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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A former top Pentagon official, daughter of anti-war activists, wife of an Army Green Beret and human rights activist presents a scholarly examination of how a constant state of war is contrary to America's founding values, undermines international rules and compromises future security....
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Leaving Time: A Novel

Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThroughout her blockbuster career, Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that "not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us" (The Boston Globe) . Now,...
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The Red Bandanna

Tom Rinaldi - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

A New York Times bestsellerWhat would you do in the last hour of your life? The story of Welles Crowther, whose actions on 9/11 offer a lasting lesson on character, calling and courage One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father...
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Digital Photography Complete Course

David Taylor - DK Publishing
Format: Print book

Digital Photography Complete Course will help you build your photography skills step-by-step, with an independent photography course that guides you through every aspect of digital photography. Digital Photography Complete Course uses a combination of tutorials, step-by-step...
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Restless: Because You Were Made for More

Jennie Allen - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback

Do You Feel Like You're Missing Something? What if this feeling wasn’t a bad thing? It could be a longing for more of God and a catalyst to living the life that was designed before the foundations of the earth were laid.  A lot of us, if we’re honest, are afraid....
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Night Watch

Iris Johansen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

"A high-stakes, high-powered thriller." -- BOOKLIST Sometimes, what you can't see will kill you ... Kendra is surprised when she is visited by Dr. Charles Waldridge, the researcher who gave her sight through a revolutionary medical procedure developed by England's...
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book

From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season....
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Darktown: A Novel

Thomas Mullen - Atria / 37 INK
Format: Hardcover

"One incendiary image ignites the next in this highly combustible procedural ... written with a ferocious passion that'll knock the wind out of you." - The New York Times Book Review "Fine Southern storytelling meets hard-boiled crime in a tale that connects...
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My Name Is Prince

St Nicholas, Randee - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

The ultimate collection of stunning photographs documenting the career of one of the world's greatest superstarsThere has never been or will there ever be an artist like Prince. "A 5 3 Mastermind . . . satiated with virtuosity, controversy, stubbornness, and poise . . . His influence...
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Just Friends

Billy Taylor - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

August and Ethan have been bestfriends since the day they met at Ethan's seventh birthday party. And now, twelve years on, their friendship continues to grow. But after magic, fame, money and an unexplainable miracle in a car accident, August realises maybe she wants to be more than...
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Nancy Braithwaite: Simplicity

Nancy Braithwaite - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Interior designer Nancy Braithwaite's long-awaited first book is a striking tutorial in the power of simplicity in design. In the world of interior design, Nancy Braithwaite is known for her single-minded devotion to the principle that has guided her work for more than forty years:...
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Tom Clancy Firing Point

Mike Maden - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Jack Ryan, Jr is out to avenge the murder of an old friend, but the vein of evil he's tapped into may run too deep for him to handle in the latest electric entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend...
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The Lost Order

Steve Berry - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense...
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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis: The Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Print book

From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power, uniting the ancient worlds and the legends of the Vampire Chronicles. "In my dreams, I saw a city fall...
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MLA Handbook

Modern Language Association of America. - Modern Language Association of America
Format: Paperback

The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book...
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Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

Ben Macintyre - Crown
Format: Print book

The incredible untold story of WWII's greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue Britain's Special Air Service - or SAS - was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable...
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Feverborn: A Fever Novel

Karen Marie Moning - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

In Karen Marie Moning's latest installment of the epic #1 New York Times bestselling Fever series, Mac, Barrons, Ryodan, and Jada are back - and the stakes have never been higher or the chemistry hotter. Hurtling us into a realm of labyrinthine intrigue and consummate seduction,...
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Compass American Guides: Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Fodor'S. - Fodor'S, 2016.
Format: Print book

America's first National Park, Yellowstone contains an incomparable combination of natural beauty, rugged wilderness, and abundant wildlife. Nearby, Grand Teton National Park is renowned for its magnificent, jagged, snow-capped peaks. The Compass American Guide to these parks is chock-full...
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Edge of Eternity: Book Three of the Century Trilogy

Ken Follett - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

The final book in Ken Follett's #1 New York Times bestselling Century Trilogy - following Winter of the World and Fall of Giants - now in mass market paperback. Five international families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all:...
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The Fate of the Tearling: A Novel

Erika Johansen - ‎Harper; First Edition
Format: Hardcover

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Arcanum unbounded : the cosmere collection.

