Topical/Library Reads
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The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that ro… [more below]
- Author: Lawhon, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0345805968
- Language: English
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The Hurricane Sisters
$16.99 Read moreHurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people’s lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.
Once again New York Times bestse
- Author: Frank, Dorothea Benton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0062132547
- Language: English
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The Invasion of the Tearling
$18.99 Add to cartIn this riveting, New York Times-bestselling sequel to The Queen of the Tearling, the evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm.
With each passing
- Series: Queen of the Tearling #2
- Author: Johansen, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 006229041X
- Language: English
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Delancey
$18.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven…cheerfully hones… [more below]
- Author: Wizenberg, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1451655118
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
$26.95 Add to cartGrunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries–panic, exhaustion, heat, noise–and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges host
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393245446
- Language: English
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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit… [more below]
- Author: Conroy, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0385343523
- Language: English
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0307408868
- Language: English
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Dimestore: A Writer’s Life
$15.95 Add to cart“A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1616206462
- Language: English
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Season of Storms
$22.99 Add to cart“I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters–sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won’t let go!”–DIANA GABA
- Author: Kearsley, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1402258739
- Language: English
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Family Life
$14.95 Add to cartHailed as a “supreme storyteller” (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his “cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived” fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic a… [more below]
- Author: Sharma, Akhil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0393350606
- Language: English
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Wilde Lake
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Novel nominee for the 2017 Anthony Award!
An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl. A vengeful father. A courageous attorney. A worshipful daughter. Think you know this story
- Author: Lippman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062083465
- Language: English
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Frog Music
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does
- Author: Donoghue, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0316324671
- Language: English
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The Almost Sisters
$18.99 Add to cartWith empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the disti
- Author: Jackson, Joshilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062105728
- Language: English
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The Kept
$15.99 Add to cart“Dark and mysterious. . . . A novel whose daring is found in its bleakness. . . . The plot unfolds with a weighty languor reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. . . sparse, elegant. . . haunting.” — New Yor
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Scott, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062236652
- Language: English
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Black Hour
$18.95 Add to cartFor Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic–until a student she’d never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he’s dead and she’s back on campus, trying to keep up w… [more below]
- Author: Rader-Day, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1616148853
- Language: English
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Bellman & Black
$20.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author “An astonishing work of genius.” –Bookreporter “Magically transformative.” –Bookpage Can one moment in time haunt you forever? From the instant #1 New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Setterfield, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 10 2014
- ISBN10: 1476711992
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Seamstress
$14.99 Read more“An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair.”–Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress
A moving story of two women tied toge
- Author: Trenow, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1402282486
- Language: English
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Silver Silence
$9.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal…
At a time when the fledgling Trinity Accord seeks- Series: Psy-Changeling Trinity #1
- Author: Singh, Nalini
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 1101987804
- Language: English
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Burial Rites
$38.00 Add to cartSet against Iceland’s stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.
S- Author: Kent, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0316243914
- Language: English
