LibraryBanner
 
Simple News Pro
  Weekly Staff Picks  
Once Upon a River: A Novel

DIANE SETTERFIELD · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "eerie and fascinating" (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a richly imagined, powerful new novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that...
 
 
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

GASTON DORREN · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it -- only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore...
 
 
My Favorite Half-Night Stand

Christina Lauren · Gallery Books
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author who "hilariously depicts modern dating" (Us Weekly) , My Favorite Half-Night Stand is a laugh-out-loud romp through online dating and its many, many fails.Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. A UC Santa Barbara professor, she's...
 
 
The Dakota Winters: A Novel

Tom Barbash · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon's assassinationIt's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend...
 
 
The Blood: A Jem Flockhart Mystery

E. S. Thomson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In a hunt that takes Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain through the harrowing streets of Victorian London to the dangers of the seamen's floating hospital, The Blood, they will endeavor to solve a dark and terrible new mystery. Summoned to the riverside by the desperate, scribbled note...
 
 
How to Feed Yourself: 100 Fast, Cheap, and Reliable Recipes for Cooking When You Don't Know What You're Doing

Spoon University · Harmony
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

There's a time in life when you wake up and realize you're on your own: if you don't feed yourself, it's buttered noodles for the rest of your days. HOW TO FEED YOURSELF gives you exactly what you need to take control of your tiny kitchen and feed yourself depending on what's in your fridge,...
 
 
Eighteen Below: A Fabian Risk Novel

STEFAN AHNHEM · Minotaur Books
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

The third book in the internationally bestselling Fabian Risk series, a terrifying story of stolen identity and serial murder.ON A HOT SUMMER'S DAY The police chase a speeding car through the streets of Helsingborg. When they reach the bridge, the driver keeps going straight into the cold,...
 
 
Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

ANN HOOD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this warm collection of personal essays and recipes, best-selling author Ann Hood nourishes both our bodies and our souls.From her Italian-American childhood through raising and feeding a growing family and cooking with her new husband, food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long...