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Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 9781250787316 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books o...
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience Chris Young 9780316565288 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, senten...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court Chris Paul and Michael Wilbon 9781250276711 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected m...
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream Chris Gardner 9780063031562 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your...
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris)
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris) Felicia Pride 9781416937982 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris has a girlfriend! "You’re my Prince Charming," she says. And norm...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178712 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his ol...
Drop
Drop Mat Johnson 9781582341040 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A new voice in American fiction recalling the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Drop is an irreverent and unforgettab...
By God’s Grace
By God’s Grace Chris Webber 9781645432777 Nonfiction Webber Publishing Group Webber Publishing Group From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God’s Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the pola...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? Chris Barton 9781481465618 Nonfiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, ...
America: The Farewell Tour
America: The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 9781501152672 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly…pro...
Unspeakable
Unspeakable Chris Hedges 9781510712737 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against)...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
The Face: Cartography of the Void
The Face: Cartography of the Void Chris Abani 9781632060433 Fiction Restless Books Restless Books A profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir by acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani ...
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel Chris Abani 9780143124955 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winnin...
Sanctificum
Sanctificum Chris Abani 9781556593161 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Abani … explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination … [he] enters the wou...
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas 9780061537110 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Gardner is encouraging us all to ...
Song for Night: A Novella
Song for Night: A Novella Chris Abani 9781933354316 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing...
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames Chris Abani 9780143038771 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City o...
Hands Washing Water
Hands Washing Water Chris Abani 9781556592478 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength...
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail Chris Abani 9781888451948 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of los...
That Beautiful Mind
That Beautiful Mind Tami Charles with Chris Charles 9781546116387 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles, comes a soaring an...
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class Chris Smalls 9780593700631 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From one of the most influential figures to emerge from...
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories Chris Stuck 9780063029972 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s l...
This Life
This Life Quntos Kunquest 9781572842823 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentia...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Book or Bell?
Book or Bell? Chris Barton 9781681197296 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The first page has Henry hooked.The second page has him captivated.The third page …BBBBRRRRIIIIIN...
Mighty Truck: Muddymania!
Mighty Truck: Muddymania! Chris Barton 9780062344793 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Disney’s Cars meets Superman with Mighty Truck: Muddymania, the second picture book in this series about an ord...
88 Instruments
88 Instruments Chris Barton 9780553538144 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House "The rhythmic, onomatopoeic text dances across exuberant watercolors with lots of movement. This ce...
Mighty Truck
Mighty Truck Chris Barton 9780062344786 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Meet Clarence, a rickety old truck who goes from average to awesome when an unexpected trip through a mysterious truck wash ...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Wages of Rebellion
Wages of Rebellion Chris Hedges 9781568589664 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848...
Clarkesworld Issue 94
Clarkesworld Issue 94 N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer 9780692248263 Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine Wyrm Publishing Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-w...
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents)
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780984692392 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications After moving on from her first love Dean, Kyla finds love with his...
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Chris Hedges 9781568586434 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journal...
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction Chris Jennings 9780936571119 Fiction Health Alert Communications Health Alert Communications "The theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an inci...
Shark vs. Train
Shark vs. Train Chris Barton 9780316007627 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Shark VS. Train! WHO WILL WIN?!If you think Superman vs. Batman would be an exciting matchup, wait until you see Shark vs...
There Are No Names for Red
There Are No Names for Red Chris Abani and Percival Everett 9781597094573 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and ...
Best African American Fiction 2010
Best African American Fiction 2010 Dorothy Sterling and Chris Abani 9780553385359 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology ...
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle Chris Hedges 9781568584379 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group We now live in two Americas. Onenow the minorityfunctio...
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists Chris Hedges 9781416570783 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC fi...
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians Chris Hedges 9781568583730 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedge...
I Don’t Believe in Atheists
I Don’t Believe in Atheists Chris Hedges 9781416567950 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gi...
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges 9780743284462 Fiction Free Press Free Press Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists firs...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition Chris Albertson 9780300107562 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press The basis for the HBO film airing in May 2015, this revised and expanded editi...
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America Chris Hedges 9780743255134 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Chris Hedges, veteran war correspondent and auth...
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training Chris Lamb 9780803229563 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press In the spring of 1946, following the...
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado Chris Hayden 9780971201941 Fiction Door of Kush Door of Kush Our handsome hero…an African American vampire…falls in love with a married human woman, Sheba Fergu...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781400034635 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment ...
What Every Person Should Know About War
What Every Person Should Know About War Chris Hedges 9780743255127 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical — and fascinating — le...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781586480493 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor ...
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142418 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books This 11-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Boo...
The Nature of Love
The Nature of Love Toni Shiloh 9780764241529 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group Dr. Erykah Kennedy, a renowned orthopedic surgeon, finds herself at a crossroads in life. At forty-one, sh...
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140766 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The beautifully packaged, limited Edition Box Set was a an African P...
The DOS and Donuts of Love
The DOS and Donuts of Love Adiba Jaigirdar 9781250842114 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teena...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
We Are Family
We Are Family Lebron James 9780062971098 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Kids have big dreams. And when those dreams are on the line, how far are they willing to go to achieve them?When Jayden and...
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617758164 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the ...
