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I CRAWL THROUGH IT

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening.

So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away…but nothing releases the pressure. Because, as they discover, the only way to truly escape their world is to fly right into it.

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SINS OF OUR FATHERS

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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WHAT IS THE WHAT

New York Times Notable Book

 

New York Times Bestseller

 

National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist

What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States,

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ASTONISH ME

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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THE CHEROKEE ROSE

Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible debut

novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s

past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and

Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three

young women who are drawn to the Georgia

plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and

equally extraordinary compassion once played out.

Set in modern-day Georgia, The Cherokee Rose follows three characters—

Jinx Micco, a Cherokee-Creek historian exploring her tribe’s complicated

racial history; Ruth Mayes, whose mother sought refuge from a troubled

marriage in her beloved garden and the cosmetic empire she built from

its bounty;

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CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS

A Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year

In a voice that shifts from anguished to sarcastic,

heartbroken to hopeful, sixteen-year-old Emily

Shepard recounts her solitary odyssey after the

meltdown of a nuclear power plant near her home

in northern Vermont. Both her parents worked at

the plant: her father as chief engineer, her mother

as head of public relations. Her father had a reputation as a heavy drinker,

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