Paddington Bear had traveled all the way from Peru when the Browns first met him in Paddington Station. Since then, their lives have never been quite ...more
Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, Dadaab is a ...more
Joe O'Brien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud ...more
Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool, Paul spends his days ...more
Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, "Why me? I'm nobody." ...more
Expansive in scope but deeply personal in perspective, the pieces in Shame and Wonder are born of a vast, abiding curiosity, one that has led Searcy ...more
In a sprawling estate, willfully secluded, lives Morgan Fletcher, the disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins. Morgan spends his days in ...more
Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy" - an extreme welfare state that holds public health and social stability above all else,...more
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
by
Karen Branan
Atria Books, 01/05/2016
Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the ...more
History, Current Affairs and Religion Debut Author
With five novels and two collections of stories, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her ...more
Travelers Rest by
Keith Lee Morris
Little Brown & Company, 01/05/2016
The Addisons - Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey, and derelict Uncle Robbie - are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet ...more
MI5 officer Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned...more
Winter by
Christopher Nicholson
Europa Editions, 01/05/2016
A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress - the leading lady in a staging of his most famous ...more
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
by
Richard Mabey
W.W. Norton & Company, 01/11/2016
The Cabaret of Plants is a rich, sweeping work of botanical history by the illustrious naturalist Richard Mabey. Plants have been central to human ...more
Manchester 1787. When budding young criminal Mary Jebb swindles Michael Croxon's brother with a blank pound note, he chases her into the night and ...more
And Again by
Jessica Chiarella
Touchstone, 01/12/2016
Would you live your life differently if you were given a second chance? Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda - four terminally ill patients - have been ...more
At the age of forty-eight, Cicero - the greatest orator of his time - is in exile, separated from his wife and children, tormented by his sense of ...more
Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause ...more
Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
by
Katherine Zoepf
Penguin Books, 01/12/2016
For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region ...more
Good People by
Robert Lopez
Bellevue Literary Press, 01/12/2016
In these twenty stories, a motley cast of obsessive, self-deluded outsiders narrate their darker moments, which include kidnapping, voyeurism, and ...more
Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decides to go ...more
Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call. An elderly woman has been shot and ...more
Thrillers
Oblivion by
Sergei Lebedev (Author), Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
New Vessel Press, 01/12/2016
In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of ...more
At twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she embraced the idea of starting a family and became engaged to ...more
The Covenant: A Jackie Lyons Mystery
by
Jeff Crook
Minotaur Books, 01/12/2016
When photographer and former Memphis police detective Jackie Lyons finds Sam Loftin's lifeless body in the same location where his daughter died five ...more
The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
by
Robert S. Boynton
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 01/12/2016
Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what ...more
The Shut Eye by
Belinda Bauer
Grove Press, 01/12/2016
The Shut Eye is a spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about a woman who gets involved with a psychic who may be able to find her missing son.
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung ...more
What It Takes by
Jude Sierra
Interlude Press, 01/14/2016
Moments after Milo Graham's family relocate to Cape Cod, he meets Andrew Witherell - launching a lifelong friendship built on a foundation of deep ...more
After being wounded in the line of duty, Detective Sergeant Breen recuperates on the family farm of his former partner, Helen Tozer. To fill the long ...more
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
by
Jo Marchant
Crown, 01/19/2016
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just...more
St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital. Welcomed by the ...more
The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the ...more
Nan Lewis - a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York - is driving home from a faculty holiday party after finding out ...more
In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the United States. ...more
This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music ...more
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
by
Ian Buruma
Penguin Books, 01/19/2016
During the almost six years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, Ian Buruma's grandparents, and the film director ...more
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a ...more
Lawrence Hill spellbound readers with Someone Knows My Name (made into the television mini-series, The Book of Negroes), hailed as "transporting" (...more
The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
by
Amber Sparks
Liveright / WW Norton, 01/25/2016
In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, Amber Sparks's dazzling new collection bursts forth with stories that render the...more
She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-...more
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go to war in order to prevent the world from tearing itself apart. To further ...more
Torrey Grey is famous. At least, on the internet. Thousands of people watch her popular videos on fashion and beauty. But when Torrey's sister is ...more
The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called "folk tales that hammer like a nail gun," and these 40 new ones are sharper than ever....more
Front Lines by
Michael Grant
Katherine Tegan Books, 01/26/2016
World War II, 1942. A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for service. The unproven American army is going up against the ...more
In the roiling summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira is an aspiring ballerina in the romantic, highly competitive world of New York City ballet. ...more
Good on Paper by
Rachel Cantor
Melville House, 01/26/2016
Is a new life possible? Because Shira Greene's life hasn't quite turned out at planned. Shira is a permanent temp with a few short stories published ...more
Despite his fame, Eli Page is a riddle wrapped in a myth, inside decades of mask-making. His past is so shrouded in gossip and half-truths that no one...more
The Blue Line by
Ingrid Betancourt
Penguin Press, 01/26/2016
Set against the backdrop of Argentina's Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one ...more
The Last Thousand: One School's Promise in a Nation at War
by
Jeffrey E. Stern
St. Martin's Press, 01/26/2016
Under the protection of foreign forces, a special place has flourished in Afghanistan. The Marefat School is an award-winning institution in the ...more
Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but...more
The Poison Artist by
Jonathan Moore
Houghton Mifflin Books For Younger Readers, 01/26/2016
Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. After a bruising breakup with his girlfriend, he is drinking ...more
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and ...more
Where It Hurts: A Gus Murphy Novel
by
Reed Farrel Coleman
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 01/26/2016
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a ...more
London, 1980. Robert Hendricks, an established psychiatrist and author, has so bottled up memories of his own wartime past that he is nearly sunk into...more
A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging ...more
It is Illinois in the 1830s and 1840s. Abraham Lincoln is a circuit-riding lawyer, a member of the state legislature, a man of almost ungovernable ...more
Arcadia: Advent Trilogy, Book 3
by
James Treadwell
Emily Bestler Books (Atria), 02/02/2016
On a tiny archipelago out of sight of the rest of the world lives Rory, a ten-year-old boy. He and his mother and a handful of survivors live an ...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Black Deutschland by
Darryl Pinckney
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 02/02/2016
Jed - young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago - flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and ...more
Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his ...more
November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare...more
Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
by
David Denby
Henry Holt and Company, 02/02/2016
It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously - they associate ...more
In a fresh narrative voice that wryly observes, questions, and reflects, Sanghera confronts the complexities of tradition, culture, love, and family. ...more
In the autumn of 1917, Refrontolo, a small community north of Venice, is invaded by Austrian soldiers as the Italian army is pushed to the Piave river...more
Opening Belle by
Maureen Sherry
Simon & Schuster, 02/02/2016
In 2008, Isabelle - a self-made, thirty-something Wall Street star - appears to have it all: an Upper West Side apartment, three healthy children, a ...more
Jason Stafford used to be a hot Wall Street trader, went too far, and paid for it in prison. Now a financial investigator, he's been asked to look ...more
With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter's Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering ...more
Riley Cavanaugh is many things: Punk rock. Snarky. Rebellious. And gender fluid. Some days Riley identifies as a boy, and others as a girl. But Riley ...more
Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah's The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, ...more
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the ...more
The Flood Girls by
Richard Fifield
Gallery Books, 02/02/2016
Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim, where The Dirty Shame - the only bar in ...more
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely ...more
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that - if he can find...more
The Iceberg: A Memoir
by
Marion Coutts
Black Cat, 02/02/2016
In 2008, Tom Lubbock, the chief art critic for The Independent was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The Iceberg is his wife, Marion Coutts', fierce, ...more
Detective Esa Khattak heads up Canada's Community Policing Section, which handles minority-sensitive cases across all levels of law enforcement. ...more
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer's chance at immortality...more
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-...more
Charlie Goldwyn's life hasn't exactly gone according to plan. Widowerhood at thirty-three and twelve-hour workdays have left a gap in his relationship...more
Walking the Nile by
Levison Wood
Atlantic Monthly Press, 02/02/2016
The Nile, one of the world's great rivers, has long been an object of fascination and obsession. From Alexander the Great and Nero, to Victorian ...more
Piece of Mind by
Michelle Adelman
W.W. Norton & Company, 02/08/2016
At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo), and she possesses a rare gift for ...more
Dog Run Moon: Stories
by
Callan Wink
The Dial Press, 02/09/2016
A construction worker on the run from the shady local businessman whose dog he has stolen; a Custer's Last Stand reenactor engaged in a long-running ...more
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: ...more
A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast...more
"Clearing Dad's office felt like prospecting within his brain. As I sorted, like an archaeologist, backward through time, I saw a remarkable mind at ...more
Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first sojourn in France. She is hungry, and not just for food: ...more
The Heart takes place over the twenty-four hours surrounding a fatal accident and a resulting heart transplant as life is taken from a young man and ...more
Maria lives in a remote village in Burgundy, where she learns that she has a gift for communicating with nature. Hundreds of miles away in Italy, ...more
Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets, Waldemar 'Waldy' Tolliver wakes one morning to discover that he has been exiled ...more
The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
by
Fang Lizhi
Henry Holt and Company, 02/09/2016
Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later ...more
The Ramblers by
Aidan Donnelley Rowley
William Morrow, 02/09/2016
Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan - the Upper West Side, Central Park, Greenwich Village - The Ramblers explores the lives of three lost ...more
Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope,...more
In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyfriend and Beatriz's two grown children, flies ...more
