Sunset Park by Paul Auster Luminous, passionate, expansive, and an emotional tour de force, "Sunset Park" follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Categories: Fiction | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie. Beattie, a master of the short form, delivers collection of all the storiesshe has published in "The New Yorker." Categories: Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Short Stories (single author) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worth Dying for by Lee Child There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he runs afoul of a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can't let go of, in this follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "61 Hours." Categories: Fiction | Thrillers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph Ellis The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency" brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation. Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography | Historical | U.S.; Biography & Autobiography | First Ladies; History | United States | 18th Century; History | United States | Antebellum Era -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corrag by Susan Fletcher Fletcher delivers a breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in 17th-century Scotland as well as the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft. Categories: Fiction | Historical | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet By Jamie Ford Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, the times and places are brought [stirringly] to life (Jim Tomlinson, author of "Things Kept, Things Left Behind"). Categories: Fiction | Historical | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Confession By John Grisham Grisham delivers his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. Filled with his trademark intriguing twists and turns, this newest novel proves that no one keeps readers in suspense like America's favorite storyteller. Categories: Fiction | Suspense -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne A sweeping narrative about the rise and fall of the Comanche, the most powerful and influential tribe in American history. Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Native Americans; History | Native American; Social Science | Ethnic Studies | Native American Studies - Tribes; History | United States | 19th Century/Old West; History | United States | 20th Century (1900-1945) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dinosaur Hunter by Homer Hickam With notes of Larry McMurtry and Tony Hillerman, this sweeping adventure tells the story of the men and women who will do anything to claim one of the biggest fossil discoveries of all time--even kill for it. Categories: Fiction | Sagas; Fiction | Action & Adventure; Fiction | Men's Adventure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans Categories: Performing Arts | Dance | Classical & Ballet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fireflies in the Mist by Quarratulain Hyder One woman's journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation. Categories: Fiction | Contemporary Women -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor by Lisa Kleypas The first book in a new series by "New York Times"-bestselling author Kleypas begins during the most magical time of the year--a time when true love gets a second chance. Categories: Fiction | Romance | Contemporary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts by Mark Kurlansky In these linked stories, Kurlansky ("Cod" and "Salt") reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Categories: Fiction | Short Stories (single author) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood by Jane Leavy Drawing on interviews with friends and family, as well as teammates and opponents, "New York Times"-bestselling author Leavy delivers the definitive account of one of the biggest talents and most tragic figures ever to play baseball. color insert. Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Sports | Baseball; Sports & Recreation | Baseball | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane "New York Times"-bestselling author Lehane delivers an explosive tale of vengeance and redemption in this brilliant sequel to "Gone, Baby, Gone"--heralding the long-awaited return of beloved private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Telling by Beverly Lewis Lettie Byler continues her private quest to find the missing piece of her life. As clues take her from state to state, Lettie is increasingly torn between the family she has left behind and the yearning for her long-lost child. Categories: Fiction | Christian | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany mcLean and Joe Nocera. This surprising narrative goes back more than 20 years to reveal, in rich, anecdotal detail, how Wall Street, the mortgage industry, and the government conspired to change the way Americans bought their homes, creating a perfect storm. Categories: Business & Economics | Economic History; Business & Economics | Finance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Distant Hours by Kate Morton The bestselling author of "The House At Riverton" and "The Forgotten Garden" offers another unforgettable tale weaving together history and mystery. Categories: Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Historical | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee "The Emperor of All Maladies" is a magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. Riveting and magisterial, the book provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments and offers a bold new perspective on the way the human body has been observed and understood for millennia. Photos. Categories: Medical | Oncology; Medical | History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coming Back by Marcia Muller San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone is shot in the head and suffers from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an alert, conscious mind. When her friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance. Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, famous for learning, prayer, and its abbess, the fabled Heloise. When a manuscript the convent produced for the great Abbe Suger disappears, rumors surface saying the book contains sacrilegious passages and will be used to condemn Heloise's famous lover, Peter Abelard. To save her Order, and protect all she holds dear, Catherine must find the manuscript and discover who altered the text. She will risk disgrace, the wrath of her family and the Church, and confront an evil older than Time itself--and, if she isn't careful, lose her immortal soul. With "Death Comes As Epiphany," the first in the Catherine LeVendeur mystery series, medievalist Sharan Newman has woven dark mystery and sparkling romance into a fascinating and richly detailed tapestry of everyday life in twelfth-century France, and one of the most moving love stories of all time: Abelard and Heloise. Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical; Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Women Sleuths -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Devil's Door by Sharan Newman 1140 Anno Domini: A wealthy countess lies dying at the Convent of the Paraclete, brutally beaten by unknown assailants. Despite entreaties, she is unwilling to name her assailant. Beautiful Catherine LeVendeur, the Paraclete's most learned young novice-scholar, vows to find out the identity of the woman's attacker. When her beloved Edgar comes to lead her from the convent to a life of the flesh, Catherine is torn between her quest for justice and the pledge she made him. Catherine doesn't want to break any of the vows she's made-and if she abandons her crusade for the truth, others will die, and the convent she loves may be destroyed... Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Women Sleuths -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wandering Arm by Sharan Newman Heaven has a way of playing with mortals. When the mummified arm of St. Aldhelm is stolen from the Salisbury Cathedral in England, Catherine LeVendeur must find the lost reliquary to save those she loves -- and to do so, she must finally confront and come to terms with her family's Jewish heritage. The first Catherine Le Vendeur mystery to appear in trade paperback, "The Wandering Arm" is an absorbing, richly authentic adventure. Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Series -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent Women by Barbara Pym, "Excellent Women" is one of Barbara Pymas richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergymanas daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those aexcellent women, a the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighborsaanthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next doorathe novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires. Categories: Fiction | Literary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles For as long as humans have been here, insects have been here. Yet people hardly know them, not even the ones they're closest to: the insects that eat their food, share their beds, and live in their homes. This insectopedia changes that lack of knowledge. Categories: Nature | Animals | Insects & Spiders; Nature | Reference -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Louis: Hard Times Man by Randy Roberts Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing 25 times and reigned as world champion for more than 11 years. Through meticulous research and first-hand interviews, acclaimed historian and biographer Roberts presents Louis, and his impact on sport and country, in a way never before accomplished. Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Sports | General; Sports & Recreation | Boxing; Social Science | Discrimination & Racism; History | United States | 20th Century -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson. Poetry. Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995-2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson's poems both court and cuckold subjectivity by unmasking its fundament of sex and hesitancy, the coil of doubt in its certitude. Reading her laments and utopias, we realize that, in any she and a she's assumption of thinking, language--whiplike--casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form. The form brims here pleasurably with dogs, movie stars, broths, painting's detritus, Latin, and pillage. We recognize our grand, saddened century. Editor Elisa Sampedrin says, "Every time I found a poem of hers, she saved me writing one. She gave volume to my intervals. I kept looking. I radiated. I made requests. I found other Lisa Robertsons and rejected them: she is not a flight attendant, not a cheerleader or home shopping host. She is chagrin's first companion, error. When I find her in person, I'll engage her in fisticuffs." Categories: Poetry | Canadian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Last Run: A Queen & Country Novel by Greg Rucka British superspy Tara Chace has returned to the service of her country, but she wants out of Special Section. However, a signal goes up deep in Iran that the nephew of the late Ayatollah wants to defect. The extraction team will be led by Chace, on one last desperate mission. Categories: Fiction | Suspense -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks Sacks explores some of the most fundamental facets of human experience--how we see in three dimensions, how we represent the world internally when our eyes are closed, and the remarkable, unpredictable ways that our brains find new ways of perceiving that create worlds as complete and rich as the no-longer-visible world. Categories: Psychology | Neuropsychology; Science | Life Sciences | Human Anatomy & Physiology; Health & Fitness | Vision; Psychology | Case Studies -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rescue by Anita Shreve Nineteen years after inexplicably leaving her family, Sheila returns, bringing long-buried questions to the surface. Shreve's tale of trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth portray a family trying to understand its fractured past to begin again. Categories: Fiction | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain, edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, et al. The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone, Twain's uncensored autobiography is available in its entirety and exactly as he left it. Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Literary; Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All Clear by Connie Willis In the brilliant and exciting follow-up to "Blackout," Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Willis concludes this beautiful, harrowing, time-traveling World War II masterpiece. (also in audio CD) Categories: Fiction | Science Fiction | General; Fiction | Historical | General -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "A Crack in the Edge of the World" and "Krakatoa" comes this epic look at the Atlantic Ocean--its history, geography, importance, and wealth of stories. Categories: History | Maritime History --------------------------------------------------------------------------------