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To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines

Judith Newman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story...
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Inheriting Edith: A Novel

Zoe Fishman - William Morrow
Format: Print book

A poignant breakout novel, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin Hilderbrand, about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat - she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering...
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Two Kinds of Truth

MICHAEL CONNELLY - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael ConnellyAn NPR Best Book of 2017A Times Critics' Top Book of 2017 A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of 2017An Amazon Book of the MonthHarry...
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Killing Kate

Alex Lake - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of ebook No. 1 bestseller and Sunday Times top ten bestseller AFTER ANNA.A serial killer is stalking your home town.He has a type: all his victims look the same.And they all look like you.Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial...
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

JESSICA BRUDER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The end of retirement?From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short,...
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Same Beach, Next Year

Dorothea Benton Frank - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to her magical Lowcountry of South Carolina in this bewitching story of marriage, love, family, and friendship that is infused with her warm and engaging earthy humor and generous heart.One enchanted summer, two couples begin...
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The Color of Our Sky: A Novel

Amita Trasi - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice - a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night.India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old...
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Mississippi Blood: A Novel

Greg Iles - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi - Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores...
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Kiss Carlo: A Novel

Adriana Trigiani - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From Adriana Trigiani, the beloved New York Times-bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife, comes an exhilarating epic novel of love, loyalty, and creativity - the story of an Italian-American family on the cusp of change.It's 1949 and South Philadelphia bursts with opportunity during...
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Two Nights: A Novel

KATHY REICHS - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A standalone thriller featuring a "tough-talking, scarred heroine"* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones. Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer...
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Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel

Faye Kellerman - William Morrow
Format: Print book

In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman's bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical,...
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Foxlowe: A Novel

Eleanor Wasserberg - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

An astonishing literary debut about a young girl's coming of age in the haunting, enchanting world of an English commune - a modern gothic novel with echoes of Room and Never Let Me Go Foxlowe is a crumbling old house in the moors - a wild, secluded, and magical place. For Green,...
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Ill Will: A Novel

Dan Chaon - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Two sensational unsolved crimes - one in the past, another in the present - are linked by one man's memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The...
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You'll Never Know, Dear: A Novel of Suspense

HALLIE EPHRON - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

An addictive novel of psychological suspense from the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight, about three generations of women haunted by a little girl's disappearance, and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to the truth . . .Seven-year-old Lissie Woodham and her four-year-old...
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The Marriage Pact: A Novel

Michelle Richmond - Bantam
Format: Hardcover

In this relentlessly paced novel of psychological suspense, New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond crafts an intense and shocking tale that asks: How far would you go to protect your marriage? Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once...
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Most Dangerous Place: A Jack Swyteck Novel

James Grippando - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Jack signs on to defend an old school friend's wife who is accused of murdering her college rapist, but he finds the case unexpectedly complicated by the woman's tortured family history and conflicting testimony from an ex-boyfriend.
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Whispering in French: A Novel

SOPHIA NASH - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women's fiction debut with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns to France to sell her family home and finds an unexpected chance to start over - perfect...
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Chaos: A Scarpetta Novel

Patricia Cornwell - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell returns with another scintillating thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her investigative partner Pete Marino...
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Origin

ANONYMOUS. - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim...
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Perfect Little World: A Novel

Kevin Wilson - Ecco
Format: Print book

Kevin Wilson's anticipated follow-up to The Family Fang, Perfect Little World is a warm-hearted and emotional story about a young woman charting her own course."[A] moving novel about love, parenting, and the families we create for ourselves." - Library Journal When Isabelle...
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The Women in the Castle: A Novel

Jessica Shattuck - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates." - New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic." - People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature...
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To Be Where You Are

JAN KARON - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove...
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The Hollywood Daughter: A Novel

Kate Alcott - Doubleday
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe In 1950, Ingrid...
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Camino Island: A Novel

JOHN GRISHAM - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino...
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The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

Roland Merullo - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

Roland Merullo's playful, eloquent, and life-affirming novel finds the Pope and the Dalai Lama teaming up for an unsanctioned road trip through the Italian countryside to rediscover the everyday joys of life that can seem, even for the two holiest men in the world, unattainable. What happens...
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The Captain's Daughter: A Novel