What the Waves Know by
Tamara Valentine
William Morrow Paperbacks, 02/09/2016
The tiny state of Rhode Island is home to even tinier Tillings Island - which witnessed the biggest event of Izabella Rae Haywood's life. For it was ...more
Wreck and Order by
Hannah Tennant-Moore
Hogarth Books, 02/09/2016
Decisively aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels stuck. She has a tumultuous relationship ...more
You Should Pity Us Instead explores some of our toughest dilemmas: the cost of Middle East strife at its most intimate level, the likelihood of God ...more
Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. Olga ...more
In 1788, three men converge in the southern woods of what is now Alabama. Cat, an emotionally scarred white man from South Carolina, is on the run ...more
Interior Darkness: Selected Stories
by
Peter Straub
Doubleday, 02/16/2016
Peter Straub has spent forty years at the forefront of modern literary horror. The stories assembled here represent his astonishing range and his ...more
He calls himself Ulf - as good a name as any, he thinks - and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most ...more
On the north coast of Cornwall, an apparent act of mercy is repaid by an arrest for murder. Four young women have been accused of the crime. A shocked...more
Newly single mom Beth has one constant, gnawing worry: that her dreamy eight-year-old daughter, Carmel, who has a tendency to wander off, will one day...more
The human genome is indeed a mysterious world, but, as this fascinating book shows, its vital secrets are now being uncovered. The latest studies ...more
Thrillingly suspenseful and atmospheric, The Quality of Silence is the story of Yasmin, a beautiful astrophysicist, and her precocious deaf daughter, ...more
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by
Peter Frankopan
Knopf, 02/16/2016
It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and ...more
In Why They Run the Way They Do, critically acclaimed author Susan Perabo illustrates the triumphs and tragedies of daily life. Perfectly distilled ...more
Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks - even though her best friend Mel says ...more
Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hari Cove, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times....more
Carry Me by
Peter Behrens
Pantheon Books, 02/23/2016
During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of ...more
On the evening of May 3, 1937, Emilie Imhof boards the Hindenburg. As the only female crewmember, Emilie has access to the entire airship, from the ...more
Green Island by
Shawna Yang Ryan
Knopf, 02/23/2016
February 28, 1947: Trapped inside the family home amid an uprising that has rocked Taipei, Dr. Tsai delivers his youngest daughter, the unnamed ...more
Their meeting in a parking lot outside a high school football game was both completely forgettable and utterly life-changing. Because no matter ...more
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by
Sonia Shah
Sarah Crichton Books, 02/23/2016
Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they've ...more
Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou...more
Ever since the Titans appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan's world has revolved around the mechanical horses. It's not just the ...more
Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days ...more
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
by
Jack Lynch
Bloomsbury USA, 02/23/2016
You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. ...more
Bottomland by
Michelle Hoover
Black Cat, 03/01/2016
In the weeks after Esther and Myrle's disappearance, their siblings desperately search for the sisters, combing the stark farmlands, their neighbors' ...more
With only one year left of high school, seventeen-year-old Cliff Sparks is desperate to "come of age" - a.k.a., lose his virginity. But he's never had...more
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by
Fred Kaplan
Simon & Schuster, 03/01/2016
As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, ...more
To read his fiction is to feel more alive-connected, incandescently, to "the brief longshot of having been chosen for the human experience," as one of...more
Lesser Evils by
Joe Flanagan
Europa Editions, 03/01/2016
When the first young boy goes missing in a quiet Cape Cod town, Lieutenant Bill Warren is pulled into a morass that promises no happy ending. As his ...more
Mrs. Houdini by
Victoria Kelly
Atria Books, 03/01/2016
Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message ...more
Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
by
Timothy J. Jorgensen
Princeton University Press, 03/01/2016
More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ...more
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient ...more
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great ...more
A runaway international bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the ...more
Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape....more
Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training, his life's...more
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
by
Steve Olson
W.W. Norton & Company, 03/07/2016
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the ...more
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by
George Zarkadakis
Pegasus Books, 03/07/2016
Zarkadakis explores one of humankind's oldest love-hate relationships - our ties with artificial intelligence, or AI. He traces AI's origins in ...more
Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize
Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award
A Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year
A Scotland...more
Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone - for how many ...more
Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named...more
The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is ...more
Goodbye to the Dead: A Jonathan Stride Novel
by
Brian Freeman
Quercus, 03/08/2016
At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Gorgeous, brilliant Janine Snow - a surgeon transplanted to ...more
Dana Spiotta's new novel is about two women, best friends, who grow up in LA in the 80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in ...more
Lottery Boy by
Michael Byrne
Candlewick Press, 03/08/2016
Twelve-year-old Bully has lost his mum and his old life. Living rough on the streets of London with his dog, Jack, he can't imagine a future. But one ...more
Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite...more
When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, ...more
Rain Dogs: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel
by
Adrian McKinty
Seventh Street Books, 03/08/2016
When journalist Lily Bigelow is found dead in the courtyard of Carrickfergus castle, it looks like a suicide. Yet there are just a few things that ...more
Scary Old Sex by
Arlene Heyman
Bloomsbury USA, 03/08/2016
Scary Old Sex was written and rewritten over a period of thirty years. In her youth, Arlene Heyman had been a promising writer, studying with Bernard ...more
From Israel to India to Canada, Tsabari's indelible characters grapple with love, violence, faith, the slipperiness of identity, and the challenges of...more
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This...more
Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women. They are sisters by marriage ...more
Literary Fiction
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
by
Katie Roiphe
The Dial Press, 03/08/2016
In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She investigates the last days of ...more
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl fell into a canal late at night. Unable to swim, she went under and started to drown, only surviving thanks to a ...more
We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope
by
George W. Bush Institute
Scribner, 03/08/2016
Afghanistan has been described as "the worst nation in the world to be a woman." More than fifty percent of girls who are forced into marriage are ...more
Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The ...more
Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called "the most shocking play in NFL history" ...more
In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long been a summer destination for Jewish ...more
1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck – in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five ...more
Ladies Night at the Dreamland: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
by
Sonja Livingston
University of Georgia Press, 03/15/2016
In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, ...more
Margaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the shy, gifted, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret ...more
Paint Your Wife by
Lloyd Jones
Text Publishing Company, 03/15/2016
Long ago, when the men were away at the war, Alma began painting the women of the town. They sat for him in lieu of payment for his work catching rats...more
Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich ...more
This captivating, expertly crafted mystery captures the life and essence of Victorian Dublin and draws the reader on a gripping journey of murder and ...more
Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join. Now Kammie'...more
In this thrilling new mystery from the critically acclaimed author of The Witch Hunter's Tale midwife Bridget Hodgson travels to London where she's ...more
Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens...more
Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted ...more
In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's page-turning thrillers, filled ...more
Rush Oh! by
Shirley Barrett
Little Brown & Company, 03/22/2016
1908: It's the year that proves to be life-changing for our teenage narrator, Mary Davidson, tasked with providing support to her father's boisterous ...more
The daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and a mother worn down by thirteen children, Margaret Sanger vowed her life would be ...more
The acclaimed author of The Silent Oligarch and The Jackal's Share, Christopher Morgan Jones returns to a murky world where corporate spies and ...more
The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey into the World of Firearms
by
Iain Overton
Harper, 03/22/2016
We live in the Age of the Gun. Around the globe, firearms are ubiquitous and define countless lives; in some places, it's even easier to get a gun ...more
John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns ...more
Forty Martyrs by
Philip F. Deaver
Burrow Press, 03/29/2016
Forty Martyrs follows the intertwining lives of the people of Tuscola, Illinois, a small Midwestern college town that, over the course of the book, ...more
In 1902, a young girl watches her family's life destroyed by corrupt officials and inscrutable natives. In 1954, the wife of the American ambassador ...more
London, 1937. Following the gloomy days of the abdication of King Edward VIII, the entire city is elated to welcome King George. Just one of the many ...more
In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means ...more
It's the first real summer since the devastating accident that killed Cedar's father and younger brother, Ben. But now Cedar and what's left of her ...more
London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian...more
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, ...more
Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they ...more
Drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein, a growing readership is discovering Nicci French's acclaimed series with each ...more
Following in the path of his acclaimed collections The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011) and In The Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (...more
Oswald de Lacy is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. However, there is still the same amount of work to be done in the ...more
At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone...more
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Charles Bock earned vast critical acclaim for his debut novel, Beautiful Children. Now, in Alice &...more
In his latest historical novel, bestselling author Robert Morgan brings to full and vivid life the story of Jonah Williams, who, in 1850, on his ...more
Peter Ducksworth, a Trinidadian widower of English ancestry, retires to Barbados, believing he will find an earthly paradise there. He decides to ...more
It's London, 1960. The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon ...more
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
by
Joanna Connors
Atlantic Monthly Press, 04/05/2016
When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife ...more
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory ...more
Lilac Girls: A Novel
by
Martha Hall Kelly
Ballantine Books, 04/05/2016
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is ...more
For generations the Millers have lived in Miller's Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her ...more
Night Work: A Michael Cassidy Novel
by
David C. Taylor
Forge Books, 04/05/2016
Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro...more
Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded ...more
Panther's Prey: A Leo Maxwell Mystery
by
Lachlan Smith
Mysterious Press, 04/05/2016
After working to free his father from prison in Fox Is Framed, Leo has now left private practice and is working as a public defender in San Francisco....more
