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44 Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 325
Format: Paperback
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44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1
The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy - just ask his mother.
Welcome... |
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San Miguel
T.C. Boyle · Viking
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women's lives on a California island
On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start... |
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The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde · Viking Adult
Pages: 374
Format: Hardcover
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Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice) , and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists... |
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My Old True Love
Sheila Kay Adams · Algonquin Books
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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Sheila Kay Adams brings us a novel inspired by the ballads of the English, Scottish, and Irish. These long, sad stories of heartbreak and betrayal, violence and love, have been sung for generations by the descendents of those who settled the Appalachian mountains in the 1700s. As they raised... |
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The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window
Megan Smith · Everyman's Library
Pages: 696
Format: Hardcover
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.
The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel,... |
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A Death in Vienna: A Novel (Mortalis)
Frank Tallis · Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 471
Format: Paperback
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In 1902, elegant Vienna is the city of the new century, the center of discoveries in everything from the writing of music to the workings of the human mind. But now a brutal homicide has stunned its citizens and appears to have bridged the gap between science and the supernatural. Two very... |
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami · Knopf
Pages: 386
Format: Book
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel - a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan - from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami.
Here he gives... |
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The Small Rain: A Novel
Madeleine L'Engle · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 371
Format: Paperback
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Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Planet, and Certain Women. The Small Place, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves... |
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The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur
Axel Olrik · Penguin UK
Pages: 560
Format: Book
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From Bernard Cornwell, the creator of the No. 1 bestselling Sharpe novels. In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land . . .
Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead. His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country's lesser kings seek... |
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My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 387
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall.
Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed... |
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Circling the Sun: A Novel
Paula McLain · Ballantine Books
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS * "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be captivated by Circling... |
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How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life: A Novel
Mameve Medwed · William Morrow
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? In this delicious laugh-out-loud new novel of love and loss, rivalry and reconciliation, treasure and trash, by acclaimed author Mameve Medwed (Mail, The End of an Error) , we see what happens... |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan · Penguin
Pages: 450
Format: Paperback
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What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore's Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only... |
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris · Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pages: 886
Format: Hardcover
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Focuses on Roosevelt's pre-presidential career, covering the period between 1858 to 1901, during which time Roosevelt built himself up from a frail asthmatic youth to a robust man with varied interests |
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Rising Strong
Brene Brown · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 336
Format: Book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.
Don't miss the hourlong Netflix special Brene Brown: The Call to Courage!
Social scientist Brene Brown has ignited... |
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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
Drema Hall Berkheimer · Zondervan
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Publishers Weekly: Berkheimer candidly brings her personality to the page in this incredible journey from naivete to wide-eyed maturity. (April 2016)
Library Journal: Berkheimer's homespun memoir provides a wistful look back at a simpler time. An appealing counterbalance... |
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The Snow Child: A Novel
Eowyn Ivey · Reagan Arthur Books
Pages: 389
Format: Book
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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... |
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 864
Format: Paperback
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize - winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest... |
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