10 best books of May 2014, according to Amazon's editors

Amazon staff says these titles are the best books to come out this month.

6. 'Young God,' by Katherine Faw Morris

Debut author Morris spins the story of 13-year-old Nikki, a teenager living in the Carolina hills who decides to try to maintain her family's dominance of the local drug trade in the absence of her parents. Nelson calls Morris's novel "spare," saying that the author's prose leaves room for the reader to imagine dark goings-on. "It's what's not said," she says.

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