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A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Format: Hardcover
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark... |
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May · Riverhead Books
Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book. - Elizabeth GilbertAn intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances... |
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Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
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There's nothing like a black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks... |
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
Marie Benedict · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the carstrange for a frigid night. Her husband and daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England... |
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World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 184 Format: Hardcover
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As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter... |
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The Midnight Library: A Novel
Matt Haig · Viking
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance... |
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Ready Player Two: A Novel
Ernest Cline · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the "ridiculously fun and large-hearted" (NPR) near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix." "An... |
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Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson · Random House
Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. "As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless... |
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett · Riverhead Books
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together... |
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Neighbors: A Novel
Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer... |
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Leave the World Behind: A Novel
Rumaan Alam · Ecco
Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongAmanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter,... |
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Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey · Crown
Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.... |
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The Return
Nicholas Sparks · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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In the romantic tradition of Dear John, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured army doctor and a beautiful deputy, whose secrets will change the course of his life. Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, NC. But when a mortar... |
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Anxious People: A Novel
Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful... |
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