Just as Millie's life returns to relative normality, a chance discovery leads her on a path to finding the mysterious "Edward". Visiting an antique shop, Millie learns a history that will not only open her eyes to the true mysteries of the telescope, but also expose a family secret she could never have imagined. As she listens to the old man's tale slowly unfold, Millie begins to realize that powerful forces remain at work, desperate to continue a legacy that began almost two centuries before. The Angel of New York City will return you to the very beginning, to the telling of a legend steeped in history. Discover forbidden love, hidden agendas and secrets that have stood the test of time as you continue to search for the answers to a mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Life should have continued after the death of her husband, but something refuses to let go, a woman lost in the grief that's isolating her from the city below. Her only connection to the outside world is the old telescope which Marcus had gifted her, and through it, the chance to help those unable to help themselves. With a broken heart and a relic from another time, this grieving widow is about change lives in ways she could never have imagined, and maybe find herself along the way.

Stanford Wong is in big trouble--or as he would spell it, "trubble"--in this laugh-out-loud companion to the award-winning Millicent Min, Girl Genius. Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If that happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball, Millicent Min--and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off.But Stanford Wong has a few things going for him. He has Yin-Yin's fantastic dim sum. He has his magic jade pendant, source of all his basketball skill. He has this amazing new book called The Outsiders he's just discovered. He may even have Millicent. And Stanford realizes that that might just be enough to save his summer--if he can pull it all together in time.

The Exciting Saga Continues... Just as Millie's life returns to relative normality, a chance discovery leads her on a path to finding the mysterious "Edward". Visiting an antique shop, Millie learns a history that will not only open her eyes to the true mysteries of the telescope, but also expose a family secret she could never have imagined. As she listens to the old man's tale slowly unfold, Millie begins to realize that powerful forces remain at work, desperate to continue a legacy that began almost two centuries before. The Angel of New York City will return you to the very beginning, to the telling of a legend steeped in history. Discover forbidden love, hidden agendas and secrets that have stood the test of time as you continue to search for the answers to a mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes—for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous—as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in life and finding inspiration in the unlikeliest places. We all live like we’re famous now, curating our social media presences, performing our identities, withholding those parts of ourselves we don’t want others to see. In this riveting collection of stories from acclaimed author Jess Walter, a teenage girl tries to live up to the image of her beautiful, missing mother. An elderly couple confronts the fiction writer eavesdropping on their conversation. A son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for a place to care for the old man. A famous actor in recovery has a one-night stand with the world's most surprising film critic. And in the romantic title story, a shy twenty-one-year-old studying Latin in Rome during “the year of my reinvention” finds himself face-to-face with the Italian actress of his adolescent dreams. Funny, poignant, and redemptive, this collection of short fiction offers a dazzling range of voices, backdrops, and situations. With his signature wit and bighearted approach to the darkest parts of humanity, Walter tackles the modern condition with a timeless touch, once again “solidifying his place in the contemporary canon as one of our most gifted builders of fictional worlds” (Esquire).

Combining biography, literary history, and gender studies, this book examines three profoundly influential and vastly different friendships in the life of Mark Twain.

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa but just nine miles from Europe, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries – men and women breaking through artistic borders. The results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time and the list of outlaw originals is long, stretching from Ibn Battuta and Alexandre Dumas to Twain and Wharton and from the darkly brilliant Beats of Bowles, Kerouac, Gysin and Ginsberg to the great Moroccan novelists: Mohamed Choukri, Mohammed Mrabet and Tahar Ben Jelloun.