"Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message...

"When Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms. Told in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the...

"Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair’s father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and corrupting influences of the Western world outside their home. He worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure, and believed a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience....

""How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...

"Virginia Hamilton was only nine years old when she decided she would become a writer. Growing up in the countryside of Ohio, she listened to her family’s stories and knew that words held extraordinary magic. From her childhood years discovering her love for storytelling, to her early adult life honing her craft in the city, Virginia found her voice in her writing as she began a career defined by her roots. Through interconnected poems, this moving...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up...

I jagpum-eun joseon-ui cheonjae siin heonanseolheon-ui salm-eul seomsehage geulyeonaemyeo 15man dogjadeul-ui dandanhan jijileul bad-awassda. Yeoseong-i jonjungbadji moshan sidae, yeonghon-eul bulsalla widaehan sieoleul geonjyeo ollin yeoin-ui salm-eun oneulnal-edo gagbyeolhage dagaonda. Suleul nohdeus seomsehage jaehyeonhan joseonsidae pungsogsawa jubyeon-inmuldeul-i boyeojuneun dayanghan salm-ui munuideul-eun i soseol-eul yeogsajeog-in inmul-ui salm-eul...

"Higuchiichiyō no shi nakajima utako wa, shira rezaru kako o kakaete ita. Bakumatsu no Edo de shōka no musume to shite sodatta Utako wa, ichizunakoi o jōju sa se Mito no hanshi ni totsugu. Shikashi, otto wa son'nō jōi no kyūsenpō Tengudō no shishi. Yagate nairan ga boppatsu suru to, Utako-ra saishi mo gyakuzoku to shite tōgoku sa reru. Bakumatsu kara Meiji e to kakenuketa kajin o kaku, Naokishō jushō-saku." --hmv.co.jp "Ichiyo Higuchi's...

"Late at night, with her children tucked into bed and her husband away on business, Anne Dudley Bradstreet composed poems by candlelight. She let her thoughts from the day tumble out, memorizing each poem line by line before daring to shape the words onto scraps of scarce parchment. Puritan women in the 1600s weren't allowed to be writers. But when the world learned about Anne's poetry, even she was astonished by what happened next. This...book tells...