Pamela Painter writes a tight arc, provides a heart-stopping ride. Her characters love and lose and long for more as if their lives depended on it. And they do.

Winner of the Florida Book Award Gold Medal (2011)

In Magpies, Lynne Barrett's characters move through the past decade's glitter and darkness. From the Internet's fragmented pages to a gossip columnist's sweet poison to the ABCs of a hurricane season, these tales explore story form and storytelling as a means of connection, betrayal, and survival for characters who learn, sometimes too late, the value of what's grasped and what's lost.