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Looking For Alaska

John Green - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times bestsellerFirst...
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Susannah Cahalan - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a flight risk, and her medical recordschronicling a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory...
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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, Vol. 1 - The Journey Begins

Robin Furth - Marvel
Format: Hardcover

A BOLD NEW CHAPTER IN STEPHEN KING'S THE DARK TOWER SAGA! Twelve years have passed since the fateful Battle of Jericho Hill and the fall of the gunslingers. Since the Affiliation's resistance against John Farson became little more than a faint memory. Since the friends that stood...
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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face...
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The Silent Wife: A Novel

A. S. A. Harrison - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"This summer's Gone Girl –  I gobbled it down in one sitting." – Anne Lamott, People Fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will love The Silent WifeJodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including...
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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes...
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American Gods: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The storm was coming....Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed...
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel

Maria Semple - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times) . Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband,...
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Ready Player One

Ernest Cline - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe bestselling cult classic - now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting,...
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Annihilation: A Novel

Jeff VanderMeer - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Book

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being...
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Print book

Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic,...
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Bel Canto: A Novel

Ann Patchett - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect...
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Wonder

R J Palacio - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, OWEN WILSON, AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. The book that inspired the Choose Kind...
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My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

"From the first page…the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." —The New York Times From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall. Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned...
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Tulip Fever: A Novel

Deborah Moggach

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE * A tale of art, beauty, lust, greed, deception and retribution - set in a refined society ablaze with tulip fever. In 1630s Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flo
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It (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Stephen King - Turtleback
Format: School & Library Binding

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1958, seven desperate children searched in the drains of Derry for an evil creature. In 1985, Mike Hanlon makes six phone calls and disinters a promise that sets off the ultimate terror.
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The Mountain Between Us: A Novel

Charles Martin - Broadway Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Where the River Ends, comes this page-turning story of love and survival.On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport.  Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. ...
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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey - Orbit; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

This book is the basis for the first season of The Expanse, a Syfy Original series coming December 14th 2015!
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The Magicians: A Novel

Lev Grossman - Viking; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world, soon to be an original series on Syfy"The Magicians is to Harry Potter as a shot of Irish whiskey is to a glass of weak tea. . . . Hogwarts was never like this." - George R.R. Martin "Sad,...
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

George R.R. Martin - Bantam; Reissue edition
Format: Mass Market Paperback

A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer....
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Piper Kerman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced...
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