Sent to the Devil: A Lorenzo Da Ponte Mystery
by
Laura Lebow
Minotaur Books, 04/05/2016
In 1788 Vienna, Court Poet Lorenzo Da Ponte is putting some finishing touches on the libretto for the premiere of his new opera with Mozart, Don ...more
Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena
by
Shelley Emling
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/05/2016
One of only two patron saints of Italy, the other being St. Francis of Assisi, St. Catherine was ahead of her time. As a political powerhouse in late ...more
In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, ...more
The Father: Made in Sweden, Part I
by
Anton Svensson
Quercus, 04/05/2016
An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the narrative depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by ...more
The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
by
Jeanne Safer
Picador, 04/05/2016
Dr. Jeanne Safer has dedicated much of her decades' long career in psychotherapy to exploring taboo subjects that we all think about in private but ...more
Amsterdam, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city's Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint ...more
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas - one of America's poorest cities - John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. ...more
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
by
Skip Hollandsworth
Henry Holt and Company, 04/05/2016
In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But ...more
The Murder of Mary Russell: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by
Laurie R. King
Bantam Books, 04/05/2016
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets - her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over ...more
After spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are faced with a gut-wrenching choice: Move...more
Since the accident, Taylor's memory has been fuzzy. But at least she's awake. Who knows what her boyfriend, Scott, will remember when he comes out of ...more
Lucy Campion, a ladies' maid turned printer's apprentice in 17th-century London, is crossing Holborn Bridge over the murky waters of the River Fleet ...more
Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl - Isabel, the one the senoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she ...more
Arab Jazz by
Karim Miské
MacLehose Press, 04/12/2016
Ahmed Taroudant is an archetypal French Arab-non-observant, unable to reconcile his conflicting identities, and troubled by the past. A crime fiction ...more
A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping ...more
Daredevils by
Shawn Vestal
Penguin Press, 04/12/2016
At the heart of this debut novel, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-1970s, is fifteen-year-old Loretta, who slips out of her bedroom every evening ...more
Golden Boys by
Sonya Hartnett
Candlewick Press, 04/12/2016
Colt Jenson and his younger brother, Bastian, have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them ...more
Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter
by
Barbara Leaming
St. Martin's Press, 04/12/2016
The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Kick swept into Britain's aristocracy like a fresh wind on a sweltering summer ...more
In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by ...more
Harriet is 11 going on 30. Her mixed-media art is a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of ...more
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
by
Ibram X. Kendi
Nation Books, 04/12/2016
Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the ...more
The Bed Moved: Stories
by
Rebecca Schiff
Knopf, 04/12/2016
A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a "clothing optional resort" in California. A nerdy high-schooler has ...more
Betty Pack was charming, beautiful, and intelligent - and she knew it. As an agent for Britain's MI-6 and then America's OSS during World War II, ...more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg
by
Tim Birkhead
Bloomsbury USA, 04/12/2016
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within...more
Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all....more
At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside ...more
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. ...more
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup - his ex-girlfriend called him a "mama's boy" and his best friend considers him...more
On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full ...more
Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-...more
The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible ...more
In 1895, at age sixty, Mark Twain was dead broke and miserable - his recent novels had been critical and commercial failures, and he was bankrupted by...more
This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, ...more
At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the ...more
Noble Chase by
Michael Rudolph
Ballantine Books, 04/19/2016
Sic transit gloria. Beth Swahn, a young lawyer, makes a rookie mistake: She believes her client. While basking in the glory of winning a hundred-...more
There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after...more
Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. ...more
The "Arab Spring" all started when a young Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire in protest of a government official confiscating his apples ...more
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
by
Pamela Haag
Basic Books, 04/19/2016
Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of...more
The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the ...more
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future?all...more
After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth ...more
At the age of six, a little girl named Harvey learns that her parents have died in a car accident. As she struggles to understand, a kindly social ...more
Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service - the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But ...more
Great Falls by
Steve Watkins
Candlewick Press, 04/26/2016
Shane has always worshiped his big brother, Jeremy. But three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll, and the easy-go-lucky brother Shane...more
Here Comes Exterminator!: The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero
by
Eliza McGraw
Thomas Dunne Books, 04/26/2016
Eliza McGraw's Here Comes Exterminator! draws readers into the Golden Age of Racing, with all its ups and downs, the ever-involving interplay of ...more
DARK SECRETS
World-famous forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has landed in a well-guarded hospital room in Carmel, California. But hidden danger looms for...more
Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
by
William Carlsen
William Morrow, 04/26/2016
Imagine The Lost City of Z, except the fabled lost jungle civilization really was found - an "Egypt in the Americas" in which 1,500-year-old pyramids ...more
Keep Me in Mind by
Jaime Reed
Counterpoint Press, 04/26/2016
Ellia Dawson doesn't recognize the handsome boy who sits in tears by her hospital bed. He claims he's her boyfriend, Liam. But to Ellia, he's a ...more
In his search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler uncovers hidden - and profoundly disturbing - relationships between visitors to the library. ...more
John grows up with everything he could possibly want. His father is a businessman who travels far and wide. One day, he comes home with a rare gift ...more
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a ...more
The Adventurist by
J. Bradford Hipps
St. Martin's Griffin, 04/26/2016
Haunted by her death, and by a strange angst he describes as "the pall," Henry seeks escape in a quest for love and purpose occasioned by a crisis in ...more
Tara Marconi has made her way to "The Rock," a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She...more
When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only one thing to call it. But her sister Ted is ...more
After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic ...more
Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in "To the Lake" and "Visitors" are shown later in "New Guidance" and "Kids," during the deployments ...more
Double Down: Lois Lane Series
by
Gwenda Bond
Switch Press, 05/01/2016
Lois Lane has settled in to her new school. She has friends, for maybe the first time in her life. She has a job that challenges her. And her ...more
Graphic Novels
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight
by
Maria Toorpakai, Katharine Holstein
Twelve Books, 05/03/2016
Maria Toorpakai hails from Pakistan's violently oppressive northwest tribal region, where the idea of women playing sports is considered haram-un-...more
Vera Bellington has beauty, pedigree, and a penthouse at The Angelus--the most coveted address on Park Avenue. But behind the sparkling social whirl, ...more
Amateurs by
Dylan Hicks
Coffee House Press, 05/03/2016
Archer is a semi-celebrated novelist and sex-toy heir. His best friend, John, is as earnest as Archer is feckless. John's girlfriend, Sara, envies ...more
In far northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys are paid by the ...more
Britt-Marie can't stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She begins her day at 6 a.m., because only ...more
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
by
John Guy
Viking, 05/03/2016
Elizabeth was crowned at twenty-five after a tempestuous childhood as a bastard and an outcast, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes ...more
June 8, 1954. Several English nationals have defected to the USSR, while a witch hunt for homosexuals rages across Britain. In these circumstances, no...more
Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood
by
Terry Masear
Mariner Books, 05/03/2016
Before he collided with a limousine, Gabriel, an Anna's hummingbird with head and throat cloaked in iridescent magenta feathers, could spiral hundreds...more
Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a ...more
Literary Fiction
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
by
Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
Henry Holt and Company, 05/03/2016
Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her ...more
Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables & Problems
by
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Regan Books, 05/03/2016
Adam Ehrlich Sachs's Inherited Disorders is a rueful, absurd, and endlessly entertaining look at a most serious subject - the eternally vexed ...more
Short Stories Debut Author
Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
by
Teffi (Author), Robert Chandler (Translator), Anne Marie Jackson (Translator), Elizabeth Chandler (Translator), Edythe Haber (Introduction)
New York Review Books, 05/03/2016
In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited ...more
Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
by
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Picador, 05/03/2016
In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that had been the foundation of the new country. ...more
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story
by
Matti Friedman
Algonquin Books, 05/03/2016
The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for "casualties." Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the ...more
Relativity by
Antonia Hayes
Gallery Books, 05/03/2016
Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney, ...more
Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's ...more
Growing up, Adrien and his sister, Grace, competed viciously for everything. It wasn't easy being the adopted sibling, but Adrien tried to get along; ...more
After a lifetime defining herself in contrast to her mother's "don't ask, don't tell" generation, Lerner finds herself back in her childhood home, not...more
Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again. ...more
In the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins ...more
The Ecliptic by
Benjamin Wood
Penguin Press, 05/03/2016
Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the strangest, most exclusive artists' colony around. Its brilliant residents linger for years, all ...more
The Edge of the Empire: A Journey to Britannia: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall
by
Bronwen Riley
Pegasus Books, 05/03/2016
AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire and Hadrian its most complex and compelling ruler. Faraway Britannia is one of the Romans' most ...more
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the ...more
Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, ...more
Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's...more
Reina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community, throwing a baby ...more
The Versions of Us by
Laura Barnett
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/03/2016
The one thing that's certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened ...more
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
by
Neal Bascomb
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 05/03/2016
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now...more
Traitor Angels by
Anne Blankman
Balzer + Bray, 05/03/2016
Six years have passed since England's King Charles II returned from exile to reclaim the throne, ushering in a new era of stability for his subjects.