Brandon Sanderson - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

An all-new 120-page Stormlight Archive novella, "Edgedancer," will be the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection will include nine works in all. The first...
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The Comeback

Ella Berman - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time for winning is over. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe nomination, teen star Grace...
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The Best American Short Stories 2017

Meg Wolitzer - Mariner Books
Format: Audiobook

"[A] terrific and surprising collection of tales by a diverse group of writers . . . Count on them to transport you." - USA Today The Best American Short Stories 2017 will be edited by Meg Wolitzer, who is "almost crushingly insightful; she doesn't just mine the contemporary...
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Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

John C. Maxwell - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters in INTENTIONAL LIVING.
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The Martian

Andy Weir - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate...
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Pizza Girl: A Novel

Jean Kyoung Frazier - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of audacious and wryly funny novels like The Idiot and Convenience Store Woman comes the wildly original coming-of-age story of a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers.Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl...
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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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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild - New Press
Format: Print book

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election"This is a smart,...
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for." - Ann Patchett"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World...
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Planes: Fire & Rescue

~ Soundtrack - Disney
Format: Audio CD

Award-winning composer Mark Mancina, who won a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album (with Phil Collins) for his work on Disney's 1999 feature TARZAN, produced and composed the score for PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE. The PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE original motion picture soundtrack takes off July 15. Composer...
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The Furniture Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Identify, Restore & Care for Furniture

Christophe Pourny - Artisan
Format: Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Crucial Home & Design Book for Beginners A Library Journal Best Book of the Year An Amazon Best Book of the Month. Christophe Pourny learned the art of furniture restoration in his fathers atelier in the South of France. In this, his first book, he teaches...
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The Human Brain Book

Rita Carter - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover

Combining the latest findings from neuroscience with new brain imaging techniques, as well as developments on infant brains, telepathy, and brain modification, this new edition of DK's The Human Brain Book covers brain anatomy, function, and disorders in unprecedented detail. With its unique...
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

Dominic Smith - Picador
Format: Paperback

Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the citys Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects) , a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl...
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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

H R MacMaster - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States...
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Here's to Us

Elin Hilderbrand - Little
Format: Print book

Three romantic rivals. One crowded house. Plenty of room for jealousy. Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe--a celebrity chef with an insatiable appetite for life--and a passionate dislike of one another....
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Paris Is Always a Good Idea

Jenn McKinlay - Berkley
Format: Paperback

A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love--and herself--in this hilarious and heartfelt novel from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European...
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Shorefall

Robert Jackson Bennett
Format: electronic resource

As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy.“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York...
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Naturally Sweet: Bake All Your Favorites with 30% to 50% Less Sugar

America's Test Kitchen - America's Test Kitchen
Format: Print book

In this timely, unique cookbook, America's Test Kitchen tackles the monumental challenge of creating foolproof, great-tasting baked goods that contain less sugar and rely only on natural alternatives to white sugar. White sugar is one of the most widely demonized health threats out there,...
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The Bachelor

Jeffries, Sabrina - Zebra
Format: Mass Market Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries features an irresistible family in a series to savor, as the grown children of a thrice-married dowager duchess piece together the stories of their fathers--while pursuing passions of their own . . . Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected...
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The Expatriates: A Novel

Janice Y K Lee - Viking
Format: Print book

"A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad." - The New York Times Book Review "Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation." - The Skimm Janice Y. K. Lee's New York...
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Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life--from Toddlers to Teens

Tamar Chansky Ph.D. - Harmony
Format: Paperback

Childhood should be a happy, carefree time. Too many children are stressed-out and exhibiting symptoms of anxiety. In Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, childhood anxiety expert Dr. Tamar Chansky shares a proven approach for helping children build emotional resilience for a happier...
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The DASH Diet Younger You: Shed 20 Years--and Pounds--in Just 10 Weeks

Marla Heller - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

The DASH Diet Way to a Younger You -Ranked #1 Best Diet 5 Years in a Row!The most trusted name in diets-the DASH diet-has helped millions of people lower blood pressure, lose weight, and improve their health. Now, in this groundbreaking new program, it can help you look and feel 20 years...
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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047

Lionel Shriver - Harper
Format: Hardcover

With dry wit and psychological acuity, this near-future novel explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating U.S. sovereign debt default on four generations of a once-prosperous American family. Down-to-earth and perfectly realistic in scale, this is not an over-the-top Blade Runner...
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Old School: Life in the Sane Lane

