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Bitter Chocolate: Book 2 of the Alcott Family Adventures (Hot Chocolate 1)

by Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Published: 2014-06-02

Kindle Edition: 506 pages

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The characters you loved in Hot Chocolate are back with more escapades of life in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks. Lila Mae is in a tizzy over the Chocolate Ball – a huge event that she and her sisters, Dorothea and Madge, host every year. But due to unusual circumstances, Dorothea and Ma...

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Hot Chocolate: Book 1 of the Alcott Family Adventures

by Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Published: 2011-10-20

Kindle Edition: 460 pages

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Meet the middle-aged, eccentric Alcott sisters: Madge, Lila Mae and Dorothea, heiresses to the Alcott Chocolate fortune and mavens of Houston’s elite River Oaks.Madge ambushes Lila Mae with Dorothea’s manipulative plea: she can’t care for Bernie, their 92-year old father, any longer....

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Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

by Thomas Page McBee

Published: 2018-08-14

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love” (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match...

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White Dancing Elephants

by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Published: 2018-10-09

Paperback: 208 pages

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"Chaya Bhuvaneswar's debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.."-Lauren Groff, author of Florida"Stunning, evocative, electr...

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Presidents of War

by Michael Beschloss

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 752 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “monumental and profoundly important” (Ron Chernow) saga of America’s wartime chief executivesBILL GATES’S SUMMER READING LISTTen years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magi...

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Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 224 pages

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An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the worldBook Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-h...

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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations

by John McCain, Mark Salter

Published: 2018-05-22

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In this candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain, an American hero reflects on his life and what matters most. I don't know how much longer I'll be here. Maybe I'll have another five years. Maybe, with the advances in oncology, they'll find new treatments for my cancer that wil...

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No Rest for the Dead

by Sandra Brown, David Baldacci, R.L. Stine, Lisa Scottoline, Jeffery Deaver

Published: 2011-07-05

Kindle Edition: 274 pages

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In this New York Times bestseller, twenty-six renowned thriller authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel—a collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest storytellers to produce a single gripping, spellbinding mystery.“The lineup of writers who have contribut...

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Vineland

by Thomas Pynchon

Published: 1990-01-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Ex-hippie and unemployed FBI sting specialist Frenesi Gates must confront her past when former commune-mates start disappearing and an old lover turns up after fifteen years

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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

by David Simon, Edward Burns

Published: 1998-06-15

Paperback: 543 pages

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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime repor...