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The Truth According to Us: A Novel

Annie Barrows · The Dial Press
Pages: 491
Format: Print book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE * From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage...
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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? THE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . . When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized...
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Carol Rifka Brunt · Dial Press Trade Paperbacks
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal * O: The Oprah Magazine * BookPage * Kirkus Reviews * BOOKLIST * School Library Journal In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become...
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Magic.

Steel Danielle · Random House Large Print
Pages: 386
Format: Large print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt starts on a summer evening, with the kind of magic found only in Paris. Once a year in the City of Light, a lavish dinner takes place outside a spectacular landmark - the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame . . . a new setting each time. Selected by secret...
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The Whites: A Novel

Richard Price · Henry Holt & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge.Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime...
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The Story of My Teeth

Valeria Luiselli · Coffee House Press
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

Praise for Valeria Luiselli:"Valeria Luiselli's lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery." - The New York Times"Luiselli's extraordinary debut novel Faces in the Crowd signals the arrival of major talent." - Jeremy Ellis, Brazos...
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Love in a Short White Dress

Lauren Weisberger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

"The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always...
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel · Mariner Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking...
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Truth or Die

James Patterson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The truth will set you free - if it doesn't kill you first. After a serious professional stumble, attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride. He's found happiness with his girlfriend Claire Parker, a beautiful, ambitious journalist always on the hunt for a scoop. But when...
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Seveneves

Neal Stephenson · William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 867
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic - a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years.What would happen if the world were ending?A catastrophic event renders...
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