Matthew Quick

An aspiring feminist and underappreciated housewife embarks on an odyssey to find human decency and goodness—and her high school English teacher—in New York Times bestselling author Matthew Quick’s offbeat masterpiece, a quirky ode to love, fate, and hair metal. Portia Kane is having a...

*“A treasure of a novel…read it and be healed.” —Justin Cronin * “Beautifully written and emotion-packed.” —Harlan Coben * From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award–winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley...

In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than I was--that I couldn't stick around--and that...

During his years in a neural-health facility, Pat Peoples has formulated a theory about silver linings....

You can lose yourself in repetition--quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age. Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in broken-down Bellmont, a town ruled by the Irish mob, drugs, violence, and racially charged rivalries. At home, his dad works...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war. After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests...

From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the...

“This special book dares us to embrace audacious hope. Amber Appleton is my hero.” —Sara Zarr, author of Once Was Lost and National Book Award finalist Story of a Girl Amber Appleton lives in a bus. Ever since her mom’s boyfriend kicked them out, Amber, her mom, and her totally loyal...

Nanette O'Hare is an unassuming teen who has played the role of dutiful daughter, hardworking student, and star athlete for as long as she can remember. But when a beloved teacher gives her his worn copy of The Bugglegum Reaper--a mysterious, out-of-print cult classic--the rebel within Nanette...

Hoje é o aniversário de Leonard Peacock. Também é o dia em que ele saiu de casa com uma arma na mochila. Porque é hoje que ele vai matar o ex-melhor amigo e depois se suicidar com a P-38 que foi do avô, a pistola do Reich....

Consagrado no Brasil com o best-seller O lado bom da vida, Matthew Quick traz ao público jovem uma ode à liberdade, abordando as complexas questões de identidade que marcam a transição para a idade adulta....

Desde que o namorado da mãe as expulsou de casa, Amber Appleton, a mãe e o cachorro moram em um ônibus escolar....

Bartholomew Neil passou todos os seus quase 40 anos morando com a mãe. Depois que ela fica doente e morre, ele não faz ideia de como viver sozinho. Wendy, sua conselheira de luto, diz que Bartholomew precisa abandonar o ninho e fazer amigos....

Repetir um movimento várias e várias vezes ajuda a clarear a mente–uma lição que Finley aprendeu muito cedo, nas quadras de basquete. Numa cidade comandada pela violência do tráfico e da máfia irlandesa, vestir a camisa 21 e dar o sangue em quadra é sua válvula de escape....

Pat Peoples, um ex-professor de história na casa dos 30 anos, acaba de sair de uma instituição psiquiátrica. Convencido de que passou apenas alguns meses naquele “lugar ruim”, Pat não se lembra do que o fez ir para lá....