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Same Beach, Next Year

DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
Format: Print book

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The Women in the Castle: A Novel

Jessica Shattuck · William Morrow
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

"Moving . . . surprises and devastates." - New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic." - People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths about one of history's most tragic eras." - USA TodayThree...
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Saints for All Occasions: A novel

J Courtney Sullivan · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey...
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Full Wolf Moon

LINCOLN CHILD · Doubleday
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist . . . featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish, are often...
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

William Rosen · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less...
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The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up

Susannah Meadows · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

You're faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine's answers. What do you do? In The Other Side of Impossible, Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who were determined to solve the unsolvable. Their adventures take us to the outer frontiers...
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Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: A Novel

ALISON WEIR · Ballantine Books
Pages: 541
Format: Hardcover

In this second novel of Alison Weir's epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life - and death - forever changed a nation. Born into...
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House of Names: A Novel

Colm Toibin · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins...
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The Simplicity of Cider: A Novel

Amy E Reichert · Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Fall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about a prickly but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family's careworn orchard by the author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and Luck, Love...
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Elle

Philippe Djian · Other Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Elle is a psychological thriller that recounts thirty days in the life of its heroine Michèle - powerfully portrayed by Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's award-winning film - where memory, sex, and death collide at every page. A few weeks before Christmas, Michèle picks herself...
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