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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed · Vintage Books; 1st edition
Format: Print book

1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAt twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision...
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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

Bill O'Reilly · Henry Holt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Readers around the world have thrilled to Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, and Killing Jesus--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of The O'Reilly Factor, comes the most epic book of all in this...
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography

Laura Ingalls Wilder · South Dakota Historical Society Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences...
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Harpercollins
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors...
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Why Can't I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease

Richard Horowitz · St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From one of the countrys foremost doctors comes a ground-breaking book about diagnosing, treating and healing Lyme, and peeling away the layers that lead to chronic disease.You may not know that you have Lyme. It can mimic every disease process including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia,...
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Curious Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

Janet & Sutton Phoef Evanovich · Bantam
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum series, teams up with Emmy-winning writer Phoef Sutton for a brand-new series of mysteries featuring Emerson Knight and Riley Moon, a dynamic duo with instant and undeniable chemistry. Emerson Knight is introverted,...
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Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · HarperPerennial
Pages: 259
Format: Paperback

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." - Chicago TribuneAldous Huxley is rightly considered a prophetic genius and one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century, and Brave New World is his masterpiece. From the author...
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Life After Life: A Novel

Kate Atkinson · Back Bay Books
Pages: 529
Format: Paperback

"One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson · Crown
Pages: 447
Format: Hardcover

In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect...
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Still Life with Bread Crumbs: A Novel

Anna Quindlen · Random House

Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared M. Diamond · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."―Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped...
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One with you.

Sylvia Day · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 473
Format: Print book

The instant number one bestsellerFROM #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR SYLVIA DAY The final chapter in the global blockbuster Crossfire quintetGideon Cross. Falling in love with him was the easiest thing I've ever done. It happened instantly. Completely. Irrevocably.Marrying him was a dream...
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Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel

Anne Perry · Ballantine Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester Monk and her husband, William, commander of the Thames...
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Words of Radiance

Brandon Sanderson · Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Pages: 1087
Format: Hardcover

Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive sequence began in 2010 with the New York Times bestseller The Way of Kings. Now, the eagerly anticipated Words of Radiance continues the epic story and answers many of your questions.Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable...
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's...
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