Meg Mitchell Moore - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Emma Straub comes an emotionally gripping novel about a woman who returns to her hometown in coastal Maine and finds herself pondering the age-old question of what could have beenGrowing up in Little Harbor, Maine, the daughter of a widowed lobsterman,...
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The Rooster Bar

JOHN GRISHAM - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they...
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The Store

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

THE STORE IS WATCHING YOU.Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe. ALWAYS WATCHING.Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret...
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly - Little
Format: Print book

Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works...
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Night of Fire: A Novel

Colin Thubron - Harper
Format: Print book

Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants - including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon;...
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A Column of Fire

KEN FOLLETT - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"Absorbing, painlessly educational, and a great deal of fun." - The Washington PostInternational bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional...
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Saints for All Occasions: A novel

J Courtney Sullivan - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This year's best book about family." - Ron Charles, The Washington PostA sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that...
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The Sleepwalker: A Novel

Chris Bohjalian - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest Room comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss, and buried desire - the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night. When Annalee Ahlberg goes missing, her children fear the worst....
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Burntown: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People:Ashford, Vermont, might look like your typical sleepy New England college town, but to the shadowy residents who live among the remains of its abandoned mills and factories, it's known as "Burntown."...
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Domina

L S Hilton - G.P. Putnams Sons
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Maestra, femme fatale Judith Rashleigh once again leads readers into the mesmerizing and dangerous underworld of Europes glamorous elite. Since opening her own art gallery in Venice, Judith Rashleigh - now Elisabeth Teerlinc...
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Capital Gaines: The Smart Things I've Learned by Doing Stupid Stuff

CHIP GAINES - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover

"National Bestseller - New York Times, USA Today, Publisher's Weekly, Wall Street Journal"The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before...
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The Clockwork Dynasty: A Novel

Daniel H Wilson - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient...
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Cross the Line

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

Alex Cross chases a cold-blooded killer...with a conscience. Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor,...
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The Readymade Thief

AUGUSTUS ROSE - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The most must-read of all must-reads." - Marie Claire"A kickass debut from start to finish." - Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground RailroadLee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run. Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend,...
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Full Wolf Moon

LINCOLN CHILD - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist . . . featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how outlandish,...
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Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World

Nell Stevens - Doubleday
Format: Print book

A whimsical blend of memoir and travelogue, laced with wry writing advice, Bleaker House is a story of creative struggle that brilliantly captures the self-torture of the writing life. Twenty-seven-year-old Nell Stevens was determined to write a novel, but life kept getting in the way....
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The Marsh King's Daughter

Karen Dionne - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Praised by Lee Child and Karin Slaughter, and sure to thrill fans of The Girl on the Train and The Widow, The Marsh King's Daughter is mesmerizing psychological suspense, the story of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past...
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The Twenty-Three

Linwood Barclay - Berkley Books
Format: Print book

From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes the jaw-dropping finale of the Promise Falls Trilogy. Everything has been leading to this. It's the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 23rd, and the small town of Promise Falls, New York, has found...
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes: A Novel

JAMIE FORD - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair."An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating,...
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The Burning Girl: A Novel

CLAIRE MESSUD - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children.Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape...
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Catalina Eddy: A Novel in Three Decades

Daniel Pyne - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

Renowned Hollywood screenwriter Daniel Pyne returns with three inter-connected novellas of nasty crimes and nastier cops in Southern California.Dan Pyne returns with a collection of three novellas about SoCal's police underworld, each set in a different decade. Together, Pyne's novellas...
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The Child

FIONA BARTON - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

One of the most highly anticipated thrillers of the year - as seen in People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, USA Today, Bustle, Good Housekeeping.com, HelloGiggles, The Boston Globe, PureWow, The Dallas Morning News, and more! "The Child...
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American War: A novel

OMAR EL AKKAD - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel,...
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No Man's Land: A Novel

Simon Tolkien - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book

Inspired by the real-life experiences of his grandfather, J. R. R. Tolkien, during World War I, Simon Tolkien delivers a perfectly rendered novel rife with class tension, period detail, and stirring action, ranging from the sharply divided society of northern England to the trenches of the Somme....
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Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice from the Silence of Autism

NAOKI HIGASHIDA - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling The Reason I Jump, an extraordinary self-portrait of life as a young adult with autism Naoki Higashida was only thirteen when he wrote The Reason I Jump, a revelatory account of autism from the inside by a nonverbal Japanese child, which...
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine

William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book

The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less...
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Uncommon Type: Some Stories

