Simon & Schuster

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War

Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. 

I have found that every novel I write has themes of love, forgiveness, family, classism, colorism, racism and motherhood threaded throughout. These universal themes work in every time period and it was quite easy for me to weave through the hardship that the characters face while always offering a glimpse of light and hope.

Like many academics, a research rabbit hole is my happy place! But surprisingly, I found very little existing scholarship on Renaissance tarot. When that happens, as a researcher, you start to look at topics that might intersect or surround the lacuna so you can set the scene. 

A tale of inherited trauma, but also inherited hope, told in the matrilineal voices of generations of Chinese women.

Reyna Grande is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. Her newest novel A Ballad of Love and Glory, is a sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight, for their survival and their love, in the midst of the Mexican-American War.

Ethan Joella teaches English and psychology at the University of Delaware and specializes in community writing workshops. His work has appeared in River Teeth, The Cimarron Review, The MacGuffin, Delaware Beach Life , and Third Wednesday. He lives in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with his wife and two daughters. A Little Hope is his first novel.

Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

Hailed by Library Journal as “one of the year’s best thrillers,” Falling is already receiving rave reviews. It has received three starred reviews, including one from Library Journal, and is a LibraryReads pick for July. Falling goes on sale today, July 6 ^th.