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Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job—or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter Debbie is getting married, and she hasn’t even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail’s ex-husband Max arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay and without even a suit. But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband-to-be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max’s past. Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers.

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. “Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,” they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet’s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves. Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, Memory Piece is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.

It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light

Emilia Ward, la escritora de las exitosas novelas de misterio protagonizadas por la policía Miranda Moody, vive feliz en un barrio acomodado de Londres con su marido y sus dos hijos, una adolescente de su primer matrimonio y un niño pequeño del segundo. Pero cuando Emilia está ultimando los detalles de su última novela, la vida da un giro inquietante: un incidente sacado directamente de la trama de uno de sus libros ocurre en la vida real. Una coincidencia inquietante, tal vez. Hasta que suceda una vez, y otra más. Y, a continuación, alguien es asesinado siguiendo el mismo modus operandi que ella ha descrito en el manuscrito que está escribiendo, pero hay un problema: sólo lo ha leído su editora y sus más allegados. ¿Qué mente retorcida se oculta tras los hechos? ¿Y si Emilia y su familia son los siguientes?

Una novela que mezcla la ciencia ficción con el humor. James Bolívar era el ladrón, granuja y pillo más grande de toda la Galaxia. Hasta que un día fue arrestado por la policía interestelar, la cual, finalmente lo obligó a ingresar en sus filas para llevar a cabo una singular empresa, a fin de limpiar la Galaxia de tipos como él. Pero al final, y cuando dejó de ser policía, se dedicó a una cacería: la de la mujer a la que adoraba. Angelina había construido una nave espacial bélica y junto con James iban a conquistar el mundo... ¡La Galaxia en peso se estremeció ante aquella idea!