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A Talent for Murder: A Novel
Andrew Wilson · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the real-life mystery centered on the queen of crime herself: Agatha Christie. In this tantalizing new novel, Christie's mysterious ten-day disappearance serves as the starting point for a gripping novel, in which Christie herself is pulled into a case of blackmail and murder."I... |
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Where the Light Falls: A Novel of the French Revolution
ALLISON PATAKI · DIAL Press DELACORTE
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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A rich and sweeping novel of courage, duty, sacrifice, and love set during the French Revolution from New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki and her brother Owen Pataki Three years after the storming of the Bastille, the streets of Paris are roiling with the spirit of revolution.... |
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Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Angela J Davis · Pantheon Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the BlackLivesMatter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation's most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson... |
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The Third Nero
Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting... |
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Meddling Kids: A Novel
Edgar Cantero · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of John Dies at the End and Welcome to Night Vale comes a tour de force of horror, humor, and H.P. Lovecraft. The surviving members of a forgotten teenage detective club (and their dog) must reunite as broken adults to finally solve the terrifying case that ruined them all ... and sent... |
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
ROGER STEFFENS · W W NORTON
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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The definitive oral history of Bob Marley by one of the world's foremost reggae scholars. Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never... |
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Bed-Stuy Is Burning: A Novel
Brian Platzer · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Do the Right Thing meets The Bonfire of the Vanities, in this "thrilling debut novel about marriage, gentrification, parenthood, race, and the dangerous bargains we make with ourselves" (Ann Packer, New York Times bestselling author) set over the course of one cataclysmic day when... |
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only one side... |
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Live from Cairo: A Novel
IAN BASSINGTHWAIGHTE · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From a hugely talented, award-winning young author, a brilliant, lively debut novel about an impulsive American attorney, a methodical Egyptian translator, and a disillusioned Iraqi-American resettlement officer trying to protect a refugee who finds herself trapped in Cairo during the turbulent... |
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Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery
FRED VAN LENTE · Quirk Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Fred Van Lente's brilliant debut is both an homage to the Golden Age of Mystery and a thoroughly contemporary show-business satire. As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes... |
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The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace
ALEXANDER KLIMBURG · Penguin Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found... |
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Swimming with Bridgeport Girls: A Novel
ANTHONY TAMBAKIS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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If a Richard Russo protagonist went on a bender in Vegas, the result would be something like Swimming with Bridgeport Girls: an uproarious romantic comedy about a charismatic gambler who loses everything and sets off on a misguided quest (based on a misremembering of how The Great Gatsby... |
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Gork, the Teenage Dragon: A novel
GABE HUDSON · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Fans of Harry Potter and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this teenage dragon's spellbinding love story filled with bighearted humor and imagination."No good human won't love this dragon named Gork." - Dave Eggers Gork isn't like the other dragons at WarWings Military... |
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Moving Kings: A Novel
JOSHUA COHEN · Random House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, "a major American writer" (The New York Times) . |
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Hannibal
Patrick Hunt · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world.... |
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The Atlas of Forgotten Places: A Novel
JENNY D WILLIAMS · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones.The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait of family and love within a breathlessly... |
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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
Inara Verzemnieks · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A haunting, luminous reckoning with exile and loss.Raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs with other children about a land none of them had visited.... |
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A Life of Adventure and Delight
Akhil Sharma · Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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Heart-stopping and darkly comic stories from a writer of "brilliant authenticity" (New York Times Book Review) . Akhil Sharma's masterful stories focus on Indian protagonists at home and abroad and plunge the reader into the unpredictable workings of the human heart. A young... |
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