What do you do when you discover that your insignificant other is becoming more significant than your spouse? Richard Rossi works in HR at a Boston-based software company and prides himself on his understanding of the foibles and fictions we all use to get through the day. Too bad he’s not as good at spotting such behavior in himself. What else could explain his passionate affair with Benjamin, a very unavailable married man? Richard suggests birthday presents for Benjamin's wife and vacation plans for his kids, meets him for "lunch" at a sublet apartment, and would never think about calling him after business hours. Since Richard is not entirely available himself—there's Conrad, his adorable if maddening partner to contend with—it all seems perfect. But when cosmopolitan Conrad starts spending a suspicious amount of time in Ohio, and economic uncertainty challenges Richard's chances for promotion, he realizes his priorities might be a little skewed. With a cast of sharply drawn friends, frenemies, colleagues, and personal trainers, Insignificant Others is classic McCauley—a hilarious and ultimately haunting social satire about life in the United States at the bitter end of the boom years, when clinging to significant people and pursuits has never been more important—if only one could figure out what they are.

Falsely accused of domestic violence by his estranged celebrity wife, Vaughn Ellison sets forth to clear his name, a quest that leads him to his hometown of Flint, where an old flame and new revelations await. Meanwhile back in Atlanta, danger awaits, compliments of his former best friend, his ex’s jealous lover, who plots to drive him to destruction through ties with organized crime. While uncovering that twisted scheme, Vaughn finds allies in friends both old and new; a curious younger woman with amber eyes and hidden motives; his best friend, a comedian with a dark, violent past; that old flame, a rival of his ex who craves her own payback; and a mysterious young private investigator with vast resources and shocking ties to it all. As danger closes in, old hate boils while new love beckons. Vaughn must face painful revelations about his past in the face of an uncertain future. Which will run out first…his enemies’ time, or his luck?

Satisfied with her life as an adjunct film professor, Casey Beck finds things unraveling when she discovers that her boyfriend is having a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, which prompts Casey to face her insecurity and possessiveness. Reprint.

“Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned.” —School Library Journal (Starred review) Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms. Autumn 2017 Kids’ Indie Next Pick Junior Library Guild Selection Library of Congress's 52 Great Reads List 2018

Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a really long time—a whole month! She’s solved many important cases like The Mystery of the Cranky Mom, The Mystery of the Missing Ice Cream, and The Mystery of the Smelly Feet. Her record is nearly 100% (only The Mystery of the Cereal in My Underpants remains unsolved to this day). Aven asks all the right questions, wields her detective kit carefully, and follows up on every clue. Then her teacher’s lunch bag (with her lunch still in it) is taken and Aven’s great-grandma’s beloved dog goes missing! Can this perceptive detective crack two cases at the same time? Luckily, Aven has a super-powered brain full of lots of extra brain cells to take on both cases. See, she was born without arms, so all of the cells that were supposed to make her arms went into making her brain instead. At least that’s her working theory for The Mystery of Why I Have So Many Extra Brain Cells.

This collection of memoirs, essays and wayward observations, often folding multiple literary forms together in its struggle to reveal a common truth between past, present and future, is uniquely pleasing in its eclectic and often frantic combinations of form and purpose. At the same time it struggles to document the narrator's own struggle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, always there, shimmering and fierce as though etched in blood onto the glass of a smashed mirror, each shard reflecting a different take on our common struggle with the demons of times gone by. In turn uproariously funny and heartbreakingly tragic, overflowing with the sudden twists and turns of a startlingly original mind, "Insignificant Others" is a modern day Canterbury Tales, foreseeing the death of history, and traducing the accomplishments of extraordinary people into the homogenized digital kaleidoscope of the dynamic now, in which the ghosts of ancient times play joyously with the spirits of the as yet unborn.

Beginning in Vietnam shortly after the end of the American war this volume follows the life of Nguyen Thi My Tiep, a woman writer and a revolutionary, whose girlhood is spent as a guerrilla fighter, and whose post-war life becomes a search for personal liberation and individual love.