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Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work

ALISON GREEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations, from the host of the popular website Ask A Manager, and New York Magazine's work advice columnist.There's a reason Alison Green has been dubbed the "Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years as a workplace...
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A Spark of Light: A Novel

JODI PICOULT · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis."Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate." - The Washington...
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

Steven Brill · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of America's Bitter Pill: a tour de force examination of 1) how and why major American institutions no longer serve us as they should, causing a deep rift between the vulnerable majority and the protected few, and 2) how some...
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New Nicholas Sparks 2018 Novel

NICHOLAS SPARKS · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals -- transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings...
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

CAROLINE FRASER · Picador
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback

The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie booksOne of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearMillions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls -- the pioneer...
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The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to The Five People You Meet in Heaven

MITCH ALBOM · Harper
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie - the little girl he saved on earth - in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect.Fifteen years ago, in Mitch...
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Standoff: How America Became Ungovernable

BILL SCHNEIDER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Bill Schneider, former CNN senior political analyst, takes us inside the voting booth to show how Americans vote and why their votes sometimes seem to make no practical sense.In the 1960s, a rift developed between the Old America and the New America that resulted in a populist backlash...
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Unsheltered: A Novel

BARBARA KINGSOLVER · Harper
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

BETH MACY · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Factory Man comes the only book to fully chart the opioid crisis in America-an unforgettable portrait of the families and first responders on the front lines.In this masterful work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus...
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Holy Ghost

JOHN SANDFORD · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Flowers investigates a miracle--and a murder--in the wickedly entertaining new thriller from the master of "pure reading pleasure" (BOOKLIST ) Pinion, Minnesota: a metropolis of all of seven hundred souls for which the word "moribund" might have been invented....
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Bruce Lee: A Life

Matthew Polly · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

The first authoritative biography - featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs - of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between Eastern and Western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans.Forty-five years...
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Welcome to Paradise

ELIN HILDERBRAND · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Spend the coldest days of winter on a Caribbean beach with New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand. Join New York Times Bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand on the stunning beaches of St. John for the beginning of her thrilling new winter series-The Paradise. Welcome to Paradise,...
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Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

Jeffrey Melnick · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals...
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