From the author of the widely acclaimed debut
novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan
Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book
Prize for First Fiction: a gorgeously written, fiercely
compelling glimpse into the passionate, political
world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold
over two generations.
Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a
ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the worldfamous
dancer Arslan Rusakov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet
Union to the United States.
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Broke and knocked up, Mattie Wallace has got all
her worldly possessions crammed into six giant
trash bags and nowhere to go. Try as she might,
she really is turning into her late mother, a broken
alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t
make.
When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left
by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn
things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred
miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy,
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Kit Noonan is an unemployed art historian with
twins to help support and a mortgage to pay—
and a wife frustrated by his inertia. Raised by a
strong-willed, secretive single mother, Kit has
never known the identity of his father—a mystery
that his wife insists he must solve to move forward
with his life. Out of desperation, Kit goes to the
mountain retreat of his mother’s former husband,
Jasper, a take-no-prisoners outdoorsman. There,
in the midst of a fierce blizzard, Kit and Jasper confront memories of the
bittersweet decade when their families were joined.
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In her first novel since winning the Newbery Medal, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable and magical story about family, friendship, and resilience.
Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There’s no more money for rent. And not much for food, either. His parents, his little sister, and their dog may have to live in their minivan. Again. Crenshaw is a cat. He’s large, he’s outspoken, and he’s imaginary. He has come back into Jackson’s life to help him. But is an imaginary friend enough to save this family from losing everything?
Crenshaw proves in unexpected ways that friends matter,
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Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller Category
John White, aka J.W., is a small-town banker who teaches his associates how to profit from American Indian casino deposits while avoiding risk. But after embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, J.W. is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging a competing, Native American-owned bank. As J.W. befriends the family he is trying to frame, his plan to escape his past becomes more dangerous than he could have imagined.
Set in the backwoods of Northern Minnesota’s Iron Range, Sins of Our Fathers is a gripping tale of loss,
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Gossip was rife in the capital about the poetess of Qazvin. Some claimed she had been arrested for masterminding the murder of the grand Mullah, her uncle. Others echoed her words, and passed her poems from hand to hand. Everyone spoke of her beauty, and her dazzling intelligence. But most alarming to the Shah and the court was how the poetess could read. As her warnings and predictions became prophecies fulfilled, about the assassination of the Shah, the hanging of the Mayor, and the murder of the Grand Vazir, many wondered whether she was not only reading history but writing it as well.
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