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No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
Stephanie Powell Watts · Ecco
Pages: 368
Format: Book |
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The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream.
JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high... |
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
Lesley Nneka Arimah · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book |
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker,... |
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Miss You
Kate Eberlen · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Print book |
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"If ever a couple was 'meant to be,' it's Tess and Gus. This is such a witty, poignant, and uplifting story of two lives crisscrossing over the years, with near miss after near miss. . . . I couldn't put it down." - Sophie Kinsella A wryly romantic debut novel with echoes... |
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Nevertheless: A Memoir
Alec Baldwin · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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One of the most accomplished and outspoken actors today chronicles the highs and lows of his life in this beautifully written, candid memoir. Over the past three decades, Alec Baldwin has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted, hilarious, and controversial leading... |
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Marlena: A Novel
Julie Buntin · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Book |
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An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades.
Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter,... |
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American War: A novel
OMAR EL AKKAD · ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.
Sarat Chestnut, born... |
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 752
Format: Print book |
This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer PrizeÂ-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election.
The evangelical movement began in the revivals... |
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The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince
Mayte Garcia · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
At the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince's first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside the personal and professional life of one of the world's most beloved icons.
In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song... |
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Ballplayer
Chipper Jones · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones - one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history - shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport.
Before Chipper Jones became an eight-time All-Star who amassed... |
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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy
Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover |
From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Stitches comes a powerful exploration of mercy, its limitless (if sometimes hidden) presence, why we ignore it, and how we can embrace it.
"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling... |
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel
Alexander Mccall Smith · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover |
From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.
When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue... |
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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan · Harperbusiness
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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"Every once in a while, you need someone standing by your shoulder, inspiring you, cheering you on, pushing you to go further. Sarah might be just the coach you're looking for." - Seth Godin, author of Linchpin As a child, Sarah Robb O'Hagan dreamed she could be a champion.... |
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Foxlowe: A Novel
Eleanor Wasserberg · Penguin Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book |
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An astonishing literary debut about a young girl's coming of age in the haunting, enchanting world of an English commune - a modern gothic novel with echoes of Room and Never Let Me Go.
Foxlowe is a crumbling old house in the moors... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID · PENGUIN Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special... |
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Gareth Russell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this interpretation of the tragic life of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, breaks new ground in our understanding of the very young woman who became queen at a time of unprecedented social and political... |
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