Darby Lambert thinks she has it all figured out. After all, she changed the horrible events of her life by tweaking her dreams. What else could go wrong? The universe can never be altered without ramifications, and now the people she knew so well are not who she thought they were, her past is not the past she remembers, and friends are not friends. Can she uncover the truth about who she is without further damaging those around her, or will she choose to change her dreams again to find her place in the world?

From the Dust Jacket: It is a time of mourning. A time of hope. With the demon dactyl and its foul minions defeated, the war-weary citizens of the kingdom of Honce-the-Bear wish only to bury their dead and begin rebuilding their broken lives. Yet the fragile balance between church and state lies shattered. The specter of civil war haunts the ravaged land—and a specter more fearsome still. For the demon, though defeated, was not destroyed. And now its vengeful spirit has found an unholy sanctuary at the very heart of the Abellican Church.

As the elf-trained ranger Elbryan Wynden presses north to reclaim the savage Timberlands from retreating goblin hordes, and his companion, Pony, mistress of gemstone magic, turns south to the civilized—but no less perilous—streets of Palmaris, they find themselves caught up in a ruthless power struggle to decide the fate of all Corona. A struggle that will push their courage and love to the breaking point ... and beyond.

Condemned as heretics, the two heroes are hunted by dangerous enemies. The leader of the Church boasts a mastery of gemstone magic that rivals Pony’s proven might. And the Abbot’s right hand, the Bishop of Palmaris, has claws as sharply honed by hate and magic that no man—or ranger—can withstand their killing stroke. Then an unexpected twist of fate forces Pony to make a harrowing choice, one that may doom the world to demonic domination.

A fantasy of rare scope and accomplishment that seamlessly weaves unforgettable characters and events into a brilliant tapestry of bravery and betrayal, sacrifice and redemption, The Demon Apostle brings R.A. Salvatore’s sweeping masterwork to a triumphant close—and to a new beginning.

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About the Author: R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. His first published novel was The Crystal Shard. He has since published more than a dozen novels, including The Demon Awakens, The Demon Spirit, The Halfling’s Gem, Sojourn, The Legacy, and Starless Night. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Diane, and their three children.

From the Back Cover: Two men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: they were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them. Celebrated Filipino writer Eric Gamalinda’s international debut novel is a contemporary work of ideas that combines mystery, film noir, and existential philosophy. Highly intricate and written in a style reminiscent of the maverick narrative techniques of such filmmakers as Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr, and with some of the philosophical underpinnings of Michel Houellebecq or Javier Marías. Named after the region of the moon where Apollo 16 landed in the same year these men were born, The Descartes Highlands demonstrates that for lives marked by unrelieved loneliness, the only hope lies in the redemptive power of love.

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About the Author: Eric Gamalinda has previously published two story collections, three books of poetry, and four novels, including My Sad Republic, winner of the Philippines’ Centennial Literary Prize. Born and raised in Manila, where he worked as a journalist covering everything from politics to rock music, Gamalinda currently lives in New York City and teaches at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

Cariana has lived without any knowledge of her origins for seventeen years and may possess the god-like power of telekinesis. Jonah, the only human with the speed and strength to fight vampires, seeks to protect her as two vampire clans and a religious order of fighting monks—sworn to protect humanity—closes in. Will his superhuman speed and strength be enough to save ... The Descendant?

More than an international mystery-adventure, The Desert Prophecy is a new genre of fiction that explores the boundaries between science and religion, between miracles and technology, and between good and evil. It is also the story of Paul Swanson, a young American who accurately predicts the shocking destruction of a famous Islamic shrine and the inexplicable deaths of over two thousand Islamic terrorists. The seemingly miraculous circumstances surrounding these events compel American and Israeli investigators to examine their own religious beliefs—or disbelief—and to engage in arguments that are both humorous and profound. As the investigation of terrorist deaths unfolds, so does the mystery surrounding the life of Paul Swanson, an adopted child of unknown parentage. From early childhood, Paul Swanson’s life seems to have been directed and protected by powerful, unseen forces. But are they divine forces, as Paul Swanson claims, or are they evil? After the CIA discovers Paul Swanson’s possible relationship to the mysterious founder of a group called the “Doomsday Committee,” the CIA is convinced that his latest prophecy is intended to precipitate a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East. Is Paul Swanson, who claims to be a messenger of God, leading the world toward peace, or does he serve a different master, one bent upon annihilation of the nations of Islam?

