"In Patch Work, Wilcox deftly stitches together her dedicated study of fashion with the story of her own life lived in and through clothes. From her mother's black wedding suit to the swirling patterns of her own silk kimono, her memoir unfolds in luminous prose the spellbinding power of the things we wear: their stories, their secrets, their power to transform and disguise and acts as portals to our pasts; the ways in which they measure out our lives,...

"This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed "the most dangerous of allied spies." It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war."--

When Mama has to work late, Little Dozer does not think he will be able to fall asleep but Papa knows his bedtime routine, right down to Mama's special song.

A young girl discovers a new way of life when she is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer.

Set in early 1900s Vienna, Max Liebermann, a student of Sigmund Freud, assists Detective Oskar Reinhardt in a series of murder investigations.

Selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Gl|ck as Winner of the inaugural Bergman Prize, Rachel Mannheimer's debut, Earth Room, is a dazzling book-length narrative poem that explores with tenderness how art and love intersect to make one's life. Transporting the reader across decades and from the Moon to Mars by way of Alaska, Berlin, and the Hudson Valley, Earth Room considers a lineage of sculpture, performance, and land art--from Robert Smithson to Pina...

When a twelve-year-old girl falls under the influence of a spirit in a cornfield, she convinces the other kids in town to kill all of the adults and it's up to an older teenage girl to stop the killing spree.

Despite the warnings of her friends at Mount Olympus Academy, Persephone befriends bad-boy Hades, but following her mother's advice to "go along to get along" complicates her relationships with all of them.