The Mandela PlotA Finalist for the National Jewish Book AwardFiction For fans of The Kite Runner and A Brief History of Seven Killings, a page turning literary and political thriller set in apartheid Johannesburg As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence, the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is a misfit at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, with a father who is a scrap dealer and a brother who

a booze-drenched former A-lister who’s lost it all—occupy a vanished world from not so long ago that is brought to brilliant life in these pages

with the additional—and inestimable—merit of being true

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award * A Texas Bluebonnet Book

The Save the Environment gala has Molly DeWitt and dashing detective Michael O’Hara swimming with society sharks when Molly hooks the most endangered species of all: the late chairwoman of the affair

a wholly satisfying and brilliantly constructed whiz bang of a tale

every twist and turn familiar

Marlinchen and her sisters sneak out to enjoy the city’s amenities and revel in its thrills

promising popularity and power beyond her wildest dreams

from a dizzying drug and alcohol habit to three failed marriages

Everyone knows that Santa Claus is jolly

Born in Austria at the height of Word War II

of twenty-first century China