“The spare writing tells an eloquent story of one Ethiopian man’s experience of cruelty, displacement, and rejection, but also courage, kindness, love, and success.... Set against vicious conflicts across borders and within local streets, the moving prose and local idioms make universal connections." --Booklist

“This unconventional mystery will most satisfy those who enjoy intellectual puzzles like Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time.” —Publishers Weekly

"Duke used to say that the individual sound of a musician revealed his soul. Mick Carlon is a 'soul' storyteller."
--Nat Hentoff

“In schools where students are lucky enough to experience classroom jazz studies, this title, combining rich musical history and a “you are there” approach, is a natural.”
—Kirkus

“Sprightly, sanguine writing infuses these 13 tales of faulty love and fizzled connections with a compelling energy and likability. Connor catches the zeitgeist fearlessly and with verve.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Surreal miniaturist Helen Phillips’s debut collection is full of gems.” —Vanity Fair

“Brashly experimental." --Elle

“Helen Phillips uses the simplest objects to create suspense, the merest whisper of plot to make her readers care about these tiny planets.” —Los Angeles Times

"How do art and politics intersect?...Something to Say provides unprecedented access into pre-eminent minds working at the cutting edge in their careers and becomes something else entirely: a peek into future humanity." --Spectrum Culture

"This book is part of the fight of our time." --David Shapiro

"Honestly strange and strangely honest… Remarkably compelling and powerful. Weaver's authenticity of characters, situations, and by-gone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. This amazing novel is a stellar achievement--gritty, funny, fresh, and bold. It will make your eyes bug out and your pulse race.  And how it shines, shines with humanity!” --Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife

“A brave neuroscientist rushes in where angels fear to tread. A challenging yet accessible, charming and thoroughly enjoyable book – it provokes thoughts in a way that reminds one of the reasons for books to exist.” —Robert Sapolsky, author of Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers

“The effects of modernization and the battle between man and nature are the heavy themes Lovett tackles in this powerful first novel set in modern-day China…. A moving, compelling read about people fighting against both government and nature, which prove equally insurmountable and capricious.”
—Booklist starred review

Mussolini clones that won’t stay dead. The power to re-create others — forever. Memory and identity that are no longer unique. Trapped inside the cloning facility at a time when humans are undergoing their final death rattle on a prion-infected earth, Fausto struggles to recreate the world he once knew of family and friendship. Or did he ever know it?

Jem's father turns himself into a 9-foot orangutan, then leads Jem on the ultimate adventure: to find the last resting place of Leonardo da Vinci.

"A delightful book that readers will be unable to put down." -School Library Journal

"A lost man finds his calling, and an oceanographer with dimming eyesight illuminates the dark sea. An inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, courage, and love."

--Deborah Cramer, author of Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage and Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World.

“A rugged and tender tale. Bawdy humor, snappy dialogue, colorful sea myths and rich lobstering details add to the immense appeal of this textured narrative about a lobsterman’s inward and outward struggles.”

--Publishers Weekly

"In this darkly inventive work of fiction, Graziano deposits his protagonist among the despairing crowds of an institutional hell. [This] grim allegory interrogates human existence with its visceral, sensuous description."

--Publishers Weekly

"A delightful, passionate and memorable rendition of a familiar and glorious tale."

--Governor Mario M. Cuomo

"An impressive fiction debut... Malloy mixes history and fantasy with flair and delivers a wonderfully satisfying puzzler."

--Publishers Weekly

“In this marvelously original novel, Zlotsky has done for conjoined twins what Gunter Grass did for midgets in The Tin Drum…A weirdly hilarious Russian fairytale composed with the comedic zeal of Gogol and the rhetorical brilliance of Nabokov.”

—Lee Siegel, author of Love in a Dead Language