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Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Marianne Williamson · Harper One
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The internationally recognized teacher, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of A Return to Love argues that our desire to avoid pain is actually detrimental to our lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions and preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence.Marianne...
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Conrad & Eleanor: A Novel

Jane Rogers · Harper Perennial
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage.The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science.When Conrad fails to return from a conference,...
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Under the Harrow: A Novel

Flynn Berry · Penguin Books
Pages: 218
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE SUMMER'S BEST BOOKS BY ELLE · COSMOPOLITAN · GOOD HOUSEKEEPING · REAL SIMPLE · THE HUFFINGTON POST · REFINERY29 · PUREWOW · MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE · MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL · PHOENIX NEW TIMES"A meticulously wrought new thriller [that] envelops you in its suspenseful...
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First Comes Love: A Novel

Emily Giffin · Ballantine, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

In a dazzling, delightful new novel that's quintessential Emily Giffin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed, Where We Belong, and The One & Only introduces a pair of thirty-something sisters who find themselves asking: If love, marriage, and children don't...
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The Girl Who Came Back: A Novel

Susan Lewis · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

For readers of Diane Chamberlain and Heather Gudenkauf comes a gripping novel of suspense about a mother determined to avenge her daughter's murder - no matter the cost to her husband, to her family, and to herself. When Jules Bright hears a knock on the door, the last person she expects...
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The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

Karl Jacoby · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican, the proud owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and scores of mines and haciendas in Mexico. But for all his obvious riches and his elegant appearance,...
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Dishonorable Intentions

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington gains an adversary that he can't seem to shake in the electrifying new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Stone Barrington's latest lady friend is full of surprises, both good and ill. A sensual woman with unexpected desires, Stone finds her revelations...
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The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear: A novel

Stuart Stevens · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"In politics we always like to call each election the most important in generations. This time, it might actually be true." In this dark comedy from a best-selling writer and veteran political insider, a cynical campaign manager finds his family skeletons coming out of the closet...
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The Devils of Cardona

Matthew Carr · Riverhead Books
Pages: 416

In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near...
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My Father Before Me: A Memoir

Chris Forhan · Scribner, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

An award-winning poet offers a multi-generational portrait of an American family - weaving together the lives of his ancestors, his parents, and his own coming of age in the 60s and 70s in the wake of his father's suicide, in this superbly written, "fiercely honest" (Nick...
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