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Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks · Knopf
Pages: 405
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves... |
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The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations
OPRAH WINFREY · Flatiron Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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Oprah Winfrey says Super Soul Sunday is the television show she was born to do. "I see it as an offering," she explains. "If you want to be more fully present and live your life with a wide-open heart, this is the place to come to."Now, for the first time, the aha moments... |
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It Devours!: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel
JOSEPH FINK · Harper Perennial
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A new page-turning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. Welcome to Night Vale ... "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I'm packing... |
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Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
DAVID YAFFE · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth centuryJoni Mitchell is a cultural touchstone for generations of Americans. In her heyday she released ten experimental, challenging, and revealing albums; her lyrics captivated people with the beauty... |
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The Floating World: A Novel
C MORGAN BABST · Algonquin Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdorés, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's... |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN · Ecco
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
ZACH WEINERSMITH · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technologies -- from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3D organ printing What will the world of tomorrow be like?... |
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Pulse
FELIX FRANCIS · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Book
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New York Times-bestselling author Felix Francis is back in the newest thrilling adventure in the Dick Francis tradition.
A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently... |
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Seven Days of Us: A Novel
FRANCESCA HORNAK · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...
It's Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under one roof. Even Emma and Andrew's elder daughter... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly · Knopf
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.
The veteran of four space flights... |
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Smile: A Novel
RODDY DOYLE · Viking
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's... |
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The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
LIV CONSTANTINE · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Book
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Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more - a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne... |
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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That are Funny, Complicated, and True
GABRIELLE UNION · Dey Street Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Amy Poehler's Yes Please, Lena Dunham's Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman. One month before the release of the highly anticipated... |
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The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too!
Bryant Johnson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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A fun, fully illustrated exercise book that details Ruth Bader Ginsburg's workout, written by her trainer
Have you ever wondered what keeps Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the Supreme Court's favorite octogenarians, so sprightly? She owes it all to her personal trainer, Bryant... |
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Infinite Ground
Martin MacInnes · Melville House
Pages: 272
Format: Book
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During a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner at a restaurant. Midway through the meal, Carlos gets up from the table and disappears.
An experienced, semi-retired detective takes the case, but what should be a routine investigation becomes something... |
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