Priscilla Oliveras is a Kensington Zebra Shout author and four-time Golden Heart® finalist who writes contemporary romance with a Latino flavor. Proud of her Puerto Rican-Mexican heritage, she strives to bring authenticity to her novels by sharing her Latino-American culture with her readers. Since earning an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, she also teaches an on-line continuing education course titled “Romance Writing” for ed2go. Priscilla is a sports fan, a beach lover, a half-marathon runner and a consummate traveler who often practices the art of napping in her backyard hammock. To follow along on her fun-filled and hectic life, visit her on the web at prisoliveras.com or on Twitter via @prisoliveras.

Priscilla Oliveras

Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance. He has served as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top teams in the NBA. He is also the co-host of two podcasts: The Growth Equation podcast, with Brad Stulberg, and On Coaching with Magness and Marcus, with Jon Marcus, and he has served as a consultant and invited speaker on the topic of performance at conferences and companies around the world, including for NASA, Houston Rockets, Brooklyn Nets, Cleveland Indians, Turn It In, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, and numerous others.

Steve Magness

Kathryn “Kate” Judge is a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on financial markets, financial regulation, and regulatory architecture. A frequent conference speaker, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Vox, and she has been a guest on NPR’s Marketplace. A graduate of Stanford Law School, Judge clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court. She also worked as a corporate associate with Latham & Watkins LLP.

DIRECT: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source

Kathryn Judge

Mallory Weggemann is a record-setting, two-time Paralympic swimmer for Team USA. She has set fifteen world records and thirty-four American records, and is also the recipient of an ESPY Award, a 15-time World Champion, and a Paralympic gold and bronze medalist. Weggemann has also served as a commentator on NBC for the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, the first female reporter in a wheelchair ever to serve in that capacity. Weggemann has established herself as a leader outside of the pool, as well; she is an inclusion advocate serving on the Advisory Board of Disability for Delta Air Lines as well as a cofounder and co-CEO of TFA Group, a social impact agency and production studio. A highly sought-after motivational speaker, Weggemann has presented at numerous Fortune 500 companies, including Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Comcast, PepsiCo, Northwestern Mutual, Aetna, Accenture, and Delta Air Lines.

“Limitless teaches us about the grit and tenacity it takes to keep coming back and harnessing the inner power to realize our own limitless potential.”—Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative

“Sharing her journey with authenticity and vulnerability, Mallory doesn’t just bring us into her heart—she empowers us to reflect on our own journey, finding the power that exists when we honor our truth. At its core, Limitless is a reminder to all of us of the strength of the human spirit to overcome circumstance.”—Frank Marshall, Five-time academy award-nominated filmmaker and member of the US Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame

“Mallory is a hero and an inspiration in every sense of the word. Her story is written with such truth and authenticity, it will have you crying, laughing, and learning all at the same time. In these pages, she shares the true power of showing all those around you, including yourself, grace and forgiveness. Mallory’s story, heart, passion, and faith will leave you feeling like you, too, can change the world.”—Missy Franklin Johnson, Five-time Olympic Gold Medalist and Author of Relentless Spirit

“Mallory has embodied the true sense of overcoming any obstacle that presents itself. Whether physical or mental, Limitless teaches us all that choosing hope over fear will conquer anything. Such a great reminder for anyone at any age . . . it is our responses not our circumstances that ultimately define us in the end. This universal message is a must-read for the world today.”—Christine Farrell, CEO, Washington Speakers Bureau

“It’s said, the measure of a person is not whether they fall but how they get back up and continue forward. In Limitless, Mallory shares her story of how she refused to allow circumstance to define her, but rather utilized it to redefine limitations and pave her own path forward. I have been fortunate to hear Mallory speak to many groups within Delta, and I am thrilled many more people will come to know her inspirational story. Now, more than ever, we need Mallory’s message of hope and determination in overcoming adversity. Limitless will not only inspire you but empower you to find your own inherent strength within.”—Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Air Lines

“Limitless is a beautiful and powerful journey of the human spirit that teaches us good will always overcome and our limits in life should only come from within ourselves.”—Kyle Carpenter, USMC Medal of Honor Recipient and National Bestselling Author of You Are Worth It

LIMITLESS

Mallory Weggemann

John Richard Saylor is a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, where he has published more than sixty articles in scientific journals. His writing has appeared in Discover magazine. He obtained his doctorate at Yale University, his master's degree at the University of Minnesota, and his bachelor's degree at the State University of New York, Buffalo, all in mechanical engineering.

John Richard Saylor

Devi S. Laskar’s novel Circa is the Goop Book Club pick for June 2022.

