This very early look at Ellen Marie Wiseman's August 2020 novel is being made available ONLY to booksellers and librarians because we’re hoping you’ll share your thoughts with us by November 1st!

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In 1920s Paris, a young woman will lose everything… and finally discover what truly matters most.

Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model and engaged to Gérard de Sainte-Vierge – a handsome, if occasionally overbearing, aristocrat. With the Sainte-Vierge heirloom...

Hi-Lo. Helen White is out of her element. She moved with her mother from a white, middle-class neighborhood to a reservation to live with her mother's new boyfriend. Helen starts at the tribal high school, where she feels out of place and lonely. Then she meets King. Helen starts a twisted relationship with King, breaking the mold she's always known, and...

Hi-Lo. It is no secret that Anna's parents are going through a rough patch. When that rough patch turns positively volatile, Anna starts to wonder why her parents are staying together at all. Will their anger destroy everything Anna has ever known? Can Anna Allow herself to fall in love when she sees how it can turn so easily to hate?

Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s...

When Robert (or Kidder, as his best friend calls him) decides to impress at a job interview by making up a son, he discovers that maintaining the lie is far harder than he thought – so he invents a story that ‘Brodie’ has been kidnapped. After all, it’s not like they’re going to find the fake boy.

But a few weeks later, Kidder receives a call to collect...

“He didn’t know if she was alive or dead. Everything since her had been a mistake.”

Bruno never had the chance to realise his full self. Flora had made sure of that. He had barely been fifteen.

Broken, full of anxiety and thinking solitude is the answer, he heads for the remotest corner of the Earth that he can think of: the Amazon. But he’s not as alone as...

Anne McKenzie is missing.

Unfortunately for her, the only person who cares is Beck Sherwood, an alcoholic hipster she befriended after meeting him at a house party they were both a decade too old for.

Now she’s gone. Everyone else thinks that Anne is one of hundreds of girls fleeing lives they’re tired of living but Beck doesn't and decides to investigate the...

It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Bunny -an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer-fully unravels. Her breakdown lands her in the psych ward of a prestigious New York hospital, where she refuses all modes of recommended treatment...

In abuse situations, people can go to court for orders of protection. But in these twelve stories, people also seek protection from various demons in unusual ways — by impersonating famous musicians, cooking pet chickens, marching in parades, shooting at coyotes, calling lost dogs, and more. The characters don’t always find their way to safety or even...

Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of...

Chelsea is determined to make it to her brother’s wedding. And she’s not going to let the fact that she’s been dead for two years stop her.

Joining with her mime friend from a New York City park and her ghostly mentor with forty years of afterlife under her belt, the three women set out on foot for San Francisco. Along the way, they are faced with joy...

Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children...

Over the past decade as a homicide detective with the Austin police department, Ransom Kidder has always nailed the bad guy. All of them that is, except one: the Travis Heights Slasher, who killed three people and then vanished without a trace ten years ago.

Now, from out of the blue, he's back, and the bodies are piling up. There's no shortage of forensic...

Newly widowed Champs Noland hates Egret’s Pond, the retirement community he nicknamed Regret’s Pond.

Tired of empty condolences, “What to Expect When You’re Grieving” pamphlets, and casseroles delivered by do-gooding widows, he flees to his ramshackle summer cabin on the Sassafras River bringing the golden urn containing Pat’s ashes with him.

His plan?

To...

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

Catherine Morland longs to be as interesting as the gothic heroines she reads about in novels. When she is invited on her first trip away from home, she leaps at the chance. New friendships and flirting lead her to the imposing Northanger Abbey, where Catherine...

Get a sneak peek of Algonquin's Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 fiction titles with the Algonquin Reader. Enjoy original essays by Crissy Van Meter (author of Creatures), Gabriel Bump (author of Everywhere You Don't Belong), and Brock Clarke (author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?), as well as excerpts from their new novels. This issue also includes a hilarious...

Life on a llama farm, set in remote “Seneca County,” West Virginia, transitions from contented to chaotic in this final novel in the Hillwilla trilogy -- all under the watchful eye of canine guardian Ralph.

Five years after we first met northern urban transplant Beatrice Desmond, she is finally adapting to her mountain hollow among the wary “born-heres” and...

A captivating character-driven tale of good versus evil, love over hate, and dedication to a cause greater than yourself.

Return to White Catcliff is Inna Val Helm's debut novel presented by an unforgettable cast of characters. Fantasy and reality merge amid elements of anthropomorphism, eternal life, and dimensional existence

It tells the story of...

Ella should be grateful for everything she has in the year 2039.

She lives in a climate-protected colony that shelters her from a bruised world, and her superior bio genome shows she is aging at half speed. Nevertheless, all around her, evidence points to the unsettling fact that older citizens like her are disappearing. When the Longevity Institute...

Thirteen Stories is a collection of the most popular short stories and novellas written by author John Isaac Jones over the past 15 years. This volume covers a wide range of themes common to Jones’ work including birth, death, greed, loneliness, marital infidelity, sibling rivalry and unconditional love.

The stories:
*Going Home *Boone
*For Love of Daniel
...

Drawn from her own experience as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer weaves a rich tale set in 1992, Obuasi, a mining boomtown. The gold mine, West Africa Gold, dams the Gyimi River, stagnating the water source of Gyimiso Kakraba, a village of subsistence farmers who refuse to accept a modern world that has forsaken the art of human...

Sarah is used to the everyday nightmare that is her family. She is just trying to keep her head down and graduate high school.

However, her life changes unexpectedly when a person from her dreams appears. Levi brings with him secrets. Sarah is a fairy from another realm, and she is in danger. Now Sarah must dodge an evil fairy, navigate a new royal life...

In "Another World" I travel to the immeasurable corners of the universe to create an imaginary conclusion to Marion's story using my experience in Theology to create a different outlook from the ones often seen.

Marion dies and finds herself in another world. It is not exactly what she expected.

She seeks to find the answers to the eternal questions. Where...

Folklore, medicine, witches, and superstition in the Georgia mountains. Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. But the local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots...

Mairtin O Cadhain s irresistible and infamous novel "The Dirty Dust" is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published. Alan Titley s vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain s original, at last brings the pleasures of this great...

'Exhilarating ... an exquisite, painful book.' Lara Feigel, Guardian

A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan, from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud - a fellow architect - is caught in the crossfire and dies before she...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same...

At a river near his home in the Philippine countryside, respected doctor Manolo Lualhati encounters the unthinkable—a young woman with wings. After several incredible visits, he coaxes her to stay behind—to quit flying to the stars with her sisters each night—so they can marry. Tala agrees, but soon finds herself grounded in a new life where she must...