About: From Steve Martin--the legendary comedian, actor, and best-selling author of Shopgirl--comes the tender tale of Daniel, a man living his life as a bystander. After growing attached to Clarissa and Teddy, Daniel discovers love in the most unexpected places, and he finds himself finally engaging with the world.
About: This masterful and gripping debut thriller begins with the bizarre assassination of mathematician James Fenster on the eve of his speech for the World Trade Organization. The murder trail leads veteran Interpol agent Henri Poincaré on a high-stakes, world-crossing quest for answers with his chain-smoking, bon vivant colleague Serge Laurent.
About: In a dead-end job and grieving his dog's death, Dan Dye adopts Gracie, a deaf and partially-blind Great Dane puppy. He learns to cook to help Gracie thrive, and this act of love inspires Dye and his friend Mark Beckloff to start Three Dog Bakery, the successful international pet-food chain.
About: The zombie apocalypse has begun, and Major Cordell McDaniels launches an elite mission into New York City to rescue the one man who can stop the ghastly virus that reanimates the dead. But completing the mission becomes questionable when members of his slaughtered team become infected, their military skills intact.
About: After rebels kidnapped Elizabeth Pennington from a South American mission, she meets fellow captive Finn MacGowan at the rebel's camp. MacGowan, a soldier, flees the fortress with Elizabeth and a teenage boy in tow. The trio's harrowing escape spans the globe and ignites a flame for Elizabeth in Finn's heart.
About: Winner of the 1943 Newbery Medal, Johnny Tremain is one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. As compelling today as it was 50 years ago, the story follows the adventures of 14-year-old apprentice silversmith Johnny Tremain through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
About: A successful first novel made Grady Tripp a young star, and years later he still hasn’t grown up despite his professorship, estranged wife, and pregnant girlfriend. This satire of the permanent adolescence of the creative class is mordant, humane, and features characters as loveably flawed as any in American fiction.
About: The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory.” They are the symbols that help define the United States, that mark its historic course, and connect its people. It's a daily source of inspiration and information about America's history, heroes, and achievements.
About: Emmy-winning Judge Jeanine Pirro has brilliantly leveraged her legal experience to create a gripping debut set in Westchester, New York, during 1976. It's a town suffering from rampant cocaine abuse, a fraternity-like courthouse, and a culture of domestic violence. Enter Dani Fox, an ambitious 25-year-old assistant district attorney seeking justice.
About: Vivianne Rocher moves to a tiny French town and opens a chocolate boutique. Suddenly, strange and wonderful things start to happen in the village's rigid culture. The inspiration for the hit movie of the same name, Chocolat is infused with a subtle magic revealing the beauty of humanity's softer side.
About: Don DiMarco lives a wonderful life with a family he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, and amusing passions and interests. He also thinks he has time, but some terminal news changes that. Summoning a dormant inner strength, Don seeks to prove 12 months is enough to live a life in full.
About: An international best-seller, Fast Food Nation reveals how the fast food industry has altered America's landscape, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an obesity epidemic, and transformed world-wide food production. The book inspires readers to critically look at our global food system and its impact on society.
About: Some superheroes wear army boots and leave on long trips to make the world a safer place. This endearing picture-book makes a difficult and tender subject more accessible to children with parents serving far from home. (Available on Kindle Fire, Kindle Cloud Reader, Kindle for iPad, and Kindle for Android).
About: As a member of the Named, Ethan must fight the Order of Chaos, an evil group that travels time to change history. However, he's also a normal high school student trying to fit in, but when he's assigned to mentor Isabel, the line between his two lives begins to blur.
About: Mary Karr's best-selling debut memoir, The Liars' Club, brought to vivid, indelible life her hardscrabble Texas childhood, and her follow-up, Cherry, told of her adolescence. With Lit, Karr uses her relentlessly honesty, lacerating humor, and literary style to tell the story of her descent into alcoholism and her astonishing resurrection.
About: The ninth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Oxford History of the United States series examines the years 1929 through 1945 when the American people faced the Great Depression and World War II. Historian David Kennedy vividly shows how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of these unprecedented calamities.
About: Best-selling author Deborah Crombie's deeply atmospheric and twisting mystery is filled with deadly secrets, salacious lies, and unexpected betrayals. When a woman's body is found, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid finds himself heading a complicated investigation, for the victim was a high-ranking detective who had many admirers, and many enemies.
About: Donnell Bell's suspenseful and tightly plotted debut follows the fate of Melanie, who, as a teenage runaway, was briefly imprisoned for allegedly aiding a man in a violent robbery. Fifteen years later, Melanie is a widowed mother and the robber her testimony helped put in prison is hunting her down.
About: After the Confederate surrender, Sam--a runaway slave--travels south in search of his wife, the mother of his only child. At the same time, Sam's wife, Tilda, walks at gunpoint with her slave master, a Confederate officer. It's a sweeping and powerful love story set in brutal, constraining times.
About: In 2003, Kay Bratt's husband took a job oversees, and the American couple relocated to rural China. Once settled, Kay began volunteering at the local orphanage. This heroic, heartbreaking, and hopeful true story details the adversity and triumphs she experienced battling the Chinese bureaucracy to help the country’s orphaned children.