From the Dust Jacket: In 1864, Jenny Sanders Pryor is brash, impetuous, optimistic, and nineteen. She and her husband, John, are about to embark on what they think will be a wonderful adventure, joining a wagon train along the Oregon Trail; they are young and in love and eager to begin their new life together. But Jenny will need every bit of her youthful strength and resilience, for she is about to be tested beyond the limits of her physical, emotional, and spiritual endurance. At first, the trip is an adventure, filled with new people and strange places. Then it happens.

It lasts only a few minutes. Nearly all the men are out cutting wood, many of them without weapons. Suddenly, seeming to rise from the ground, two hundred brutal, painted Oglala thunder into the camp on their lathered ponies. Separated from their families, the men are forced to watch the rape, slaughter, and kidnapping of their women and children.

For some the end comes quickly. But for Jenny Sanders Pryor, it is the beginning of a life of primitive hardship. Captured, nearly beaten to death, forced to succumb to slavery, she endures a “marriage” to one of the Oglala’s savage chieftains. Only her indomitable spirit, fierce intelligence, and courage help her to survive, and even to thrive, despite her captors’ best efforts.

Every minute of her captivity she plans her escape, while John does everything in his power to find her.

Even though there is precious little chance they will ever see each other alive again.

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About the Author: Barbara Riefe has sixteen novels to her credit, with sales in excess of four million copies. Her novels have appeared on twenty-seven bestseller lists, including The New York Times. She and her husband, Alan, live in Stamford, Connecticut.

A renegade member of the New Orleans Mafia forces Lee Farrell to participate in a criminal scheme involving rare African gemstones, hallucinogenic South American tree frogs, and a Mississippi Gulf Coast casino. Trying to find his origins among the voodoo secrets of the New Orleans French Quarter, Farrell must save his failing marriage while outmaneuvering the mob and the FBI. Is his life being controlled by an ancient curse, or is he being overtaken by the darkness of his own past? About the Author: Chris Johnson practices law on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Dust Jacket: Christopher Burton, the protagonist of Tim Parks’s masterful new novel, is one of Britain’s foremost foreign correspondents, the acknowledged world expert on Italian affairs. Three months after returning to London with his Italian wife for an extended stay, Burton, while standing at the reception desk of the Rembrandt Hotel in London’s Knightsbridge, receives a phone call informing him that his teenage son has committed suicide. Why, upon receiving this terrible news, does he immediately conclude that his marriage of almost thirty years is over? And why is grief so slow in coming? Burton feels his pious, mercurial wife may have given him his life in Italy—even his prestigious career—but she has also made it impossible.

Was their troubled son somehow the victim of their long, explosive love-hate relationship? Looking back, Burton sees in his life a web of contradictions, unanswered questions, and confusions. And yet, it has been his destiny.

Intensely dramatic, dark, and yet often hilariously funny, Destiny is a seamless, beautifully plotted story and a profound meditation on marriage and identity, at once romantic and callous, brilliant and blind. In Destiny, Parks offers us a searing account of what it means to tread the narrow line between sanity and psychosis.

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About the Author: Tim Parks is the author of nine earlier novels and three works of nonfiction: Italian Neighbors, An Italian Education, and, most recently, Adultery and Other Diversions. He has been awarded the John Liewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Betty Trask Award. His most recent novel, Europa, was short-listed for the 1997 Booker Prize. He and his family live in Verona, Italy.