CIRCA is the Goop Book Club Pick for June 2022!

RAZZMATAZZ reaches #14 on the New York Times best seller list!

RAZZMATAZZ is on the New York Times Best Seller List!

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS is #3 on the New York Times Best Seller List!

THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS Hits #3 on the New York Times Best Seller List!

New York Times recommends THE LAST RESORT as a summer read!

THE LAST RESORT is Suggested By the New York Times as a Summer Read!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MAY ’22! • “Delightful . . . [a] captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean to the real women whose work on the Oxford English Dictionary went largely unheralded.”—The New York Times Book Review

Reese Witherspoon Book Club ​Pick for May 2022

TANQUERY Hits #1  on the Amazon Bestseller List two months before publication!

TANQUERY Hits #1  on the Amazon Bestseller List!

BookRiot has named Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing and Jessica Lahey and KJ Dell’Antonia’s #AmWriting to its 10 Best Writing Podcasts for Storytellers and Aspiring Writers. Read more about the podcasts here.

BookRiot Selects 10 Best Writing Podcasts

HOLD ME TIGHT: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

THE CHICKEN SISTERS

GREENLIGHTS

THE TRUTH AS TOLD BY MASON BUTTLE

GIFT OF FAILURE: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, THE

MOLLY'S GAME: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker

The Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator uses her extraordinary story to equip others to meet whatever challenges they face in life.

On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory Weggemann paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years later, Mallory had broken eight world records, and by the 2012 Paralympic Games, she held fifteen world records and thirty-four American records. Two years later a devastating fall severely damaged her left arm, yet Mallory refused to give up. After two reconstructive surgeries and extended rehab, she won two golds and a silver at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships. And perhaps most significantly, she found confidence, independence, and persevering love as she walked down the aisle on her wedding day.

Mallory's extraordinary resilience and uncompromising commitment to excellence are rooted in her resolve, perseverance, and sheer grit. In this remarkable new book, Mallory shares the lessons she learned by pushing past every obstacle, expectation, and limitation that stood in her way, including the need to:

remember that healing is not chronological;

Mallory's story reminds us that whatever circumstances we face, we have the capacity to face down whatever challenges, labels, or difficulties confront us--and to do so on our own terms.

YOUR BODY IN BALANCE: The New Science of Food, Hormones, and Health

MOTHER MAY I

Tanqueray

THE 5TH WAVE

TRUTH’S TABLE: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation

WEST SIDE LOVE STORY

THE PRACTICE OF GROUNDEDNESS: A Transformative Path to Success that Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul

SOPPY

RISE OF THE ROCKET GIRLS: The Women Who Propelled Us from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

THE ADDRESS BOOK: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

AMINA'S VOICE

HUMANS OF NEW YORK

A Fatal Lie

A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother--and the many ways that life can surprise us

In every woman there are many stories . . .

Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can Rose find it in herself to become a mother? Rose is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage.

But then, Rose has a fight with Luke about the vitamins--again. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does Rose's future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining plays out again and again in each of Rose's nine lives, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new? Rose Napolitano's experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means, literally, to reinvent a life and, sometimes, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined.

A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.

Praise for THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO 

“Freitas’s prose is engaging and precise, and her what-if format proves ideal for elegantly unpacking the tensions of the plot. She balances tightly written scenes of confrontation with Rose’s poignant reflections on how much she can compromise without losing herself completely. This isn’t one to miss."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Fans of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life (2013), Liane Moriarty’s What Alice Forgot (2011), and the film Sliding Doors will find themselves happily lost in this charming, heartfelt, thought-provoking novel.”—Booklist, Starred Review

“Reminiscent of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life or the movie Sliding Doors, Freitas’ novel explores nine (but certainly not all) possible outcomes when a woman who has never wanted children marries a man who gradually decides he does….Following the maze of numbered takes becomes an addictive game, highly literate escapism, like watching The Queen’s Gambit….Highly readable and provocative.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Freitas debuts an extraordinary, multi-faceted novel for adults...this is no ordinary story of a young couple moving on to the next stage of familyhood; instead we get a glimpse into all the different lives Rose could have. Nine different lives, some more fully realized than others. Starting one morning in 2006, Rose and Luke fight over the prenatal vitamins, and the outcome of that fight changes depending on the life Rose chooses, from having a baby or not, to affairs or not, to the breakup of the marriage or not, until it ends in 2025. Verdict: This is a serious yet fantastical look at relationships, family, and feminism told in a unique voice, and book groups should take note...Don’t miss it."—Library Journal, Starred Review

