Wandering westward, picking fruit for wages, a lonely boy cannot remember his name or his family and takes care of himself until he meets a woman sheep farmer who provides him with a loving home.

“Powerful.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air Named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new tribe of high-achieving peers. Initially, however, his social prospects seem unlikely to change, sentencing him to a lifetime of anonymity. Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by her beauty, wit, and sophisticated Manhattan upbringing, David becomes instantly infatuated. Determined to win her attention and an invite into her glamorous world, he begins compromising his moral standards for this one, great shot at happiness. But both Veronica and David, it turns out, are not exactly as they seem. Loner turns the traditional campus novel on its head as it explores ambition, class, and gender politics. It is a stunning and timely literary achievement from one of the rising stars of American fiction.

It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning. A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you're as good as dead. And David has no gang. It's just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school. In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don't fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive.

In a land of legends The Loner has nothing to prove. That's usually when violence finds its way to him. . . Vengeance Will Be Mine For a posse chasing a murderous band of outlaws, a quiet kid with a lightning fast gun is good company. And when the outlaws turn around and attack the posse, The Loner doesn't have a choice: he's now caught up in a running gun battle across West Texas. The Loner knows the men he's fighting are bad to the bone--led by a merciless killer named Warren Latch. But what about the guys on his side? As men on both sides of the fight bite the dust, the Loner has fewer allies and no way out. That's when a beautiful bounty hunter appears on the scene--to lead the way into another vendetta, another betrayal, and one final, bloody fight to the death. . .

When a bitter man leaves behind a life of gambling to return home and claim the ranch that is his inheritance, can his hardened heart be soothed by the woman he once left behind? Reissue.

A sharp and unlikely coming-of-age debut novel from Australia’s Sally Rooney

USA Today bestselling author. The Loner may appear to be a dashing young gunfighter, but few know the tragedy and heartbreak that shaped him. Following the kidnapping and murder of his wife, Rebel, Conrad Browning faked his own death and donned the mantle of his notorious gunfighter father - becoming The Loner. Before Conrad Browning can truly disappear, Kid Morgan has to figure out who was really behind the murder of his wife. He's sure a visit to his beloved Rebel's grave in Val Verde will draw the killers out. But before he can even get to Val Verde, he stumbles into a feud between Devil Dave Whitfield and the MacTavishes. But that feud is just the fuel for the fire. When he finds the people behind his wife's death, the devil will throw the gates of hell wide open!