This novel from National Book Award-winning children's author Jacqueline Woodson is the moving and lyrical story of August, an African-American girl coming of age in Brooklyn in the 1970s. August's formative years come vividly to life through…
Proulx's doorstopper of a novel spans from the seventeenth century to modern times, exploring the brief, brutal and intertwined lives of Native Americans and Europeans. French indentured servants René Sel, a wood-cutter, and Charles Duquet, a fur…
Another endearing novel from Backman, author of the best seller A Man Called Ove, with fabulous character development and a unique storyline. Britt-Marie is a remarkably fully-developed character who experiences a coming of age in her sixties and a…
Eric Fair worked as an interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, participating in or witnessing aggressive interrogation techniques such as sleep deprivation, exposure and isolation. In this stark, haunting memoir, Fair offers no excuses…
The only thing that most people know about General George Armstrong Custer is that he died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn along with all of his men. T. J. Stiles's biography focuses on Custer's life from his days as a cadet at West Point up to…
In 1948, Atlanta has hired its first black police officers. They cannot drive squad cars. They cannot arrest white people. They cannot even enter police headquarters; they work out of the basement of the YMCA. When the body of a murdered black girl…
We like to think of ourselves as individuals but as Ed Yong shows us in this fascinating new overview of microbial life, each of us comprises our own ecosystems. The batcteria inside our bodies outnumbers our own cells. Hence the title, an amusingly…
Jane Steele is a darkly humorous retelling of Jane Eyre as a serial murderer. Set in Victorian England, this intricately-plotted tale is about an orphan who suffers at the hands of her horrid aunt, her creepy cousin and a wicked headmaster. Jane is…
The St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research is the seemingly harmless research arm of a venerable British university. But behind the ivy-covered walls is a high-tech facility that routinely sends teams of historians back in time to investigate…
A stunning novel in the most horrific of settings, Mischling takes place in the inhumane "Zoo" of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi scientist who conducted infamous tests during the Holocaust. He subjects the disabled, twins, and other so-called "freaks"…
A woman awakes up in a strange room, naked and seemingly alone with no idea how she got there. She soon finds that she is being held prisoner along with other young women in a desolate compound in the Australian Outback. They reaize that what they…
In 1870, Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an army veteran and retired printer, travels across Texas earning money by bringing and reading the news to rural audiences. Then he is charged with bringing 10-year-old Johanna back to her family after being…
Picoult powerfully tackles critical, pertinent yet often suppressed subject matters of race, prejudice, and social justice in her latest novel. Ruth Jackson, a skilled and highly competent black labor and delivery nurse is assigned to a newborn…
Chicagoan and graphic memoirist Lucy Knisley (Displacement: A Travelogue) is back with reflections on planning her wedding, a highly personalized DIY affair. As Knisley and her fiancé Jon design a celebration that represents their life and who they…