...more
Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected - and first female - state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously ...more
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary ...more
Set in the Victorian Age, Signs for Lost Children grapples with central themes of early feminism, mental health reform, and marriage as an imposed ...more
The Red Files by
Lisa Bird-Wilson
Nightwood Editions, 05/07/2016
Inspired by family and archival sources, Bird-Wilson assembles scraps of a history torn apart by colonial violence. The collection takes its name from...more
A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit ...more
Allegheny Front: Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
by
Matthew Neill Null
Sarabande Books, 05/10/2016
Set in the author's homeland of West Virginia, this panoramic collection of stories traces the people and animals who live in precarious balance in ...more
Amp'd by
Ken Pisani
St. Martin's Griffin, 05/10/2016
Aaron is not a man on a hero's journey. In the question of fight or flight, he'll choose flight every time. So when a car accident leaves him suddenly...more
Constellation by
Adrien Bosc
Other Press, 05/10/2016
On October 27, 1949, Air France's new plane, the Constellation, launched by the extravagant Howard Hughes, welcomed thirty-eight passengers aboard. On...more
London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. The only ones who have survived are children, among them Gwen Darling and her siblings, ...more
North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but ...more
It is 1897, and Sara and Philippe Lemieux, newly married and full of hope for the future, are determined to make Eagle's Run, their Napa vineyard, ...more
Willa Parker, 646th and least-popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose this life? No, because that ...more
Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. ...more
The tales in Mark Haddon's lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms - Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, ...more
Spies, codes and guerrillas played critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its ...more
In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New ...more
Written in Dead Wax: A Vinyl Detective Mystery
by
Andrew Cartmel
Titan Books, 05/10/2016
He is a record collector - a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some...more
Let's imagine a man called Captain Tom Barnes, aka BA5799, who's leading British troops in the war zone. And two boys growing up together there, ...more
Luc Crépet is accustomed to his mother's bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic château in the French countryside, where healing comes ...more
Historical Fiction
Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
by
David Dayen
The New Press, 05/17/2016
They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal ...more
Draw the Line by
Laurent Linn
Margaret K. McElderry Books, 05/17/2016
Adrian Piper is used to blending into the background at his Texas high school. He may be a talented artist, a sci-fi geek, and gay, but none of those ...more
Yogev Ben-Ari has been sent to St. Petersburg by the Mossad - ostensibly to network and set up business connections. His life is solitary, ordered, ...more
In The Beach Club, Mack Petersen has returned as always on the first day of May to once again open and manage the Nantucket Beach Club and Hotel ...more
Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime ...more
Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can't even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly ...more
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
by
Lindy West
Hachette Books, 05/17/2016
West has rocked readers in work published everywhere from The Guardian to GQ to This American Life. She is a catalyst for a national conversation in a...more
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling ...more
Moving freely between London and New York, between photojournalism and fashion photography, and between the men who love her on complicated terms, ...more
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one ...more
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful ...more
Nick Mason has already spent five years inside a maximum security prison when an offer comes that will grant his release twenty years early. He ...more
Nicolaos, the only private investigator in ancient Athens, discovers that helping an author with his book research can be very dangerous. The would-be...more
Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Others come only for the weekends-and the mix between the ...more
Lucas and Katya were boarding school seniors when, blindingly in love, they decided to have a baby. Seventeen years later, after years of absence, ...more
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything ...more
Blues musician Cory Ainsworth is barely scraping by after her mother's death when she discovers a priceless piece of rock 'n' roll memorabilia hidden ...more
Literary Fiction
Marlene by
C. W. Gortner
William Morrow, 05/24/2016
Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding career as a violinist is ...more
No Way But Gentlenesse: A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life
by
Richard Hines
Bloomsbury USA, 05/24/2016
Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust, hearing whispers of ...more
San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty in Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare's School for...more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
by
Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Bela Shayevich (Translator)
Random House, 05/24/2016
When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work ...more
Stone Tablets by
Wojciech Zukrowski
Paul Dry Books, 05/24/2016
Stone Tablets is a richly rendered novel of the plight of a Hungarian diplomat working in India in 1956. As it opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World ...more
"Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart ...more
Once a century, for only six days, the bay around a small Washington island glows like a water-bound aurora. Dr. Rachel Bell, a scientist studying the...more
Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the ...more
During the long, hot summer of 1888, an extraordinary friendship blossoms between Anton Chekhov and Zinaida Lintvaryova, a young doctor. Recently ...more
Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American ...more
Blanca is forty years old and motherless. Shaken by the unexpected death of the most important person in her life, she suddenly realizes that she has ...more
Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians ...more
1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups ...more
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter - depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes ...more
Friends and former college bandmates Elizabeth and Andrew and Zoe have watched one another marry, buy real estate, and start businesses and families, ...more
Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you ...more
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
by
Terry Tempest Williams
Sarah Crichton Books, 05/31/2016
America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people ...more
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics - from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories - observed in #1 New York ...more
On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of ...more
Now in his mid-seventies, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. "Since childhood, I've longed for escape, for ...more
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by
Carol Anderson
Bloomsbury USA, 05/31/2016
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African ...more
Set in a world similar to our own, during a war that parallels World War II, A Green and Ancient Light is the stunning story of a boy who is sent to ...more
American Girls by
Alison Umminger
Flatiron Books, 06/07/2016
Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card and ...more
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
by
Chuck Klosterman
Blue Hen Publishing, 06/07/2016
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes ...more
Moving along the Maine Coast and beyond, the interconnected stories in Goodnight, Beautiful Women bring us into the sultry, mysterious inner lives of ...more
Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are...more
It's 1994, and war rages on in Yugoslavia - Sarajevo is under siege, and Bosnia's different ethnic groups are battling for control of the newly ...more
Marrow Island by
Alexis M. Smith
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/07/2016
It has been twenty years since Lucie Bowen left the islands. Twenty years ago, the May Day Quake set loose catastrophic waves along the west coast, ...more
Joey Getchie has been property of the state longer than he was in parental custody. But he's a survivor, and he has a Plan: graduate high school and ...more
Aspen Quick has never really worried about how he's affecting people when he steals from them. But this summer he'll discover just how strong the ...more
Security by
Gina Wohlsdorf
Algonquin Books, 06/07/2016
When the gleaming new Manderley Resort opens in twenty-four hours, Santa Barbara's exclusive beachfront hotel will offer its patrons the ultimate in ...more
The Extra by
A. B. Yehoshua
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 06/07/2016
Noga, forty-two and a divorcee, is a harpist with an orchestra in the Netherlands. Upon the sudden death of her father, she is summoned home to ...more
Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's ...more
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they ...more
The Loose Ends List by
Carrie Firestone
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 06/07/2016
Seventeen-year-old Maddie O'Neill Levine lives a charmed life, and is primed to spend the perfect pre-college summer with her best friends and young-...more
On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were ...more
Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye for a defense ...more
If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they'd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, ...more
The two principal stories at play in Wintering are bound together when the elderly, demented Harry Eide escapes his sickbed and vanishes into the ...more
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations
by
Juliet Nicolson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 06/14/2016
All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-...more
Before the Feast by
Sasa Stanisic (author), Anthea Bell (translator)
Ballantine Books, 06/14/2016
It's the night before the feast in the village of Furstenfelde (population: an odd number). The village is asleep. Except for the ferryman - he's dead...more
An extraordinary thriller - gripping, haunting, and marvelously told - about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the ...more
Falling: A Daughter, a Father, and a Journey Back
by
Elisha Cooper
Pantheon Books, 06/14/2016
Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most ...more
Grace by
Natashia Deon
Counterpoint Press, 06/14/2016
For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi ...more
Laurel Thorpe, Belinda Rowe, and Scarlett Oliver share only two things; a love for the man they all married, Deacon Thorpe—a celebrity chef with...more
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Headmaster's Wife was a breakout book for Thomas Christopher Greene. Now, Greene returns with a ...more
In the Darkroom by
Susan Faludi
Metropolitan Books, 06/14/2016
"In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter ...more
Love Wins: The Lovers and Lawyers Who Fought the Landmark Case for Marriage Equality
by
Debbie Cenziper, Jim Obergefell
William Morrow, 06/14/2016
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of ...more
When a high-ranking head of the migration board is found shot to death in his living room, there is no shortage of suspects, including his wife. But ...more
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
by
Taras Grescoe
St. Martin's Press, 06/14/2016
Emily "Mickey" Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes to the realities of life ...more
It's the summer of love in late 1960s England. Basil D'Oliveira has just been dropped from the English cricket team before for a test series in ...more
Steeplejack: An Alternative Detective Novel
by
A. J. Hartley
Tor Books, 06/14/2016
Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live ...more
The Butler's Child: An Autobiography
by
Lewis M. Steel, Beau Friedlander
Thomas Dunne Books, 06/14/2016
The Butler's Child is the personal story of a Warner Brothers family grandson who spent more than fifty years as a fighting, no holds barred civil ...more
Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they ...more
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls ...more
In 1919, the Turner sisters and their parents are barely scraping by. Their father is a low-paid boot-stitcher in Johnson City, New York, and the ...more
When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking ...more
Worldly Goods by
Alice Petersen
Biblioasis, 06/14/2016
An old record player; an unposted letter; a pearl necklace never purchased; a badly written poem from the woman you love: tokens, gifts, and objects ...more
It's 1963, and Calvin Sidey, one of the last of the old cowboys, has long ago left his family to live a life of self-reliance out on the prairie. He's...more
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
by
Charles Foster
Metropolitan Books, 06/21/2016
How can we ever be sure that we really know the other? To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out...more
For Tara Krishnan, navigating Brierly, the academically rigorous prep school she attends on scholarship, feels overwhelming and impossible. Her junior...more
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus,...more
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
by
Nancy Isenberg
Viking, 06/21/2016
The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement. They were alternately known as "waste people," ...more
In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have suddenly been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Hale, ...more
Magnus "Steps" Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly ...more
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
by
Calvin Trillin
Random House, 06/28/2016
In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of ...more
Look at You Now: My Journey from Shame to Strength
by
Liz Pryor
Random House, 06/28/2016
In 1979, Liz Pryor is a seventeen-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she...more
At thirty-nine, Manon Bradshaw is a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, and though she loves her job, what she longs for ...more
Leo Brice is dead, in a sense (not the traditional one). When the neurotic law student meets his cosmic match in Fiona Haeberle, an impulsive spirit ...more
Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely ...more
We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
by
Justine van der Leun
Spiegel & Grau, 06/28/2016
The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, ...more
Catherine West has spent her entire life surrounded by beautiful things. She owns an immaculate Manhattan apartment, she collects fine art, she buys ...more
Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in...more
Self-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for "...more
Amour Provence by
Constance Leisure
Simon & Schuster, 07/05/2016
In the south of France farm life unfolds with the rhythm of the seasons. But the lives of these villagers in Amour Provence reflect the reality that ...more
In House Revenge, Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to his boss Congressman John Mahoney's hometown of Boston. Mahoney wants him to help ...more
I Am No One by
Patrick Flanery
Tim Duggan Books, 07/05/2016
After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University....more
Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling, and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone ...more
An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Maybe not kill-all-the-dinosaurs bad, but at least kill-everyone-in-California-and-wipe-out-...more
Problems by
Jade Sharma
Coffee House Press, 07/05/2016
Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ...more
The Boy in the Shadows by
Carl-Johan Vallgren (author), Rachel Willson-Broyles (translator)
Quercus, 07/05/2016
1970: In an overcrowded Stockholm subway station, a harried father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his ...more
The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History
by
Thomas Harding
Picador, 07/05/2016
In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had ...more
In You Are Having a Good Time, Amie Barrodale's collection of highly compressed and charged tales, the veneer of normality is stripped from her ...more
London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—...more
A young man named Samuel dies in a horrible car crash. Was it an accident or was it suicide? To answer that question, an unnamed writer with an agenda...more
Heartbreaker: Stories
by
Maryse Meijer
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 07/12/2016
In her debut story collection Heartbreaker, Maryse Meijer peels back the crust of normalcy and convention, unmasking the fury and violence we are ...more
Pond by
Claire-Louise Bennett
Riverhead Books, 07/12/2016
Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish ...more
New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine - Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their ...more
Sixty Degrees North: Around the World in Search of Home
by
Malachy Tallack
Pegasus Books, 07/12/2016
The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and ...more
When Michael sees his wife Nancy chatting with a stranger at a party, his intuition tells him that he's watching her with the man she should have ...more
The Asset by
Shane Kuhn
Simon & Schuster, 07/12/2016
Kennedy - a private airport security contractor - knows more about airports than the head of the TSA, and he feels more comfortable in his British ...more
Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation "since Ian Fleming put down his martini and ...more
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with ...more
Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world's troubles. At the center of ...more
Literary Fiction Debut Author
The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
by
Rodney Dietert PhD
Dutton, 07/12/2016
The Human Superorganism makes a sweeping, paradigm-shifting argument. It demolishes two fundamental beliefs that have blinkered all medical ...more
Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn't mean she's ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Shadow Hour: The Girl At Midnight Series
by
Melissa Grey
Delacorte Press, 07/12/2016
Everything in Echo's life changed in a blinding flash when she learned the startling truth: she is the firebird, the creature of light that is said to...more
In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London - for ...more
Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown
by
Scott D. Seligman
Viking, 07/12/2016
Nothing had worked. Not threats or negotiations, not shutting down the betting parlors or opium dens, not house-to-house searches or throwing Chinese ...more
Towers Falling by
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 07/12/2016
When her fifth-grade teacher hints that a series of lessons about home and community will culminate with one big answer about two tall towers once ...more
Historical Fiction
Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
by
Nicolaia Rips
Scribner, 07/12/2016
New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens - Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name a few - but the ...more
Could a nightmare be used as a murder weapon? That's the provocative question confronting Gurney in the thrilling new installment in this series of ...more
As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. ...more
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an ...more
Fall from Grace: A David Raker Mystery
by
Tim Weaver
Viking, 07/19/2016
After decades of service, Leonard Franks has stepped down from the Metropolitan Police as a high-ranking detective in the Homicide and Serious Crime ...more
When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she felt sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents and...more
Here Comes the Sun by
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Liveright / WW Norton, 07/19/2016
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the ...more
Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cold cell awaiting freedom…or death. Alone and despondent, Mata Hari is as confused as the ...more
Monterey Bay by
Lindsay Hatton
Penguin Press, 07/19/2016
In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father'...more
A nation's greatest sports hero has been accused of murder. The trial is approaching, and the public is clamoring - both for and against. And in a ...more
In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the ...more
The Inseparables by
Stuart Nadler
Little Brown & Company, 07/19/2016
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent ...more
It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an ...more
At age four, Young Ju moves with her parents from Korea to Southern California. She has always imagined America would be like heaven: easy, blissful, ...more
Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind - the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -...more
Cousin Joseph: A Graphic Novel
by
Jules Feiffer
Liveright / WW Norton, 07/26/2016
With the New York Times bestseller Kill My Mother, legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer began an epic saga of American noir fiction. With Cousin Joseph,...more
Gemini by
Sonya Mukherjee
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 07/26/2016
Seventeen-year-old conjoined twins Clara and Hailey have lived in the same small town their entire lives - no one stares at them anymore. But there ...more
