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Wrath of Poseidon

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure.

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The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

John Bolton · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43, Bolton brought to the administration thirty years of experience in international issues and a reputation...
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays

Leslie Jamison · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the "astounding" (Entertainment Weekly) , "spectacularly evocative" (The Atlantic) , and "brilliant" (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exams...
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The Shadow King: A Novel

Maaza Mengiste · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie

In 1935, orphaned servant Hirut struggles to adapt to her new household as Ethiopia faces Mussolini's looming invasion. As the battles...

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Night Boat to Tangier: A Novel

Kevin Barry · Doubleday
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible...
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Gun Island: A Novel

Amitav Ghosh · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritageBundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta's world upside down.A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors,...
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Will and Testament

Vigdis Hjorth · Verso Fiction
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

A controversial bestseller from one of Norway's most intelligent and highly-regarded novelistsWhen a dispute over her parents' will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and father have decided to leave two island...
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The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

Rion Amilcar Scott · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

One of Esquire's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

Breathtakingly imaginative and unapologetically original, The World Doesn't Require You announces a bold, generational talent.

Deftly spinning genres of his feverish literary invention, Rion Amilcar Scott creates his very own Yoknapatawpha...
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