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by Emilia Hart 2019: Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales hoping Jess can help explain the dreams that preceded the attack—but her sister is missing. As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumors about Jess’s town—tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever. 1800: Mary and Eliza are torn from their loving home in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship heading for Australia. As the boat takes them farther and farther away from all they know, they begin to notice unexplainable changes in their bodies. |
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by Lydia Millet From Lydia Millet comes an inventive new collection of short fiction following a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals. The various "-ists," people who link these stories, include a professor who’s morbidly fixated on an old friend’s Instagram account; a bodybuilder who lives an incel’s fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard. |
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It’s November 5th, and a woman awakens to a nightmare. Bound and gagged, she lies trapped in the heart of a towering bonfire. As the smoke thickens, panic sets in – she’s moments away from being engulfed in flames. How did it come to this? Rewind eleven months: Margot, a faded TV star, and her long-suffering friend Anna watch as glamorous Liv and her flawless family move into their street. The three women soon fabricate the perfect pretense of friendship, but each harbors her own deadly secret– and newcomer Liv senses something is terribly wrong beneath the polished exteriors. As cracks widen in the veneer of perfection and lies escalate out of control, tension ignites. Bonfire Night is approaching and someone is set to burn... But who will it be? |
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The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever—if only they could trust each other. Over the course of a sweltering Florida summer, the Kenner siblings will revisit what it means to be a family and, if they are smart and kind and lucky, come out on the other side better for having each other. |
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by Maxym M. Martineau Edira Brillwyn holds a rare, lifesaving power that can cure disease and heal injuries in the blink of an eye. But magic always comes with a cost, and saving anyone sacrifices a sliver of her own life. She’s always kept her abilities hidden, until a powerful family discovers her secret. The Ferngloves are charming, possess powerful magic, and don’t take no for an answer- especially Orin, the head of these ruling elites. When Edira’s brothers unexpectedly contract blight- a virus too strong for her to heal- Orin offers to help. Together at his estate they’ll research a cure while Orin slows their sickness and Edira hones her magic. His kindness and honesty surprises Edira, as does her undeniable attraction to him. But the longer Edira stays within the confines of the Manor, the more the family’s pristine exterior begins to crack. |
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by Mori Yoshida Step into a celebration of Japanese refinement and French pastry. Encouraging the enjoyment of pastries at nearly every opportunity, Yoshida presents recipes for different times of the day, from breakfast pains au chocolat to the indulgent Mont-blanc in the evening. Step-by-step line drawing sequences accompany many recipes to provide clear guidance. Originating from a Parisian pastry shop, the European outpost of an award-winning Japanese pastry chef, Gâteaux features French favorites like chocolate éclairs and revisits classics inspired by Japan, such as Paris-Brest with black sesame and Japanese fraisier. |
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by Tyler Merritt When Tyler Merritt was diagnosed with cancer, everything he thought he knew about what mattered in life changed. Though he made it through a highly invasive surgery and thought he was in the clear, Tyler soon realized that the cancer had other plans. It wasn't a question of if the tumor would come back for an encore, but when. The clock was ticking. This Changes Everything is a humorous and optimistic love letter to this beautiful life. As Tyler counts down the days until his next scan, he begins to understand that none of us have time for anger, for being unforgiving, for foolishness, for letting relationships drift, or for letting friendships to be lost. It's a reckoning with the reality that our time on this earth is limited and a hopeful vision of how each of us can make the most of the time we have left. |
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Design the garden of your dreams with the expertise of award-winning designer Pollyanna Wilkinson. How to Design A Garden shows you how to untap your garden's potential and customize the design to suit your space: whether that be an extension of living space for parties and al fresco dining or a calming oasis to relax in. Equipped with all you need to know about light, focal points, hardscaping, and planting, you'll have the skills to create a mood board, design layout, choose paving, furniture, and plant combinations. Once you've designed your garden, month-by-month growing guides help you to nurture it, so you can enjoy your dream space for years to come. |
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Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms the size and shape of cities, and jellyfish that glow in the ocean; invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth, bending our rules of land-based biology. Although often overlooked, the spineless creatures of the deep contain 600 million years of adaptation to problems of disease, energy consumption, nutrition, and defense. World-renowned marine ecologist Dr. Drew Harvell takes us from Hawaii to the Salish Sea, from St. Croix to Indonesia, to uncover the incredible underwater “superpowers” of spineless creatures. As our planet changes fast, the innovations of these wonderous creatures hold important secrets to our own survival. |
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by Kristen Martin The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers who amplify the world's cruelty. Step three: Orphan escapes and goes on an adventure, encountering the world's vast possibilities. The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow upends this. Pairing powerful critiques of popular orphan narratives, from Annie to the Boxcar Children to Party of Five, journalist Kristen Martin explores the real history of orphan-hood in the United States. Martin reveals the religious charity and mission that was the core of the first orphanages, the orphan trains that took parentless children out West, and the inherent racism that still underlies the United States' approach to child welfare. |
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