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A Kind of Freedom: A Novel
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Book
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A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans.
Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society, and when she falls for no-account... |
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A Stranger in the House
SHARI LAPENA · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door, a new thriller featuring a suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart
You're home making dinner for your husband.... |
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How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged
DK PUBLISHING. · DK
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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Can't keep a houseplant alive, no matter how hard you try and how good your intentions are? This is the book for you. You need this book. Give plants a chance. Help your plant live with survival tips and learn the simple ways not to kill your plants.With over 50 different types... |
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Home Fire: A Novel
Kamila Shamsie · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences.
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their... |
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How to Find Love in a Bookshop
VERONICA HENRY · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The enchanting story of a bookshop, its grieving owner, a supportive literary community, and the extraordinary power of books to heal the heart
Nightingale Books, nestled on the main street in an idyllic little village, is a dream come true for book lovers - a cozy haven... |
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Without Fear or Favor
ROBERT K TANENBAUM · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In the twenty-ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling Karp-Ciampi series featuring "the best fictional prosecuting attorney in literature" (Mark Lane, #1 New York Times bestselling author) , Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization... |
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The Doll Funeral
KATE HAMER · Melville House
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan . . . an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free." - The Guardian
On Ruby's thirteenth birthday, a wish... |
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Gone to Dust
MATTHEW GOLDMAN · Forge Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dust is the debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman. "Sharp wit, complex characters, and masterful plotting makes Goldman a writer to watch. Irreverent and insightful, private detective Nils Shapiro... |
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Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B-Movie Actor
BRUCE CAMPBELL · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Book
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It's been 15 years since his first memoir but Bruce is still living the dream as a "B" movie king in an "A" movie world.
Bruce Campbell makes his triumphant return from where he left off in If Chins Could Kill with further hilarious,... |
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The Rat Catchers' Olympics
Colin Cotterill · Soho Crime
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The boycotting of the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow has given the Democratic People's Republic of Laos the chance they needed to field their first-ever team. It's also just the sort of opportunity the now retired, and therefore very bored, ex-National Coroner of Laos, the venerable Dr. Siri... |
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Total Focus: Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
Brandon Webb · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A former Navy SEAL sniper turned media CEO and New York Times bestselling author teaches business leaders how to make the best decisions under pressure.
Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing... |
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How to Behave in a Crowd: A Novel
Camille Bordas · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing, darkly comedic novel that brilliantly evokes the confusions of adolescence and marks the arrival of an extraordinary young talent.
Isidore Mazal is eleven years old, the youngest of six siblings living in a small French town. He doesn't quite fit in. Berenice,... |
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The Mountain
Paul Yoon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From Paul Yoon, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Once the Shore and Snow Hunters, comes a luminous collection of short stories set throughout the world - from the Hudson Valley to the Russian Far East - across periods of time after World War II.
In... |
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Cat Shining Bright: A Joe Grey Mystery
SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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While new father Joe Grey is overjoyed to teach his three young kittens about the world, he misses his cop work - secretly helping solve crimes alongside his human friends at Molena Point P. D. But when beautician Barbara Conley and one of her customers are found dead in the salon,... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, and insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy.
In 1690, the dour New England Primer, thought to be the first American children's book,... |
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A Promise to Kill: A Clyde Barr Novel
ERIK STOREY · Scribner
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From the author dubbed by Jeffery Deaver "a born storyteller" whose first novel Nothing Short of Dying was hailed as "exceptional," "a rollercoaster read," and "adrenaline-fueled" by publications on both sides of the Atlantic, this is Erik... |
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Beautiful Criminals: A Novel
Eric Tipton · Atria/Emily Bestler Books/Alloy Entertainment
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of the Spellman Files comes an irreverent family drama about love, crime, and the ties that bind as three generations of women attempt to go straight ... or not.
When Amanda Cooper steps foot out of jail, she's determined to never go back. Two years behind bars means she's... |
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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Suzy Hansen · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered America.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist... |
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
John Bateson · Scribner
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job - from high-profile deaths to serial killers, to Golden Gate Bridge suicides.
Marin... |
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Dangerous Animals: A Memoir with Claws
Kirstin Mcmillan · Dey Street Books
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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One of Hollywood's top animal handlers recounts the story of her harrowing coming-of-age in the magnetic grip of her father, a menagerie of wild and dangerous animals, and the canine connection that would transform her life. Kirstin McMillan's childhood was a literal circus. By the time... |
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