From the Back Cover: After Vigilantes ended a criminal conspiracy in Alder Gulch during the winter of 1863-1864, they founded a “People’s Court” to administer justice. At the same time, Joseph (aka Jack) Slade has settled near Alder Gulch with his wife and adopted son. As a manager with the Overland Stage Co., he ruled 600 hostile miles by intimidation. While he worked for the Overland, passengers and the mail traveled on time, in safety. But Slade’s drinking ended his career. He is a binge drinker, fired after he destroyed Army supplies at Fort Halleck.

Despite his friends’ attempts to persuade him to stop, his behavior continues in Alder Gulch as he wrecks saloons and stores. His friends, like Dan Stark, the Vigilante prosecutor, say there’s a devil in the bottle. Early in March 1864, while on a spree, Slade threatens the People’s Court judge at gunpoint and tells the Vigilantes they are “all played out.” Dan and the other Vigilantes face a horrible choice. By yielding to Slade, they expose honest people to the criminals’ rise. Yet Slade, despite his murderous reputation, has committed no capital crime to justify hanging him.

Will the devil in the bottle get Jack Slade?

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About the Author: Carol Buchanan, Ph.D., has written three historical novels about the Vigilantes of Montana, with a fourth in the works. She writes about “the quiet heroism of ordinary people who overcame great obstacles, made tough choices with courage, and met grave difficulties with faith.”

The first novel, God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana, won the 2009 Spur for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America. The second, Gold Under Ice, was a Finalist for the 2011 Spur for Best Long Novel.

Before turning to historical fiction set in the West, she published three non-fiction books on horticulture, including: Brother Crow, Sister Corn: Traditional American Indian Gardening and The Backyard Sanctuary Garden. Wordsworth’s Gardens, published in 2001, was a Top Ten Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in 2002.

From the Dust Jacket: In what is perhaps her richest and most deeply searching novel, Anne Tyler gives us a story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport—the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian American wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate with an “arrival party,” an event that is repeated every year as the two families become more deeply intertwined.

Even independent-minded Maryam is drawn in. But only up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by one of the Donaldson clan, a good-hearted man of her vintage, recently widowed and still recovering from his wife’s death, suddenly all the values she cherishes—her traditions, her privacy, her otherness—are threatened. Somehow this big American takes up so much space that the orderly boundaries of her life feel invaded.

A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that cast a penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.

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About the Author: Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis in 1941 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University. This is Anne Tyler’s seventeenth novel; her eleventh, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Baltimore.

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By the Same Author: A Spool of Blue Thread (2015), among many others.

From the Back Cover: Page Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world’s most powerful elite organizations—the American Coven of Witches, Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige’s wildest antics can’t hold a candle to those of her new charge—an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil ... and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder—and frame Paige for the crime. It’s an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.

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About the Author: Kelley Armstrong lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children and far too many pets. She is the author of Bitten and Stolen, the first two books in her Women of the Otherworld series.

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By the Same Author: Waking the Witch (2010, Dutton); The Gathering (2011, Doubleday); The Calling (2012, Doubleday); The Rising (2013, Doubleday); Omens (2013, Random House); Visions (2014, Random House); Deceptions (2015, Random House); Betrayals (2016, Random House); and Rituals (2017, Random House), among many others.

From the Dust Jacket (U.S. edition): On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk—the banality of work, the latest movies they’ve seen. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.

Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act—an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner is an internationally bestselling phenomenon that will leave you breathless.

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About the Author: Herman Koch is the author of seven novels and three collections of short stories. The Dinner, his sixth novel, has been published in twenty-five countries and was the winner of the Publieksprys Prize in 2009. He currently lives in Amsterdam.

This is Discidium: the separation of men and women as the final solution to the global population crisis that nearly destroyed humankind. To ensure this division, an impenetrable wall was constructed, dividing the two sexes into isolated provinces with little outside contact, ensuring fathers and daughters and mothers and sons would never know one another. Nearly one hundred years after its inception, Braedon Walker, devastated by the mysterious death of his father, defies the laws of Discidium and risks his life to meet a mother he’s never known. At the same time, on the other side of the wall, Dr. Bo Granger, the daughter of ambitious and ruthless Governess Leda McCready, crosses a prohibited border into the integrated province of Conexus to investigate a series of inexplicable deaths in land of impoverished citizens. Aiding the two along the way are a series of eccentric and resourceful characters, including two criminal smugglers who prove to be much more than what they first appear. Braedon and Bo soon learn their individual journeys into the same forbidden territory are on a collision course, either towards complete disaster or profound revelation.

