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Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon)

by Dan Brown

Published: 2018-07-17

Paperback: 656 pages

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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that â??will change the face of science forever.â? The eveningâ??s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of La...

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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J. D. Vance

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal"E...

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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir

by Ilana Kurshan

Published: 2017-09-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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**WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature****2018 Natan Book Award Finalist** **Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies **The Wall Street Journal: "There is humor and heartbrea...

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Accidental Saviors

by Jack Saarala

Published: 2018-04-02

Paperback: 252 pages

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A Novel of Uncommon Heroism in a Dark Time Algot Niska was a smuggler. Felix Kersten a celebrated chiropractor with a practice that included the highest men in Nazi circles. Expatriates living in Berlin in the early days of World War II, they seemed to share nothing in common but their Finnish background....

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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

by Earl Swift

Published: 2018-08-07

Hardcover: 448 pages

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A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." — Hampton Sides • "POWERFUL. A tale of our time, movingly told." — Bill McKibben • “GORGEOUS. A trul...

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

by Joy a Degruy

Published: 2017-09-11

Paperback: 252 pages

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In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychologic...

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Soaring on Love (The Cardinal House)

by Joy Avery

Published: 2017-12-19

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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Flights of passionWhen her engagement party is crashed by her fiancé’s mistress, Tressa Washington will do anything to escape the disastrous aftermath. Even stow away in the back of a guest’s SUV. And when she tells Roth Lexington to “just drive,” the handsome aerospace engineer d...

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The Balcony

by Jane Delury

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A "breathtaking" (Jennifer Egan) century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives.What if our homes could tell the stories of others who lived there before us? Set in a small vil...

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Too Close to Breathe: A Novel

by Olivia Kiernan

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Olivia Kiernan’s tautly written debut novel immerses readers in a chilling murder case . . . and the tantalizing, enigmatic victim at the center of it all.In a quiet Dublin suburb, within her pristine home, Eleanor Costello is found hanging from a rope.Detective Chief Superintendent Fran...

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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

by Donna M. Lucey

Published: 2017-08-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"Sargent’s Women has a distinct elegance and potency?Lucey’s writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." ?Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery2...