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The Snow Child: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey - Reagan Arthur Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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The Other Einstein: A Novel
MARIE BENEDICT - SOURCEBOOKS INC
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special... |
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Station Eleven: A novel
Emily St. John Mandel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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2014 National Book Award FinalistA New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered... |
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Midnight's Children
Rushdie, Salman
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) A classic novel, in which the man who calls himself the "bomb of Bombay" chronicles the story of a child and a nation that both came into existence in 1947 - and examines a whole people's capacity for carrying inhe |
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel
Carol Rifka Brunt - Dial Press
Format: Book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal * O: The Oprah Magazine * BookPage * Kirkus Reviews * BOOKLIST * School Library Journal In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely... |
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Giant (Perennial Classics)
Edna Ferber
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The planting and replanting of woodlands can successfully recreate some of our lost natural habitats and ecosystems. With some management, trees and shrubs are more likely to survive and grow quicker, along with the many species of native flora and fauna that rely on woodlands and verges.... |
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Richardson, Kim Michele
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The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book wom |
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Alexandra Fuller - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and to her unforgettable family. At the heart of this... |
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
Hill, Susan
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Susan Hills remarkable Woman in Black is as close a cross-section of Jane Austen and Stephen King as our era can provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated causeway, the story has as its hero Arthur Kipps, a promising young solicitor who has come north from London |
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestseller"The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles' debut, Rules of Civility, shapes [A Gentleman in Moscow]" - Entertainment Weekly "Elegant ... as lavishly filigreed as a Faberg egg" - O, the Oprah Magazine... |
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Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I
Gaynor, Hazel
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New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, |
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