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The Help

Kathryn Stockett · Berkley; Reprint edition
Format: Music

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite...
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A fast-paced narrative that discovers a surprising perspective on World War II: Nazi Germany's all-consuming reliance on drugs The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated...
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The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien · Mariner Books
Pages: 233
Format: Paperback

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha...
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Birnbaum's 2017 Walt Disney World: The Official Guide

Birnbaum Guides · Disney Editions
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

As Walt Disney World continues to grow and evolve, trust Birnbaum to guide you through it all.-- Disney's Animal Kingdom is completing its 14-acre growth spurt-the largest expansion in Walt Disney World theme park history. Turn to Birnbaum for details on all the latest additions to this...
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Judgment at Appomattox

RALPH PETERS · Forge Books
Pages: 446
Format: Hardcover

The ferocious final weeks of the Civil War come alive in Judgment at Appomattox, the final novel of New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters's breathtaking, Boyd Award-winning seriesA great war nears its end. Robert E. Lee makes a desperate, dramatic gamble. It fails. Ulysses S. Grant...
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Unbound

STUART WOODS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is pulled along for the ride when a friend pursues a perilous course of vengeance in the newest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Stuart Woods.In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay - now a successful Hollywood film producer known...
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Let Food Be Your Medicine Cookbook: How to Prevent or Reverse Disease!

Don Colbert · Worthy Publishing
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover

Most of us think God is not concerned with what we eat, but the Bible actually offers great insight and instruction about the effects of food on our bodies. Dr. Colbert introduces an antiinflammatory form of the modified Mediterranean diet that resolves a broad spectrum of diseases, including...
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Y is for...

Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment.The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou · Ballantine Books
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American...
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After you

Jojo Moyes · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The sequel to Me Before You, which is soon to be a major motion picture releasing 6/3/2016"We all lose what we love at some point, but in her poignant, funny way, Moyes reminds us that even if it's not always happy, there is an ever after." - Miami Herald"You're going to feel...
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Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets

Tyler E Nordgren · Basic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon: the first total eclipse of the sun in America in almost forty years. In Sun Moon Earth, astronomer Tyler Nordgren illustrates how this most seemingly unnatural of natural phenomena was transformed...
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4 3 2 1: A Novel

Paul Auster · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece.Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald...
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Testimony

Scott Turow · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the major writers in America" (NPR) , returns with a page-turning legal thriller about an American prosecutor's investigation of a refugee camp's mystifying disappearance.At the age of fifty, former prosecutor Bill...
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A Guide Book of United States Coins 2018: The Official Red Book, Spiral

R.S. Yeoman · Whitman Publishing
Pages: 484
Format: Spiral-bound

The Official Red Book - A Guide Book of United States Coins - is 71 years young and going strong. Collectors around the country love the book's grade-by-grade values, auction records, historical background, detailed specifications, high-resolution photographs, and accurate mintage data....
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The Dolls

JAMES PATTERSON · BookShots
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

The Dolls are perfect lovers, perfect companions, perfect killers. Investigative reporter Lana Wallace has covered many crimes of passion in 10 years. But nothing will prepare her for the dark secrets of...The Dolls. BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON Novels you can devour...
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