Alexie's collection shows the struggles of Native Americans navigating different cultures, from a Spokane feminist saving white women to a homeless man reclaiming his grandmother's regalia, with honesty and powerful writing.
In pre-WWII Osaka, the Makioka sisters navigate a world of vanishing traditions and intricate social rituals, their family's fading prestige illuminated by Tanizaki's nostalgic and precise prose.
In a totalitarian World State where every thought is policed, a scientist invents a truth serum, only to discover the power of the human mind to resist total control.
When a giant-slayer's son meets a punk princess who falls from the sky and doesn't believe in magic, they're thrust into a hilariously fractured fairy tale quest to save Snow White from the Wicked Queen.
When two time-traveling 21st-century children literally drop into 18th-century London, a quick-witted cutpurse becomes their only hope against a menacing villain who steals their ride home and plunges them into a thrilling chase through history.
After an accident, Triss discovers she's an imposter, a changeling made of cobwebs and leaves, who must venture into a fantastical, dangerous Underbelly to reclaim her identity from a sinister architect with a twisted vision for her family.
Brutally separated as children, Tommo and Hawk form an unbreakable bond against the unforgiving backdrop of 19th-century colonial Australia and New Zealand, battling whalers, warriors, and the forces of good and evil to survive.
When a ruthless Chinese president escalates tensions over Taiwan, a desperate Chinese defense minister risks everything to give vital intelligence to the CIA, setting the stage for a global confrontation that could involve President Jack Ryan's own daughter.
Rescued from a life with dolphins, a girl named Mila struggles with human society, only to long for the harmonious, song-filled ocean home she left behind.
Outside an abbey, a lay community's spiritual quest turns chaotic when a rediscovered bell tolls for a returning wife, a confronted leader, and a wise Abbess, all facing salvation, human weakness, and the fight between good and evil.
A famous stage actress, whose life is a masterclass in performance, faces a quiet stranger who forces her to confront the raw reality beneath her dazzling facade.
Two ruthless businessmen unknowingly chase the same powerful secret in a high-stakes game of ambition, their violent rivalry hiding the tender truths and blood-soaked history that connect their lives.
When a missile cripples a jumbo jet high above the Pacific, three desperate survivors, including a terrified teenage girl clinging to the floor as the cabin rips apart, must defy the impossible and land the plane before they're all sucked into the void.
In a remote Andean village plagued by disappearances, a jaded corporal hunts for Shining Path guerrillas while the town whispers of ancient cannibalistic rituals, all set against a backdrop of surreal love stories and Peru's violent history.
A cursed shapeshifter, Rurik, seeks redemption by aiding a vengeful writer, Celeste, whose quest for justice against her family's supernatural assassins may intertwine with his own dark past.
In a whimsical satire, Hemingway lampoons the literary scene and his contemporaries, particularly Sherwood Anderson, through the misadventures of an American writer and a British waitress in a Michigan restaurant.
Imprisoned in the inescapable Furnace, Alex's second breakout attempt plunges him into a sinister transformation, as the warden's dark nectar courses through his veins, twisting him into the very monster he dreads and making the prison not just a place, but a part of him.
Orphaned Julie, under her Aunt Cordelia's strict but loving care, grows from childhood to young womanhood, finding love, loss, and inner strength in rural Illinois.