Good as Gone by
Amy Gentry
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 07/26/2016
Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was ...more
Josie and her children's father have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a ...more
One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and ...more
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
by
David Goldblatt
W.W. Norton & Company, 07/26/2016
Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for writing "with the expansive eye of a social and cultural critic" ...more
Young Maris has been summoned to his mother's bedside as she nears the end of her life; she feels she must tell him her version of their family ...more
Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-...more
San Francisco, 1975. A single mother, Lux Lysander is overwhelmed, underpaid, and living on the edge of an emotional precipice. When her adored ...more
Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war....more
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a ...more
The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was ...more
Don't Tell Me You're Afraid: A Novel
by
Giuseppe Catozzella (author), Anne Milano Appel (translator)
Penguin Books, 08/02/2016
At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach."...more
The sand fairy, also known as the Psammead, is merely a creature from stories Lamb and Edith have heard their older brothers and sisters tell ... ...more
Half Wild: Stories
by
Robin MacArthur
Ecco, 08/02/2016
Spanning nearly forty years, the stories in Robin MacArthur's formidable debut give voice to the hopes, dreams, hungers, and fears of a diverse cast ...more
Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea's most prominent families. Jangmi, on the other hand, has had to fend for herself since ...more
When Leigh Stein received a call from an unknown number in July 2011, she let it go to voice mail, assuming it would be her ex-boyfriend Jason. ...more
For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from ...more
March: Book Three
by
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
Top Shelf Productions, 08/02/2016
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling March trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key ...more
Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot ...more
Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive ...more
In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple ...more
Tastes Like Chicken: A History of America's Favorite Bird
by
Emelyn Rude
Pegasus Books, 08/02/2016
How did chicken achieve the culinary ubiquity it enjoys today? It's hard to imagine, but there was a point in history, not terribly long ago, that ...more
Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, ...more
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
by
Andrew Scott Cooper
Henry Holt and Company, 08/02/2016
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces ...more
The Gilded Cage by
Lucinda Gray
Henry Holt and Company, 08/02/2016
After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, ...more
Sisters Rose and Lily Martin were inseparable when they were kids. As adults, they've been estranged for years, until circumstances force them to come...more
The Wages of Desire: A World War II Mystery (Inspector Lamb)
by
Stephen Kelly
Pegasus Books, 08/08/2016
In the late summer of 1941, as the war in Europe drags on, long-buried secrets begin to surface in the Hampshire village of Winstead, when the body of...more
Here is Daniel Boone as you've never seen him: debut novelist Alix Hawley presents Boone's life, from his childhood in a Quaker colony, through two ...more
Gesell Dome by
Guillermo Saccomanno (Author), Andrea G. Labinger (translator)
Open Letter, 08/09/2016
Opening with reports of a child abuse scandal at an elementary school, then weaving its way through dozens of sordid storylines and characters - ...more
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, ...more
In "The Liberace Museum," a mixed-race couple leave the South toward the destination of Vegas, crossing miles of road and history to the promised land...more
With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of ...more
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
by
Luke Dittrich
Random House, 08/09/2016
In 1953, a twenty-seven-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison - who suffered from severe epilepsy - received a radical new version of the then-...more
The Cauliflower by
Nicola Barker
Henry Holt and Company, 08/09/2016
To the world, he is Sri Ramakrishna - godly avatar, esteemed spiritual master, beloved guru. To Rani Rashmoni, she of low caste and large inheritance,...more
Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal The New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Best Middle Grade Book of 2016 A New York Public Library ...more
The Glamour of Strangeness: Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
by
Jamie James
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/09/2016
From the early days of steamship travel, artists stifled by the culture of their homelands fled to islands, jungles, and deserts in search of new ...more
When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned ...more
The Hero's Body: A Memoir
by
William Giraldi
Liveright / WW Norton, 08/09/2016
At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi's father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which ...more
The Jump by
Doug Johnstone
Faber and Faber, 08/09/2016
Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and ...more
A series of archeological expeditions unfolds through time, each one looking for the ruins of a fabled underground city-state that once flourished in ...more
The Widower's Wife: A Thriller
by
Cate Holahan
Crooked Lane Books, 08/09/2016
Investigator Ryan Monahan is a numbers man. So when his company sends him the Bacon case, which could net a ten million dollar payout, Monahan doubts ...more
When Watched: Stories
by
Leopoldine Core
Penguin Books, 08/09/2016
In Leopoldine Core's stories, you never know where you are going to end up. Populated by sex workers and artists, lovers and friends, her characters ...more
When We Was Fierce by
e.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Candlewick Press, 08/09/2016
We wasn't up to nothin' new really. Me and Jimmy, Catch and Yo-Yo. We just comin' down the street keepin' cool. We was good at stayin' low Especially ...more
For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found ...more
A Quiet Place by
Seicho Matsumoto
Bitter Lemon Press, 08/16/2016
While on a business trip to Kobe, Tsuneo Asai receives the news that his wife Eiko has died of a heart attack. Eiko had a heart condition so the news ...more
Thrillers
All at Sea: A Memoir
by
Decca Aitkenhead
Nan A. Talese, 08/16/2016
On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the...more
Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives
by
Eve Herold
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/16/2016
Eve Herold's Beyond Human examines the medical technologies taking shape at the nexus of computing, microelectronics, engineering, nanotechnology, ...more
There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his second wife doesn't know - and that he now sets out to tell her, come what may. He begins with his disastrous ...more
Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant ...more
Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
by
Lydia Pyne
Viking, 08/16/2016
Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of ...more
The Golden Age by
Joan London
Europa Editions, 08/16/2016
Thirteen-year-old Frank Gold's family, Hungarian Jews, escape the perils of World War II to the safety of Australia in the 1940s. But not long after ...more
The Obelisk Gate: The Broken Earth #2
by
N. K. Jemisin
Orbit, 08/16/2016
Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world...more
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
by
Heather Ann Thompson
Pantheon Books, 08/23/2016
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding ...more
Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA
by
Christopher Moran
Thomas Dunne Books, 08/23/2016
Spies are supposed to keep quiet, never betraying their agents or discussing their operations. Somehow, this doesn't apply to the CIA, whose former ...more
Falling Awake: Poems
by
Alice Oswald
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/23/2016
Alice Oswald's award-winning and highly acclaimed volume Memorial ("wryly ingenious," said the New York Times Book Review) portrays fallen soldiers ...more
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
by
Witold Rybczynski
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 08/23/2016
In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of ...more
Spontaneous by
Aaron Starmer
Dutton Children's Books, 08/23/2016
Mara Carlyle's senior year is going as normally as could be expected, until - wa-bam! - fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period pre-...more
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
by
Keith Houston
W.W. Norton & Company, 08/23/2016
We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a ...more
"The Dollhouse... That's what we boys like to call it... The Barbizon Hotel for Women, packed to the rafters with pretty little dolls. Just like you."...more
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with ...more
Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict ...more
Following the events of the Fourth Trial, an army led by Masks hunts the two fugitives as they escape the city of Serra and journey across the vast ...more
"There isn't anything in the world that hurts like a burn." No one knows the pain of a fire more than the women of the Keegan/O'Reilly clan. Kathleen ...more
Joanna Gordon has been out and proud for years, but when her popular radio evangelist father remarries and decides to move all three of them from ...more
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken ...more
The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally ...more
There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy Vanessa, and the youngest and best-loved, Marie...more
Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school's ultimate power couple - but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar ...more
Because I'm Watching: A Virtue Falls Novel
by
Christina Dodd
St. Martin's Griffin, 09/06/2016
The survivor of a college dorm massacre, a woman accused of her lover's murder, Madeline Hewitson is haunted by ghosts and tormented by a killer only ...more
Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher ...more
Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood
by
Wilma Dykeman
The University of North Carolina Press, 09/06/2016
Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and ...more
All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she's always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means ...more
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
by
Margot Lee Shetterly
William Morrow, 09/06/2016
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used ...more
