December 2012

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Introducing Library Love Fest Mini Book Buzzes!

Hello lovelies!

Welcome to our Mini Book-Buzz Webisodes!

Every few weeks, Virginia, Kayleigh and Annie will entertain you with book talks.  If you have been to our Mega Book Buzzes at ALA, you know what to expect.  The three of us talking about books we love and think you should know about (only here they will be in digestible segments). Occasionally, we will be joined by authors, editors and other bookish folks who will share their own thoughts with you.

Enjoy the shows!

 

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What I’m Reading: The Son

S The SonHello LLF Readers!  I hope those of you who celebrated Christmas had a lovely day. I went to see Les Miserables starring my husband, Hugh Jackman (it's a super secret marriage…don't be surprised if he denies it).  While I don't think anything can capture the music as well as a live, stage performance, it was an enjoyable movie.  

Anywho, I'm no expert at movies, so I'll stick to something I know better…books! The Son by Philipp Meyer was my holiday read, and it is epic.  It follows several generations of a very wealthy, Texan family, starting with Eli McCullogh in 1849 when his family is murdered by Comanches and he is taken captive.  Eli's strength and ruthlessness allows him to survive amongst the Native Americans, and grow into a hardened and determined man who builds an empire of wealth and privilege.

The other narratives are the accounts of Eli's son Peter, and great-granddaughter, JA, and are effortless woven around Eli's tale.  There are very detailed, violent scenes, but The Son covers parts of history that I didn't know much about, in a seemingly genuine way, and I found myself compelled to keep reading to find out what happens to the family. 

Recommend! 

– Annie

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Health and Wellness

 

Abolition

The Abolition of Man

C.S. Lewis
ISBN:9780060652944
Price: $12.99

C.S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor, in contemporary society. Read More…

 

Alchemist

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho
ISBN: 9780061122415
Price: $14.99

The magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who yearns to travel in search of a wordly treasure. What he finds along the way teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and following our dreams. Read More…

AltarAn Altar in the World

Barbara Brown Taylor    
ISBN: 9780061370472
Price: $14.99

In this New York Times bestseller, Taylor reveals meaningful ways to discover the sacred in the small things we do and see, from simple practices such as walking, to more significant tasks like working and prayer. Read More… 

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Body Confidence

Mark Macdonald
ISBN: 9780061997280
Price: $17.99

Getting in shape no longer has to mean feeling deprived. This targeted series of diet and fitness strategies is proven to burn body fat and boost energy levels for a better looking, better feeling body. Read More…

Buddha

Buddha

Deepak Chopra
ISBN: 9780060878818
Price: $15.99

Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping New York Times bestselling novel about the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. Read More… 

Happiness

The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin
ISBN: 9780061583261
Price: $14.99

Spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, this is Rubin’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability, this is an engaging chronicle of transformation. Read More… 

Slowness

In Praise of Slowness

Carl Honore
ISBN: 9780060750510
Price: $14.99

The first comprehensive look at The Slow Movement that is making its way into the mainstream – offices, hospitals, concert halls, bedrooms and schools. Defining a phenomenon that will make you completely rethink your relationship with time. Read More…

Invitation

The Invitation

Oriah
ISBN: 9780061116711
Price: $13.99

In this bestselling book, Oriah expands on the wisdom found within her beloved prose poem, which presents a powerful challenge to all who long to live an authentic life. Accept the invitation and open yourself to a more meaningful life. Read More… 

Goodness Made for Goodness

Bishop Desmond Tutu
ISBN: 9780061706608
Price: $15.99

Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu encourages us to embrace the practices that are key to finding fulfillment, meaning, and happiness for our lives by answering the question, “why are you so sure goodness will triumph in the end?” Read More…

NoviceThe Novice

Thich Nhat Hanh    
ISBN: 9780062005847
Price: $14.99

Best selling author and zen master, Hanh offers a poignant and beautiful novel with the power to teach, transform and transcend all boundaries of faith, creed, country and era. Read More… 

