Back Top Choices | April Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Top Choices  
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual of Living Off the Land & Doing It Yourself

Carla Emery · Sasquatch Books; 40 Anv edition
Format: Paperback

The bestselling resource for modern homesteading, growing and preserving foods, and raising chickens, The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

Laura Ingalls Wilder · South Dakota Historical Society Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Bishop's Pawn

Steve Berry · Minotaur Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

The first case of New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's iconic hero, Cotton Malone.

History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Snow Child: A Novel

Eowyn Ivey · Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books
Pages: 389
Format: Paperback

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Simone Davies · Workman Publishing Company
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Turn your home into a Montessori home - and become a more mindful, attentive, and easygoing parent.

It's time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a "terrible two"...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say

MELISSA CAUGHEY · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback

Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet - fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Witches of New York: A Novel

Ami McKay · Harper Perennial
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Wonderfully wicked and deliciously dark, The Witches of New York had me totally spellbound. Reminiscent of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Ami McKay has written a book brimming with atmosphere, intrigue, and a cast of mesmerising characters. I loved...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Rosie Effect: A Novel

Graeme Simsion · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

With The Rosie Project, "Graeme Simsion achieved the impossible and created an entirely new kind of romantic hero," Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You said. Now Don Tillman returns in the hilarious and charming sequel to the international sensation. Get ready to fall in love...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II

Ben Winters · Quirk Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The weird beautiful unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery seriesmdashJohn Green author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper TownsWinner of the Philip K Dick AwardThe Last Policemanreceived the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Seanan McGuire · Tor.com
Pages: 187
Format: eBook

Seanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones - a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, Hugo and World Fantasy Award finalist,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Oysterville Sewing Circle: A Novel

Susan Wiggs · William Morrow
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Stitched together with love, this is a story just waiting for your favorite reading chair. With her signature style and skill, Susan Wiggs delivers an intricate patchwork of old wounds and new beginnings, romance and the healing power of friendship, wrapped in a lovely little community...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Love You More: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel: A Dectective D. D. Warren Novel

Lisa Gardner · Bantam
Format: Kindle Edition

BONUS CONTENT: From the network that brought you Mad Men, and The Walking Dead, comes an addictive crime thriller with crushing twists. Get an exclusive peek at the script for The Killing, AMC’s newest original series, which tracks the murder of a Seattle teenager and the gripping...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Store

James Patterson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 26
Format: Hardcover

THE STORE IS WATCHING YOU.

Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe.

ALWAYS WATCHING.

Especially since Jacob and Megan...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem To The Resurrection

Pope Benedict XVI · Ignatius Press
Format: Hardcover

For Christians, Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God, who died for the sins of the world, and who rose from the dead in triumph over sin and death. For non-Christians, he is almost anything else-myth, a political revolutionary, a prophet whose teaching was misunderstood or distorted by his followers....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Princess: A Private Novel - Hardcover Library Edition

JAMES PATTERSON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A secret and the British crown make a murderous combination in this page-turning suspense novel in the #1 bestselling Private series.

Private, the best investigation unit in the world, has agents who are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world--and they...
Read More check catalog