“In a powerful exploration of motherhood and feminism, Donna Freitas probes the ties that bind us all to one another through love, through obligation and through choice. At once thought-provoking and emotionally moving, this novel will have readers examining their own relationships and their own ‘what-ifs.’”—Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words

“Ambitious, compelling, and provocative, THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO delves deep into love, motherhood, and the complicated dance that is navigating the world as a woman—its intricate structure kept me turning pages and the questions posed therein kept me awake at night.”—Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

“Donna Freitas brilliantly unfurls from every angle one of the most urgent questions of a woman’s life, motherhood, creating a dazzling kaleidoscope of love, pain and possibility. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is a page-turner, a novel that is impossible to put down.”—Martha McPhee, National Book Award finalist and author of An Elegant Woman 

"A structurally ambitious, deeply thoughtful and even-handed consideration of many of the most complex decisions women make about their families and futures—not to mention a generally wise meditation on the control we all do and don't have over our fates."—Linda Holmes, host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour and New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over

“In this unflinching exploration of motherhood, Donna Freitas delivers a self-assured novel that questions if female agency is realistic in a world that expects conformity. In captivating Sliding Doors style, we’re offered an intimate glimpse into the nine different lives of one woman as she struggles to define womanhood. Riveting, astute and brazenly honest, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano has left an indelible mark–I won't soon forget it.”—Karma Brown, bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“Sometimes the right book finds you at the perfect time, and that's exactly what happened in the case of The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano. I read this novel in one greedy gulp. It brilliantly turns the prism on what it means to be a woman: More than the sum of our joys and pains, we are also etched with the roads not taken and opportunities lost. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is a trenchant portrait of womanhood, and everything I look for in a novel: intimate, thought-provoking, and terribly moving.”—Lauren Mechling, author of How Could She

"This book is so good.  I spent a day completely ignoring my family while I finished it.  The only downside was I cried at the playground. But, really, who hasn't?"—Emily Oster, New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet 

“Donna Freitas writes about the mysteries surrounding motherhood and the choice to remain childless with disarming directness and feeling. This is a thought-provoking, absorbing book.”—Rene Steinke, author of Friendswood

“Nine choices, nine fates, one woman. Donna Freitas takes a woman’s most intimate decision and casts a refracting light on the pressures, regrets, and joys that can accompany it. With crystalline prose that crackles with wit and emotional intensity, she reveals how a woman’s effort to be true to her own choices can be a struggle that requires not only everything she has, but everything she might become. Starkly honest, absorbing, and wholly original.”—Judy Blundell, bestselling author of The High Season and What I Saw and How I Lied

THE NINE LIVES OF ROSE NAPOLITANO

MARLEY & ME: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

RAZZMATAZZ

HUMANS

THE REDEMPTION OF BOBBY LOVE

MOMMY'S HOMETOWN, illustrated by Jaime Kim

DEEP WORK: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

POSTSECRET: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

SEINFELDIA: How a Show about Nothing Changed Everything

“It’s the epic love story of 2017 and the ending is one you’ll be feeling for months to come.”—Redbook

"An irresistible tale of love and second chances."—People 

“This moving story is a perfect understanding of the sacrifices we make for love and for our dreams.”—Real Simple

“Your new tearjerker has arrived: Fans of Me Before You and One Day will love/weep over this elegant novel.”—New York Post

“This read is One Day meets Me Before You meets your weekender bag.”—The Skimm 

“Have your tissues ready...This book will sink its hooks into your heart on page one, and leave you scarred long after you're done.”—Bustle

“Enchanted and compelled me.”—Delia Ephron, author of Siracusa

“A wonderful and heartbreaking book....The kind of heartbreak that’s in The Way We Were, that you really love to cry over.”—NBC New York's Weekend Today


“Heart-wrenching yet beautiful.”—US Weekly


“A beautiful and devastating story that will captivate readers.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Comparisons will be made to David Nicholls’ One Day, but there is something more romantic here—yet also more grounded—that will draw readers in.”—Booklist

THE LIGHT WE LOST

Brilliant, biting stories set in not-so bucolic Vermont, land of antique stores, small towns, fading farms, and young women trying to figure out marriage, motherhood, sex and their own power.

Prepare Her tells the stories of young women at the brink of discovering their own power. The crossroads in their lives are not always the obvious kind--divorce, motherhood, coming of age--but sometimes much more private and dramatic. Kitty discovers that her ex-boyfriend has committed a murder; Renee navigates a friendship with Arla, a Jehovah's Witness; Emi realizes that her boyfriend is fetishizing her mental illness; Petra acts recklessly when faced with a client with a gun; and Rachel must grapple with the reality of raising a daughter in a world that she, herself, is still terrified of.