From the Dust Jacket: 1945. At the end of the Second World War in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings of Berlin. She flees to the south, where her father finds among the refugee trains a young foundling of the same age to replace his grandson. He makes his daughter promise never to tell anyone, including her husband—still fighting on the Russian front—that the boy is not her own. Nobody will know the difference.

2008. Gregor Liedmann is a Jewish man now in his sixties. He is an aging rocker who ran away from home, a trumpet player, and a revolutionary stone-thrower left over from the 1968 protests. On a single day spent gathering fruit in an orchard outside Berlin with family and friends, Gregor looks back over his life, sifting through fact and memory in order to establish the truth. What happened on that journey south in the final days of the war? Why did his grandfather Emil disappear, and why did the gestapo torture Uncle Max? Here, in the calmness of the orchard, along with his ex-wife Mara and son Daniel, Gregor tries to unlock the secret of his past.

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About the Author: In his first novel since the best-selling memoir The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton has created a truly compelling story of lost identity, and a remarkable reflection on the ambiguity of belonging.

From the Publisher: It’s November 2044, an election year, and the state of the Union is a farce. The federal government is broke, cities are privately owned, the military is shaking down citizens in the streets, and Wyoming is on fire. The last place anyone expects to find an answer is the nation’s capital.

Washington has become a circus and no one knows that better than Oscar Valparaiso. A master political spin doctor, Oscar has been in the background for years, doing his best to put the proper spin on anything that comes up. Now he wants to do something quite unusual in politics. He wants to make a difference. But Oscar has a skeleton in his closet: a grotesque and unspeakable scandal that haunts his personal life.

He has one unexpected ally: Dr. Greta Penninger. She is a gifted neurologist at the bleeding edge of the neural revolution. Together Oscar and Greta know the human mind inside and out. And they are about to use that knowledge to spread a very powerful message: that it’s a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It’s an idea whose time has come...again. And once again so have its enemies: every technofanatic, government goon, and reactionary laptop assassin in America.

Like all revolutionaries, Oscar and Greta might not survive to change the world, but they’re determined to put a new spin on it.

From the Back Cover: THERE ARE MILLIONS OF MOTHERS IN NEW YORK CITY...

SARAH BRIDGES IS LOOKING FOR JUST ONE.

Sarah is smart, sexy, talented, and funny ... and less than satisfied with her life. She has a career that she absolutely adores and true romance on the horizon. But there’s something missing—something that has her restlessly scanning the faces in the crowd and asking, Is she the one?

Sarah never met the birth mother who gave her up for adoption. And that hole in her past has colored everything that came after it. Now, with the big “three-five” looming, Sarah’s setting off on a wild Manhattan odyssey in search of the woman who gave her life.

But the sages say you should be very careful what you wish for. The mother she’s been seeking may not turn out to be the one Sarah finds—and she may just rock Sarah’s world!

In a fresh and funny fiction debut, Nancy Newman takes us along on a journey through the rocky landscape of mother-daughter relationships—and finds unexpected riches waiting to be mined there ... and surprising new twists in the road.

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About the Author: Nancy Newman grew up on Long Island. She has an M.A. in English literature and has taught writing and literature at the City University of New York. Newman is married and has three sons. She lives with her family in New York City. Disturbing the Peace is her first novel.

