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The Girl in the Treehouse: A Memoir

by Jennifer Asbenson

Published: 2018-10-23

Paperback: 232 pages

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Imagine … growing up in an unfinished geodesic dome home with no heat or running water, wearing the same clothes to school every day, and eating breakfast cereal with warm goat milk. In this whimsical, poetic, and gripping autobiographical account, Jennifer Asbenson describes her abusive, dysfunctional,...

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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

by Joshua Greene

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select gr...

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Chaka

by Thomas Mofolo

Published: 2013-05-20

Paperback: 168 pages

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Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu king's birth f...

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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

by Casey Cep

Published: 2019-05-16

Hardcover: 336 pages

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‘A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she’d spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.’DAVI...

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My Sister is Missing: The most creepy, fast-paced and gripping thriller of 2019

by Carissa Ann Lynch

Published: 2019-05-16

Paperback: 224 pages

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“Reminiscent of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects" Christina Kaye, award-winning author of Presumed DeadNow a USA Today besteller!A twenty-year-old local mystery that has never been solved.A bone-chilling VHS tape depicting a horrific crime.Neighbors with something to hide.And a sister who...

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On to Chicago: Rediscovering Robert F. Kennedy and the Lost Campaign of 1968

by James Rogan

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Bedlam erupted among 1,500 ecstatic supporters when Bobby and Ethel Kennedy appeared. Looking tanned and rested, he stepped to the rostrum and pulled from his breast pocket an envelope on which he had jotted some notes. Giving a brief speech intentionally so he could wrap up the evening an...

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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

by Megan K. Stack

Published: 2019-04-02

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothersWhen Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child a...

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Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton

by Donna Baier Stein

Published: 2019-03-31

Paperback: 154 pages

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When a contemporary writer turns her imagination loose inside the images of an iconic artist of the past, the result is storytelling magic at its best. Here are nine tales that bring to vivid life the early decades of the 20th century as witnessed by one of America's most well-known painte...

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The Salt Path

by Raynor Winn

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The uplifting true tale of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. Now a Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'The landscape is magical: shape-shifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely...

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No More Boats

by Felicity Castagna

Published: 2019-02-26

Paperback: 250 pages

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A finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2018, No More Boats is not only a riveting story of a modern family it directly addresses issues that many nations around the world are grappling with as never before?namely, immigration, xenophobia, protectionism, racism, media manipulat...