In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil--if they don't kill each other first. US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier--a "craftsman." After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persia

**Set in rural Iowa, this "breathtaking . . . remarkable achievement" of a debut novel by the author of *Pacific* is "at once funny, sad, and touching" (*New York Newsday*).** **A New York Magazine and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year** With extensive excerpts appearing in the *N

SUMMARY: Who can you trust when everything is secrets and lies? It's a new semester at the Chadwick School, and even with the ankh tattoos that brand them, Phoebe, Nick, Lauren, and Patch are hoping for a fresh start. Each day, however, they are reminded of their membership as new Conscripts in th

Fay is now Winter, but the immense power isn't making life easier as war breaks out between the Seasons and other factions on Gaia. As Fay, Sam, Tyler, and their friends face their final test, Fay must decide if his newfound abilities are worth the cost.

### From Publishers Weekly Scott Brick brings the perfect tone to Epperson's noir tale of mobsters, molls and murder in 1930s Los Angeles. Two Gun Danny Layton is literally a man without a past: an amnesic and reluctant gangster, he can't figure out how he came to work for psychotic crime boss Bud

Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, _The End of Vandalism,_ was serialized in _The New Yorker,_ was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by _USA Today,_ and was named a _Best Book of the Year_ in multiple publications. Now, appearing simultaneously with his fir

Poe's Red Death returns, more powerful than ever. Can anyone stop him before he summons an apocalyptic nightmare even worse than himself? In _The Left-Hand Way,_ the second book of Tom Doyle's contemporary fantasy series, the American craftsmen are scattered like bait overseas. What starts as an

In a futuristic world of constant surveillance, seventeen-year-old Mila is hunted by government agents. She has only one advantage: a seven second delay on her monitored video feed. In just seven seconds, she can fake one direction and take off in the next. As she runs, the government positions Mila

A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like _Minority Report_ and _The Matrix_ , the world's writers have been recording the future as it might exist--and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagine

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literaturePhilip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative pow

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative powe

"The big city has no lock on misery in these 16 portraits of dark doings in the Deep South." --**_Kirkus Reviews_** "Mississippi, as Franklin notes in his introduction, has the most corrupt government, the highest rate of various preventable ills, and the highest poverty rate in the country. In

It's 1911 and the townsfolk of Old Texas, Alabama, have had enough. Every Saturday night for a year, E.O. Smonk has been destroying property, killing livestock, seducing women, cheating and beating men, all from behind the twin barrels of his Winchester 45-70 caliber over-and-under rifle. Syphilitic

SUMMARY: Tom Franklin's extraordinary talent has been hailed by the leading lights of contemporary literature—Philip Roth, Richard Ford, Lee Smith, and Dennis Lehane. Reviewers have called his fiction "ingenious" (USA Today) and "compulsively readable" (Memphis Commercial Appeal). His narrative po

### From Publishers Weekly Wallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack's ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his c

### From Publishers Weekly Wallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a message for Jack's ears only in the debut of screenwriter and former TV producer Gabbay. Jack is floored by both his c