Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian.On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens with the fragments of a nightmare floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. Thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric adopted baby Tatty, their pretty, black-haired Rapunzel, from the Pokrovka Orphanage #2. Now, at fifteen, Tatiana is more beautiful than ever—and disturbingly erratic.As a blizzard rages outside, Holly and Tatiana are alone. With each passing hour, Tatiana’s mood darkens, and her behavior becomes increasingly frightening . . . until Holly finds she no longer recognizes her daughter.

Product Description: In her first collection of short stories, Laura Kasischke exposes the dark heart of the domestic—it's wrapped in shabby silk, tucked away in a dresser drawer. If A Stranger Approaches You reminds us that intersection of the bizarre and the quotidian is always at play...read more

Product Description: For Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them editors Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke asked twelve celebrated Michigan writers to submit new stories on one subject: ghosts. The resulting collection is a satisfying mix of tales by some of the state's most well-known and award-winning writers...read more

Product Description: From critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling author Laura Kasischke comes a new novel that is part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unputdownable. The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl...read more

Product Description: From critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling author Laura Kasischke comes a new novel that is part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unputdownable. The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl...read more

Product Description: From critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling author Laura Kasischke comes a new novel that is part Stephen King, part Donna Tartt, and wholly unputdownable. The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl...read more

Product Description: In 1903, a preacher named Benjamin Purnell and five followers founded a colony called the House of David in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where they prepared for eternal life by creating a heaven on earth. Housed in rambling mansions and surrounded by lush orchards and vineyards, the colony added a thousand followers to its fold within a few years, along with a zoo, extensive gardens, and an amusement park...read more

Product Description: In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischke’s new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left. Kasischke, the author of The Life Before Her Eyes, tells the story of Jiselle, a young flight attendant who’s just settled into a fairy tale life with her new husband and stepchildren...read more

Product Description: Afterward, Terri will tell everyone that, from the beginning, she knew something terrible was going to happen on spring break.Something bad was going to happen.She knew.It was supposed to be the perfect vacation: hot guys, impeccable tans, and no parents...read more

Product Description: On Valentine’s Day, Sherry finds an anonymous note in her mailbox: be mine. As the notes continue, Sherry becomes more and more charged by the idea that she can inspire such feelings. Her twenty-year marriage is routine and she feels old, aimless, and empty now that her son is in college...read more

Experiencing a return of vitality and confidence while receiving love notes from a secret admirer, aimless wife and mother Sherry embarks on a passionate affair that spirals out of control and begins to threaten her son's well-being. By the author of The Life Before Her Eyes. Reprint.

Product Description: Diana stands before the mirror, preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and seventeen-year-old Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment, the future she was just imagining is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make...read more

From adolescence to middle-aged motherhood, this sensual, original novel follows seventeen-year-old Diana as she makes her first uncertain steps into womanhood and embarks on a fragile construction of identity and self and experiences marriage and motherhood. Book available.

From adolescence to middle-aged motherhood, this sensual, original novel follows seventeen-year-old Diana as she makes her first uncertain steps into womanhood and embarks on a fragile construction of identity and self and experiences marriage and motherhood. Book available.

From adolescence to middle-aged motherhood, this sensual, original novel follows seventeen-year-old Diana as she makes her first uncertain steps into womanhood and embarks on a fragile construction of identity and self and experiences marriage and motherhood. Book available.

Product Description: Around a campfire, sit a group of girls telling gruesome and spooky urban legends: there's the girl who, for a joke, wrote a love note to Satan, signed it in blood, and burnt it and who was found in the morning naked, hanging from a jump rope in the garage; the man who tied heavy chains around his murdered wife's body and tossed her into a lake, then came home to find her sitting in his chair smiling, soaking wet; and this - the three girls, Kristy, Desiree and Kristi, who sneaked out of cheerleading camp in their red convertible one summer afternoon and flashed a smile (and a little bit more) at two boys in a rusty pickup truck...read more

A collection of poems probes deeply into the nature of motherhood, marriage, sexuality, middle age, ambivalence, mortality, and the Midwest. Original. (view table of contents)

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Just as sixteen-year-old Katrina Connors 'comes of age,' her mother withdraws and walks out on the family, but when Kat is haunted by her mother's cries for help, Kat's instincts tell her that something evil and violent has occurred. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The poems in Fire & Flower are about the images that hold the world together in the mind of a child, a woman, and the mother she becomes. The metaphors used to describe their lives are mysterious and frightening, and they accumulate in this collection as a full expression of the awe that makes us all live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Leila Murray--a young married woman living in a small town and working first as a motel receptionist and then as a prostitute--recalls the events of her childhood, her mother's murder, her promiscuous adolescence, and her eventful meeting with Gary Jensen