National best seller and Today show Book Club selection, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect. Stephanie Kallos's debut novel is a work of infinite charm, wit and heart. It is also a glorious homage to the beauty of broken things. When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come west to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both...

"Sing Them Home" is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother s disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician s wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope s three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother s spitfire best friend, is no match for Hope s absence. Larken, the eldest, is now an art history professor who seeks in food an answer to a less tangible...

"I love Ms. Kallos's work so much." --Anne Lamott, best-selling author of Grace (Eventually)

"For me, it would be plenty if a novel was deeply felt, utterly absorbing, and full of wit. But in Language Arts, Stephanie Kallos goes further, throwing in a doozy of a twist that had me going back to page one to understand how she pulled off such dazzling sleight of hand. An all-around delight." --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

Charles Marlow teaches his high school English students that language will expand their worlds. But...