Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after her own family is murdered....

Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...

Christina Gessler talks with her friend Nancy Thayer about "Girls of Summer: A Novel" (Ballantine Books), which was just chosen for O Magazine’s Summer Reading List...

Told from several perspectives, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 2019) is a story about family and memory, justice for those who were never given a chance, and some of the wounds caused by racism in America...

How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?

After an injury to her hand derails her promising concert career, Camille retreats to her mother’s house and teaches piano to mostly desultory students...

A frustrated prince out to make a name for himself, a mysterious young woman who goes by the name of the Sunshield Bandit...

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow.

Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested upon publication...

Youthful arrogance. Hipster alienation. A lot of reading. A lot of drinking. Struggles to adjust to a land radically different from the one that one has left in youth....

This book is the seventh novel in a series about the Mikkelson siblings and loosely based loosely on the author’s family...

Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures?

Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...

London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican...

During the first few stories, we think the book centers on Manfred, an Austrian Holocaust survivor whose parents converted out of Judaism to save him from centuries of oppression...

A new father walks out of the hospital with his day-old baby while the mother recuperates from giving birth...

Going back and forth in time, Evangeline (Evie) recalls the challenges of being raised on a lush island off the coast of California...

Sala's poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory, subdued, modern, and rural....

Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library...

Sitting on the porch swing at her family’s vacation house, Mazie sees an old woman cutting through the orchard across the way and offers her a glass of water....

Listen in, as I talk cancer, parenting, writing, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet with my former professor and mentor, author Eric LeMay...

Chang draws on family stories and ancient legends to weave a fact-based yet mystical tale about this period in China’s long history...

Onyebuchi tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and her younger brother Kevin, whose exuberant resistance to systemic racism earns him a one-way ticket to jail...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s...

This memoir is about the power of home, and the transformative act of restoring one house in particular...