"Someone at the culture festival has figured out Himari and Mio's switcheroo--but Mio's only got Asaka on her mind! There's a popular legend that if two people hold hands during the culture festival after-party, they'll become a loving couple...so things might just work out if she plays her cards right on their date! Inspired by her friend's resolve, Shizuku decides to confess her feelings to Tsukiyono-who seems to be hiding a secret of his own. As...

"Himari Akeno can't wait to start high school! Even though she's parting ways with her twin sister, Mio, Himari's enthusiasm to start this new chapter of her life is palpable--that is, until a traumatic incident sends her home to hide in her room... watching Himari's dreams shatter is more than Mio can bear, especially when her sister still longs for an ordinary student life. Determined to see her twin get back out into the world, Mio "catches a cold"...

"Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do--not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match... The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows.The...

"A haunting, wildly imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure Seeker ("the best new work of fiction ... in many moons; a classic"--The Washington Post); set in the first decades of twentieth-century colonial Cape Town and in a spirit-filled forest of secrets and magic powers. It is 1914. Germany has just declared war on France. Piet Barol, the handsome, irresistible figure of Mason's much-admired, sensuous History of a Pleasure...

Challenged to write a poem about a historical whaler her Cape Cod community reveres, a creative girl discovers the poetry journal of a 19th-century woman who shared a romance with a mysterious sea captain.

"A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and...

For Charlotte Holloway, the world ended twice. The first was when her childhood crush, Dean, fell in love -- with her older sister. The second was when the Crimson, a curse spread through eye contact, turned the majority of humanity into flesh-eating monsters. Neither end of the world changed Charlotte. She's still in the shadows of her siblings. Her popular older sister, Harlow, now commands forces of survivors. And her talented younger sister, Vanessa,...

"MISTAKES WERE MADE Hari ends up having one drink too many at the company dinner and wakes up the next morning with no memory of the previous night...except for a lingering sensation on her lips! Just what could have happened? She finds out in the worst way possible when she runs into Taemu at the office, because he remembers every single detail...Meanwhile, Yeongsuh also wakes up from a night of heavy drinking, but unlike her best friend, she instantly...