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What if Jane Eyre were blind and lived in the rural South during the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950’s? This inverted story, inspired by a beloved classic, explores these questions and many more. Growing up in the oppressive home of her Aunt Richards, Janice is stifled by condescending attitudes and flagrant disregard. She finds solace helping the household servants as they, too, are belittled. Janice especially enjoys the company of Gustav, her aunt’s servant, who is often mistreated because of the color of his skin.

From Dusk Till Dawn meets The Thing in this debut horror novel, where a group of friends must confront questions of identity, aging, and desire during a vampire infestation in an isolated Californian desert. “Tapeworm is an eldritch orgy . . . directed under the loving Lovecraftian eye of John...

A Concept of Right Now explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.

Ready for the World: Driver’s Education drops you into the summer of 1986, where fifteen-year-old Brandon Delacruz is gearing up for two milestones: new school and a brand-new driver’s permit. Raised in a close-knit Filipino-American family, Brandon thinks he’s prepared for anything—until high school roars to life with tougher teachers, stricter parents, and a whirlwind of emotions he never saw coming.

Uma menina descobre ossos no quintal, e não são de um animal. Uma cena bucólica de verão, garotas se banhando no lago de uma pedreira, transforma-se num inferno motivado por ciúme e inveja. Um homem marginalizado semeia desgraças em um bairro rico após ser maltratado. Barcelona se transforma em um cenário perturbador, marcado pela culpa e do qual é impossível escapar. Uma presença fantasmagórica busca um sacrifício em um balneário. Uma garota que tem fetiche por homens com doenças cardíacas. Uma estrela do rock vítima de uma morte horrível é homenageada por fãs de um jeito inimaginável.

Año 1014. Tras derrotar a los búlgaros en la batalla de Klyuch, el emperador bizantino Basilio II ordena arrancar los ojos de los quince mil soldados del ejército enemigo, dejando tuerto a uno de cada cien hombres para que guíen a los ciegos de regreso a casa. Durante semanas, una columna de desarrapados recorre a tientas el largo camino hasta la capital búlgara, donde los recibe el zar Samuel, que ante el terrible espectáculo de sus hombres humillados, cae fulminado por la pena.

Alabama, 1973. Den nyuddannede sygeplejerske Civil Townsend drømmer om at ændre verden. Så da hun får sit første job på en sundhedsklinik, er hun lykkelig for at kunne hjælpe andre kvinder med at tage kontrol over deres krop og deres liv. Den første uge på jobbet bliver hun dog overrasket over at opdage, at hendes nye patienter er piger på bare 11 og 13 år. De har ikke engang fået deres første kys, men fordi de er fattige og sorte, er det i systemets øjne grund nok til at tvinge dem til at bruge prævention.

Small-town police chief Emmett Hardy sets out with a simple goal—find the family of a young woman who died years earlier at the hands of one of his officers. But when a friend helping with the search is murdered, Emmett’s task grows deadly. As he digs to find both the young woman’s family and the killer of his friend, he uncovers a twisted family saga rife with incest, abuse, and political corruption—a legacy of generational sin with roots reaching deep into the prairie soil.

A hardware store revelation over Jack and Coke. A roadside epiphany with a Sidecar. An Olympic memory preserved in something amber and strong. Each tale in Whiskey, Wanderlust, and Woven Tales arrives with its own invitation—mix this, sip slow, and let the story find you.

TAIPEI STORY is the electrifying new novel by bestselling literary phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang, a profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes – all set against the backdrop of one unforgettable summer in Taipei. Yale student Lily Chen...

En la casa familiar de La Araira, donde ocho hermanas conviven bajo la sombra de una madre devastada y una estirpe carcomida, cada silencio es una amenaza. La séptima de ellas, Nazarena, barre obsesivamente el patio para ahuyentar las desgracias, pero es en el polvo donde se abren las grietas: las rivalidades de las hermanas, los muertos que regresan, el deseo como huida, los animales que presagian desastres y un pasado que se encarna en visiones y terror.

She lost her music. Then she lost everything else. Without her band and her best friend, Annaleigh Mackey decides it's time to focus on her career. Then her surly new boss crashes into her life, and she finds herself distracted in ways she can't resist. Maxwell Jackson is a commanding presence in the boardroom, but that's nothing compared to the way he's dominating her thoughts.

Joaquín debe escribir un libro de autoayuda, pero ¿qué es lo que puede explicar este pícaro de nuestro siglo? Nada que Imelda y Gina—dos mujeres de sombra larga y mecha corta, cada una a su modo capaz de cualquier cosa—estén dispuestas a creerse fácilmente. Del diálogo punzante a la introspección ácida, los personajes de Puedo explicarlo todo estelarizan una historia plena de comezones entretejidas, rencores entrañables y demonios comunes, donde cada meandro puede ser un abismo y no se quiere más que seguir bajando.

A riveting, quirky, and authentic tale of a disgraced former Texas sheriff who takes it upon himself to investigate the murder of a hog trapper, and in doing so try to atone for the sins of his past. Still reeling from the scandal that cost him his badge, Randy Mayhill—fallen lawman, dog...

THE SPANISH BESTSELLER "Full of tenderness and delirium, moving between suburban realism and fairy tale." —Mariana Enríquez "An eldritch Pedro Almodovar nightmare, charting those liminal terrors found beyond the boundaries of the human body, where flesh itself is not safe." —Clay McLeod...

From National Poetry Series winner Stephanie Horvath, a haunting, dreamlike odyssey through the American countryside In Field of Vision, we traverse the thresholds of past and future, reality and dream, as we accompany the speaker through deserts, forests, rivers, and coasts. She raises her...

Sometimes the family you need is the one you never expected to find. On the plane to Durham for her next big gig, traveling consultant and soon-to-be divorcée Andi gets into an argument about the impossible expectations of mothers-in-law that will change her life forever. When her...

From award winner Mary Jo Salter, new poems touching on the wonders of ordinary life and the brevity and preciousness of our time on earth With her signature dark humor—one eye on our possible redemption, the other on the human comedy—Salter here offers sparkling poems that consider youth...

In Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later, O.E. Rölvaag continues his sweeping chronicle of Norwegian settlers on the Dakota plains, tracing the next generation as they grapple with what it means to belong in a new world. Set decades after Giants in the Earth, the novel follows Peder Victorious—Per Hansa’s son—through the turbulent years of self-discovery and assimilation.

In the quiet town of Hollow Bend, Georgia, a willow tree keeps the secrets of three generations of women bound by silence and sorrow. As Lila Lambert returns home to settle her grandmother’s estate, she unearths letters, confessions, and a truth buried deep beneath the willow’s roots. A haunting Southern tale of memory, forgiveness, and the fragile threads that bind us across time.