Back Staff Picks | September Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  WEEKLY STAFF PICKS  
The Girl who Takes and Eye for an Eye

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the #1 international best seller The Girl in the Spider's Web: the new book in the Millennium series, which began with Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile...
Read More check catalog
 
 
What Happened

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Hillary Clinton's new book of essays of stories from her life, up to and including her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign, has been inspired by the hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades: "These are the words I live by. These quotes have helped me celebrate...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Column of Fire

KEN FOLLETT · Viking
Pages: 928
Format: Book

Follett continues the best-selling Kingsbridge series with a fiery tale set in the latter half of the sixteenth century. As in Pillars of the Earth (1989) and World Without End (2007), the cathedral city of Kingsbridge serves as the unifying focal point for a saga that stretches across...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives

"I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Devotion

Patti Smith · Yale University Press
Pages: 112
Format: Book

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic - its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture's beloved artists offers a detailed...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Enigma

Catherine Coulter · Gallery Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by New York Times #1 bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Four Tendencies: The Surprising Truth About the Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

Gretchen Rubin · Harmony
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life.

During her multibook investigation...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

STEPHEN GREENBLATT · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Stephen Greenblatt -- Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World -- investigates the life of one of humankind's greatest stories.

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Forest Dark: A Novel

NICOLE KRAUSS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth

"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

MAX LUCADO · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Anxiety is at an all time high, but there's a prescription for dealing with it. Max Lucado invites readers into a study of Philippians 4:6-7 where the Apostle Paul admonishes the followers of Christ, "Do not be anxious about anything . . ."

Philippians 4:6 encourages...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

LAUREN MARKHAM · Crown
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California - fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.

Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel

Eleanor Henderson · Ecco
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.

Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies-one light-skinned, the other dark-are born to Elma...

Read More check catalog
 
 
The Unquiet Grave: A Novel

Sharyn McCrumb · Atria Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

See all Editorial Reviews
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains

ROBERT H LUSTIG · Avery
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times-bestselling author of Fat Chance reveals the corporate scheme to sell pleasure, driving the international epidemic of addiction, depression, and chronic disease.

While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his New...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover


A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire.

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lies She Told

Cate Holahan · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Sometimes the truth is darker than fiction.

Liza Cole has thirty days to write the thriller that could put her back on the bestseller list. In the meantime, she's struggling to start a family with her husband, who is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. With...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Lightning Men: A Novel

Thomas Mullen · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Writes with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times, on Darktown

"Reads like the best of James Ellroy." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) , on Darktown

"Mullen...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Miss D and Me: Life with the Invincible Bette Davis

Kathryn Sermak · Hachette Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

For ten years Kathryn Sermak was at Bette Davis's side--first as an employee, and then as her closest friend--and in Miss D and Me she tells the story of the great star's harrowing but inspiring final years, a story fans have been waiting decades to hear.

Miss D and Me...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Devouring

James R Benn · Soho Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A murder in wartime Switzerland reveals Swiss complicity with the Nazis and profiteering during World War II

Billy and Kaz are sent to neutral Switzerland to investigate the murder of a Swiss banking official with ties to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) . The US and Swiss...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Affections

RODRIGO HASBN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A haunting novel about an unusual family's breakdown - set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl - from the literary star Jonathan Safran Foer calls, "a great writer."

Inspired by real events, Affections...
Read More check catalog
 
 
We Were Strangers Once

BETSY CARTER · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Nightingale and Brooklyn, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City.

On the eve of World War II Egon Schneider--a gallant and successful Jewish doctor, son of two world-famous...
Read More check catalog
 
 
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

DANIEL MENDELSOHN · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece.

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Gangster Nation

Tod Goldberg · Counterpoint
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Gangster Nation is a razor. It will slice you open and reveal your insides. And like the best of Tod Goldberg's work, it'll show you everything you are at your core." -- Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of The President's Shadow

...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty

Melissa Del Bosque · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño

Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing...

Read More check catalog
 
 
A Sick Life: TLC 'n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage

TIONNE WATKINS · Rodale Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Hailed by Rolling Stone as "the most effervescent and soulful girl group anyone has seen since the Supremes," five-time Grammy Award winning supergroup TLC has seen phenomenal fame and success. But backstage, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins has lived a dual life. In addition...

Read More check catalog
 
 
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words

Michael Ausiello · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield's Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman's Bettyville, Michael Ausiello - a respected TV columnist and founder and editor-in-chief of TVLine.com - remembers his late husband, and the lessons,...
Read More check catalog