After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing. As a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate struggles and lost scholarship. Cat's solution: Drop out of...

"Welcome to Lockwood, proud home of The Fairway Players, who, under the creative control of Martin Hayward, the owner of the local country club, are putting on a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons." The star, as always: Martin's wife, Helen, the only person in the troupe with any real acting talent. But this is not a production like any other: just as rehearsals get under way, tragedy strikes: Poppy Reswick, Martin and Helen's beloved granddaughter,...

"Amos Abernathy lives for history. Literally. He's been a historical reenactor nearly all his life. But when a cute new volunteer arrives at his Living History Park, Amos finds himself wondering if there's something missing from history: someone like the two of them. Amos is sure there must have been LGBTQ+ people in nineteenth-century Illinois. His search turns up Albert D. J. Cashier, a Civil War soldier who might have identified as a trans man...

Las apariencias pueden engañar, y en un siglo en el que destacan, la joven María Ana De LaTour, noble de 22 años, lo aprenderá, ¡y a qué costo!. Su curiosidad la llevará a escribir a una reclusa de su misma edad que pondrá frente a una realidad que conoce de mucho tiempo atrás, pero que se niega a enfrentar. Cuando la nobleza conoce al tercer estado a finales del siglo XVII, pueden tener tanto que decirse que un detalle trastornar por completo...

Las cartas que madame de Sévigné escribió a la condesa de Grignan, su hija, han pasado a la historia por ser una cima absoluta de la literatura epistolar, aún más, de la literatura amorosa. En efecto, la marquesa de Sévigné, viuda de un vividor, vuelca en su hija recién casada un amor filial complejo y anhelante, hasta descubrir –alarmada, por más que Sévigné no sea ninguna beata– que la ama más que a Dios. Figura destacada en la brillante...

Daybook in Sheep Meadow finds Peter Dimock returning to the breakdown of America's imperialist history that he started exploring in his groundbreaking previous novel, George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time. In Daybook, Dimock expands on what it means to refute the narrative of American greatness – and what happens once one starts on that path. Historian Tallis Martinson has grappled for years with the atrocities of the American...

Why us? Why Me? Why wait until he was dead? MAR RESTON Joshua Amaranth devoted his life to teaching others. When he learns he has months to live, he gathers the experiences and wisdom of his life into a set of final lessons for a special group of former students. Called into his posthumous classroom are Sabrina Dey, Drew Sage, Mar Reston, Cassandra Worthing, and James Fraction - known affectionately as The Fossil Five. Intended as a distress beacon...

Prudence Honeysett is a wealthy, aging widow who's also quite done with the world. A hopeless curmudgeon, she withdraws from Victorian society by purchasing an old priory reputed to be haunted, convinced that her desire for peace and quiet would be perfectly met regardless. Fortune, however, has different plans for her, her hapless servants, and her trio of monstrous cats. The sudden appearance of a heartbroken nephew at her doorstep stirs the ghostly...

Funestes missives est un recueil de lettres destinées à différents protagonistes par une mère qui s'interroge et réfléchit face à la violence exacerbée de son enfant. Elle se pose plusieurs questions sur les raisons de cet état de fait et sur sa responsabilité. Elle examine son entourage, les institutions et tente de trouver une explication à ces évènements fâcheux. En définitive, c'est une mère qui fait son mea culpa face à son bourreau. A...

Woven into his odd, chatty Yelp reviews of restaurants, stores and services, 22-year-old Aspie Marcus Katz chronicles in vivid detail how, after the death of his doting mother, he is railroaded by the Los Angeles probate court into an abusive conservatorship. When his bullying conservator tries to warehouse him in a run-down, dead-end group home, intending to drain his inheritance, Marcus runs away to Oregon, pursued by his conservator, on a risky,...