At once wry and moving, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth gives us a clear-eyed glimpse into the precarious and fragile state of China’s new identity and asserts Xiaolu Guo as her generation’s voice of modern China.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green’s arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, The Body – set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the film classic Stand by Me – is now available as a stand-alone publication.
The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood.