Vikas Adam
Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Bourdain seemed to have it all: an irresistible...
“Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post
A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria.
Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime....
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would
11) The Grand Dark
"A stand-alone heavy hitter that's more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig's upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson's The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch's pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but technologically it resembles the near-future dystopias of Cory Doctorow or China Miéville [...] Wildly ambitious and inventive fantasy from an author who's punching
...When Remy Wadia left India for the United States, he carried his resentment of his cold and inscrutable mother with him and has kept his distance from her. Years later, he returns to Bombay, planning to adopt a baby from a young pregnant girl—and to...
“The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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Chronically questioning, funny, and bold, a young American explores the majority-Muslim lands that scare him most.
Armed only with college Arabic and restless curiosity, Adam Valen Levinson sets out to "learn about the world 9/11 made us fear." From a base in globalized and sterilized Abu Dhabi, he sets out to lunch in Taliban territory in Afghanistan, travels under the watchful eye of Syria's secret police, risks shipwreck
...A "haunting and elegant" (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia—and the often devastating cost of idealism.
It's the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South...
19) Amnesty: A Novel
Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia,...
"A gorgeous debut." —Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners
In this charming YA debut, a girl who's determined to prove her star chart wrong ropes her longtime best friend into an experimental relationship—not knowing that he has been in love with...