From the Dust Jacket: The Diver is a beautifully written and observed book about the desperation of octogenarian Albert, who is in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease, following the death of his beloved twenty-year-old daughter, Gloria, who disappeared during a scuba dive off the Cayman Islands. Gloria had suffered from a deep, potentially inherited and untreatable depression, and her death has effectively destroyed her father and his marriage. Was Gloria’s death an accident, as Albert has been led to believe, or did she find her release and escape in the depths of the ocean by choice? A visit from Gloria’s best friend, Christie, who accompanied Gloria on her final dive, will allow him to uncover the mystery. The narrative is tender and insightful, showing Albert’s struggle with his faith, his attempts to come to terms with retirement, his failing health, and the difficulties in his ossified marriage to Ann. DuMont leads his unlikely hero on a journey to self-discovery, acceptance, and understanding, and lets him enjoy a fleeting glimpse of love with Christie’s mother, Lena.

The Diver is deceptively quiet and simple, but carries the reader forward on the waves of Albert’s anger, regret, fear, obsession, and doubt. It is a compelling book about variations of love: the desperate love of an older man for his daughter, the stagnant love in a longtime marriage, and the surprising and rejuvenating love that can’t last. DuMont has delivered a sure-handed and heartfelt debut, elements of which are based on his own life.

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About the Author: Alfred Neven DuMont has had a long career in the theater as well as in book and newspaper publishing in Germany. He holds an honorary chair at the Martin Luther University at Halle-Wittenberg, is an avid diver at eighty-three, and lives in Cologne. The Diver is his first novel.

From the Dust Jacket: Tapping the same sources which she drew on for The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers and A Bird in the House, Margaret Laurence returns with new depth and scope to the human themes and intensely realized world of those works. The richness, power and simplicity of her writing find renewed expression in The Diviners, which draws the reader into the life of Morag Gunn, a woman at a crossroads in her life and art.

Living alone in rural Ontario, witnessing her daughter’s progress in achieving adult independence, Morag struggles to continue her writing, haunted by ghosts from her personal and ancestral past. Striving to divine a course for her own future, she casts back through her heritage—a heritage of the vast Canadian prairies with their Old World roots and outcast Indians and Metis, a heritage embodied in the people and society of the town of Manawaka.

This new novel reveals again the mature craft and artistry with which Margaret Laurence has pursued her vision. In The Diviners, as in all her works, everyday incidents lead to the emotions that shape life. And, in Morag Gunn, she has created another memorable character, one whose courageous experience emerges as the experience of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright.

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About the Author: With five novels—one of them, A Jest of God, made into a successful film, Rachel, Rachel—in addition to critiques, commentaries, children’s literature and short stories, Margaret Laurence has gained her place among the world’s most respected and widely read authors. Herself the subject of a book-length study, her success, in the words of Globe and Mail critic William French, has been “unusual in that it has occurred at both the mass audience level and the level of literary artistry.”

From the Dust Jacket: In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets a fire to the rest of their lives.

Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos, and eventually to the landscape of south central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past.

Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakeable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje’s most intimate and beautiful novel to date.

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About the Author: Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and eleven books of poetry. The English Patient received the Booker Prize; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, The Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje came to Canada in 1962. He lives in Toronto.

From the Publisher: In the tradition of Flannery O’Connor, Richard Lyons gives us the stunning tale of Henry Starr, a young man in search of his real mother. Told through the eyes of his younger cousin, Annie, it is also the story of generation and family.

While growing up, with a father who could never “make it” and the woman he believed to be his mother, young Henry lives the restricted yet secure life of a small-town boy. When he learns that his real mother—not the woman from whom he received love and comfort—is somewhere else, young Henry commits what is perhaps an unforgivable act, and flees.

Annie, young and impressionable, is mystified and fascinated by Henry’s journey. Through correspondence from him, she learns of his life, his travels, his encounters, and the quest to which he devotes his life: searching for his blood mother.

Annie’s fascination develops into affection, perhaps even love, for Henry. Her own life is limited. Perhaps it is the fact of Henry’s adventures, the traumatic nature of his quest, that contributes to the humming vacancy of her own life. Perhaps it is something more.

