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The Ship of Brides: A Novel

Jojo Moyes · Penguin Books, 2014.
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You, After You, and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over...
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel

Fredrik Backman · Atria Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm!

In this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family...
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World Order

Henry Kissinger · Penguin Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book

Walter Isaacson, Time:
"Dazzling and instructive... [a] magisterial new book."

Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen...
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The Rule of Thoughts

James Dashner · Delacorte
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From James Dashner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, which includes The Maze Runner - now a #1 movie worldwide - and The Scorch Trials - soon to be a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox that hits theaters on September 18, 2015 - comes The Rule...
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The Buried Giant: A novel

Kazuo Ishiguro · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ."...
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Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius

Donald Norris · McGraw Hill Education
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A dozen fiendishly fun projects for the Raspberry Pi! This wickedly inventive guide shows you how to create all kinds of entertaining and practical projects with Raspberry Pi operating system and programming environment. In Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius, you'll learn how to build...
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Rogues

George R. R. Martin · Bantam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors—including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin!  If youre a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from 1 New York...
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Ms. Marvel 1: No Normal

G. Willow Wilson · Marvel Worldwide
Pages: 120
Format: Print book

Marvel Comics presents the all-new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine that has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she is suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the all-new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim?...
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The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Philip Zaleski · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 656
Format: Hardcover

Best Book of June 2015 (The Christian Science Monitor) C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every...
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The Life We Bury

Allen Eskens · Seventh Street Books
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl...
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The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet: Activate Your Body's Natural Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast

Mark Hyman · Little Brown & Co.
Pages: 338
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Hyman's revolutionary weight-loss program, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The Blood Sugar Solution, supercharged for immediate results!

The key to losing weight and keeping it off is maintaining low insulin levels. Based on Dr. Hyman's groundbreaking...
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Endangered

C J Box · G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 369
Format: Print book

New York Times-bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more - Joe's eighteen-year-old ward, April,...
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 Bestseller in the U.K.From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought - a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's last...
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Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she's a pint-sized recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she's a fire-eating demon. To the fashionable foodie goddess of supper clubs, she's a wanton threat. She's an enigma,...
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IQ

Joe Ide · Mulholland Books
Pages: 321
Format: Print book

A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods uses his blistering intellect to solve the crimes the LAPD ignores. East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood...
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