Crown Publishing Group

A NovelLucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, Lucy and Grays home life is strangely out of touch with the modern worldexcept for Lucys high-tech...

A Novel of LeisureWelcome to the Easy life!When overworked, underpaid womens wear retail slave Lisa Galisa (the rhyming name is only the beginning of her agonies) suddenly becomes the personal assistant to an infamous Chicago socialite, she accidentally, hilariously, becomes the toast of the town. Catapulted into the role of trendsetter, this...

A NovelAlison McGhees is a novel of simple explanations, simple movement, and Faulkners favorite, most ferocious question: Can we ever really know one another?Los Angeles TimesMcGhee has written a lovely and successful third novel. She brilliantly captures the close but guarded ties between residents of a grieving small town, and delivers dialogue...

A NovelMeet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave. What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They're all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar...

A NovelClara first spies him through the crack in the stained-glass window of her church, lighting a string of handmade lanterns in the Adirondack woods. A lone old man, Georg Kominsky moves stealthily among the shadow world of his hanging, glittering creations.In Alison McGhee's stunning novel Shadow Baby, eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to...

A NovelBorn into poverty and raised in a brothel, Nell Gwynne sells oranges in the pit at Londons Kings Theater, newly reopened after the plague and the Great Fire devastated the city. Soon, her quick sense of humor and natural charm get her noticed by those who have the means to make her life easier. But the street-smart Nell knows a woman doesnt...