Harbor
Harbor Rebekah Weatherspoon 9780578720364 Fiction Rebekah Weatherspoon Rebekah Weatherspoon From award-winning author Rebekah Weatherspoon comes the final installment in this sensual, suspenseful tril...
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose Chris Wilson 9780735215597 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617757174 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to...
New-Generation African Poets (TANO): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TANO): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617756238 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Critical Praise for the Previous Chapbook Box Sets:“An ambitiou...
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617755408 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short...
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier 9781780263304 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to...
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions Chris Barton 9781580892971 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge You know the Super Soaker. It’s one of top twenty toys of all time was in...
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes 9781617753558 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "The chapbooks gathered here are almost overflowing with voice….Each of these chapbo...
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Chris Barton 9780802853790 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mis...
Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!: A Gamer’s Alphabet
Attack! Boss! Cheat Code!: A Gamer’s Alphabet Chris Barton 9781576877012 Nonfiction POW! Kids Books POW! Kids Books Bone up on your gaming knowledge with this gently ironic yet thoroughly informative ...
One Death, Nine Stories
One Death, Nine Stories Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763652852 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press How could one teenage boy’s life elicit other kids’ first experiences — even after...
Zero Fade
Zero Fade Chris L. Terry 9780988480438 Fiction Curbside Splendor Publishing Curbside Splendor Publishing Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia, teen Kevin Phifer...
Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities
Can I See Your I.D.?: True Stories of False Identities Chris Barton 9780803733107 Nonfiction Dial Penguin Random House True crime, desperation, fraud, and adventure: From the impoverished young woman ...
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All Russell Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592405879 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The visionary entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Do You!...
Death of the Liberal Class
Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges 9781568586441 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It mak...
Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems
Feed Me the Sun: Collected Long Poems Chris Abani 9781845231569 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A collection of imaginative and witty poems, this work displays astonishing energy; beauty of...
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom Chris van Wyk 9781596435667 Nonfiction Flash Point Flash Point Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, offers a glimpse into the mind of a great lead...
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors
The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors Chris Barton 9781570916731 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge A discovery that made the world a brig...
Take Back Your Family: How To Raise Respectful And Loving Kids In A Dysfunctional World
Take Back Your Family: How To Raise Respectful And Loving Kids In A Dysfunctional World Rev. Run, Justine Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592405015 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Stars of MTV?s Ru...
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780307382405 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Unlike most white Americans who, if they ...
Take Back Your Family: A Challenge to America’s Parents
Take Back Your Family: A Challenge to America’s Parents Rev. Run, Justine Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592403813 Nonfiction Gotham Penguin Random House Stars of MTV?s Run?s House ? dubbed ?the new Cos...
Do You!: 12 Laws To Access The Power In You To Achieve Happiness And Success
Do You!: 12 Laws To Access The Power In You To Achieve Happiness And Success Russell Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592403684 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Since rising out of the New York City...
Everybody Hates School Politics (Everybody Hates Chris)
Everybody Hates School Politics (Everybody Hates Chris) Felicia Pride 9781416949374 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Book by Pride, Felicia
Crossroads Comics #1
Crossroads Comics #1 Keith Knight 9780981559360 Fiction New Village Press New Village Press Now, educational comics for teens! Authors of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, Keith Knight and Mat...
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison
What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison Camille T. Dungy 9781597090001 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press "Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine or hide wi...
Let Them Play (True Story)
Let Them Play (True Story) Margot Theis Raven and Chris Ellison 9781585362608 Nonfiction Sleeping Bear Press Sleeping Bear Press Segregated Charleston, SC, 1955: There are 62 official Little League pr...
GraceLand
GraceLand Chris Abani 9780312425289 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers "A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by ou...
DOG WOMAN
DOG WOMAN Chris Abani 9781888996821 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press (Note to Seller: DOG7)
Mississippi Trial, 1955
Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe 9780142501924 Fiction Speak Penguin Random House
DAPHNE’S LOT
DAPHNE’S LOT Chris Abani 9781888996623 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press The masterful wedding of the narrative and the lyric in these poems (whose subject is the maturation of a sensibility, the com...
Kalakuta Republic
Kalakuta Republic Chris Abani 9780863563225 Poetry Saqi Books Saqi Books Kalakuta Republic is a powerful collection of poems detailing the harrowing experiences endured by Abani and others at the hand...
Anthills of the Savannah
Anthills of the Savannah Chinua Achebe 9780385260459 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House In the fictional West African nation Kangan, newly independent of British rule, the hopes and dreams of d...
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop Chris Raschka 9780531070956 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Charlie Parker Played Be Bop
Let’s Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers
Let’s Celebrate Kwanzaa: An Activity Book for Young Readers Helen Davis Thompson and Chris Hall 9780936073071 Fiction Gumbs & Thomas Publishing Gumbs & Thomas Publishing
Masters of the Board
Masters of the Board Chris Abani 9789782335036 Fiction Delta Delta A political thriller about a foiled Nigerian coup.
The Artist & Her Lover: A Vacation Travel Romance
The Artist & Her Lover: A Vacation Travel Romance Edwina Louise Dorch 9781665786195 Nonfiction Archway Publishing Author Solutions This fast-paced travel romance is Part I of a trilogy series of books...
Palaver
Palaver Bryan Washington 9780374609078 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washingt...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson Jeff Pearlman 9780063285316 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A New York Times Bestseller By the author of Showtime—the source f...