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Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative Reading Text and Genetic Text)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 230 pages

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Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly...

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Traitor's Knot

by Cryssa Bazos

Published: 2017-05-29

Paperback: 415 pages

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England 1650: Civil War has given way to an uneasy peace in the year since Parliament executed King Charles I. Royalist officer James Hart refuses to accept the tyranny of the new government, and to raise funds for the restoration of the king’s son, he takes to the road as a highwayman. ...

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The Italian Party: A Novel

by Christina Lynch

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 336 pages

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One of the Wall Street Journal's "Six More Books to Read This Winter" • "Required Reading," The New York Post • Library Journal's "Spring/Summer Bests" of 2018 • A Sonoma Index-Tribune Bestseller • One of CrimeReads' "Debuts to Discover Spring 2018""Deeply funny." ?The New York Tim...

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Helen J. Stewart: First Lady of Las Vegas

by Sally Zanjani, Carrie Townley Porter

Published: 2011-12-01

Hardcover: 211 pages

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Known as the mistress of the Mormon Trail, Helen J. Stewart not only paved the way for women in the west, but also was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the future of Las Vegas.Born in the Midwest in the mid-1800s, uprooted and transplanted as a young girl into the frenzied gold rush days in...

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City of Savages

by Lee Kelly

Published: 2016-02-02

Paperback: 432 pages

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“Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games” (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with “prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant” and “tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters’ points of view” (VOYA, starred review).It�...

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Speak Easy, Speak Love

by McKelle George

Published: 2017-09-19

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Six teenagers’ lives intertwine during one thrilling summer full of romantic misunderstandings and dangerous deals in this sparkling retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. After she gets kicked out of boarding school, seventeen-year-old Beatrice goes to her uncle’s estate...

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Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary

by Ernie Jr. Johnson

Published: 2017-04-04

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the most recognized voices in sports broadcasting, he is a tireless perfectionist when it comes to preparing and delivering his commentary. Yet he knows that some of sports' greatest triumphs--and life's greatest rewards--come...

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Deep and Silent Waters

by Charlotte Lamb

Published: 2002-12-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Laura would never have gone to Venice had she known Sebastian would be there: despite his animal magnetism, the director of the film for which she's been nominated best supporting actress - and her former lover - has an aura of darkness and death around him. And people do die around Sebastian - deaths...

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Alternate Side: A Novel

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Captures the angst and anxiety of modern life with . . . astute observations about interactions between the haves and have-nots, and the realities of life among the long-married.”—USA TodayA provocative novel that explores what it means to be a mother...

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The Gunners: A Novel

by Rebecca Kauffman

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 224 pages

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"Kauffman has done something remarkable with The Gunners . . . She's made spending time with [her characters] not just tolerable but delightful. And she's achieved this not by manufacturing likability, but by so convincingly rendering the affection between them that you accept each charact...