Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.

Lenny, a mentally retarded child-man, and his lifelong friend George, dream of having their own ranch some day, until unintentional violence brings tragic consequences.

Like a loyal victorian wife, Jenny has devoted her life to her much older husband, the famous writer and naturalist Wilkie Walker, bringing up their children and researching and editing his best-selling books. But this year, as winter approaches, Wilkie is increasingly depressed and withdrawn. At her wit's, Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, the Last Resort. Within weeks of their arrival Jenny not only has a part-time job but is becoming involved...

The experiences of two women provide the framework for this intense literary study of liberated womanhood.

"Bullied to the point of dropping out of school, Kokoro's days blur together as she hides in her bedroom, unable to face her family or friends. As she spirals into despair, her mirror begins to shine; with a touch, Kokoro is pulled from her lonely life into a resplendent, bizarre fairytale castle guarded by a strange girl in a wolf mask. Six other students have been brought to the castle, and soon this marvelous refuge becomes their playground. The...

A debut novel inspired by The Great Gatsby follows the misadventures of a driven investment banker who would end a relationship between her free-spirited blogger best friend and an unscrupulous colleague, only to have her perspectives changed by a dapper Wall Street businessman and hot-air balloon pilot.

"One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University; a game of consequences, silly forfeits, and childish dares. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal and more humiliating, finally evolving into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again...

This story begins in the woods surrounding a small upstate New York town, as 11-year-old Celia watches her best friend, Djuna, get into a stranger's car, never to be seen again. At least that's the story Celia gives to the police. Twenty-one years later, Celia returns to her hometown to tell her family and old friends what really happened that fateful day, but her new version of the disappearance is met with disbelief by family and old friends. Meanwhile,...

In a small pocket of London lies a neglected community garden. It waS a little oasis for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it’s overgrown and neglected, and the garden’s gate is now firmly closed. Two neighbors share the garden, but they're not neighborly. Then one of them receives a mysterious photo of the garden in bloom. Somewhere out there, a secret gardener made a decades-old promise to keep the community’s spirit alive....