Teen & Young Adult Fiction

After her beloved father suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up, in the gritty glamour of 1970s New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mother becomes increasingly...

Great British Bake Off winner and Comfort author Candice Brown shares the essential recipes that see her through life as she lives with anxiety and depression. SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIREMake your kitchen your happy placeCooking has always been about...

If you were free from fear, who would you have the freedom to be? #1 New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Bernstein charts a path to heal trauma, unlearn fear, and remember love.What if you could wake up every day without anxiety? View your past...

With her debut novel, Thien-Kim Lam serves up a sexy second-chance romance about exes with unfinished business. When working together reignites their passion, will these former flames sizzle or get burned all over again?    Trixie Nguyen is determined to...

A whip-smart, funny, affecting novel about a young woman who takes a job at a tech company looking to break into the "happiness market"--even as her own happiness feels more unknowable than everFour years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy...

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York City.   Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)Sisterhood is the secret weapon for two women at crossroads in a bighearted multigenerational novel about family, forgiveness, and fresh starts by the author of The After Party.   When Rita McCall discovers her husband’s...

Quirky, lovable and engaging characters mingle with a sexy, hilarious and feel-good plot that makes Happy Medium easy, if not impossible to fall in love with. With a dynamic narrative voice that is equally witty and heartfelt, this rom-com is a joy to...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!A couple who...

Rom-com and Emily Henry are two of our favorite pairings. Book lovers, meeting people on vacation, beach reads—these are all key components (and titles) of Emily Henry’s previous three books. Put them all together, and we not only have our...

A millionaire at twenty-five yet feeling spiritually unfulfilled, Bartlett offers his advice for recalibrating ambition and seeking a new blueprint for success in this potent and perceptive manual for personal happiness. This is my intervention As an...

Fizzing with wit and impish charm and mixing science fiction with absurdist flourishes, Pasaribu's deliciously subversive short tales place queer characters in roles normally regarded as stereotypically heterosexual. Longlisted for the International...

In their stunning fiction debut, queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize, Happy Stories,...

How do you get to “happily ever after”?In fairy tales, lasting love just happens. But in real life, healthy habits are what build happiness over the long haul. Happy Together, written by positive psychology experts and husband-and-wife team Suzann...

A radical retreat designed to fix the epidemic of teenage unhappiness turns sinister in Josh Silver’s dark and electrifying YA debut. We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness. Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer. When...

"This novel annihilated me.  I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it... Left my heart bruised and battered and aching for more." —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner“Blows open the heart of the...

This bold and beautiful crime fiction novel starts like a punch in the gut and leaves you with an overwhelming tug of the heart. You will find yourself propelled from page to page. And then, as you get into the last chapters, you will slow down, turning...

From bestseller J. B. Turner comes a pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the end. When a Swiss intelligence agent goes missing—taking with him thousands of classified documents that have the potential to expose covert agents...

Days after their wedding, Blake and Erica Landon embark on their honeymoon-a journey that deepens their bond and promises to fade the scars of their past.Just when their troubles seem safely behind them, a scandal threatens their new-found peace. Back...

'Perfect for anyone who loves fast-paced action with strong, memorable characters who drive the story forward with a combination of ingenuity and incompetence. Highly recommended' -- FANTASY SOCIETY'Immersive, heart-warming, entertaining' --  THE SCIENCE...