ANONYMOUS. - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book

Old School is in session....You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down.It's a values thing. The anti-Old School forces believe the traditional way of looking at life is oppressive. Not inclusive....
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Friends and Strangers: A novel

J. Courtney Sullivan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. She neglects her work, losing...
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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 Boys' Club: A Novel

Erica Katz - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Sweetbitter meets The Firm in this buzzy, page-turning debut novel - already optioned to Netflix - about sex and power in the halls of corporate America.One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2020Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book - star student...
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Truthwitch: A Witchlands Novel

Susan Dennard - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a "witchery," a magical skill that sets them apart from others.In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble--as two desperate young women know all too well.Safiya is a Truthwitch,...
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings...
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Shining Through Dark Clouds: (# 15 in The Bregdan Chronicles Historical Fiction Romance Series)

Ginny Dye - Bregdan Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

#15 in The Bregdan Chronicles by BestSelling Author, Ginny Dye. Review: Best Historical Fiction series I have ever read! Keep them coming! ~ DottiIs Reconstruction healing America, or are Dark Clouds sending a warning?America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone ... Carrie...
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A Deadly Education: A Novel

Naomi Novik - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else,...
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Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?

Gary Thomas - Zondervan
Format: Paperback

What if God designed marriage to make you holy instead of happy? What if your relationship isnt as much about you and your spouse as it is about you and God?In Sacred Marriage, bestselling author Gary Thomas uncovers the ways that your marriage can become a doorway to a closer walk with...
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding...
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Les Miserables

Victor Hugo - Signet Classics; Unabridged edition
Format: Print book

Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them...
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Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1

Frank Herbert - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Book

Veteran sci-fi readers, or those new to the genre will find Brian Herbert’s and Kevin J. Anderson’s Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1 to be an exciting journey into that world. With colorful illustrations and animated dialogue, this graphic novel brings the original...

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The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesnt Have to Be Complicated

Helaine Olen - Portfolio/Penguin
Format: Print book

"THE MOST NOTABLE PERSONAL FINANCE WRITING OF 2013 . . . WAS A HANDWRITTEN 4 6 INDEX CARD." - MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse....
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Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten - Clarkson Potter
Format: Print book

For the first time, trusted and beloved cookbook author Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, answers the number one question she receives from cooks: Can I make it ahead?If you've ever found yourself stuck in front of the stove at your own party, scrambling to get everything to the table...
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Wyoming Brave

Diana Palmer - Harlequin Books
Format: Print book

The Wyoming men are back! In their quest for true love on the range, are these ranchers bold enough to open their hearts to the women under their protection Ren Colter may own an enormous ranch in Wyoming, but he scorns his wealth. He's closed himself off since his fiance left him years...
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Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To

Melanie Cullen - Nolo
Format: Print book

Get your life organized with the best workbook available! Paperwork, personal information, and passwords aren't always easy to find, and organizing your records can seem like an intimidating task. But, whether you need to get a handle on records for yourself, your family or your executor,...
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NEC 2014: National Electrical Code 2014/ NFPA 70

National Electrical Code Committee - Natl Fire Protection Assn; 1 edition
Format: Book

Many new and revised requirements in the 2014 NEC impact residential, commercial, and industrial electrical installations. The 2014 NFPA 70: NEC covers the latest requirements on electrical wiring and equipment installation issues, including minimum provisions for the use of connections,...
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Survival Instincts: A Novel

Jen Waite - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who must draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a stranger who wants to either control them--or kill them. FOURTEEN YEARS BEFORE THE CABIN:...
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We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

Georgia Hunter - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite - We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. A hopeful and inspiring...
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Fearless

Fern Michaels
Format: Hardcover

Weaving a thread of suspense into her trademark powerful storytelling, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a compelling new novel about a woman who learns that her new life may not be all it appears . . . Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative...
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The Rain Watcher: A Novel

TATIANA DE ROSNAY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and resolutions."Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender...
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Her Last Flight: A Novel

Beatriz Williams - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

The beloved author returns with a remarkable novel of both raw suspense and lyric beauty -- the story of a lost pilot and a wartime photographer that will leave its mark on your soul. In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian...
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A Short Guide to a Long Life

David Agus - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling book of simple rules everyone should follow in order to live a long, healthy life, featuring illustrations throughout, from the author of The End of Illness.In his international bestseller, The End of Illness, Dr. David B. Agus shared what he has learned from...
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The First Order