After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun, Constance Kopp became one of the nation's ...more
Every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, and every woman who has ever ...more
After surviving the accident that took her mother's life, Claire Broussard has worked hard to escape her small Louisiana hometown. But these days she ...more
Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she's ambitious and smart, and she has just received the opportunity of a lifetime: a scholarship to a prestigious ...more
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
by
Ross King
Bloomsbury USA, 09/06/2016
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are ...more
March is the award-winning, #1 bestselling graphic novel trilogy recounting his life in the movement, co-written with Andrew Aydin and drawn by Nate ...more
Graphic Novels
Matilda by
Roald Dahl
Viking Books for Younger Readers, 09/06/2016
From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG comes the story of girl with extraordinary abilities. Matilda is a sweet,...more
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in ...more
Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland
by
Miriam Horn
W.W. Norton & Company, 09/06/2016
Many of the men and women doing today's most consequential environmental work - restoring America's grasslands, wildlife, soil, rivers, wetlands, and ...more
When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is ...more
On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli, known for its temples, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi, whose ...more
Lynne Cox is an elite athlete who broke many world records, among them swimming the English Channel at fifteen, being the first woman to swim across ...more
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
by
Belle Boggs
Graywolf Press, 09/06/2016
When Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on ...more
England, 1911. At Sharston Asylum, men and women are separated by thick walls and barred windows. But on Friday nights, they are allowed to mingle in ...more
Poppy Hooper and Ember Hawkweed couldn't lead more different lives. Poppy is a troubled teen: moving from school to school, causing chaos wherever she...more
Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she quoted from Hope Against...more
While swimming in a secluded creek on a hot Sunday in 1969, sixteen-year-old Eugene and his older brother, Bill, meet the entrancing Ligeia. A sexy, ...more
Rachel isn't on the road long before she runs out of gas in a town that's not on her map: Nowhere, North Carolina - also known as the town of "Lost ...more
Literary Fiction
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
by
Laura Thompson
St. Martin's Press, 09/06/2016
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley...more
In The White Mirror, the follow-up to Elsa Hart's critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in ...more
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
by
Jerald Walker
Beacon Press, 09/06/2016
When The World in Flames begins, in 1970, Jerald Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose teachings...more
Biography/Memoir
Vampire in Love by
Enrique Vila-Matas (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
The New Press, 09/06/2016
An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death falls in love with a choirboy. A fledgling writer on barbiturates visits Marguerite Duras's ...more
Beloved Poison: Jem Flockhart Mysteries, Book 1
by
E. S. Thomson
Pegasus Books, 09/13/2016
Ramshackle and crumbling, trapped in the past and resisting the future, St. Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition. Within its stinking wards and ...more
Black Water by
Louise Doughty
Sarah Crichton Books, 09/13/2016
John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may ...more
It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and ...more
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual ...more
Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and ...more
Jerusalem by
Alan Moore
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/13/2016
In the epic novel Jerusalem, Alan Moore channels both the ecstatic visions of William Blake and the theoretical physics of Albert Einstein through the...more
David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn,...more
Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach's lush Venetian Islands. After ...more
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but John's not there. Instead, she...more
When viral video of an explosive terrorist attack on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge reveals that a Federal witness long thought dead is still ...more
Sun, Sand, Murder: A Mystery
by
John Keyse-Walker
Minotaur Books, 09/13/2016
As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun-drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British ...more
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no ...more
The Bone Tree: A Penn Cage Novel, Natchez Burning Trilogy #2
by
Greg Iles
William Morrow, 09/13/2016
Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives after being attacked by...more
The Gloaming by
Melanie Finn
Two Dollar Radio, 09/13/2016
Pilgrim's husband left her for another woman, stranding her in a Swiss town where she is involved in an accident that leaves three children dead. ...more
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate?Discoveries from A Secret World
by
Peter Wohlleben
Greystone Books, 09/13/2016
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a ...more
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock - the "Widow of the South" - has quietly built a new life for ...more
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let ...more
In this lush, sexy, atmospheric page-turner, a young Englishwoman, 19-year-old Gwendolyn, marries a rich and seductively mysterious widower, Laurence ...more
Charlatan by
Kate Braithwaite
Fireship Press, 09/15/2016
1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love ...more
Historical Fiction Debut Author
Shame the Stars by
Guadalupe Garcia Mccall
Tu Books, 09/15/2016
Eighteen-year-old Joaquin del Toro's future looks bright. With his older brother in the priesthood, he s set to inherit his family s Texas ranch. He's...more
After the Dam by
Amy Hassinger
Red Hen Press, 09/16/2016
Undone by motherhood, judged by her husband, thirty-two-year-old Rachel Clayborne flees with her baby in the middle of the night for the one place on ...more
Tracy Kidder, the "master of the nonfiction narrative" (The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells ...more
In House of Lords and Commons, the revelatory and vital new collection of poems from the winner of the 2013 Whiting Writers' Award in poetry, Ishion ...more
Marrow: A Love Story
by
Elizabeth Lesser
HarperCollins Publishers, 09/20/2016
A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone ...more
Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of ...more
Jacquie Mouhot and Paaku the Lotus-Born are divided by six centuries but linked by a common curse. In medieval Cambodia, Paaku is an orphan whose ...more
Brightwood by
Tania Unsworth
Algonquin Books, 09/27/2016
Daisy Fitzjohn knows there are two worlds: the outside world and the world of her home, a secluded mansion called Brightwood Hall. But only Brightwood...more
Darling Days: A Memoir
by
iO Tillett Wright
Ecco, 09/27/2016
Born into the beautiful bedlam of downtown New York in the eighties, iO Tillett Wright came of age at the intersection of punk, poverty, heroin, and ...more
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
by
Tilar J. Mazzeo
Gallery Books, 09/27/2016
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to the Warsaw ghetto as a public health specialist. While there, she reached out ...more
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
by
Ruth Franklin
Liveright / WW Norton, 09/27/2016
Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream ...more
Zoe Whittaker is living a charmed life. She is the beautiful young wife to handsome, charming Wall Street tycoon Henry Whittaker. She is a member of ...more
Time Travel: A History
by
James Gleick
Pantheon Books, 09/27/2016
Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first ...more
> February, 1906. As the personal secretary of the recently departed Duke of Olympia - and a woman of scrupulous character - Miss Emmeline Rose ...more
By Gaslight by
Steven Price
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/04/2016
William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of the most notorious detective of all time, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in ...more
Every Man a Menace by
Patrick Hoffman
Atlantic Monthly Press, 10/04/2016
San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar, just out of prison, is sent to the city...more
Flynn's girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking question he can't answer, and her friends are telling stories that don't add up. All eyes...more
In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote ...more
Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life - by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a ...more
North of Crazy: A Memoir
by
Neltje
St. Martin's Press, 10/04/2016
Imagine a world of Gatsby-esque glamor, opulence, and cultural prestige, of exclusive parties and elegant dinners, of literary luminaries including ...more
Years ago, Nell Zink resolved to write a book for her friend, the Israeli novelist Avner Shats, that would mirror his remarkable style. Unable to read...more
"There are many ways to break someone's heart, but Rabih Alameddine is one rare writer who not only breaks our hearts but gives every broken piece a ...more
With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a millennium ago by refugees ...more
Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he ...more
Being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems ...more
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons ...more
Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers was greeted with rave reviews, a YALSA Morris Award nomination, and spots on multiple "Best ...more
Some of the stormy weather of the past few seasons seems to have finally lifted for the Quinns. After a year apart, and an ill-fated affair with the ...more
A warm and enchanting festive novel from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand.
Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner...more
Literary Fiction
American Philosophy: A Love Story
by
John Kaag
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/11/2016
In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an...more
Most of us have experienced what it's like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it. Or perhaps you have been shocked by the ...more
Beast by
Brie Spangler
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 10/11/2016
Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairier than most throw rugs, Dylan doesn't look like your average fifteen-year-old, so, naturally, high school has not...more
Middle-aged doctor Alain Massoulier has received a life-changing letter—thirty-three years too late.
