"From quiet reflection to explosive power dynamics in a marriage, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build and our deepest inner selves. Underneath layers of wallpaper and plaster, a young housewife discovers two unnerving portraits. A middle-aged divorcee wrestles with old feelings as she follows her ex, and his realtor, on a tour of a decrepit, overgrown property. During her parents cocktail party, a preteen is visited in her bedroom...

"Tradition hold that Jane Austen lived a prim and proper life as a single woman. But what if she wed a man as passionate and intelligent as she-and the marriage remained secret for 200 years?"

A biography of the American author known for her psychological examination of the moral and social values of middle-class and upper-class society.

"From a "brilliant, absolutely essential voice" whose "poems feel like whole worlds" (Naomi Shihab Nye), a poetry collection considering the body physical, the body politic, and the body sacred. Zeina Hashem Beck writes at the intersection of the divine and the profane, where she crafts elegant, candid poems that simultaneously exude a boundless curiosity and a deep knowingness. Formally electrifying-from lyrics and triptychs to ghazals and Zeina's...

Children's author Helen Lester describes her life from age three to adulthood and discusses how she writes.