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When GOD Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life

SQuire Rushnell · Atria Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

It is not by accident that you just picked up When God Winks. Whether you call it synchronicity or coincidence, what brought you to this book today is worth remembering. In fact, you may have suspected all along that there is more to coincidence than meets the eye. These seemingly random...
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One False Move (Myron Bolitar)

Harlan Coben · Dell
Format: Kindle Edition

She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her life—big time. Now Myron's next move may be his last—Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed...
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The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran · Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays...
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Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson · Vintage
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic...
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Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine · Graywolf Press
Pages: 169
Format: Paperback

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry *
* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book...

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Criminal: A Novel

Karin Slaughter · Dell
Format: Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[A] hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story.”—The Washington Post   “Slaughter’s best yet, by far.”—Lee Child   Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning...
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The Closers

Michael Connelly · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite OpenUnsolved Unit. His mission solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches...
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The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

Timothy Ferriss · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?Is it possible to: Reach your genetic potential in 6 months? Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours? Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing? Indeed, and much more. This is not just another diet and fitness...
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · Random House Inc
Pages: 454
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou · Ballantine Books
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback

Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern...
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What Happens in Paradise

Elin Hilderbrand · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Secret lives and new loves emerge in the bright Caribbean sunlight, in the follow-up to national bestseller Winter in Paradise
A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane...
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive

Dave Pelzer · HCI
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games...

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Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, Book 15)

Lee Child · Delacorte Press; 1st edition
Format: Kindle Edition

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Compulsively readable." - The Wall Street Journal

"Don't pick up [this] Jack Reacher novel if you don't have some time on your hands, because Worth Dying For is difficult to put down. . . . Child manages...
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The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar)

Harlan Coben · Island Books
Format: Kindle Edition

In this sixth novel in the award-winning Myron Bolitar series, Harlan Coben delivers a riveting powerhouse thriller—a twisting mystery of betrayal, family secrets, and murder.Myron Bolitar’s colleague at MB SportsReps, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of a client,...
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