Lost in the Paris postal system for decades, ...more
Literary Fiction
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine
by
Tim Judah
Tim Duggan Books, 10/11/2016
Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than...more
Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a...more
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a ...more
Sarah can't draw. This is a problem, because as long as she can remember, she has "done the art." She thinks she's having an existential crisis. And ...more
Tetris: The Games People Play
by
Brian
First Second, 10/11/2016
Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it long enough and you'll see those brightly ...more
From scheming and gambling with her force-of-nature grandmother, to brawling with eleven-year-old girls on the concrete recess battle yard of MS 172, ...more
The Ghosts of Birds by
Eliot Weinberger
New Directions Publishing, 10/11/2016
The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing...more
After the death of her beloved husband, Katrin, a literary biographer, copes with the loss by writing his personal history. While researching the ...more
In the movie version of Amelia's life, the roles have always been clear. Her older brother, Toby: definitely the Star. As popular with the stoners as ...more
From the woods where he hides with his nearly grown son Clarke and his young daughter King, ex-Army Ranger Dominick Sawyer watches Agent Charlie Basin...more
The Red Car by
Marcy Dermansky
Liveright / WW Norton, 10/11/2016
With each new novel, Marcy Dermansky deploys her "brainy, emotionally sophisticated" (New York Times) prose to greater and greater heights, and The ...more
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Pulaski knows Zero is coming for her. Zero, the devastating depression born of Catherine's bipolar disorder, almost ...more
Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his ...more
Borders by
Roy Jacobsen
Graywolf Press, 10/18/2016
The Ardennes, a forested, mountainous borderland that spans France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg, was crucial to Hitler's invasion of France and ...more
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
by
Anne Sebba
St. Martin's Press, 10/18/2016
Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel...more
Mister Monkey - a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee - is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its ...more
Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka's parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own ...more
It is, as it always has been, a place of pubs and cricket pitches, where local eccentrics - a retired colonel who has eschewed clothes, a spiritualist...more
It's Christmas time in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer...more
The Fall Guy by
James Lasdun
W.W. Norton & Company, 10/18/2016
It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their ...more
Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich....more
The Next by
Stephanie Gangi
St. Martin's Press, 10/18/2016
Joanna falls from her life, from the love of daughters and devoted dog, into an otherworldly landscape, a bleak infinity she can't escape until she ...more
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
by
Gino Segrè (author), Bettina Hoerlin (author)
Henry Holt and Company, 10/18/2016
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his ...more
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
by
Greg Mitchell
Crown, 10/18/2016
In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They ...more
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
by
Beth Macy
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 10/18/2016
The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little ...more
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
by
Ibtisam Barakat
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/25/2016
Picking up where Tasting the Sky left off, Balcony on the Moon follows Ibtisam Barakat through her childhood and adolescence in Palestine from 1972 to...more
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
by
Joe Jackson
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 10/25/2016
Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial, Black Elk Speaks. Adapted by the ...more
The halls are decked, the deck is stacked, and here comes that jolly old elf. Junior Bender, divorced father of one and burglar extraordinaire, finds ...more
Anne Carson consistently dazzles with her inventive, shape-shifting work and the vividness of her imagination. Float reaches an even greater level of ...more
On Living by
Kerry Egan
Riverhead Books, 10/25/2016
As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about...more
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
by
Ibtisam Barakat
Macmillan Publishers, 10/25/2016
With candor and courage, she stitches together memories of her childhood: fear and confusion as bombs explode near her home and she is separated from ...more
Biography/Memoir
Television: A Biography
by
David Thomson
Thames & Hudson, 10/25/2016
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch...more
The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie." ... A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste...more
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
by
Albert Marrin
Knopf, 10/25/2016
Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own ...more
The literary, historic, and fantastic collide in these wise and exquisitely unsettling stories. From bewildering assemblies in school auditoriums to ...more
The gunning down of her mother in a Richmond street sets young Helen Stockton Defoe on a journey of self-discovery. A physical feature she had first ...more
In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary ...more
Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
by
Sophie Pinkham
W.W. Norton & Company, 11/01/2016
Ukraine has rebuilt itself over and over again in the last century, plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, substance abuse, ethnic ...more
Edinburgh by
Alexander Chee
Mariner Books, 11/01/2016
Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as section leader of the first ...more
Literary Fiction
Fish in Exile by
Vi Khi Nao
Coffee House Press, 11/01/2016
How do you bear the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in ...more
This capstone novel, set in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, introduces Press, a stockbroker going blind. Press has lost his job and his wife and is ...more
The characters within these fifteen stories are in one way or another staring into the abyss. While some are awaiting redemption, others are fully ...more
Pull Me Under: A Novel
by
Kelly Luce
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/01/2016
Kelly Luce's Pull Me Under tells the story of Rio Silvestri, who, when she was twelve years old, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio, born Chizuru ...more
Literary Fiction
The Long Room by
Francesca Kay
Tin House Books, 11/01/2016
London. December 1981. The IRA is on the attack, a cold war is being waged, another war is just over the horizon, and Stephen Donaldson spends his ...more
The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets
by
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
NAL, 11/01/2016
Before Edward Snowden's infamous data breach, the largest theft of government secrets was committed by an ingenious traitor whose intricate espionage ...more
Thus Bad Begins by
Javier Marias (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Knopf, 11/01/2016
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-...more
In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish ...more
Set in the American South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories mine the inner lives...more
Two children of Muslim immigrants in England's industrial north - thoughtful Jamilla and rebellious Ameena - become best friends, and find in religion...more
When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished for a couple of years after a big scam, reappears in Hollywood under a new name as a glitzy movie...more
Heartless by
Marissa Meyer
Feiwel & Friends, 11/08/2016
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A ...more
Merrow by
Ananda Braxton-Smith
Candlewick Press, 11/08/2016
The people of Carrick Island have been whispering behind Neen's back ever since her father drowned and her mother disappeared. The townspeople say her...more
Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years
by
Ian Mortimer
Pegasus Books, 11/08/2016
In Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the last ten centuries of Western history. It is a journey ...more
The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Incredible True Story of the American Forgers Who Nearly Broke the Bank of England
by
Nicholas Booth
Pegasus Books, 11/08/2016
In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey - London's iconic law court - for the greatest fraud the world had ever ...more
Despite its Biblical title - which comes from the opening lines of the Book of Exodus - award-winning novelist Tommy Wieringa has crafted perhaps his ...more
Coast Range: A Collection from the Pacific Edge
by
Nick Neely
Counterpoint Press, 11/15/2016
Coast Range, the debut collection of essays from writer Nick Neely, meticulously and thoughtfully dwells on these intersections and much more. The ...more
In the summer of 1938, as war clouds loom overseas, auto racers from around the world gather at the Bonneville Salt Flats west of Salt Lake City, ...more
Eat Live Love Die: Selected Essays
by
Betty Fussell
Counterpoint Press, 11/15/2016
Betty Fussell is an inspiring badass. She's not just the award-winning author of numerous books ranging from biography and memoir to cookbooks and ...more
Essays
My Sister Rosa by
Justine Larbalestier
Soho Press, 11/15/2016
Seventeen-year-old Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he's also certain that she's a psychopath - clinically, threateningly, ...more
The Dispossessed by
Szilard Borbely
Harper Perennial, 11/15/2016
In a tiny village in northeast Hungary, close to the Romanian border, a young, unnamed boy warily observes day-to-day life and chronicles his family's...more
Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, the stories in this collection span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing ...more
Pen Lupo is sick and tired of hiding who she is. On the outside, Pen is popular, quiet, and deferential to her boyfriend. On the inside, however, Pen...more
The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
by
David Biello
Scribner, 11/15/2016
Civilization is in crisis, facing disasters of our own making on the only planet known to bear life in the vast void of the universe. We have become ...more
All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty half-timbered farmhouse she arrived at as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia ...more
All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
by
Donald Stratton & Ken Gire
William Morrow, 11/22/2016
At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath ...more
Biography/Memoir
Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin
by
Alexander Pushkin (Author), Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)
Knopf, 11/22/2016
The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of ...more
Betrothed since childhood to the prince of Mynaria, Princess Dennaleia has always known what her future holds. Her marriage will seal the alliance ...more
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
by
Douglas Smith
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/22/2016
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, ...more
The Marches: A Borderland Journey between England and Scotland
by
Rory Stewart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 11/22/2016
In The Places in Between Rory Stewart walked through the most dangerous borderlands in the world. Now he walks along the border he calls home - where ...more
METRO 2033 by
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Lulu.com, 11/27/2016
The book describes the consequences of an atomic war. Its only survivors strive for existence in the mazes of the Moscow subway (Metro) some two ...more
Literary Fiction
Normal by
Warren Ellis
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 11/29/2016
Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia
by
Andrew Harding
St. Martin's Press, 11/29/2016
In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud "Tarzan" ...more
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is ...more
Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a ...more
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
by
Nicola Tallis
Pegasus Books, 12/06/2016
"Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same." These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady...more
Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future
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David Grinspoon
Grand Central Publishing, 12/06/2016
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. ...more
Of All That Ends by
Gunter Grass
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 12/06/2016
In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy,...more
The Divided City: A Gregor Reinhardt Novel
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Luke McCallin
Berkley Books, 12/06/2016
A year after Germany's defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied ...more
In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings...more
Under the guise of machinery for making dumplings, a Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing a key component in the production of nuclear...more
The Moravian Night: A Story
by
Peter Handke (author), Krishna Winston (translator)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 12/06/2016
Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava river, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of a former writer gather to hear him tell a ...more
In 1994, Marko Novak's world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, Kemal, a young soldier in the darkest days of the Bosnian war. After the ...more
Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with ...more
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings ...more
The Hollow Men by
Rob McCarthy
Pegasus Books, 12/20/2016
Dr. Harry Kent likes to keep himself busy - juggling hospital duties with his work as a police surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police - anything ...more
Winter's chill has descended on Stockholm as police arrive at the scene of a shocking murder. An unidentified woman lies beheaded in a posh suburban ...more
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