In a basement lab, a technician and a corporate analyst operate a device that views other universes. Each attempt reveals the same beige room, down to the molecule—no sign of change other than a faint smell of cumin. With little else to measure beyond their own growing connection, they attempt to extract fiscal value from the possibility that nothing could ever have been different.
Somewhere on Echo IV, there is a memory of an older, unmarred Earth that could give humanity a chance at starting over. Mission Control calls the alleged portal ‘a way back,’ and Dreyer and her team are tasked with finding it. A Way Back is a punchy cross-genre exploration of obligation, regret, and the futility of trying to escape a future that is all but predetermined by the choices we’ve made.
Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself—before the government uses them both for human experimentation.
If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s his ex-girlfriend, Micah, and she needs a ride home from Florida, almost ten hours away. On a rollicking midnight ride from Tennessee to Daytona Beach and back, Jamie turns over his relationship with Micah, his friends, and even God, as he tries to do the right thing and save her. One last time.
A thoughtfully beautiful, eerie meditation on loneliness and addiction. Catherine evokes the starkness of Cormac McCarthy’s prose with a little more soul, a little more yearning.
Juliette is an Anthropology professor in New York City. Cole is a self-professed “Crypto Bro” who makes a killing on Wall Street. After their disastrous first date, Juliette never expects to hear from Cole again. But when Cole texts her late one night, she finds herself caught up in a sordid plot of money, mythology, and murder.
In 2001, unknown artist and Holocaust survivor David Klein unveils The Time Golem, a massive sculpture inspired by the legendary protector of the Jews. At the opening, he performs a forbidden kabbalistic ritual—one not attempted in 400 years—to bring it to life.
There’s something different about this county fair: a certain rush in the air each time you ride a ride, a certain sizzle in your blood. After a teenager nicknamed Electricity had her innocence stolen from her ten years ago at the county fair, she returns prepared to steal it back—not realizing all the forces at play, then and now, each chasing after innocence and power.
Vera, Em, and Stefan live intertwined, entangled in the damp sheets and the complexities of life under the oppressive gaze of their government. Employing lyrical prose, Em’s River explores the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of fascism during Germany’s Third Reich through the lens of personal turmoil and privilege as it explores class, compulsive heterosexuality, and nationalism.
For twenty years, Sam has lived in fear, controlled by his father—while Cal, his brazen, chain-smoking best friend, hides in his closet. Now, with Cal facing a terminal illness, the two must race against time to break free from the expectations that have kept Sam paralyzed.