Staff Picks

One Summer: America, 1927 By Bryson, Bill 2013-10 - Doubleday Books 9780767919401 Check Our Catalog In "One Summer" Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. …More

Getting to Happy By McMillan, Terry 2010-09 - Viking Books 9780670022045 Check Our Catalog An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of "Waiting to Exhale"--Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--15 years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe. …More

Rooms By Oliver, Lauren 2014-09 - Ecco 9780062223197 Check Our Catalog After a number of highly acclaimed New York Times bestsellers, including the Delirium trilogy and the standalone novels Before I Fall and Panic, Lauren Oliver returns with a spellbinding tale that confirms her place as one of our finest storytellers. Fueled by the same inspired feel for plot and character that drew readers to Oliver's earlier works, Rooms is a mesmerizing and suspenseful story …More

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain By Levitt, Steven D. Author Dubner, Stephen J. 2014-05 - William Morrow & Company 9780062218339 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestselling authors of Freakonomics offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems, whether your interest lies in minor lifehacks or major global reforms. …More

Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General By O'Reilly, Bill Author Dugard, Martin 2014-09 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805096682 Check Our Catalog Readers around the world have thrilled to "Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy," and "Killing Jesus"--riveting works of nonfiction that journey into the heart of the most famous murders in history. Now from Bill O'Reilly, anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor," comes the most epic book of all in this multimillion-selling series: "Killing Patton." General George S. Patton, Jr. died under mysterious …More

The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel By Penny, Louise 2014-08 - Minotaur Books 9781250022066 Check Our Catalog Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, " The Balm in Gilead, " in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." …More

The Burning Room By Connelly, Michael 2014-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316225939 Check Our Catalog In the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, Detective Harry Bosch and his rookie partner investigate a cold case that gets very hot... very fast. In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the …More

The Golem and the Jinni By Wecker, Helene 2013-04 - HarperTorch 9780062110831 Check Our Catalog Awards: Indies Choice Book Awards (2014), Locus Awards (2014), National Jewish Book Award (2013), Nebula Awards (2013) A marvelous and absorbing debut novel, an enchanting combination of vivid historical fiction and magical fable about two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York. …More