Tom Hanks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War

THOMAS J BRENNAN - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreA unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS...
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Murder on the Serpentine: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel

Anne Perry - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In the history of Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian mystery series, the stakes have never been greater than now - as a mission for queen and country places the future of the British Empire squarely in Thomas Pitt's hands. It is not the custom for the commander of Special Branch to receive...
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The Orphan's Tale

Pam Jenoff - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survivalSixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being...
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The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis--and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

Ben Sasse - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future.Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents...
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My Italian Bulldozer: A Novel

Alexander Mccall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside.When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects...
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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

Plutarch. - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt...
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The Other Side of Impossible: Ordinary People Who Faced Daunting Medical Challenges and Refused to Give Up

Susannah Meadows - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

You're faced with a difficult health condition. You have exhausted medicine's answers. What do you do? In The Other Side of Impossible, Susannah Meadows tells the real-life stories of seven families who were determined to solve the unsolvable. Their adventures take us to the outer...
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The Story of Arthur Truluv

Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Book

For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform...

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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

FRANKLIN FOER - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge...
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Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive."...
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Secrets in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel

J D ROBB - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series: Lt. Eve Dallas must separate rumors from reality when a woman who traffics in other people's secrets is silenced.The chic Manhattan nightspot Du Vin is not the kind of place Eve Dallas would usually patronize, and it's...
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We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir

Kelly Grey Carlisle - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

"Moving and complex, this is an exquisitely written tale of perseverance and unconditional love. A worthwhile addition to any collection." -- Library Journal, STARRED ReviewA mother's murder. Her daughter's redemption. And the complicated past that belongs to them both.Kelly...
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The Confessions of Young Nero

Margaret George - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling and legendary author of Helen of Troy and Elizabeth I now turns her gaze on Emperor Nero, one of the most notorious and misunderstood figures in history. Built on the backs of those who fell before it, Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty...
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Fever Dream: A Novel

Samanta Schweblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book

"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." - Vanity Fair"Genius." - Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's...
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The Fix

DAVID BALDACCI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

THE NEW MEMORY MAN NOVEL!Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team...
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Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: A Novel

ALISON WEIR - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this second novel of Alison Weir's epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life - and death - forever changed a nation. Born into...
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Hannibal

Patrick Hunt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

One of the greatest commanders of the ancient world brought vividly to life: Hannibal, the brilliant general who successfully crossed the Alps with his war elephants and brought Rome to its knees.Hannibal Barca of Carthage, born 247 BC, was one of the great generals of the ancient world....
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel of Christmas Past

SAMANTHA SILVA - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"A charming, comic, and ultimately poignant story about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written. It's as foggy and haunted and redemptive as the original; it's all heart, and I read it in a couple of ebullient, Christmassy gulps." -- Anthony Doerr,...
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Crime Scene

JONATHAN KELLERMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King) . Natural causes or foul play?...
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

MATTHEW SULLIVAN - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Goodreads Debut Author of the Month and an Indie Next Pick! "Sullivan's debut is a page-turner featuring a heroine bookseller who solves a cold case with clues from books - what is not to love" - Nina George, author of The Little French Bistro, and the New York Times...
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The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel

Fannie Flagg - Random House
Format: Print book

The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive. Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still...
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

ARUN GANDHI - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,...
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If Not for You: A Novel

Debbie Macomber - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Debbie Macomber has written an emotionally stirring novel that shows how sometimes a choice can seem wrong even though it's absolutely right. If not for her loving but controlling parents, Beth Prudhomme might never have taken charge of her life...
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The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: A Novel

Lindsey Lee Johnson - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty - the American high school - in this captivating debut novel.The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local...
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Hello, Sunshine

Laura Dave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Laura Dave - the author of the "addictive" (Us Weekly) , "winning" (Publishers Weekly) and critically acclaimed bestseller Eight Hundred Grapes - comes a new novel about the secrets we keep ... even from ourselves.Sunshine Mackenzie has it all ... until...
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House of Names: A Novel

Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tibn comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra - spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling - and her children."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins...
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Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

Mark Helprin - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

The magnificent new novel by the gifted, singular #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great WarMark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old...
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Always: A Novel

Sarah Jio - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A gripping novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart's capacity to remember, from the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violets of MarchEnjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fianc, Ryan, at one of Seattle's chicest...
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The Room of White Fire