Tempered by its rural and often haunting Vermont setting, this book explores the complexities of gender and power imbalances in a way that transforms normal life into something mysterious, uncharted, and sometimes bewildering. Through this lens, we can see the many subtle, yet staggering injustices endured by the women at the center of these stories, as well as identify what, or who might be responsible.

"Each of these haunting, piercing short stories shares a common language of desire: the desire to feel seen, the desire to have more than what's being offered, the desire to break free from the bonds of conventional society. In her debut collection, Genevieve Plunkett depicts the lives of women as they are really lived—with conflict and chaos, love and tenderness, and no small amount of confusion about what is supposed to come next. Each story reflects a different facet of the human condition, some glittering, some blinding, all shining a light on how impossible it can seem to figure out what it means to be alive, but also how worthwhile a pursuit it really is."—Kristin Iversen, Refinery29

"[A] nuanced debut story collection . . . With bracing honesty, Plunkett’s richly drawn narratives bring emotional depth to the characters’ struggles and internal conflicts." —Booklist

"Plunkett’s striking debut puts a series of women’s interior lives in stark relief...Plunkett’s keen observations will pique readers, and the stories pay off with dividends."—Publishers Weekly

"Plunkett’s strength is in the patience and precision of her interior and exterior landscapes. Like horses, too, these stories are full of beauty and elegance but also inscrutability, with Plunkett content to braid scenes and images together and let the mystery of their relationships abide. Wistful tales rendered with delicate writing and powerful perception."—Kirkus Reviews

"Prepare Her is haunting, lush, unsettling—a brazen examination of shame, wild beauty, and the small and not-so-small cruelties we inflict upon ourselves and each other. Perfectly calibrated and teeming with style, these dark little masterpieces are full of grim brilliance. Plunkett is a rare and ferocious talent, and this is a stunning debut."—Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light

"Genevieve Plunkett's stories are elegant, original, and moving, with the lyrical brilliance and bite of Sylvia Plath. Her characters are painfully, magnetically human, and her prose is imaginative—an impressive tangle with the ideas of domesticity and womanhood, and a thrilling debut."—Megan Mayhew Bergman, author of Almost Famous Women and Birds of a Lesser Paradise

"The young women and girls in Prepare Her, Genevieve Plunkett's story collection, seem often to be peering at their lives as if through the wrong end of a telescope, deeply focused yet oddly distant from it. These are stories about intimacy and loneliness, and about desire, the desire these young women have to inhabit their bodies fully as sexual beings, to be seen one moment and not seen the next. Few writers capture sex as beautifully and self-consciously, as strangely and humorously, as Plunkett. Simply put, I loved these stories."—Lori Ostlund, author of After The Parade and The Bigness of the World

"Prepare Her, Genevieve Plunkett's debut story collection, is a book about finding the strength to embrace loneliness in order to search for one's squelched and buried self. Plunkett's characters do not always find the answers, but she portrays their struggle to break free from the oppressiveness of marriage and family and grief with such humor and tenderness, with such poetry, that we can believe again in the possibility of triumph over despair, of life over emptiness. This book beats with the heart of our times."—Anne Raeff, author of Winter Kept Us Warm, The Jungle Around Us, and Only the River

PREPARE HER

A WORLD WITHOUT EMAIL: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS, THE

If our family stories shape us, what happens when we learn those stories were never true?
Who do we become when we shed our illusions about the past?

Maya Shanbhag Lang grew up idolizing her brilliant mother, an accomplished physician who immigrated to the United States from India and completed her residency all while raising her children and keeping a traditional Indian home. Maya’s mother had al­ways been a source of support—until Maya became a mother herself. Then the parent who had once been so capable and attentive became suddenly and inexplicably unavailable. Struggling to understand this abrupt change while raising her own young child, Maya searches for answers and soon learns that her mother is living with Alzheimer’s.

Unable to remember or keep track of the stories she once told her daughter—stories about her life in India, why she immigrated, and her experience of motherhood—Maya’s mother divulges secrets about her past that force Maya to reexamine their relationship. It becomes clear that Maya never really knew her mother, despite their close bond. Absorb­ing, moving, and raw, What We Carry is a mem­oir about mothers and daughters, lies and truths, receiving and giving care, and how we cannot grow up until we fully understand the people who raised us. It is a beautiful examination of the weight we shoulder as women and an exploration of how to finally set our burdens down.

