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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble... |
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Ghost songs : a memoir
Regina McBride · Tin House Books
Pages: 350
Format: Print book |
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A searingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir about a girl who begins to see her parents' ghosts after their tragic deaths.Eighteen-year-old Regina McBride is haunted by the ghosts of her parents. Her father visits her -- he is desperate, but she doesn't know how to help him. Her mother is a quiet... |
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Another day in the death of America : a chronicle of ten short lives
Gary Younge · Nation Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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On an average day in America, seven young people, aged nineteen or under, will be shot dead.In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost on one random day - November 23, 2013. Ten children died that day. From Jaiden... |
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The Trespasser: A Novel
Tana French · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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"Atmospheric and unputdownable." - People A brilliant new novel from the New York Times bestselling author, whom Gillian Flynn calls "mesmerizing" and Stephen King calls "incandescent." Being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway... |
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My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture.My Own Words is a selection... |
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Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed.... |
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The Wangs vs. the World
Jade Chang · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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A hilarious debut novel about a wealthy but fractured Chinese immigrant family that had it all, only to lose every last cent - and about the road trip they take across America that binds them back together Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built... |
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Crosstalk
Connie Willis · Del Rey
Pages: 512
Format: Print book |
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Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk - a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes... |
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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016
Joe Hill · Mariner Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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"A great, fun, romping collection of stories." - San Francisco Book Review "This volume's diverse list of well-known and rising stars . . . makes it a welcome addition to the 'Best American' series." - Washington Post "A powerful collection that is worth your... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits... |
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Nicotine: A Novel
Nell Zink · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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The "wonderfully talented" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families - both the ones we're born into and the ones we create - a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits... |
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The Motion of Puppets: A Novel
Keith Donohue · Picador Usa
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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From the author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth -- A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantmentIn the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that... |
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You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
Phoebe Robinson · Plume
Pages: 285
Format: Print book |
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A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope Queens podcaster Phoebe RobinsonBeing a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced... |
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Napoleon's Last Island: A Novel
Thomas Keneally · Atria Books
Pages: 432
Format: Print book |
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From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life... |
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The Mortifications: A Novel
Derek Palacio · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Derek Palacio's stunning, mythic novel marks the arrival of a fresh voice and a new chapter in the history of 21st century Cuban-American literature.In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnación - father, husband, political insurgent - refuses... |
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By Gaslight: A Novel
Steven Price · Farrar
Pages: 752
Format: Print book |
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A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminalLondon, 1885. Three years before the Whitechapel killings, London is a city of fog and darkness. A severed head is dredged from the Thames; ten miles away, a woman's body is discovered on Edgeware Road. The famed... |
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