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Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't

by Edward Humes

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Now in paperback. Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported findi...

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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century

by Sarah Miller

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core.   Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.   In a compellin...

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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

by Charles Lane

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the EmpireFreedom’s Detective reveals...

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The Testament: A Novel (The Testament Series)

by Eric Van Lustbader

Published: 2018-03-27

Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages

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The hit international thriller from Eric Van Lustbader, the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne LegacyFor centuries, a hidden splinter sect of the Franciscans has guarded secrets that could transform the world. Now the safety of those secrets?and much more?depends on one man. B...

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The Long Drop: A Novel

by Denise Mina

Published: 2018-07-24

Paperback: 240 pages

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A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA standalone psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels that exposes the dark hearts of the guilty...and the innocent.William Watt's wife, daughter, and sister-in-law are dead, slaughtered in their own home in a brutal ...

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I Ain't Doin' It: Unfiltered Thoughts From a Sarcastic Southern Sweetheart

by Heather Land

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Social media comedian Heather Land uses her trademark sassy, laugh-out-loud humor to remind us of the many ways that real life can be really funny.Heather Land has something to say about almost everything in life—the unbelievable, inconceivable, and downright frustrating—and why she �...

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The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age

by David Callahan

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 352 pages

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An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work be...

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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

by Gaston Dorren

Published: 2018-12-04

Hardcover: 320 pages

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English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it?only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out t...

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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Published: 2019-08-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour“A stirring, provocative and well-made new anthology . . . that ...

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The Price of Time

by Tim Tigner

Published: 2019-05-01

Paperback: 334 pages

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Would your character change ... if you had all the money in the world? And all the time? Would you become a better person? Or worse? Imagine Agatha Christie meets Michael Crichton in a fast-paced, philosophical mystery thriller. _______________________________________ There’s a secret in...