Featured Reviews
Now Eat This! 150 of Americas Favorite Comfort Food
Now Eat This!: 150 of America’s Favorite Comfort Food One of a number of causes of diet failure is the too strict limitation – or worse the complete elimination of – comfort food. Failure is inevitable when you begin to incorporate the thou shalt not eat in any food plan. Thanks to the novel, Now [...]
The Hunger Games
The New York Times bestselling The Hunger Games, with an all-new cover from the major motion picture! The astonishing bestseller is now a fantastic movie. Here is the original novel with new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version also available.) Back in the times of the Romans, gladiators would participate in public [...]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is a mystery about a fourteen year old girl, Harriet Vanger who disappeared forty years before the novel starts. Since the book is set in Sweden, some of the character names may be unfamiliar or difficult to pronounce for American readers. This novel is [...]
Literature & Fiction
Explorer: The Mystery Boxes
Seven clever stories answer one simple question: what’s in the box? Funny, fantastic, spooky, and suspenseful, each of these unique and beautifully illustrated short graphic works revolves around a central theme: a mysterious box and the marvels—or mayhem—inside. Artists include middle school favorites Kazu Kibuishi, Raina Telgemeier (Smile), and Dave Roman (Astronaut Academy), as well [...]
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories
The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary [...]
Mystery & Thrillers
Nerves of Steel (Hart and Drake #1)
“A perfect blend of romance and suspense. My kind of read.” -#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown Dr. Cassandra Hart is fighting a war. And losing. A deadly drug epidemic, a killer stalking her hospital…meet the ER doctor who never gives up. Cassie’s Pittsburgh ER has been deluged by young patients who have [...]
Birdsongs (Benny James Mystery)
Birdsongs is a fast-paced mystery centered on former FBI agent, Benny James. Fired from the FBI for inadvertently sleeping with the perp in a murder case, he tries to disappear to a houseboat and retirement. Not having what it takes to relax, Benny starts a service offering discreet investigations. That is until a body is [...]
Nonfiction
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Foer’s unlikely journey from chronically forgetful science journalist to U.S. Memory Champion frames a revelatory exploration of the vast, hidden impact of memory on every aspect of our lives. On average, people squander forty days annually compensating for things they’ve forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of [...]
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s [...]
Arts & Photography
Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See
Françoise Mouly takes us behind the scenes at the New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature covers commenting on the most urgent political and cultural events of the day. She shows the shocking and hilarious sketches that didn’t make the cut and explains how these are essential stages in the evolution of [...]
Art Lab for Kids: 52 Creative Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Paper, and Mixed Media-For Budding Artists of All Ages (Lab Series)
“Susan Schwake’s Art Lab for Kids is a well-thought-out guide, making it easy to introduce art into children’s lives. Simple, clear explanations of technique, combined with inspiration from established artists, will enable children to feel successful and encouraged to explore art as a form of expression.” – Rebecca Emberley, best-selling children’s book author and illustrator [...]
Cooking, Food & Wine
Campfire Cuisine: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors
No more hot dogs and baked beans! Finally, a guide for lovers of both good food and the great outdoors. Campfire Cusine is a cookbook for the growing number of hikers, campers, and backpackers who are making healthy, tasty, and satisfying food a high priority in their lives. It offers more than 100 simple [...]
The Ethical Gourmet
More and more of us want to ensure that what we eat doesn’t deplete resources, cause animal or human suffering, or lead to pollution. And, at the same time, we also want delicious food! If you are concerned about the environment, but unsure how to make a difference, here is a handbook for finding and [...]
Comics & Graphic Novels
Batman: The Black Mirror
A NEW YORK TIMES #1 Bestseller and Amazon Best Book of 2011 In “The Black Mirror,” a series of brutal murders pushes Batman’s detective skills to the limit and forces him to confront one of Gotham City’s oldest evils. Helpless and trapped in the deadly Mirror House, Batman must fight for his life against one [...]
Habibi
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel. Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between [...]
Biographies & Memoirs
Mob Daughter: The Mafia, Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, and Me!
From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, once one of the mafia’s most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino [...]
Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge: a Little Girl in the 1950s South
Saturday Night Cocoa Fudge is the coming-of-age story in an era of bobby socks, poodle skirts and the freckled-faced girl that wore them. It’s also about the Deep South and sweetly flawed women who taught her what she was meant to be and what she was not meant to be. Their corner of the world [...]
Romance
Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 7)
Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.Burnt Offerings is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton’s genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: “Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. [...]
Kiss of Midnight (The Midnight Breed, Book 1)
Book 1 in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance series He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night–or this man–is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality [...]
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Impending Reprisals
Anya’s simple, medieval life spirals into a fantastical whirlwind the moment Merivic, a lord, decides to take her for his own. Succumbing to his charisma, Anya is whisked off to his distant kingdom. But shortly after her arrival, she is reunited with her lost love, Kael, when he is introduced as her personal sentinel, and [...]
Hunting
In the war between humans and vampires… a child will turn the tide. Thousands of years ago a goddess cursed a family, every 500 years a child of their bloodline would be born a vampire. This child would mean the survival or destruction of the vampire race. And each would do anything to find the [...]
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