Editorial Content for Aftertaste
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What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR with the high-stakes culinary world of SWEETBITTER, AFTERTASTE is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.
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What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR with the high-stakes culinary world of SWEETBITTER, AFTERTASTE is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.
About the Book
What if you could have one last meal with someone you’ve loved, someone you’ve lost? Combining the magic of UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR with the high-stakes culinary world of SWEETBITTER, AFTERTASTE is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.
A food story to binge.
A ghost story to devour.
A love story to savor.
Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was 10, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can’t exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he’s never eaten will flood his mouth, a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these aftertastes a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he’s tasting. And everything changes.
Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones --- at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he’s prepared. He thinks his life’s purpose might be to offer closure to grieving strangers and sets out to learn all he can by entering a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But as his kitchen skills catch up with his ambitions, Kostya is too blind to see the catastrophe looming in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him.
Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, AFTERTASTE is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss, and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger --- and how far we’d go to find satisfaction.
Editorial Content for Atmosphere: A Love Story
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and DAISY JONES & THE SIX comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and DAISY JONES & THE SIX comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
About the Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and DAISY JONES & THE SIX comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling and emotional, ATMOSPHERE is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love --- this time among the stars.
Editorial Content for The Doorman
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From the New York Times bestselling author of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON and THE EXPATS comes a pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex and murder.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON and THE EXPATS comes a pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex and murder.
About the Book
A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON and THE EXPATS.
Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers and New York’s cultural elite.
Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she’d quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can’t bring herself to leave him. Yet.
And downstairs in 2A, Julian Sonnenberg --- who has carved himself a successful niche in the art world and led a good half-century of a full and satisfying, cosmopolitan life --- has just received a devastating phone call that does nothing at all to alleviate his sense that, probably for better and worse, he has aged out and is just not that useful to anyone any more.
Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemia’s bowels, the building's almost entirely Black and Hispanic working-class staff is taking in the news that that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a demonstration, a counterdemonstration, and a long night of violence across the tinderbox city.
As Chicky changes into his uniform for tonight’s shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, bought only hours earlier, but before he knew of the pandemonium taking over the city. Chicky knows that there’s more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone is aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed --- and lives will be lost.
Editorial Content for A Family Matter
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A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel.
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A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this heartbreaking yet hopeful debut novel.
About the Book
A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this “perfect” (Elin Hilderbrand) debut novel.
1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter.
2022. Heron has just received news from his doctor that turns everything upside down. He’s an older man, stuck in the habits of a quiet existence. Telling Maggie, his only child --- the person around whom his life has revolved --- seems impossible. Heron can’t tell her about his diagnosis, just as he can’t reveal all the other secrets he’s been keeping from her for so many years.
A FAMILY MATTER is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of the past in the changed world of today.