Back Top Choices | May Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Top Choices  
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel

Richard Flanagan · Random House Inc
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." - The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present....
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom

Michael Shermer · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Michael Shermer's exploration of science and morality that demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moralFrom Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare · Margaret Mcelderry Bks
Pages: 507
Format: Hardcover

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices can get to know warlock Magnus Bane like never before in this collection of New York Times bestselling tales, in print for the first time with an exclusive new story and illustrated material.This collection of eleven short stories...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Ancillary Sword

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Format: Paperback

The sequel to Ancillary Justice, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Hippie

PAULO COELHO · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you. Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social...
Read More check catalog
 
 
So Far So Good

Ursula K Le Guin · Copper Canyon Press
Pages: 100
Format: Hardcover

"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." -- Salon"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." -- Margaret Atwood"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Make 'Em Laugh: Short-Term Memories of Longtime Friends

Debbie Reynolds · HarperCollins Publishers Inc , 2015
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The beloved Hollywood star and New York Times bestselling author of Unsinkable continues her intimate chat with fans in this entertaining collection of anecdotes, stories, jokes, and random musings from a woman who has seen it all - and done most of it.From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making...
Read More check catalog
 
 
About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter

Lisa Alther · Nan A. Talese, Double Day
Pages: 242
Format: Print book

A provocative and wide-ranging conversation between two distinctive women - one American and one French - on the dilemmas, rewards, and demands of womanhood.Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? THE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . . When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Trail of Broken Wings

Sejal Badani · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback

When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose

Lissa Rankin · Rodale
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls "a hero's journey;" we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. Navigating the hero's journey, Lissa Rankin, MD, argues,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Christmas Escape: A Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

For countless readers, Christmastime means a delicious new holiday mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A Christmas Escape, her thirteenth noel to the season, transports us to the Mediterranean island of Stromboli for an unconventional Yuletide adventure - and an unforgettable...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Maverick Sheriff

Delores Fossen · Harlequin
Format: Print book

Delores Fossen kicks off her new series, Sweetwater Ranch, with a Texas lawman, a beautiful district attorney ... and the child they'll risk everything to protect Saving a little boy's life reopens painful wounds for Texas sheriff Cooper McKinnon. This could be his son, whose loss...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind

George Makari · W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story...
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