About: Award-winning author Sharon Sala brings emotional intensity to her unforgettable novel that follows Ellie Wayne, a young woman damaged by a sexually abusive father and mentally fragile mother. Ellie believes her future holds only danger and shame, but one man might be able to help her hope for something more.
About: 1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs the Windy City's North Side looking for John Dillinger. However, things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger lookalike in front of the Biograph Theater.
About: In this young adult debut from internationally best-selling author Harlan Coben, Mickey Bolitar's train-wreck of a life is finally improving until his new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes without a trace. Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld and uncovers a shocking conspiracy that makes his high school drama seem small.
About: In award-winning author Barbara Samuel's triumphant tale of forbidden love, he's a hometown native returning from World War II. She's his secret friend since childhood. Her war-time letters kept him alive, but he's black, and she's white. In 1946 in Gideon, Texas, their undeniable love might get them both killed.
Kindle Daily Deal: Two Mitch Albom BooksTo mark the September 4, 2012, release of best-selling author Mitch Albom’s new book, The Time Keeper, today's Daily Deal includes two Albom favorites: For One More Day, a haunting novel about the family
About: To mark the September 4, 2012, release of best-selling author Mitch Albom’s new book, The Time Keeper, today's Daily Deal includes two Albom favorites: For One More Day, a haunting novel about the family we love, and Have a Little Faith--his first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie--about Albom's eulogy for an 82-year-old rabbi.
About: Often compared to James Herriot's novels, All God's Creatures follows the life of a woman veterinarian in modern Tennessee. From her unlikely start as a white-glove debutante in the 1960's to a sexism-defying launch in vet school, the heroine spins rich tales of the animals and people in her life.
About: When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, the survivors were quarantined by the Army. After seven years of taking powerful drugs to combat the poison, nobody's getting clean. Quarantine captive Ellie Cauley believes there's something sinister happening, and she decides to fight back with her ever-simmering rage.
About: This unforgettable picture of an ordinary family caught up in the maelstrom of 20th-century China ranges across the entire country, to California, and back again. From the WWII Anti-Japanese War of Resistance to the brutal post-war Cultural Revolution, the narrative always returns to the family's traditional town in southern China.
About: Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable, but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well. It's a moving story filled with humor and tragedy that shows how a family, bound by heartache, learns to love again.
About: This best-selling novel set in New York City during the late 1800s follows Peter Lake as he attempts to rob a Manhattan mansion only to find the daughter of the house at home. Thus begins the love between the middle-aged Irishman and Beverly Penn, a young girl who is dying.
About: American tourist Charles Hirter is murdered in the Bavarian Alps, and the German detective in charge of the case, Kommissar Franz Waldbaer, has no clues, suspects, or motives. After Waldbaer reluctantly allows the victim's brother to help, the two find themselves probing long-forgotten Nazi episodes to identify a present threat.
About: In Jean Brashear's novel of life in the American South, ex-cocktail waitress and "convenience store professional" Eudora O'Brien lives low on cash and all alone, but as the novel progresses, her poignant journey comprises a tale filled with grief, hope, love, sword fights, and--of course--the crisp glory of fried okra.
About: William Shirer's National Book Award-winning history offers a clear, detailed, and well-documented account of how it was that Adolf Hitler almost succeeded in conquering the world. The book has been translated into 12 languages and is a classic by any measure.
About: Seaman, a Newfoundland pup, doesn’t imagine a life of glory, but everything changes after meeting Captain Meriwether Lewis. This carefully researched, thrilling tale of America’s greatest journey of discovery--as seen through the keen, compassionate eyes of a remarkable dog--is part history, part science, and adventure through and through.
About: This sophisticated and entertaining debut novel follows 25-year-old Katey Kontent, a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation in 1937. After meeting a handsome banker in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar, Katey embarks on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society.
About: Focusing on a dark period of a silent conflict, this history offers a new perspective on the Cold War. The author, formerly a counterintelligence expert in US Army Europe, weaves together exciting true accounts of allies collecting enemy information in the East and fighting spies and terrorists in the West.
About: Invited to help renovate a posh resort-town pub, Christine finds herself chaperoned by her father for the first time in nearly 30 years. Sparkling with humor, this delightful novel, which spent over 100 weeks on Germany’s bestseller list, captures the unique--and occasionally exasperating--bond between fathers and daughters.
About: Ruth Bendel loves her family but hates her life. When her last nerve snaps, she gets an apartment and a new life. How will her pampered family survive? They're all about to learn how much courage and humor it takes to redefine who they are in their family.
