Abrams Ignition: 246 books

“This charming short work recalls The Little Prince in its depiction of childhood sensibilities pitted against an often illogical and absurd adult world” (Publishers Weekly).   A fable for all ages and a massive bestseller in the author’s home country of Vietnam, Ticket to Childhood captures...

A “scintillating . . . sharp and unsentimental” portrait of a marriage and a woman facing her own imperfect past from the acclaimed author of Forgiveness 4 You (The Washington Post).   When her husband, Jobe, dies in their home one cool April morning, Carmen Garrett feels a mix of horror and...

A tragicomic novel of a father and son coping with China’s Cultural Revolution, from “a true literary talent” (Anchee Min, author of Empress Orchid). Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize In a peaceful village, it has been officially proven that Ku is not, as was once believed,...

A Man Booker Prize–nominated novel that “vividly re-creates the life of a foreign correspondent” (Booklist).   Owen Simmons is working an easy gig at a Dublin newspaper, having left behind the life of war reporting. Then he finds an old photo, taken in Africa in the era of the Rwandan genocide....

This surprise bestseller set in the world of female bodybuilding is “a modern gothic comedy of obsession” (Vanity Fair). Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life—and a new body—in California, where the quest for the perfect butt...

A simple cookbook for breakfast—or brunch—to start the day off right! In CakeLove in the Morning, Warren Brown, founder of the CakeLove bakeries, covers it all: pancakes and French toast, frittatas and omelets, quick breads and cereals, bacon and biscuits. Explaining the basics and...

Conquer your fear of flour with a cookbook that “takes the intimidation factor out of baking with easy-to-follow recipes” (Publishers Weekly). Warren Brown, the founder of CakeLove bakeries, wants you to bake your cake and eat it too—and even better, enjoy the moment in which you present...

A “luminous” story of love and sorrow spanning from London to Romania, from a prize-winning novelist (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu’s Romania, in the hospital. She woke...

This debut thriller of angels, demons, and corporate espionage is “part fantasy, part gripping depiction of delusional madness . . . Take the plunge” (Vanity Fair). A nameless angel has been out of God’s favor since things went wrong with his last mission, two thousand years ago. He has...

**“A lost classic . . . the history of a horror-film star and a treatise on human frailty . . . is back to be savored and marveled at anew” (James Ellroy, New York Times–bestselling author of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy). Simon Moro, a sixty-eight-year-old star, is making his last picture,...

As WWI rages on, a satanic conspiracy threatens to overtake the Vatican—and the world—in this dark historical fantasy series of werewolves and Inquisitors.   Before his murder, a desperate priest sends a secret letter to his brother serving in the Italian Army. Now this young soldier carries...

In this “sublime work of dark fiction” set during WWI, werewolves roam the trenches and the Catholic Inquisition continues its grim work in the shadows (Intravenous Magazine). When a priest is brutally murdered in the French city of Arras, Poldek Tacit—a brutally efficient Inquisitor—arrives...

This novel posing as a dissertation on León Fuertes, the fictional president of a made-up Banana Republic is “still fresh, funny, and disturbingly relevant” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   To fulfill his PhD requirement, Camilo Fuertes decides to write about his father León, the martyred...

An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this “immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book” (The New York Times).   The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin’s irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the...