"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--

"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...

The army doctor never dreamed he'd come back from leave to bury his wife. Devastating revelations make Dr. Mike Scanlon wonder if his wife was murdered, and to make matters worse, Mike's daughter doesn't recognize him. Despair leads to a series of life-changing decisions when Mike returns to Afghanistan. His final trip home strengthens a resolve to move forward with his daughter even as disturbing truths emerge. 384pp., 300K, Auth res: PA, Tour

Publisher Annotation: In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

From the author of the international bestseller "Year of Wonders" comes a powerful love story set against the catastrophe of the Civil War. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic "Little Women," Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, and added adult resonance to portray the moral complexity of war and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealism.

"A woman looks back at the events that shaped her life, especially the scandals and family secrets that stand in the way of her making peace with her past"--

A chairlift accident ended it all. When 17-year-old competitive skier and Olympic hopeful Lily Thomas is paralyzed by a freak chairlift accident, her wealthy father watches his daughter's hopes and dreams vanish with her old bright spirit. Lily finds more than hope in young Teddy, a man whose injury puts her own paralysis in perspective and offers everyone a chance at a future filled with no more tears. 352pp., 400K, Auth res: San Francisco, CA

Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....

"A little girl convinces her dad to be a tree all day long, no matter what, even in the rain, in this imaginative picture book that encourages playing pretend and pays tribute to parents"--

Motherless, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip, and is told that the word means "slave girl." Learning that words relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded, Esme begins...