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Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System
Jerome F Buting · Harpercollins Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
Interweaving an insider's account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery's defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a provocative,... |
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The Hate U Give
A C THOMAS · BALZER + BRAY Pages: 464 Format: Print book |
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Angie Thomas's searing debut about an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances addresses issues of racism and police violence with intelligence, heart, and unflinching honesty. Soon to be a major motion picture from Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions.Sixteen-year-old... |
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An Almond for a Parrot
Wray Delaney · Mira Books Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover |
I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas, sir, I would be lying ... In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets... |
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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
Tom Clavin · St Martin'S Press Pages: 400 Format: Print book |
Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek · Nation Books Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling... |
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Banana Cream Pie Murder
Joanne Fluke · Kensington Pub Corp Pages: 304 Format: Print book |
A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as she anticipated . . . After an extravagant honeymoon, Hannah's eager... |
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The Typewriter's Tale: A Novel
Michiel Heyns · St. Martin's Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton... |
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Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
Faye Kellerman · William Morrow Pages: 432 Format: Print book |
In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman's bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical,... |
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Marked for Revenge
Emelie Schepp · Mira Books Pages: 384 Format: Print book |
When a Thai girl overdoses smuggling drugs, the trail points to Danillo, the one criminal MMA-trained public prosecutor Jana Berzelius most wants to destroy. Eager to erase any evidence of her sordid childhood, Berzelius must secretly hunt down this deadly nemesis with whom she shares a horrific... |
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Stranger Than Fanfiction
Chris Colfer · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a funny, heartbreaking, unforgettable novel about friendship and fame. Cash Carter is the young, world famous lead actor of the hit television Wiz Kids. When four fans jokingly invite him on a cross-country road trip, they are shocked... |
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Kay Redfield Jamison · Alfred A Knopf Pages: 544 Format: Print book |
The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer... |
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Cravings: How I Conquered Food
Judy Collins · Nan A. Talese Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
A no-holds-barred account of folk legend Judy Collins's harrowing struggle with compulsive overeating and of the journey that led her to a solution. Since childhood Judy Collins has had a tumultuous, fraught relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claimed her career and her life.... |
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen · St Martin'S Press Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,... |
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Pub Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that... |
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Unshakable: How to Thrive
TONY ROBBINS · SIMON & SCHUSTER Pages: 272 Format: Print book |
After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom.... |
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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court
Jay Wright · Ballantine Pages: 256 Format: Print book |
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank... |
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