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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson · Spectra
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational...
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When Mystical Creatures Attack!

Kathleen Founds · University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

In When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedmans high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would...
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The Secrets She Keeps

MICHAEL ROBOTHAM · Scribner
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Girl on the Train and In a Dark, Dark Wood, from the internationally bestselling author whom Stephen King called "an absolute master" of the psychological thriller, comes a riveting suspense novel about the unlikely friendship between two pregnant...
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Landfalls: A Novel

Naomi J. Williams · Farrar
Pages: 315
Format: Print book

Long-listed for the NBCC's John Leonard PrizeThe gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discoveryIn her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical Lapérouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates,...
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The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick) "This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt." - People Magazine...
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Family Life: A Novel

Akhil Sharma · Norton & Company
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine "Gorgeously tender at its core ... beautiful, heartstopping ... Family Life really blazes." - Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book ReviewKnown for his "cunning, dismaying...
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The Drowning Spool

Monica Ferris · Berkley Group
Pages: 304
Format: Book

In the USA Today bestselling Needlecraft Mysteries, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, knows how to untangle even the most knotty of mysteries. But a soggy murder case might have Betsy in over her head ... Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy,...
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The Romanov Ransom

CLIVE CUSSLER · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi clan in this thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks,...
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The Best American Short Stories 2016

Junot Díaz · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"The literary 'Oscars' features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories." - Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive...
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The Unwitting: A Novel

Ellen Feldman · Random House Group
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

In CIA parlance, those who knew were "witting." Everyone else was among the "unwitting." On a bright November day in 1963, President Kennedy is shot. That same day, Nell Benjamin receives a phone call with news about her husband, the influential young editor of a literary...
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If these Walls Could Talk

James D. Crownover · Five Star Publishing
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover

Can the walls of an abandoned house absolve a man accused of a thirty-year-old murder? Not before Silent Cooper and Dempsy Nealy battle Apache thieves, Pancho's Villistas, marauding outlaws, and El Tigre of the Playas Valley. The loss of a letter beneath the ruins of a famous Arizona...
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Beneath the Mountain: A Novel

Luca D'Andrea · Harper Paperbacks
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

In Luca D'Andrea's atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot documentary-making...
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Murder, She Wrote: Aloha Betrayed

Jessica Fletcher · NAL
Format: Hardcover

New in the USA Today bestselling series—Jessica Fletcher finds herself in a tropical paradise where aloha means both hello and goodbye. But sometimes, the goodbye is permanent Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police...
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Letters to Véra

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov · Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Pages: 794
Format: Print book

The letters of the great writer to his wife - gathered here for the first time - chronicle a decades-long love story and document anew the creative energies of an artist who was always at work.No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's...
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SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Jackal

Don Mann · Little, Brown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Real-life SEAL Don Mann brings all of his insight and experience to the next installment of the SEAL Team Six series. When a senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Thomas Crocker and SEAL Team Six are sent to Mexico's lawless countryside, where federal agents protect...
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