Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Colson Whitehead follows the events of his gripping Harlem Shuffle with Crook Manifesto, returning to Harlem in 1971, four years after Ray Carney's "criminal retirement." No more fencing for Carney. That is, until his daughter wants to see the Jackson 5 in concert, and Carney calls on an old police contact named Munson to help secure tickets: Munson gets on the line, "[a]nd like that, in the time WALK turns to DONT WALK, Carney was out of retirement."
Whitehead takes readers into the heart of bankrupt Manhattan with Carney as their guide: "You knew the city was going to hell if the Upper East Side was starting to look like crap, too," he thinks. The gallows humor mirrors the mood of New Yorkers who can't believe things could get worse, and then do. The taut prose echoes the tightrope Whitehead's characters walk in a desperate, crime-ridden, and tension-filled city, with only humor and Carney's sense of humanity to leaven the proceedings.
New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get away from her tabloid past but compulsively drawn back to the city of her youth and the prom date who destroyed everything...
Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the...
A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century.
Friends of baking, are you sick and tired of making the same recipes again and again? Then look no further...
#1 New York Times bestselling YA author Chloe Gong's adult epic fantasy debut, inspired by Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, is a fiery collision of power plays, spilled blood, and romance amidst a set of deadly games....
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself....
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost...
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement.
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she...
In a world where battle-hardened warriors determine the fate of empires, war-ravaged nations seek out a new champion in the first book of a thrilling science fantasy trilogy: "that rare book that fully satisfies me as an action fan" (Fonda Lee, author of Jade City).
Love isn't blind, it's just a little blurry.
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming... Literally! One minute she's celebrating the biggest achievement of her life--placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait...
The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from the Bayview Four's past resurfaces, history begins to repeat...
From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other....
Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí­ Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade readers about a reluctant...
