"Donna Freitas wants to believe. Raised Catholic, she sang songs about Jesus as a child and lived in a house where nuns and priests were regular guests, yet she found herself questioning the faith of her family, examining the reasons none of it added up, and distancing herself from the God of Christianity. Despite her questions-or perhaps because of them-she made a career out of trying to understand God, pursuing a Ph.D. in religion and writing books...

Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few years earlier and who fascinated him deeply.

When Simone's father finally succumbs to a lifelong heart condition, her mother is consumed by grief, and her brothers, two older and one younger, are either too preoccupied with their studies or too young to be of any comfort to their sister. Desperately seeking solace, she climbs into the huge poinciana tree looming over their house, and suddenly her long-held suspicions ("If you climbed high enough in the tree in our backyard you came to another...

After the death of her estranged mother, who left Ohio years ago to live with her lesbian partner in New York City, seventeen-year-old Shawna Gallagher's life is transformed by revelations about her family, her best friend, and herself.

After suffering a great deal of loss in her life in such a short time, Sarah Delany decided to deal with her grief by putting it down on paper. These pages slowly turned into a story. 'Don't Think. Just Breathe' is her debut young adult novel and is the first book in the TNT trilogy. Tamsyn: Have you ever looked someone in the eye with a fake smile plastered on your perfectly put together face while your soul is screaming on the inside for help? If...

When a mute, nameless foxhound gets rescued from her laboratory cage, a diva ladybug helps her understand the world and find a home with a restless, solitary girl. The dog and the girl must face their fear of connecting and learn to tame each other, let go, survive adventures, and find the courage to trust as they search for their place in the sun.--Publisher.