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The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia....
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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

Peter Zeihan · Twelve; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power. Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international...
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain · Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet,"...
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The Mistress: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Incomparable storyteller Danielle Steel illuminates rarely glimpsed precincts of unimaginable wealth and power, where love and freedom are the most dangerous desires of all. Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian...
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Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Baking Revolution Continues with 90 New, Delicious and Easy Recipes Made with Gluten-Free Flours

Jeff Hertzberg · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 291
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling authors of the groundbreaking Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day bring you a new cookbook with 90 delicious, entirely gluten-free bread recipes made from easy-to-find ingredients.With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg, MD and Zoë François...
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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Piper Kerman · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 327
Format: Paperback

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced...
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Hard Choices

Hillary Rodham Clinton · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America's 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future."All of us face hard choices in our lives," Hillary Rodham Clinton...
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

Susan Orlean · Ballantine Publ.
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean's wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower - the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii...
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Agents of the Apocalypse: A Riveting Look at the Key Players of the End Times

David Jeremiah · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Who Will Usher in Earth's Final Days?Are we living in the end times? Is it possible that the players depicted in the book of Revelation could be out in force today? And if they are, would you know how to recognize them?In Agents of the Apocalypse, noted prophecy expert Dr. David Jeremiah...
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Smokin' with Myron Mixon: Recipes Made Simple, from the Winningest Man in Barbecue

Myron Mixon · Ballantine Books
Pages: 169
Format: Paperback

The secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! In the world of competitive barbecue, nobody's won more prize money, more trophies, or more adulation than Myron Mixon. And he comes by it honestly: From the time he was old enough to stoke a pit, Mixon...
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Eat to Live Cookbook: 200 Delicious Nutrient-Rich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health

Joel Fuhrman · HarperOne
Pages: 323
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to eat delicious food that allows you to lose weight and keep it off permanently without hunger or deprivation? Do you want to throw away your medications and recover from chronic illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes? Do you want to maintain...
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Underground Airlines

Ben H Winters · Mulholland Books
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

Now a New York Times bestseller It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working...
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It's a Long Story: My Life

Willie Nelson · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 392
Format: Print book

The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . . So say the publishers about this book I've written. What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived it. It's a story...
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I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

Terry Mcmillan · Crown
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful...
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