lourenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico—distant, angry, analytical—has...

“Relentlessly thrilling . . . an orgy of the unpredictable.” —New York Times Book Review“Like Thomas Pynchon taking on late capitalism. . . . surrealistic, granular in its details, and concerned with social entropy and desperate attempts at communion...

“Taylor’s dialogue is snappy and contemporary . . . A witty and often amusing family drama.”—Kirkus ReviewsKassie O’Callaghan’s meticulous plans to divorce her emotionally abusive husband, Mike, and move in with Chris, a younger man she met five years...

(Available after 3-20 days)In her second novel, Valerie Taylor—award-winning author of What’s Not Said—gives readers another romantic comedy interwoven with forbidden love, infidelity, and family.With the court date set for her divorce and the future...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)“Cho Nam-Joo’s Saha is its own Orwellian vision: bleak and berserk, brilliant and beautiful.”—Hamilton Cain, Oprah DailyPraise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982:“Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982—possesses the urgency and immediacy of...

'That’s how it generally is with Aeja’s stories. They’re as potent as a putrid peach. Listening to her words your head starts to droop with their sticky juice trickling down your ears, until all you can do is succumb to the saccharine flow. From one of...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner about a daughter’s search for her mother, Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.Includes the novella Larger Than LifeThroughout her blockbuster...

“Claire Douglas is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit.”—Jane Corry, author of The Dead Ex   A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in...

From Daphne du Maurier—the beloved author of the timeless classic Rebecca—comes this haunting novel of secrets and suspense   The coachman tried to warn young Mary Yellan away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But Mary...

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a...