A collection of stories is set in the Pacific Northwest and explores themes of love and the human drive to connect with others.

Still recovering from the terrorist attack that nearly killed his family, Jad Bell must stop an even bigger attack being planned by the Uzbek and his employer, the Architect.

A dazzling, often hilarious collection of stories that make the familiar seem bizarre and the incredible completely normal. Readers will see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a delusional playboy, a tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his patients than to other people, a mad professor, a former pizza-delivery boy convinced he's witnessed magic - all struggling to justify the choices they've made.

It's spring 1992. Jevrem Andric is eleven years old, and brutal civil war is erupting in Sarajevo. Five years later, what's left of his family has immigrated to Toronto, where spring feels like mid-winter, his grandmother is broken and ill, and sixteen-year-old Jevrem is on a rampage, drinking, doing drugs and breaking into houses with his small gang of Yugoslav friends. When his grandmother dies, he faces a moral reckoning that compels him to try...

On the remote Hong Kong beach where they are camping, bickering parents and their only teenager daughter awaken at sunrise to a strange sight: a dozen women suddenly on the shore. They seem to have washed in from the sea. Told in the voice of a bi-racial, "half-half" girl and the language of social media, "Planet Lolita" is a riveting novel of desires and consequences in our unfolding digital age.

Remembering two different pasts that reflect contrasting historical events and relationships with different people, an elderly Patricia Cowan wonders about her identity while gazing at a moon that might house benign or malicious technologies.

A comic tale based on the popular Twitter feed follows the exploits of egocentric Babe Walker, who after a stint in rehab for her shopping addiction tackles such vanity challenges as achieving celebrity thinness and accepting her father's trophy girlfriend.

The New Face of Fiction and author of "Touch" has given us a commercial novel with a strong Jane Smiley and John Irving appeal and a King Lear storyline. Set in a fictional bucolic island between Maine and Newfoundland (claimed by both Canada and the U.S.), ruled by the King family for three hundred years, the novel carries a Shakespearean plot of sibling rivalry, love lost and won, art history, and the ins and outs of lobster fishing.

"Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour and Vanity is a Regency version of a heist movie with a healthy dose of magic sprinkled in. After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on the their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved,...