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Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: Joice Loch - Australia's Most Heroic Woman

by Susanna De Vries

Published: 2012-06-01

Paperback: 378 pages

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Joice Loch was an extraordinary Australian. She had the inspired courage that saved many hundreds of Jews and Poles in World War II, the compassion that made her a self-trained doctor to tens of thousands of refugees, the incredible grit that took her close to death in several theatres of war, and the...

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Tesla: Man Out of Time

by Margaret Cheney

Published: 2001-10-09

Paperback: 400 pages

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In this “informative and delightful” (American Scientist) biography, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of Nikola Tesla, one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientists and inventors.In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and presc...

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The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship

by Katherine Towler

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 275 pages

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The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author’s friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is as well an elegy for a time and place?the New England seaport city of the early 1990s that has...

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The Hero of Ages: A Mistborn Novel

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 768 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Who is the Hero of Ages?To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness--the lethal...

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The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, Book 2)

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2007-08-21

Hardcover: 592 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler -- the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousa...

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Shadows of Self: A Mistborn Novel

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2016-10-04

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover (Signet Classics)

by D. H. Lawrence

Published: 2011-10-04

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Lady Chatterley's Lover is both one of the most beautiful and notorious love stories in modern fiction. The summation of D.H. Lawrence's artistic achievement, it sharply illustrates his belief that tenderness and passion were the only weapons that could save man from self-destruction.

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The Pelee Project: One Woman's Escape from Urban Madness

by Jane Christmas

Published: 2014-07-14

Paperback: 240 pages

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Back in 2000, Jane Christmas was, like millions of others, an exhausted single working mother with a punishing agenda of work, domestic, and parenting duties. Weekdays were an urban triathlon, weekends evaporated into mile-long to-do lists. Jane found herself drained, living beyond her means emotionally,...

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To Soften the Blow

by Ms. Lynnie Vessels

Published: 2012-04-19

Paperback: 472 pages

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At seven years old, Lynnie Vessels stepped out of the bathtub to discover her father had just shot her mother with a shotgun across their dining room table.  Literally standing naked in her mother's blood throughout the ensuing horror, she was magically transported into the loving eyes of her younger...

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Waiting for Bojangles

by Olivier Bourdeaut

Published: 2019-03-19

Hardcover: 176 pages

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An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.A young boy live...