Doctor Thorne is the third novel in the “Barsetshire” series. Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to a vastly mortgaged estate; yet Frank is obliged to find a wealthy wife, jeopardizing Mary’s happiness until fate extends an obliging hand. Where fiery passion fails, understated English virtues of patience, persistence and good humor could yet prevail in this most appealing of Trollope’s comedies.

From the Dust Jacket: Here, in a novel that combines the power and scope of Erich Segal’s most recent bestseller, The Class, with the passion of his celebrated first work, Love Story is the deeply felt and moving story of the making of doctors—what makes them tick. And scheme. And hurt. And love.

The members of the Harvard Medical School class of 1962: With a single exception, they are white. And with five exceptions, male. Some are brilliant, bordering on genius. In others, genius is tinged with madness. One has played a cello concerto at Carnegie Hall, another a year of professional baseball. And all of them are scared to death ... with good reason. For the calling they have chosen will break some of them, while it will force others to confront their most closely held secrets, dreams and fears.

From the crucible of medical school’s merciless training, through the demanding hours of internship and residency, to the loves, triumphs, testings—and for some, tragedies—beyond, Doctors brings to compelling life men and women who seek to heal but who first must walk through fire:

Barney—He watched, helpless, as a physician turned his back on his dying father. At that moment, Barney vowed to become a different kind of doctor. Compassion and insight will lead him to psychiatry, and to the shattering knowledge that some of those who most desperately need healing in mind and spirit are his fellow doctors.

Laura—Her father, himself an accomplished doctor, fled the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, only to have his medical skills refused recognition in his new country. Laura will follow her father’s dream to Harvard Med, only to discover that for a woman in a man’s profession—especially the exclusive world of high-tech medical research—a dream can quickly turn to nightmare.

Bennett—A lone black among whites, he is handsome, charismatic, but always secretive, always wary The tumultuous events of the sixties and seventies will force him to confront his identity. But his greatest challenge will come, from a single impulsive act that threatens to end his career as a talented surgeon at the very moment he has proven just how brilliant that career might be.

Seth—Studious and shy, sensitive beyond measure to suffering, he knows firsthand the numbing effect of tragic illness on a family, for it is, indeed, the accident that robbed his own brother of meaningful life that forges in Seth his will to heal. Yet, he will find himself facing the hardest choice: to use his skills to preserve life—or to end it.

They are the doctors.

Unforgettably, at the heart of Doctors is the story of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood neighbors who share a rare friendship though their paths diverge—Barney to an unsought and unsettling celebrity; Laura, beautiful, brilliant but ever uncertain of herself, to the arms of the wrong man. Their friendship will ripen into passion. But ultimately, even their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others.

Woven from the lives of memorably realized characters, Doctors—dramatic and funny, heartbreaking and inspiring and utterly, grippingly real—is a vibrant portrait of a profession that culminates in a murder, a trial. And a miracle.

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About the Author: Erich Segal’s first three novels, Love Story, Oliver’s Story and Man, Woman and Child, were all international bestsellers and became major motion pictures. Erich Segal’s fourth novel, The Class, which traced the lives of five members of a fictional Harvard class through twenty-five tumultuous years till their reunion, was a New York Times bestseller and won literary prizes in both France and Italy. He has also published widely in Greek and Latin literature—subjects he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. He is married and has one daughter.

From the Back Cover (Tor Paperback Edition): Archaeologist Julius Gabriel has devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that ends abruptly on December 21, 2012. Many believe this foretells the end of the world. Julius is convinced it’s one of many pieces to a puzzle that could lead to the salvation of our species. He has passed on his knowledge to the only person who ever believed his theories―his son Mick.
It is now the fall of 2012 and Mick is still haunted by his father’s predictions. He’s been committed to a Miami asylum for paranoid schizophrenia, and the dawn of his most feared prophecies is upon him. When inquisitive psychologist Dominique Vazquez joins the team at the South Florida Treatment Center, Mick finds a new listener for his warnings of the coming Apocalypse. What Dominique doesn’t realize is that she is his last hope of saving humanity.
For the fall equinox is looming, and with it will come a rare galactic alignment with the potential to change life as we know it.
It is the beginning of the end...

