A deadly virus has spread rapidly across Earth, effectively cutting off wildlife specialist Laura Byrd at her crippled Antarctica research station from the rest of the world.

In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station, cut off by extreme weather. By the author of The Truth About Celia. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

When Howie Quackenbush mysteriously receives a book entitled The Secret Guide to North Mellwood, which shows him how to transport himself anywhere in the town by touching a secret portal, he soon discovers a secret world hidden deep within the town.

Product Description: At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether...read more

After seventh-grader Dwayne Ruggles discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.

Product Description: A city in a bottle. Kings. Genies. Jane Austen and Frankenstein. Grandmothers at sea . . . The acclaimed Best American Fantasy series continues with 20 stories chosen by best-selling writer Kevin Brockmeier. With stories by established writers, such as Peter S...read more

An award-winning author presents a debut collection of short fiction that features 'These Hands' about a male baby-sitter and his relationship with the young girl in his care, 'A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstilskin' that continues the tale of the famous imp, 'The Ceiling,' and 'The Jesus Stories.' Reprint.

The award-winning author of Things That Fall from the Sky offers a poignant, tragic novel about the disappearance of a young girl, narrated from her father's point of view as he struggles to come to terms with her vanishing. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A new compilation of short fiction from the author of The Brief History of the Dead features the title story about an asocial young woman who ponders her troubled life and imagines an escape with an apparition she calls the Entity, as well as 'The Human Soul as a Rube Goldberg Device' and 'Father John Melby and the Ghost of Amy Elizabeth.' 35,000 first printing.