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Traces of Guilt (An Evie Blackwell Cold Case)

by Dee Henderson

Published: 2016-05-03

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A Riveting Cold-Case Mystery from Dee HendersonEvie Blackwell loves her life as an Illinois State Police detective . . . mostly. She's very skilled at investigations and has steadily moved up through the ranks. She would like to find Mr. Right, but she has a hard time imagining how marriag...

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When My Brother Was an Aztec

by Natalie Diaz

Published: 2012-05-08

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"I write hungry sentences," Natalie Diaz once explained in an interview, "because they want more and more lyricism and imagery to satisfy them." This debut collection is a fast-paced tour of Mojave life and family narrative: A sister fights for or against a brother on meth, and everyone fr...

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A Gate at the Stairs

by Loorie Moore Lorrie Moore

Published: 2010

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Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionChosen as a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Real Simpl...

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Too Like the Lightning: A Novel (Terra Ignota)

by Ada Palmer

Published: 2017-01-24

Paperback: 448 pages

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Compton Crook 35th Award winner and shortlisted candidate for the 2017 Hugo Award Best Novel category, Ada Palmer's political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is ...

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Black Widow: A Jack Parlabane Thriller

by Christopher Brookmyre

Published: 2016-11-01

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Winner of the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the yearFrom Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any mo...

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The Queen's Accomplice: A Maggie Hope Mystery

by Susan Elia MacNeal

Published: 2016-10-04

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Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the New York Times bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues. England, 1942. The Nazis’ rele...

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The Blood of Emmett Till

by Timothy B. Tyson

Published: 2017-01-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).In 1955, white men in t...

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Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

by Martin Duberman

Published: 2014-03-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already die...

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Querelle of Brest

by Jean Genet

Published: 2015-04-11

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'The man who wears the uniform of a sailor is in no way pledged or bound to obey the rules of prudence...'. First published in 1947, revised for Gallimard in 1953, Querelle of Brest is widely considered to be Jean Genet's most accomplished novel, its renown further aided by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's...

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Mothers and Other Strangers

by Gina Sorell

Published: 2017-05-02

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"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted."Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her o...