TJ Klune turns Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio on its ear with In the Lives of Puppets, making his protagonist, Victor Lawson, a real boy, and Gio, who raised him, a thinking, sentient robot.
Victor was entrusted as a baby to Gio by parents on the run from robots seeking to wipe out the human race. Gio built his home high in the Oregon treetops: "There was safety among the trees and away from the harsh, blinding lights and cacophony of the city he'd left behind." But what exactly did Gio leave behind? Vic, now 21, and Gio tinker with robotics, and Vic has salvaged from the junkyard two friends: Rambo, a sentient vacuum cleaner, and Nurse Ratched, a robot as prickly as her Cuckoo's Nest namesake. When Vic brings home an invention from Gio's past, Vic unleashes chaos in their protected world, leading him on a quest to save Gio. This fable for adults will cause readers to consider what it is to be human and how to hold onto those qualities as the culture becomes more virtual.
A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a hilarious, observant, and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham,...
It's time to twirl and slurp bowls of pasta, ramen, spaetzle, lo mein, and more with 125 recipes for noodles from around the world, from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street.
In Milk Street Noodles, the Milk...
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River--an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous...
A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares.
"Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great Depression.
Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America,...
The bestselling poet and author of the "powerful" (People) and "luminous" (Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age.
"Life, like a poem,...
For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can transform our understanding of literature and vice versa, by the first woman to hold England's oldest mathematical chair.
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"A dangerous and sultry novel about lies, secrets, and the line between love and obsession. So Close drew me in and kept me reading, desperate to know what happened next." --Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author ofMy Lovely Wife
A passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of #MeToo, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and...
Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the launch of an inventive, hilarious, and suspenseful new contemporary fantasy trilogy inspired by African American history and...
In the followup to Cara Black’s Three Hours in Paris, American markswoman Kate Rees returns to take the shot that just might win--or lose--World War II....
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lore comes a stunning new Arthurian fantasy--the tale of a teenage girl who seeks her destiny in the cursed ruins of Avalon, driven by love, revenge, and pure adrenaline! ...
