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The Book of Summer: A Novel

MICHELLE GABLE · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestselling Author of A Paris ApartmentThe ocean, the wild roses on the dunes and the stunning Cliff House, perched atop a bluff in Sconset, Nantucket. Inside the faded pages of the Cliff House guest book live the spellbinding stories of its female inhabitants: from Ruby,...
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The China Study Cookbook: Over 120 Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes

LeAnne Campbell · BenBella Books
Format: Paperback

The China Study, with 850,000 copies sold, has been hailed as one of the most important health and nutrition books ever published. It revealed that the traditional Western diet has led to our modern health crisis and the widespread growth of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer....
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Profiles of American Colleges 2016

Barron's College Division · Barron's Educational Series; 32 edition
Format: Print book

America's leading college directory and a perennial favorite among high school guidance counselors is a recognized authority in comparative college ratings. The book now comes with FREE access to Barron's exclusive College Search Engine. It gives college-bound students online information...
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The Silent Wife: A Novel

A. S. A. Harrison · Penguin Books
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will love The Silent Wife"I gobbled it down in one sitting." - Anne Lamott, PeopleJodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent...
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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

STEPHANIE DRAY · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback

"Not since I read Erik Larson's Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. [...] No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book."-Karen White, New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling...
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Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko · Puffin Books
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback

A Newbery Honor BookToday I moved to a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I'm not the only kid who lives here. There's my sister, Natalie, except she doesn't count. And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their...
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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

Charles Wilson · Houghton Mifflin; Reprint edition
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback

In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between...
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Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary

Rick Steves · Avalon Travel Publishing; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Book

Buon giorno! From ordering calamari in Venice to making new friends in Tuscan hill towns, it helps to speak some of the native tongue. Rick Steves, bestselling author of travel guides to Europe, offers well-tested phrases and key words to cover every situation a traveler is likely to encounter....
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Revelation Part II: "The Fruit of Life"

Stephen Marley
Format: CD

Fruit of Life is the second installment of Stephen Ragga Marley's two part series, following Revelation Part I: The Root of Life (2011) . Whereas The Root of Life is more a traditional roots reggae album, The Fruit of Life will utilize a diversified sonic palette to express the far-reaching...
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The Burning Room

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast.In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs...
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D Levitt · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have...
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

One of the New York Times's Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical...
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Bury Me In My Boots

The Cadillac Three
Format: Audio CD

2016 album from Nashville southern rock trio. Includes 'The South' featuring Dierks Bentley, Mike Eli & Florida Georgia Line.
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Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel · Knopf
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover

Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star. his would-be savior . and a nomadic group of actors...
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