Jeff Abbott - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Sam Capra is on a one-man mission to find his brother . . . And to stop a war.THE FIRST ORDERTwo brothers. One dead, executed by extremists on a grainy video. The other forged into a top undercover agent. But now, Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive....
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The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

J R Ward - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. R. Ward's newest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King,...
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The girl with all the gifts

Mike Carey - Orbit
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First US trade editionView all editions and formats

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her our little genius. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair....
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Wheat Belly Total Health: The Ultimate Grain-Free Health and Weight-Loss Life Plan

William Davis - Rodale
Format: Print book

Wheat Belly Total Health answers the question, "What's next in the battle against wheat?" In his follow-up to the mega bestseller, Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis helps his readers take command over their life and health in the aftermath of wheat. There are many strategies...
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The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

Peter Cozzens - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Bringing together a pageant of fascinating characters including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of other military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud, The Earth is Weeping - lauded by BOOKLIST as "a...
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Thrawn

Timothy Zahn - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn's rise to power - uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history. One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most...
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Preserving Italy: Canning, Curing, Infusing, and Bottling Italian Flavors and Traditions

Domenica Marchetti - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

Capture the flavors of Italy with more than 150 recipes for conserves, pickles, sauces, liqueurs, infusions, and other preserves The notion of preserving shouldn't be limited to American jams and jellies, and in this book, author Domenica Marchetti turns our gaze to the ever-alluring flavors...
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Basic Books
Format: Print book

For most of us, overwork is the new normal and rest is an afterthought. In our busy lives, rest is defined as the absence of work: late-night TV binges, hours spent trawling the internet, something to do once we've finished everything else on our to-do lists. But dismissing rest stifles...
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We Need to Talk About Kevin tie-in: A Novel

Lionel Shriver - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly,Lionel Shriver's resonant story of a mother's unsettling quest to understandher teenage son's deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, andthe explosive link between them reverberates...
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An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky - New Directions
Format: Hardcover

A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands Each disparate object described in this book -- a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific -- shares a common fate: it no longer...
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The Weight of a Moment

Michael Bowe - Independently published
Format: Paperback

"Emotionally rich, psychologically exciting, and inspiring" - Readers' Favorite"The Weight of a Moment is the best book I have read in a long time." - Linda Carson, Host, Suncoast View, ABC 7, Sarasota FL"Profound" - Seattle Book Review"Wow! Just wow!...
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday: A Novel

Susan Rivers - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book

"TAUT, ALMOST UNBEARABLE SUSPENSE . . . This galvanizing historical portrait of courage, determination, and abiding love mesmerizes and shocks." - BOOKLIST (starred review) "All I had known for certain when I came around the hen house that first evening in July...
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

Phaedra Patrick - MIRA
Format: Hardcover

"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise ... The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." - Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris BookshopDon't...
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The Pound a Day Diet: Lose Up to 5 Pounds in 5 Days by Eating the Foods You Love

Rocco DiSpirito - Grand Central Life & Style, 2014.
Format: Print book

THE POUND A DAY DIET is an accelerated program designed to help dieters lose up to five pounds every five days--without frustrating plateaus--while enjoying all their favorite foods. It rewrites every carb/fat/calorie rule in the book! This delicious, easy-to-use, plan is specifically formulated...
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Coyote America

Dan Flores - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."-Wall...
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle: A Novel

Susan Wiggs - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Stitched together with love, this is a story just waiting for your favorite reading chair. With her signature style and skill, Susan Wiggs delivers an intricate patchwork of old wounds and new beginnings, romance and the healing power of friendship, wrapped in a lovely little community...
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Lonely Planet Portugal

LONELY PLANET. - LONELY PLANET PUBNS
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Portugal is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand at Europe's southwestern edge on the barren cliffs of Cabo de Sao Vicente,...
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The Scarred Woman

JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Causes delivers his most captivating and suspenseful Department Q novel yet - perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson. Detective Carl Mrck of Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division, meets...
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Crate: Authentic Spanish Food from an American Kitchen

Katie Button - Flatiron Books
Format: Print book

The vibrant flavors of Spain brought into the American home kitchen by a young lauded chef and founder of one of America's most acclaimed new restaurantsKatie Button debuts her first cookbook ever as a peek inside the kitchen of her award-winning restaurant, Crate. This cookbook features...
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My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Hardcover

My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel
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The Course of Love: A Novel