T. Jefferson Parker - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

In this stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker, P.I. Roland Ford must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run. A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. carrying his own wounds...
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Defectors: A Novel

JOSEPH KANON - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

A USA TODAY "Must Read" Book A New York Post "Must Read" Book "Fascinating ... [Kanon] is a master of the genre...[The] roller-coaster plot will keep you guessing until the final page." - The Washington Post From the bestselling author...
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The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds

Selina Siak Chin Yoke - Amazoncrossing
Format: Print book

Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn to embrace her mixed Malayan-Chinese identity as a Nyonya - and her destiny as a cook, rather than following her first dream of attending school like her brother.Amidst the smells of chillies...
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The Blackbird Season: A Novel

Kate Moretti - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

"Exceptional ... a deliciously sinister glimpse into the duplicity of small-town lives and the ease with which people turn on each other when tragedy comes calling. Moretti's tale of jealousy and obsession is nothing less than dark magic. Witchery indeed." - Kirkus Reviews,...
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The Last Tudor

Philippa Gregory - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father...
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I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

KEVIN HART - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together...
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The Spy: A novel

Paulo Coelho - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. The story of her celebrated yet mysterious life as an exotic dancer and courtesan, and her controversial execution as a spy during the First...
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Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself

JOHN PIELMEIER - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland.Long defamed as a vicious...
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Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Majestic...Isaacson takes on another complex, giant figure and transforms him into someone we can recognize...Enthralling, masterful, and passionate." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A monumental tribute to a titanic figure." - Publishers Weekly...
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Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like...
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Beartown: A Novel

FREDRIK BACKMAN - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestseller * The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream - and the price required to make it come true. "You'll love this engrossing novel." - People...
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The Midas Legacy: A Novel

Andy Mcdermott - Dell Pub Co
Format: Print book

American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, search for King Midas's legacy in the latest thrilling adventure in Andy McDermott's globe-spanning series. For Nina Wilde and her ex-SAS husband Eddie Chase, locating the legendary lost city of Atlantis...
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Selection Day: A Novel

Aravind Adiga - Scribner
Format: Print book

From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming-of-age threatens their relationship, future, and sense...
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The Simplicity of Cider: A Novel

Amy E Reichert - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

Fall in love with The Simplicity of Cider, the charming new novel about a prickly but gifted cider-maker whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a handsome man and his young son at her family's careworn orchard by the author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and Luck, Love...
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Echoes in Death

J. D. Robb - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES . . . The chilling new suspense novel from the author of Brotherhood in Death. After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party,...
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New People

Danzy Senna - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America. As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning...
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Golden Hill: A Novel

FRANCIS SPUFFORD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

"Gorgeously crafted ... Spufford's sprawling recreation here is pitch perfect." - Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air "A fast-paced romp that keeps its eyes on the moral conundrums of America." - The New Yorker "Delirious storytelling backfilled with this...
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The Road Ahead: Stories of the Forever War

Adrian Bonenberger - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

A decade has passed since boots first hit the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the war has not ended -- only changed. Twenty-five diverse veteran voices reflect the changing face of combat and reflect the haunting realities and truths only fiction can reveal.These masterfully crafted...
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

MONICA HESSE - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Recommended Summer reading by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, and Elle. A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night...
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House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery

Nicola Cornick - Graydon House
Format: Paperback

The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House - a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite three women across four centuries in a tangle of romance, deceit and destiny ... In the winter...
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Best Day Ever

Kaira Rouda - Graydon House
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling, page-turning vein of The Couple Next Door and The Dinner, Kaira Rouda weaves a gripping, tautly suspenseful tale of deception and betrayal dark enough to destroy a marriage ... or a life. "I glance at my wife as she climbs into the passenger seat, and I am bursting...
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Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

Matthew Dennison - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of her remarkable and unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three...
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The Devil's Bible: A Novel

Dana Chamblee Carpenter - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

The propulsive follow-up to Bohemian Gospel, which sends Mouse on a dangerous journey to Europe to find the missing pages from The Devil's Bible -- a mission which just may have a chance to save the world from the forces of evil. She calls herself Emma Lucas and, to the outsider, she looks...
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Elle

Philippe Djian - Other Press
Format: Paperback

Elle is a psychological thriller that recounts thirty days in the life of its heroine Michle - powerfully portrayed by Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's award-winning film - where memory, sex, and death collide at every page. A few weeks before Christmas, Michle picks herself...
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