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Beyond the Ice Limit: A Gideon Crew Novel
Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 375
Format: Print book |
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BEYOND THE ICE LIMITThat thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth.Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable... |
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Lady Cop Makes Trouble
Amy Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating, feisty, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's... |
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The Heavenly Table: A Novel
Donald Ray Pollock · Doubleday
Pages: 365
Format: Print book |
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It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent) ; Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow) ; and Chimney (the youngest; thin;... |
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Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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Entertainment Weekly's "Best Beach Bet" A USA Today Hot Books for Summer SelectionA Miami Herald Summer Reads PickThe new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't... |
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J D Vance · Harper
Pages: 264
Format: Print book |
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"Essential reading."--David Brooks, New York TimesFrom a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal... |
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The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney · Ecco
Pages: 353
Format: Print book |
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Instant New York Times Bestseller"Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut." - People, Book of the Week"Her writing is like really good dark chocolate: sharper and more bittersweet than the cheap stuff, but also too delicious not to finish in one sitting."... |
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Maestra
L S Hilton · Putnam, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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With the cunning of Gone Girl's Amy Dunne, and as dangerous as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's Lisbeth Salander, the femme fatale of this Talented Mr. Ripley-esque psychological thriller is sexy, smart, and very, very bad in all the best ways. Judith Rashleigh spends her days as a put-upon... |
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City of Secrets: A Novel
Stewart O'Nan · Viking
Pages: 194
Format: Print book |
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"Stewart O'Nan's City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading - what a beautifully crafted novel." - Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author of Mission to ParisFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem... |
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Print book |
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In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the present, Nancy Isenberg takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash... |
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The Girls: A Novel
Emma Cline · Random House
Pages: 355
Format: Print book |
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An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong - this stunning first novel is perfect for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during... |
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Kate Summerscale · Penguin Press
Pages: 378
Format: Hardcover |
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In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention... |
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Serafina and the Twisted Staff
Robert Beatty · Disney-Hyperion
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds:... |
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Unti Silva Novel #5
Daniel Silva · Harper
Pages: 528
Format: Print book |
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris,... |
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Commonwealth.
Ann Patchett · Harpercollins
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's... |
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Vinegar Girl: A Novel
Anne Tyler · Hogarth Shakespeare
Pages: 237
Format: Print book |
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Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty... |
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The Hopefuls: A novel
Jennifer Close · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 303
Format: Print book |
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"A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young... |
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I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual
Luvvie Ajayi · Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Comedian, activist, and hugely popular culture blogger at AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi, serves up necessary advice for the masses in this hilarious book of essaysWith over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi is a go-to source for smart... |
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The forgotten soldier
Brad Taylor · Recorded Books |
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For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside of the US Constitution.... |
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Heroes of the Frontier
Dave Eggers · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A captivating, often hilarious novel of family, loss, wilderness, and the curse of a violent America, Dave Eggers's Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued... |
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End of watch : a novel
Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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The spectacular finale to the "New York Times" bestselling trilogy that began with "Mr. Mercedes" (winner of the Edgar Award) and "Finders Keepers" In "End of Watch, "the diabolical Mercedes Killer drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges... |
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