From the award-winning, best-selling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life, a new novel about Lucille Ball, a thrilling love story starring Hollywood’s first true media mogul. This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit – that the author’s grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh…
Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world’s legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colossal figures and their intense, often embattled relationship. Through original interviews and access…
Carmen Ramirez, 24, a fledgling copy editor, gets her first big break – working on a second-anniversary spread about the killing of a 12-year-old girl. The child’s body is discovered at the home her teacher, a closeted lesbian who commits suicide shortly after the murder. After challenging the inaccurate, homophobic coverage, Carmen is pulled off…
Two Worlds and in Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan presents a stunning retrospective of the first 10 years of the author’s work. It is a compilation of more than 200,000 words of short fiction, including many of her most acclaimed stories as well as some of the author’s personal favorites; several previously uncollected,…
One Christmas, Lady, a cocker spaniel puppy, sprang into the arms of Jim Dear and Darling. It was love at first sight. Since then, Lady has spent every day doing the same wonderful routine with her family – and she wouldn’t change a thing. But when Jim Dear and Darling bring a baby into the…
From Shelley Shepard Gray, New York Times best-selling author and the “skilled storyteller who reminds the reader through her characters that faith can help us survive the ups and downs in life” (RT Book Reviews) comes a warmhearted and charming novella. Two years have passed since their friend Andy’s death, and the Eight is…
For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. From the very beginning, she was a radical. At age 19, Charlotte Cushman, America’s beloved actress and the country’s first…
The quests are real, the rewards are real, and the dangers are unimaginable! Beatrice Stallard is your run-of-the-mill, post-college 20-something trying to make her way in New York City. That is, until she discovers the Quest Board one night, and everything changes. The rules of the Board are simple: Complete a quest, get…
The loss of a “nuclear” bomb off Puerto Rico during WWII brings strange consequences to a stressed community in Washington State decades later. In the Skagit River Valley, gateway to the pristine Pacific Northwest wilderness, vegetation, birds, and people are inexplicitly dying. One elderly bully’s spiteful lies have trapped her victims in a toxic web.…
With hope and unwavering courage, a feisty young girl chases her dreams during the WWl years. Millie Thayer is a headstrong farmer’s daughter who chases her dreams in a way you would expect a little girl nicknamed “Spitfire” would – running full tilt and with her eyes on the stars. Dreaming of leaving farm…