"A vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer. Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely--a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with. Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation...

In New York City in 1845, Timothy Wilde is tending bar when his dreams are incinerated in a downtown fire leaving Timothy disfigured, unemployed, and homeless; when Timothy's older brother gets him a job on the NYPD in the down-and-out Sixth Ward, Timothy runs into a little girl covered with blood.

Short stories starring Alvirah and Willy Meehan.

"An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce's debut novel depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby-- the Amendola family's youngest son-- everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter's unexpected death. Bobby's mother Gail; his widow Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the...