A tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives.

 

Valeria Luiselli's novel opens as a mother and her teenage daughter arrive in Sicily, during a summer of rapidly-changing winds, volcanic rumbles, and sudden tempests. They've landed near the ancient ruins where the narrator's grandmother worked long ago on an archaeological dig. How do you begin again, the mother wonders, pondering her family line, and what if the new beginning you're imagining is actually the end? Meanwile, her intelligent, inquisitive daughter begins to take the reins of the story. As their trip progresses, it becomes a journey to origins--not just to the familial past across continents, languages, and generations, but also further back to a mythical and geological past.

 

It's a sultry August night when sixteen-year-old Betta Ansaldo convinces her cousin Miriam to sneak out to the local beach for a party. Only Miriam returns. As the years pass, and Betta's murder goes unsolved, the Ansaldo family fractures under the weight of their loss. When Miriam meets Leo, a sweet-natured young man with a dark past, their romance seems to turn her life around. But when Leo starts to pull loose the threads of Betta's story, determined to find out what really happened, his search for the truth risks unraveling everything.

 

The neon "Strange Investigations" sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is still accepting new cases. When a flashy drug lawyer hires him to prove an alibi for an accused murderer, Strange can't help getting drawn into the darkness. In his hunt for answers, he stands his ground against some of Washington, D.C.'s most dangerous criminals, and a police department that doesn't entirely welcome his interference. As the violence escalates and claims another victim, the raised stakes force Strange to question his own moves. Are his instincts still intact?

 

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel.

Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered. Barb and Nicolette were shocked to learn that the man they all met at Wonderland was the Carnival Killer. Now, their past safely behind them, they've both moved on with their lives. But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore on the eve of Wonderland's grand reopening, the secrets that Barb and Nicolette have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface.

 

Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen with no plans to return. Eighteen years later, now frontman of the band Stone Mountain, he comes back for a one-night benefit concert for a childhood friend injured long ago. He finds the past still alive for many, and not everyone welcomes him. At the concert, resentment simmers as Tyler faces old and new acquaintances, including Freddi, his former lover, whose reappearance sparks a tragedy that threatens to prove his fear that Stone Mountain is a place you escape once, if you're lucky, but not twice. An unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become.

 

A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario. It would be only a matter of days from such a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence. This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.

 

A spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us.

 

A revolution was brewing. In the dying days of the summer of 1968, during one unprecedented Pageant weekend, Atlantic City played host not only to the fifty young contestants and thousands of eager visitors who had arrived in town for the Miss America crowning, but also to the first Miss Black America Pageant, mounted to protest its lily-white sister competition, as well as raucous actions from women's liberationists. For just a few hours, the boardwalk became a site of vigorously contested ideas--ideas that would redefine the women's movement and reverberate across American culture.

 

Nina's small plane crashes into a Wyoming lake in 2024, and her boyfriend Ben vanishes. Attempting to survive, she discovers Sunrise, a strangely well maintained, but seemingly abandoned Old West town holding the missing link to a century‑old ghost story. In 2003, Coll prepares the town's annual reenactment, but questions about a beloved figure threaten everything he believes about Sunrise and himself. In 1902, founder Anton Vargas returns to search for a missing boy, raising doubts about who he is, what he knows, and why he came back. These three strangers are separated by time and circumstance. But Sunrise's many secrets are like gunpowder: quiet, contained, until they encounter a spark.

 

A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering a road map to resistance.

 

For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways. John Green blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy, juxtaposing Kai and Juniper's story with the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture.

 

College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is driving her insane, and a reckless day trip with a guy she barely knows has her classmates gossiping. She feels adrift, a foreigner in a country she thought would feel like home. Then shocking news arrives: Lily's grandfather has passed away. The loss forces her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history, and her summer becomes a search for understanding--of herself, her family, and the meaning of home.

 

In 1978, on a sweltering August day, 18-year-old Mira Winston drives a golf ball toward the practice net. The 1.6-ounce ball tears through the net at 150 miles per hour and strikes high school junior Kenny Foster in the temple, killing him before the ambulance arrives. Though everyone first calls it an accident, Mira seeks comfort in all the wrong places - her older married lover Theo Catton, her secretive mother, and the dead caddy's grieving sisters. But when investigators question the torn net, when a detective recalls Mira's history of recklessness, and when Kenny's father sees her with Theo, the community turns on the once-promising young woman.