After accidentally killing his best friend's 5-year-old son while hunting, Landreaux Iron gives his own young son to his friend's family according to ancient tradition, a decision that helps both families reach a tenuous peace that is threatened by a vengeful adversary.

The debut novel by writer and rap artist Kate Tempest follows the experiences of two women who, after forging a deep connection, run away together when one is compelled to flee to London.

An agreement to lease mineral rights to frackers causes unexpected complications in the life of farmer Rich Devilin, his family members, and his neighbors throughout the fading coal mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.

After Stalin takes notice of his work and denounces his latest opera, Dmitri Shostakovich, fearing either exile or death, reflects on his predicament as he makes creative compromises to appease those in power.

In the 25th century, to pay for his crimes, Mycroft Canner is required to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets; Carlyle Foster is a spiritual counselor in a world that as outlawed religion; and a young boy named Bridger with the ability to make his wishes come may hold the key to destabilizing the chaotic form of utopia they all live in.

The author of Empire Falls returns readers to the setting of Nobody's Fool and finds his main character confronting a daunting health prognosis, which he hides from his loved ones, including his longtime mistress, an increasingly distant best friend and an obsessive chief of police.

After the death of his young daughter in a hit-and-run accident, Gil Ferko is introduced to heroin by former classmate Jen Yoder, who herself is haunted by a suicide she witnessed, while Gil's wife connects to a mysterious young girl, who may be a ghost.

When Margaret's fiancâe, John, is hospitalized for depression, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. What follows is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic, and the story of how, over the span of decades, his younger siblings-the responsible Celia and the tightly controlled Alec-struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled existence.

In an alternate London, which is divided after the end of a brutal civil war, a young orphan named Simon, who has the gift of retaining memories, joins a gang of scavengers that patrols the underbelly of the city looking for valuable metal to see and becomes engaged in an epic struggle for justice, love and freedom. 25,000 first printing. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Green-curled Gert only looks like a little girl — in fact, she's been trapped in Fairyland for 27 years, and she's had it with the candy-coated wonderland. Her solution? Kill everything.

Three young men and a woman journey together from India to England to build a better future while hiding painful secrets from the past and struggling with financial limitations and the punishing realities of immigrant life.