Publisher: CORNERSTONE

  • The Land of Sweet Forever

    The Land of Sweet Forever

    Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. Less remembered, until now, however, is Harper Lee the dogged young writer, who crafted stories in hopes of magazine publication; Lee the lively New Yorker, Alabamian, and friend to Truman Capote; and the Lee who peppered the pages of McCall’s and Vogue with thoughtful essays in the latter part of the twentieth century. The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.

    Covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life. This collection comes with an introduction by Casey Cep, Harper Lee’s appointed biographer, which provides illuminating background for our reading of these stories and connects them both to Lee’s life and to her two novels.

    Harper Lee rimane una figura fondamentale nel canone letterario americano, grazie a Scout, Jem, Atticus e agli altri personaggi indimenticabili del suo romanzo d’esordio, vincitore del premio Pulitzer, Il buio oltre la siepe; così come per la versione più cupa, di fine anni ’50, della piccola Alabama cittadina che emerge in Va’, metti una sentinella, il suo unico altro romanzo, pubblicato nel 2015 dopo la sua riscoperta. Meno ricordata, fino ad ora, tuttavia, è Harper Lee, la giovane scrittrice tenace che creava storie nella speranza di essere pubblicata su una rivista; la Lee, la vivace newyorkese, originaria dell’Alabama e amica di Truman Capote; e la Lee che ha disseminato le pagine di McCall’s e Vogue di saggi profondi nella seconda metà del XX secolo. The Land of Sweet Forever riunisce i primi racconti di Lee e la successiva saggistica in un volume che offre uno sguardo senza precedenti sullo sviluppo della sua voce inimitabile.

    Coprendo un territorio che va dai cortili delle scuole dell’Alabama in cui Lee era giovane alle tavole calde e ai cinema della Manhattan di metà secolo, The Land of Sweet Forever invita a conversazioni ancora attuali su politica, uguaglianza, viaggi, amore, narrativa, arte, il Sud degli Stati Uniti e su cosa significhi condurre una vita impegnata e creativa. Questa raccolta è accompagnata da un’introduzione di Casey Cep, biografo incaricato da Harper Lee, che fornisce un contesto illuminante per la nostra lettura di questi racconti e li collega sia alla vita di Lee che ai suoi due romanzi.

  • The Lagos Wife

    The Lagos Wife

    Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband, a palatial house in the heart of Lagos and a glamorous group of friends.

    She left London and a troubled family past behind to become part of a community of expat wives. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. As the investigation turns up nothing but dead ends, her aunt Claudine flies to Nigeria to take matters into her own hands.

    As she digs into her niece’s life, she uncovers a hidden truth. But the more she finds out about Nicole, the more Claudine’s own buried history threatens to come to light.

    Nicole Oruwari ha una vita perfetta: un marito affascinante, una sontuosa casa nel cuore di Lagos e un gruppo di amici glamour.

    Ha lasciato Londra e un passato familiare travagliato per entrare a far parte di una comunità di mogli espatriate. Ma quando Nicole scompare senza lasciare traccia dopo una gita in barca, le crepe nella sua cosiddetta vita perfetta iniziano a farsi sentire. Mentre le indagini non portano a nulla se non a vicoli ciechi, sua zia Claudine vola in Nigeria per prendere in mano la situazione.

    Scavando nella vita della nipote, scopre una verità nascosta. Ma più scopre di Nicole, più la storia sepolta di Claudine minaccia di venire alla luce.

  • Silver Elite

    Silver Elite

    In this sizzling dystopian romance, perfect for fans of­ Fourth Wing ­and ­Divergent your secrets can be a death sentence, and there are rules to survival:TRUST NO ONE. Twenty-year-old Wren Darlington is not your ordinary Mod.

    She’s one of the most powerful in existence. But her world is divided. On the Continent, being a known Modified means certain death, as the Primes – those immune to the biotoxin that nearly wiped out the population 150 years ago – want nothing more than to eliminate those who were enhanced by the toxin and developed psychic powers.

    LIE TO EVERYONE. Wren has survived all these years by concealing her abilities and keeping a low profile while doing what she can to aid the rebel Uprising in fighting against the Primes’ oppressive rule. But one careless mistake places her in the crosshairs of the Continent’s military, and she is forced to join their most elite program: Silver Block.

