Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.

A once-promising children's book writer navigates the humbling realities of middle age and dysfunctional family life while pursuing well-intentioned but increasingly disastrous changes.

Teddy Tremble, the former lead singer of a one-hit-wonder 90s band, gets a chance to rekindle his past fame when he gets a reason to reunite the band--but first he has to convince his estranged band members that getting back together is a good idea.

When Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon Hollow's only daytime vampire concierge, finds her newest client, Cal, poisoned on his kitchen floor, her carefully ordered life comes crashing down around her as she is forced to hide this demanding vampire at her place until he finds out who wants him permanently dead.

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her "contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style" (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).
For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging...

A fat New Orleans misanthrope who constantly rebukes society, Ignatius Reilly, gets a job at his mother's urging but ends up leading a worker's revolt.

Reluctantly working as a teacher to pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle, Ayesha Shamsi finds herself falling for her cousin's conservative and judgmental fiancé.