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The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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The stunning story of one of America's great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families... |
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most... |
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The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple · Crown
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions - and inactions - have defined the course of our country.
What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president... |
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The Saturdays
Elizabeth Enright · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 177
Format: Hardcover
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Four reasons to cheer!
Meet the Melendys! Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest.... |
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These Happy Golden Years (Little House)
Laura Ingalls Wilder · HarperCollins
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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The eighth book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams. Laura is teaching school, and it's terrifying! Most of the students are taller than she is, and she must sleep away from home... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · Sterling
Pages: 526
Format: Hardcover
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The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical... |
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Nathaniel Philbrick · Viking Adult
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims... |
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The Password to Larkspur Lane (Nancy Drew, Book 10)
Carolyn Keene · Grosset & Dunlap
Pages: 175
Format: Hardcover
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Blue bells will be singing horses! This strange message, attached to the leg of a wounded homing pigeon, involves Nancy Drew in a dangerous mission. Somewhere an elderly woman is being held prisoner in a mansion, and Nancy is determined to find and free her. Meanwhile, the young detective's... |
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer · Anchor
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed... |
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First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton
David Maraniss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 512
Format: Paperback
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Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second... |
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
Clint Hill · Gallery Books
Pages: 343
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Clint Hill that Kirkus Reviews called "clear and honest prose free from salaciousness and gossip," Jackie Kennedy's personal Secret Service agent details his very close relationship with the First Lady during the four years... |
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel · Knopf
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality; not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.A New York... |
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Notes from a Small Island
Bill Bryson · William Morrow
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
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Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie's Farm, and places with names... |
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Stand, The Shining, and other great books shares his insights into the craft of writing, offering a breezy, humorous perspective on his own experience as a writer. 500,000 first printing. BOMC Main. QPB Alt. |
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O Pioneers!
Willa Cather · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
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The novel that first made Willa Cather famous - a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman - in a handsome hardcover volume.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies... |
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The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.... |
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'Salem's Lot
Stephen King · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'SALEM'S LOT, tells the story of evil in small-town America.
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with white clapboard houses, tree-lined streets, and solid church steeples. That summer in 'salem's Lot was a summer... |
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Funeral in Blue
Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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In her haunting new Victorian novel, Anne Perry brings to rich and passionate life the city that she has made her own. Once more she shares the intimacy of London's opulent drawing rooms and guides readers through gaslit thoroughfares that echo with hooves on cobblestones, the cries of street... |
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Coming Home
Rosamunde Pilcher · A Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 944
Format: Paperback
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Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sadness, and in every sense of the term,... |
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