Alain De Botton - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"The Course of Love is a return to the form that made Mr. de Botton's name in the mid-1990s ... .love is the subject best suited to his obsessive aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes, methods and insecurities to the page." - The...
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Lucky Peach Presents Power Vegetables!: Turbocharged Recipes for Vegetables with Guts

Peter Meehan - Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Format: Print book

Mostly vegetarian and infrequently vegan, the recipes in Lucky Peach Presents Power Vegetables! are all indubitably delicious. The editors of Lucky Peach have colluded to bring you a portfolio of meat-free cooking that even carnivores can get behind. Designed to bring BIG-LEAGUE...
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Wild Horse Springs

Jodi Thomas - Harlequin Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

In the heart of Ransom Canyon, sometimes the right match for a lonely soul is the one you least expect Dan Brigman may not lead the most exciting life, but he's proud of what he's achieved: he's a respected lawman, and he's raised a bright, talented daughter on his own. But finding a lone,...
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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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Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

DONNA LEON - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book

Donna Leon's bestselling mystery novels set in Venice have won a multitude of fans for their insider's portrayal of La Serenissima. From family meals to coffee bars, and from vaporetti rides to the homes and apartments of Venetians, the details and rhythms of everyday life are an integral...
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find...
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The Hollow Ones

Guillermo del Toro - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} A horrific crime that defies ordinary explanation. A rookie FBI agent in dangerous, uncharted territory. An extraordinary hero for the ages. Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn...
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Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

Mark D Sikes - Rizzoli
Format: Print book

The first book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of American style today, showcasing chic and accessible ideas for every home. Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration,...
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Rachel Corbett - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of one of the most fruitful friendships in modern arts and letters.Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet is one of the most beloved books of the twentieth century. It has sold millions of copies and inspired generations with its galvanizing wisdom on how to lead...
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Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life

Kate Mcdermott - Countryman Press
Format: Print book

Making pie can be as easy as pie, with recipes and lessons from a renowned teacher of the craft "I've been baking pies my entire life, but making them with Kate was a liberating experience. With a pioneer spirit, she throws the textbook out the window and comes up with absolutely perfect...
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The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

Eve Chase - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Readers of Lisa Jewell and Simone St. James will delight in this haunting, touching story of mothers, daughters, and belonging--and the devastating lies families tell themselves in order to survive.An isolated forest estate.A family with a terrible secret.The discovery that changes everything.England,...
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Blind Sight

Carol O'Connell - Putnam
Format: Print book

The thrilling new Mallory novel from the New York Times-bestselling author and one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America. The nun was dead. Her body lay on the lawn outside Gracie Mansion, the home of New York City's mayor, and it wasn't alone. There were four of them...
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Afterland

Lauren Beukes - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise...
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Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon

Larry Tye - Random House
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel comes an in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family. History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive...
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The Arabian Nights

Husain Haddawy - W W Norton & Co Inc
Format: Paperback

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed -- a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. The stories of ?The Arabian Nights ?(and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under...
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Filthy Rich

James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer.Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth...
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Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

Graham Hancock - Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: eBook

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled...
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Six Scary Stories

Stephen King - Cemetery Dance Pubns
Format: Paperback

Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology.Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection...
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Ready Player Two: A Novel

Ernest Cline - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the "ridiculously fun and large-hearted" (NPR) near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix." "An...
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Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America

Amy Arnold - Gibbs Smith
Format: Hardcover

Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan's architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it's only...
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Spy

Danielle Steel - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel's thrilling new novel. At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from...
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Crooked River

Douglas Preston
Format: Audiobook


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For the Glory: Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr

Duncan Hamilton - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last, brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWIIMany people will remember Eric Liddell as the Olympic gold medalist from the Academy Award...
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's "Swans" of the 1950s - and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe...
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To Capture What We Cannot Keep

Beatrice Colin - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and mile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating...
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You: A Novel

Caroline Kepnes - Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Format: Print book

Praise for Caroline Kepnes and You: "Hypnotic and scary." - Stephen King "I am RIVETED, AGHAST, AROUSED, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious." - Lena Dunham From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense...
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The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality

Phillip C McGraw - Bird St. Books
Format: Print book

In The 20/20 Diet, Dr. Phil McGraw identies seven reasons other diets fail people over and over again: hunger, cravings, feeling of restriction, impracticality and expense, boredom, temptations, and disappointing results or plateaus. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying...
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The Wolves

Alex Berenson - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Print book

The latest thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of Twelve Days, Alex Berenson. John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security....
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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League eliteGalaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school...
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