""Christensen is a forceful writer whose . . . prose is visceral and poetic. . . . She is a portrait artist, drawing in miniature, capturing the light within."-San Francisco Chronicle From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home-reluctantly-to Maine after the death of her mother. Can you ever truly...

"Olive Maxwell much prefers teaching about the supernatural world to taking part in it and leaves the magical shenanigans to her two sisters -- the Prima-Apparent and Bounty Hunter-In-Training. But after assigning her college students a project designed to nudge them outside their comfort zones, Olive realizes that she's never once stepped a toe over her own...and it's about time that changed. Her first trip into the unknown? Moving in with her long-time...

"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...

"Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiará para siempre el destino de la familia Fernández. Tras la muerte de la señora Micaela y la pequeña Milena, don Ismael tendrá que seguir adelante con sus cuatro hijas, quienes entran en la madurez de manera forzada....

"A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story. Daughters are the Ang family's curse. In 1948, civil war ravages the Chinese countryside, but in rural Shandong, the wealthy, landowning Angs are more concerned with their lack of an heir. Hai is the eldest of four girls and spends her days looking...

"Deep in Brazil's neglected Bahia hinterland, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother's bed and, momentarily mystified by its power, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. Heralded as a masterpiece, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery, is...

After her sister's murder acquittal, Amanda Pruitt visits Colorado to reunite with childhood friends and Aunt Amy, where she is drawn into an old murder case and when her friend is killed, Amanda must unravel the connection between the two murders to clear her name.

Identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica think the Mercandy mansion is haunted and that new student Nora Mercandy might be a witch, but Elizabeth wants to find out if the rumors are true.

When her half-sister Ophelia, the bastard child of a notorious pirate queen hanged by superstitious townsfolk, enlists in the navy under her name, nervous homebody Betsy must brave the dangers of the sea to get them both safely home and save the family business.

"When her sister Esme leaves her high-society husband and needs a ride, Jane Conner imagines one reality where she tells Esme to crash with a friend and then 24 hours later she disappears, and another reality where she brings Esme back to Connecticut where they must reckon with an explosive secret from their past"--