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The Brief History of the Dead: A novel
Kevin Brockmeier
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"Remember me when I'm gone"just took on a whole new meaning.The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel
Lionel Shriver - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates... |
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Life After Life: A Novel
Kate Atkinson - Reagan Arthur Books
Format: Print book
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What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks... |
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Horns: A Novel
Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Bargain - Hardcover
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Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers... |
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Blindness
José Saramago
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who |
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The Bees: A Novel
Laline Paull - Ecco
Format: Book
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The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues... |
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Room: A Novel
Emma Donoghue - Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.Room is home to Jack,... |
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside... |
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Before the Fall
Noah Hawley - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2017 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL and the 2017 INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING CREATOR OF FARGO COMES "ONE THE YEAR'S BEST SUSPENSE NOVELS" (NEW YORK TIMES) . On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck... |
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The Fishermen: A Novel
Chigozie Obioma - Little
Format: Print book
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In a Nigerian town in the mid 1990's, four brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family.Told from the point of view of nine year old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable... |
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Looking for Alaska Deluxe Edition
John Green - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeous collectors edition of the critically acclaimed debut novel by John Green, #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our StarsA perfect gift for every fan, this deluxe hardcover features a stunning special edition jacket and 50 pages of all-new exclusive... |
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