    Unwittingly, her enemy has given her – and the Uprising – the perfect opportunity to strike a devastating blow from inside their ranks. AND WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T FALL FOR YOUR GREATEST ENEMY. That is, if she can keep her powers hidden, survive training, and prove herself to Cross Redden, her cocky, maddeningly attractive commanding officer.

    Despite the explosive chemistry between them, Wren cannot let Cross get in the way of her mission. But as war rages between Mods like her and those who aim to destroy them, emotions run high and secrets are revealed, forcing Wren to decide how far she’s willing to go to protect herself … and how much of the Continent is worth saving.

  • Atmosphere

    Atmosphere

    In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond; mission specialists John Griffin and Lydia Danes; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer.

    As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

    Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

    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.

  • We Are Not Numbers : The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

    We Are Not Numbers : The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

    A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.

    These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living. We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza.

    In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.

  • The Texas Murders

    The Texas Murders

    A cold case is about to turn hotter than the sun… Texas Ranger Rory Yates has proven his strength on the field time and again. Now he faces the toughest case of his career.

    He’s on the trail of two missing women. Both are Native American. Does anything else link them?As he digs deeper, he discovers that a Native American woman has gone missing every summer solstice for the past few years.

    The captor leaves no trace, except for a very strange calling card. The Texas Ranger must do everything he can to track down these missing women. He only hopes that he finds them alive .

  • Conclave

    Conclave

    Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals are meeting in conclave to cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election.

    They are holy men. But they are ambitious. And they have rivals.

    Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth. Who will it be?

  • The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway’s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man’s challenge to the elements in which he lives. Not a single word is superfluous in this widely admired masterpiece, which once and for all established his place as one of the giants of modern literature.

  • Carrie Soto Is Back

    Carrie Soto Is Back

    Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles.

    And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

    At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the ‘Battle-Axe’ anyway. Even if her body doesn’t move as fast as it did.

    And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever. In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season.

    In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.

  • Surrender : The Autobiography: 40 Songs, One Story

    Surrender : The Autobiography: 40 Songs, One Story

    Bono – artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 – has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.

    As one of the music world’s most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, it’s Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty.

    Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life – and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him. Surrender‘s subtitle, “40 Songs, One Story,” is a nod to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book.

  • To Kill A Mockingbird

    To Kill A Mockingbird

    ‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’
    A lawyer’s advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee’s classic novel – a black man falsely charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man’s struggle for justice.
    But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

  • Run Rose Run

    Run Rose Run

    She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.

    She’s also on the run. Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her.

    And destroy her . . .

    RUN ROSE RUN: a story glittering with danger and desire. Also available: an album of 12 original Dolly Parton songs made for the novel!

  • A Line to Kill

    A Line to Kill

    ‘I couldn’t see the sea from my bedroom but I could hear the waves breaking in the distance. They reminded me that I was on a tiny island.

    And I was trapped.‘

    There has never been a murder on Alderney.

    It’s a tiny island, just three miles long and a mile and a half wide. The perfect location for a brand-new literary festival. Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne has been invited to talk about his new book.

    The writer, Anthony Horowitz, travels with him.

    Very soon they discover that all is not as it should be. Alderney is in turmoil over a planned power line that will cut through it, desecrating a war cemetery and turning neighbour against neighbour.

    The visiting authors – including a blind medium, a French performance poet and a celebrity chef – seem to be harbouring any number of unpleasant secrets.

    When the festival’s wealthy sponsor is found brutally killed, Alderney goes into lockdown and Hawthorne knows that he doesn’t have to look too far for suspects.

    There’s no escape. The killer is still on the island.

    And there’s about to be a second death…

  • Before She Disappeared

    Before She Disappeared

    Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman with more regrets than belongings who spends her life doing what no one else will: searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for.

    When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings Frankie to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school months earlier.

    Resistance from the Boston PD and the victim’s wary family tells Frankie she’s on her own. And she soon learns she’s asking questions someone doesn’t want answered. But Frankie will stop at nothing to discover the truth, even if it means the next person to go missing will be her …

  • V2

    V2

    The first rocket will take five minutes to hit London.

    You have six minutes to stop the second. Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped create the world’s most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.

    In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Haunted and disillusioned, Graf – who understands the volatile, deadly machine better than anyone – is tasked with firing these lethal ‘vengeance weapons’ at London. Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and a survivor of a V2 strike.

    As the rockets devastate London, she joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. But at this stage in the war it’s hard to know who, if anyone, you can trust.

    As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war – until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide