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Afternoons with Emily
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
In mid-19th-century Amherst, Emily Dickinson is famous both for her notable family and for her reclusive ways, and only Miranda Chase, a smart girl with big plans for her own life, is allowed to enter the budding poet's very private world. At first, their Monday afternoon visits involve discussing...
What Made Maddy Run
The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller
*Instant New York Times Bestseller*
#1 New York Times Monthly Sports...
by Polly Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Two young women who've dated the same man navigate love, destiny, loss, and choice in this powerful debut.
Anna Riley and Anne Cavanaugh have had a lover in common, but it's not until a pivotal moment in one of their lives that their paths unforgettably converge. "Beautiful and connected...
by Anne Korkeakivi
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades, drawing us into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father
Beginning in 1962 with a shocking loss, Shining Sea quickly pulls us into the lives of forty-three -year-old Michael Gannon's widow...
The Forgotten
How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The people of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania voted Democratic for decades, until Donald Trump flipped it in 2016. What happened?
Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly.
In The Forgotten, Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters in Luzerne...
Let Her Fly
A Father's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Let Her Fly traces the inspirational journey of Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin, from a boy in Shangla to a man who broke with tradition and proves there are many faces of feminism.
With humor and sincerity, Yousafzai describes his life before the Talibanization of Mingora, scenes of his...
All Together Now
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. Downtown is deserted, businesses are closing, and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to residents rushing through the streets to get somewhere else. Bridgeford seems to have lost its heart.
But there is one thing that just might unite the...
by Steve Kistulentz
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A Chicago Review of Books Most Anticipated Fiction Book of 2018
A New York Post and Entertainment Weekly Must-Read Book
"Fast-paced, energetic, searing. There are moments in Steve Kistulentz's Panorama that will take your breath away." ---Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City...
The Carnivore's Manifesto
Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
One of The Atlantic's Best Food Books of 2014
Fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA.
We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive...
Love & Friendship
In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING KATE BECKINSALE, CHLOE SEVIGNY & STEPHEN FRY*
ACCLAIM FOR THE BOOK: "Lady Susan remains deliciously wicked" (Vogue); "Very, very funny" (New York Times), "[A] delicately sincere inversion of Austen's amused irony" (New York Review...
Nights in White Castle
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Picking up where he left off in his acclaimed memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin brilliantly captures a bygone era, and the thrills of new adulthood in the early 80s.
It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace...
Evening's Empire
The Story of My Father's Murder
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2009
When he was just six years old, Zachary Lazar's father, Edward, was shot dead by hit men in a Phoenix, Arizona parking garage. The year was 1975, a time when, according to the Arizona Republic, "land-fraud artists roamed the state in sharp suits, gouging money from buyers and investors."...
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.
Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high...
The Power of When
Discover Your Chronotype--and the Best Time to Eat Lunch, Ask for a Raise, Have Sex, Write a Novel, Take Your Meds, and More
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Learn the best time to do everything--from drink your coffee to have sex or go for a run--according to your body's chronotype.
Most advice centers on what to do, or how to do it, and ignores the when of success. But exciting new research proves there is a right time to do just about everything,...