In this postapocalyptic story of mystery, suspense, grief, and loss, a girl processes her mother’s death as a serial killer’s presence makes her already dangerous world even more deadly.The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. They created enough pollen to render the air unbreathable, and the world became overgrown.In the decades since the event known as the Turning, ...

Sarah Blake follows up her previous book of poetry, Mr. West, with a stunning second collection about anxieties and injury. Blake uses self-consciousness as a tool for transformation, looking so closely at herself that she moves right through the looking glass and into the larger world. Fear becomes palpable through the classification of monsters and through violences made real. When the poems find themselves in the domestic realm, something is always under threat. The body is nev...

Award-winning memoir about life as a young person with visual impairment due to premature birth.During her early college years, Sarah Blake LaRose experienced a painful deconstruction of the faith she had clung to throughout her young life. But she chose to stay in the church and reconstruct her faith, even while she struggled with recurring loss of her limited sight due to complications of premature birth.Sarah's story is filled with moments of grace, joy and humor as well...

An examination of how, when, and why austerity capitalism and strands of feminism became intertwined, and why girl-focused programs have been at the heart of international policymaking.Girl-focused education programs have long been at the heart of international policymaking—when girls' access to education is ensured, the reasoning goes, they are more likely to turn into productive adults who can drive economic growth. These ideas combine strands of feminism and cap...

A brand-new reimagining of the Buffy universe, this YA series by New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake (Three Dark Crowns) features the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers who must defeat a powerful new evil."A worthy successor to the Slayer stories." —Booklist (starred review for In Every Generation)Into every generation, a slayer is born. One girl in all the world . . . sort of.Fra...

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery! The author did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side that is so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. The plot is very intelligent and will keep you entertained throughout the book. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.”--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone)STALKING (The Making of Riley Paige—...

In THE PERFECT SMILE (Book #4), criminal profiler Jessie Hunt, 29, fresh from the FBI Academy, is assigned a disturbing new case: a woman in her 30s has been murdered after using a dating website for her affairs with married men.Had she gotten too close to one of the married men?Was she the victim of blackmail? Of a stalker?Or was there some far more nefarious motive at stake?The list of suspects takes Jessie into wealthy, manicured neighborhoods, behind the...

This hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border draws together literary theory and historical analysis to outline how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped Mexico. Working from and against this political context, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance against state violence and that writing i...

As ancient plagues seem to rise from the past, FBI Agent Rachel Gift faces a twisted adversary obsessed with archaic medicine. Can she race against time to stop a killer with a morbid fascination for repeating history? “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.” —Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER LAST WHISPER (A Rachel Gift FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #14 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose be...

When FBI Agent Rachel Gift confronts a killer for whom art imitates death, can she detain this deranged mastermind before another victim faces a gruesome fate? “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.” —Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER LAST SECRET (A Rachel Gift FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #15 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 7,000...

From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 1,000 five star reviews), comes book #14 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series. BEFORE HE HARMS is book #14 in the Mackenzie White mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller BEFORE HE KILLS (Book #1), a free download with over 600 five-star reviews. Young women are turning up dead in rural Utah, members of a commune of fundamentalist polygamists. Can Mackenzie White penetrate their closed ...

When seemingly unrelated victims are found murdered, targets of a new serial killer, FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift realizes there is some mysterious connection between them—and to herself. But can she figure out what links them, what drives this killer, before he claims another? “A masterpiece of thriller and mystery.” —Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HER LAST SHOT (A Rachel Gift FBI Suspense Thriller) is book #11 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestsell...