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by Maria Semple
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
* Instant New York Times Bestseller *
A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future.
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little...
Bad Lies
A Field Guide to Lost Balls, Missing Links, and Other Golf Mishaps
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In Bad Lies, golf's wittiest observer, photographer Charles Lindsay, celebrates the hazards and pitfalls of the game. Lindsay stakes out the diabolic border territories that encroach on golf courses--moon-crater bunkers, waist-high fescue grass, murky lake bottoms--to capture the unbelievable my-ball-went-where?...
Voracious
A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way through Great Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
AN IRRESISTIBLE LITERARY FEAST
Stories and recipes inspired by the world's great books
As a young bookworm reading in her grandfather's butcher shop, Cara Nicoletti saw how books and food bring people to life. Now a butcher, cook, and talented writer, she serves up stories and recipes...
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
"An immersive play-by-play of the company's ascent.... It's hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story." -- Laura Bennett, New Republic
Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything...
See a Little Light
The Trail of Rage and Melody
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The long-awaited, full-force autobiography of American punk music hero, Bob Mould
Bob Mould stormed into America's punk rock scene in 1979, when clubs across the country were filling with kids dressed in black leather and torn denim, packing in to see bands like the Ramones, Black Flag, and...
A Terrible Glory
Custer and the Little Bighorn - the Last Great Battle of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.
In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and...
by Edna O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/ Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly...
Blue Highways
A Journey into America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.
William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at...
New World, Inc.
The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble*
Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.
Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed,...
Little Scarlet
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2004
Walter Mosley delivers at last the compelling master work everyone's been waiting for--a novel so intriguing, so soulful, so unstoppably dramatic that it will rank among the classic mysteries of our time.
At the height of the riots that cripple LA in the summer of 1965, a white man is pulled from...
by James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her imaginary friend in this touching love story.
Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at...
by Rick Bass
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Winner of the 2016 Story Prize
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
100 Recommended Books of 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle
"A literary titan...Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions." -- New York Times...
The Science of Game of Thrones
From the genetics of royal incest to the chemistry of death by molten gold - sifting fact from fantasy in the Seven Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A myth-busting, jaw-dropping, fun-filled tour through the science of your favorite fantastical world.
Award-winning comedian and popular-science writer Helen Keen uncovers the astounding science behind the mystical, blood-soaked world of Game of Thrones, answering questions like: Is it possible...
The Arms of Krupp
The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company.