Ghost Town

Ghost TownFrom New York Times bestselling author Tom Perrotta, hailed by critics as the Steinbeck of Suburbia (Time), our Balzac of the burbs (Chicago Sun Times), and an American Chekhov (The New York Times), comes a gripping and darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle aged writer, looking back on a series of events that changed his lifeand the story he finally has the courage to tell. Jimmy

As Marines

she will be forced to decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie

a young sailor named Edmond Dantès is wrongly accused of treason and imprisoned for life in the Château d’If

each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation

only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface

They’ve never met

But even Ku Kluxes can die

Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris—a common woodland snail

And something is following them

the more she realizes that they both have personal histories as tangled and thorny as the plant that has them trapped inside the Mist

(His great-grandmother was a lace curtain

the cord holding them together snaps