Abrams Ignition: 246 books

“Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto. . . . Riotously profane” (Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review).   Thomas Penman is enduring a very bad adolescence. Growing up in dark, dingy 1950s England, Thomas has problems. These include...

“This brilliant fictional biography of Saint Teresa of Ávila breathes new life into a sacred subject” (Booklist).   She is Saint Teresa—known as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society...

“Mamet’s intellectual rigor is evident on every page. There is not a wasted word” in this novel b****ased on the wrongful murder conviction of a Jewish man (Time Out).   In 1913, a young woman was found murdered in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The investigation focused on the Jewish...

“If Alfred Hitchcock could remake Fargo, it might feel something like Carkeet’s comic-absurd latest” (Publishers Weekly). Denny Braintree, a wisecracking loner devoted to model trains, has found himself stranded in Vermont. His night at the hotel begins promisingly—until his prospective...

In this “unsettling and resonant novel” by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).   Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has...

A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this “engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel” based on true events (The New York Times Book Review).   A New York Times Notable Book   In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire,...

A missionary’s daughter confronts her father’s secrets—and her own life—in this “deeply poetic” novel by the award-winning author of Mr. Wroe’s Virgins (The Guardian).   When her missionary father suddenly dies in Nigeria, thirty-seven-year old school teacher Anne Harrington makes the...

A woman faces life-changing decisions in post–World War I London from the “master storyteller” and bestselling author of The Illusionists (Cosmopolitan).   In Daughter of the House, Rosie Thomas returns to the marvelous Wix family. Nancy Wix, daughter of the stage impresarios Eliza and Devil,...

The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins “a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable” (The Sunday Times).   The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem’s concubines...

A New York Times Notable Book: “A comic chronicle of marital misunderstandings . . . Eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive” (Los Angeles Times).   Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn’t know how marriage works. In fact, he is strangely hostile to the institution....

New York Times Notable Book: “The sorrows of Job [visit] a St. Louis nut salesman, with hilarious results . . . [A] wry updating of the biblical tragedy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In this “astute, entertaining novel,” two very different men cross each other’s paths in St. Louis,...

The final novel in the alchemical thriller series set in an alternate Venice by the World Fantasy Award–winning author of A Bed of Earth.   Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast...

“A fast start to what promises to be an exciting, innovative fantasy series” from the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Night’s Master (Publishers Weekly). In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon...

“Discover some curiosities and some genuinely fascinating, powerfully resonant works” in this Book Riot 50 Must-Reads of Slavic Literature selection (Kirkus Reviews). A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of fantasy and an escape from the bounds of...