And then there were two... Thirtysomething Barry Trinsic never expected to be raising a two-year-old on his own. And happy, quirky Meghan certainly didn’t expect to be growing up in America instead of China. Nine months after the tragic (and mysterious) loss of his wife, Barry begins to rebuild his love life. Of course, his little “ladybug” has her own ideas about whom he should date. Uplifting and rowdy, Don’t Kiss With Your Mouth Full: A Ladybug Raises Her Daddy is a warm, funny novel about single parenting, international adoption, and the perils of romantic fraternization between Generation X and Millennials.

From the Dust Jacket: Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in her head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life.

Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his father’s second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max—adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are second-class.”

At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents—with whom Max’s biological mother left the child, with the cryptic exhortation “don’t let my baby do rodeo”—Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.

Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents--the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.

Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.

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About the Author: Boris Fishman was born in Belarus and has lived in the United States since the age of nine. He is the author of the novel A Replacement Life, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and won the Sophie Brody Medal from the American Library Association and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, and other publications. He lives in New York City.

This work of fiction is loosely based upon many experiences in the author’s life. The story focuses on the incredible highs and lows of living and growing up as a ward of the state. The two main characters are followed from childhood, through their youth, marriages, children, and triumphs. They suffer sexual abuse, neglect, and instability. The purpose, for writing this book is my desire to expose secrets that are held in families, and to share how to cope with exploitation. In away, this is a how to book; in that, the characters are forced to rise up and overcome the bullies, in their lives.

Emily’s life becomes chaotic when she meets the twin she never knew she had. As a psychiatrist, she was used to analyzing other people and their lives, but now she is forced to take a long, hard look at her own. In this unique and intriguing story, two women struggle as they sort out their own lives and figure out how they fit into each others’.

From the Dust Jacket: In 1926, Rebecca and Linda Carey arrive at a progressive orphanage outside of Philadelphia. They’re identical twins, ten years old, copper skinned and beautiful, with perfectly matched faces and manners that doom them to a mischief of switched identities. Drayton Orphanage is a wealthy campus of fairy-tale stone cottages and modern education, but these girls are unimpressed. They want to get as far away “as a dollar will send a post card.” Implacably sharp-tongued, confident and aloof, they enthrall everyone at the orphanage but bridle under the attention, drawn only to each other.

While their guardians wage war with their own divided personalities, Becca and Linny battle for control of their twinned life. Locked in a paired world, they can’t help themselves from switching names and clothes and tricking their teachers, house mothers, and peers. But when their black grandmother turns up unexpectedly, one twin imagines herself colored, the other white, and a painful rift grows between the two who had often before not known which one was which. When the apostate Freudian Otto Rank comes to Philadelphia and becomes interested in the twins, he and his prodigy (and lover) Anais Nin, see what no one else does—that the twins are becoming dangerous to each other: “We must all recognize the double who stalks us. Guilt is shifted to the shoulders of the double. Fear, too. In the end there may be paranoia, extreme mistrust. And if the other haunts relentlessly it must of course, in the end, be destroyed.”

Far from blind to the threat they hold for each other, the twins live in a nightmare of broken mirrors. As they come of age, they choose to separate from each other as well as the stifling world of the Orphanage. But, when at age seventeen they finally do escape, one to China, the other to California, their lives, still parallel, turn horrific—their shared willfulness and naïveté lead them to similar straits. Together and apart, each is caught in a struggle to survive the fate of the double.

Double Stitch is a gripping, psychological novel set in the currents of an era rich in philosophies of education, child development, feminism and psychology. At the heart of this compelling drama of identity are the unforgettable Becca and Linny, who bring life to the mystery and myth of the double.

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About the Author: John Rolfe Gardiner is the author of four previous novels and two story collections. A winner of a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, his stories have appeared in The New Yorker and many other magazines, as well as the O’Henry Proize Stories and Best American Short Story anthologies. He lives in Union, Virginia, with his wife, Joan.