From the award-winning author of The Slap comes a powerfully moving story of forgiveness and a young man's struggle towards maturity. His whole life, Danny Kelly has wanted just one thing: to win Olympic gold. Everything he's ever done--every thought, every dream, every action--has taken him closer to that moment of glory, of vindication, when the world would see him for what he is: the fastest, the strongest and the best. His life has been a preparation...

Select teenaged girls are invited to join the exclusive and futuristic Alpha Academy, where they must compete feverishly to establish and maintain their status among their extremely competitive peers.

A dark comedy that focusses on Del Hanks, a forty-year-old woman, and an exploration of the female experience in academia.

Shoshanna Greenburg loves her job at the bookstore, Once Upon, until Jake Kaplan joins the staff, a handsome non-reader who challenges her for a bonus she needs.

"Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are each fighting to become the first lady of the National Baptist Association, until the current first lady steps in, a woman bigger, badder, and more devious than either of them"--Provided by publisher.