Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon QUIET explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest.

Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon QUIET explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest.

Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon QUIET explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest.

Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of long­ing, poignancy and sorrow; an acute aware­ness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death --- bitter and sweet --- are forever paired.
 
If you’ve ever wondered why you like sad music...
If you find comfort or inspiration in a rainy day...
If you react intensely to music, art, nature and beauty...
 
Then you probably identify with the bitter­sweet state of mind.
 
With QUIET, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an un­tapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she em­ploys the same mix of research, storytelling and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection and transcendence.
 
Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain, whether from a death or breakup, addiction or illness. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know --- or will know --- loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another.
 
At a time of profound discord and personal anxiety, BITTERSWEET brings us together in deep and unexpected ways.

Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart.

Award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart.

The riveting new novel --- "part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age" (San Francisco Chronicle) --- from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist THE GREAT BELIEVERS.

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past --- the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers --- needs --- to let sleeping dogs lie.

But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent flaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought --- if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.

In I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transfixing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS is a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption, from the celebrated author of STAY WITH ME.

A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS is a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption, from the celebrated author of STAY WITH ME.

A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption from the celebrated author of STAY WITH ME, "in the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" (The New York Times).

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must and dreaming of a big future.

Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendant politician.

When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola's and Eniola’s lives become intertwined.

In her breathtaking second novel, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ shines her light on Nigeria, the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between.

She gave up everything --- and changed the world. From the bestselling author of MRS. POE comes a riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic.

She gave up everything --- and changed the world. From the bestselling author of MRS. POE comes a riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic.

She gave up everything --- and changed the world.

A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of MRS. POE.

In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god.

But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor --- often the only woman in the room --- she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood.

This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine --- and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.

THE PLOT meets PLEASE JOIN US in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.

THE PLOT meets PLEASE JOIN US in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.

THE PLOT meets PLEASE JOIN US in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.

Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement.

But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell --- they all must complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza’s erratic behavior, Wren’s cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she’s desperate to discover the truth and save herself.

A claustrophobic and propulsive thriller exploring the dark side of female friendships and fame, THE WRITING RETREAT is the unputdownable debut novel from a compelling new talent.