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How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

Lilly Singh · Ballantine
Pages: 288
Format: Book

From actress, comedian, and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (aka Superwoman) comes the definitive guide to being a bawse - a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they've fought through it all and made it out the other...

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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti · The Dial Press
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

"A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget." - Richard Russo


Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner...
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4-Minute Fit: The Metabolism Accelerator for the Time-Crunched, Deskbound, and Stressed Out
4-Minute Fit: The Metabolism Accelerator for the Time-Crunched, Deskbound, and Stressed Out

Siphiwe Baleka · Touchstone
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

From Yale-educated truck driver and fitness guru Siphiwe Baleka, a revolutionary metabolism-spiking program for anyone who feels they don't have enough time, equipment, or money to get in shape and lose those extra pounds.

When Siphiwe Baleka, who had once been a NCAA...

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A Perfect Obsession
A Perfect Obsession

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Perfect suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham! The latest book in her New York Confidential series.

Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling...

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Richard Nixon: The Life
Richard Nixon: The Life

John A Farrell · Doubleday
Pages: 752
Format: Print book

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the page, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for.

Richard Nixon opens with young Navy lieutenant "Nick" Nixon returning from the Pacific and setting his cap at Congress,...
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It Happens All the Time: A Novel
It Happens All the Time: A Novel

Amy Hatvany · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From master storyteller Amy Hatvany - whose writing has been hailed as "gripping and emotionally honest" (Stephanie Evanovich, New York Times betselling author) - comes a provocative and compelling novel about two friends whose lives are changed by a drunken kiss.

I...
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The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later
The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later

RIC EDELMAN · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.

Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible...
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The Night Mark
The Night Mark

Tiffany Reisz · Mira Books
Pages: 400
Format: Book

From Tiffany Reisz, the international bestselling storyteller behind The Bourbon Thief and The Original Sinners series, comes an enthralling new novel about a woman swept away by the tides who awakens to find herself in 1921, reunited with the husband she's been mourning for four...

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Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character
Casey Stengel: Baseball's Greatest Character

Marty Appel · Doubleday
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Munson and Pinstripe Empire, Casey Stengel is the definitive biography of baseball's greatest character.

There was nobody like Casey before him, and no one like him since. For more than fifty years,...
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The Women in the Castle: A Novel
The Women in the Castle: A Novel

Jessica Shattuck · William Morrow
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York...

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Lenin on the Train
Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale · Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Book

In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and lead the revolt....

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Almost Missed You: A Novel
Almost Missed You: A Novel

Jessica Strawser · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Violet and Finn were "meant to be," said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage, they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their first vacation as a family, Violet can't...

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Strange the Dreamer
Strange the Dreamer

Laini Taylor · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 528
Format: Book

A breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor. Strange the Dreamer is the story of: the aftermath of a war between gods and men. a mysterious city stripped of its name. a mythic hero with blood on his hands. a young librarian...

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