"A larger mediation on motherhood, daughterhood and feminism [...]. In exquisitely precise prose, Lang makes an argument that honesty is what’s truly empowering…we see a relationship between mother and daughter that feels new and tentative—because life changes so much every few years, bringing out unseen sides to each of them.”—New York Times Book Review

"Maya learns her brilliant physician mom has Alzheimer’s soon after she has a daughter herself. Caught between caring for her mother—consequently uncovering some family secrets—and her child, Maya writes in absolutely beautiful compelling prose about what it means to be a daughter—and a mother—today."—Zibby Owens, GoodMorningAmerica.com

"Part self-discovery, part family history...[Lang's] analysis of the shifting roles of mothers and daughters, particularly through the lens of immigration, help to challenge her family’s mythology...Readers interested in examining their own family stories...will connect deeply with Lang’s beautiful memoir."—Library Journal (Starred Review)

“A stirring memoir exploring the fraught relationships between mothers and daughters…astutely written and intense…will strike a chord with readers.”—Publishers Weekly

"An exquisite exploration of love--its boundlessness and its limitations--between a mother and daughter that makes us examine the unknowability of who we are and the strength of our bonds with those who shape us. This story is so elegantly told, and with such rawness and compassion. I fell madly in love with Maya and her complicated, indelible mother and could not put this book down."—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"A dazzling, courageous memoir about the weight we carry as women, daughters, and mothers — and what happens when we let go. Lang takes us deep into the heart of relationship with her mother, a brilliant psychiatrist and Indian immigrant with long-buried secrets. After a health crisis brings mother and daughter under the same roof for the first time since childhood, Lang grapples with new information about the parent she'd idolized, and realizes it's time to tell the story of her own life. What We Carry is a love letter to everyone who has swum through turbulent water before reaching the shores of selfhood."—Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

“What We Carry is a wise, tender, and unswervingly honest memoir that reads like a mystery. With emotional precision and detective-like clarity, Maya Shanbhag Lang investigates the many ways in which we all participate in the often-painful mythology of a family. As thrillingly, Lang’s ultimate revelation is a hopeful one, reminding us that we are stronger than we think.”—Christopher Castellani, author of the New York Times bestseller Leading Men

“Maya Shanbhag Lang thought she knew her capable physician-mother and her story. But when Alzheimer’s hit early, Lang found herself adrift in a sea of unwelcome truths and ambiguous loss. In this searingly honest, beautifully written memoir, Lang chronicles her journey as she revises her illusions of the past and becomes a larger-hearted, more accepting, and generous version of herself. Anyone who has ever struggled with a fraught mother-daughter relationship will enjoy this book. Those who face the ordeal of caregiving, with all its love, loss, and unexpected gifts, will be inspired. My heart opened reading this extraordinary memoir.”—Katy Butler, author of the New York Timesbestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door and The Art of Dying Well

“What We Carry is a profoundly moving memoir about secrets, trauma, and what happens when, for reasons beyond anyone’s control, we can no longer get what we need from those we love, or give them the things they most want from us. In exquisite prose, Maya Shanbhag Lang writes about her extraordinary mother and the cruel circumstances that complicate their relationship. At its heart, this is a book about one of the greatest gifts any parent can give a child: the power to save yourself.”—Will Schwalbe, author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living

 “In What We Carry, Maya Shanbhag Lang has created a gorgeous memoir about mothers, daughters, and the tenacity of the love that grows between what is said and what is left unspoken.”—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk

"How do we really know the ones we love? Lang thought she knew her Indian immigrant mother through her stories, but when her mother began to suffer with Alzheimer’s, profound truths and unsettling secrets began to emerge. But what is so remarkable about Lang’s book is that rather than losing her mother to a memory disease, she was given an opportunity to come to terms with the exquisite ties that bind mother and daughter together. Truly, a gorgeous memoir."—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow and Cruel Beautiful World

WHAT WE CARRY

Monster is now a major motion picture starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky.

Named one of The 100 Best YA Books of All Time by TIME Magazine

New York Times bestseller, 2000 Coretta Scott King Honor Book, 2000 Michael L. Printz Award, 1999 National Book Award Finalist, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), Hornbook Fanfare 2000, 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers)

This bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial.

Presented as a screenplay of Steve's own imagination, and peppered with journal entries, the book shows how one single decision can change our whole lives.

Monster is a multi-award-winning, provocative coming-of-age story that was the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award recipient, an ALA Best Book, a Coretta Scott King Honor selection, and a National Book Award finalist.

MONSTER

MONARCA

THE INFINITE NOISE

ULTRALEARNING: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

This Washington Post "Best Book of the Year" grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace, and a sister, a wife, and a mother to daughters in today's America.

When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer―Here―is never enough.

Mother's simmering anger breaks through one morning, when, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home.

Drawing inspiration from the author's own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar's debut novel explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been.