Normal

The Other Side of Normal

Jordan Smoller
ISBN: 9780061492204
Price: $15.99

What does it mean to be “normal?” Smoller explores the biological component of normalcy, revealing the hidden side of our everyday behaviors—why we love what we love and fear what we fear. Read More…

ReturnloveA Return to Love

Marianne Williamson   
ISBN: 9780060927486
Price: $15.99

The mega-bestselling spiritual guide in which Marianne Williamson shares her reflections on A Course in Miracles and her insights on the application of love in the search for inner peace. Read More… 

SearchSearch Inside Yourself

Chade-Meng Tan    
ISBN:  9780062116932
Price: $14.99

Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work. Read More… 

Secrets happy familiesThe Secrets of Happy Families

Bruce Feiler
ISBN:  9780061778742
Price: $14.99

A timely, counterintuitive book that answers the questions countless parents ask every day: How do we manage the chaos of our lives? How do we make our family happy? Smart, funny, and fresh, this book will forever change how your family lives. Read More… 

StillStill

Lauren Winner    
ISBN: 9780061768286
Price: $14.99

Following up her highly acclaimed Girl Meets God, Lauren Winner has written an engrossing reflection on literary grace and spiritual wisdom. Read More… 

Immunity

Super Immunity

Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
ISBN: 9780062080646
Price: $15.99

The bestselling author of Eat to Live and Disease Proof Your Child offers penetrating insights and a dedicated action plan for how to get well, live well, and stay well. Read More…

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American Tapestry

9780061999864Booklist gave American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns a starred review when it came out in June:

The threads of Michelle Obama’s genealogy are as complex and tangled as those of most African Americans, leading through slavery, Emancipation, and the Great Migration. New York Times reporter Swarns traces the threads, some not previously known to Michelle Obama herself, to ties to black, white, Native American, and multiracial family members. Drawing on two years of research, including interviews with two elderly women—one black, the other white—Swarns presents the complicated story of race in the U.S. through the prism of one family’s history. Some of Obama’s forebears pushed against limitations in the South, moving on to chafe against restrictions they found in the North, while others stayed in the South, making peace with a desire to stay with family above all else. A central figure is Melvinia, a young slave girl who gave birth to mixed-race children, raising questions about her relations with her master and his sons. Swarns details the individual choices and challenges that faced the family as they were part of the great sweep of history and the pride or shame that caused some to pass along stories of achievement and keep secrets of their lives as slaves. A completely fascinating look at the complex ancestry of one family, African Americans, and all Americans.

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So it should come as no surprise that they have now dubbed it one of this “year’s outstanding books for public library collections.”  How exciting!  And in the spirit of giving, the first librarian to email librarylovefest@harpercollins.com and tell me a little something about his/her genealogical background will get a copy for their shelves.

Happy Holidays!

– Annie

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Library Journal Best Books



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Library Journal's December issue is chock a block full of excellent end of year book suggestions, and HarperCollins made a few appearances:

Wiley Cash. A Land More Kind Than Home. ISBN 9780062088147 

Ben Fountain. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. ISBN 9780060885595 

Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles. ISBN 9780062060617

Michael Chabon. Telegraph Avenue. ISBN 9780061493348  

Jane Harris. Gillespie and I. ISBN 9780062103208

Jess Walter. Beautiful Ruins. ISBN 9780061928123

Benjamin Busch. Dust to Dust. ISBN 9780062014849

Attica Locke. The Cutting Season. ISBN 9780061802058

Elizabeth Haynes. Into the Darkest Corner. ISBN 9780062197252

Loretta Chase. Scandal Wears Satin. ISBN 9780062100313

Susan Elizabeth Phillips. The Great Escape. ISBN 9780062106063.

– Annie

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Scintillating Suspense

 

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After Her

Joyce Maynard
ISBN: 9780062257406
Price: $14.99

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day and The Good Daughters comes a new novel of family, friendship, and suspense inspired by the Trailside Killer who murdered at least 5 women in the 1970s. Read More… 

Air

The Air Between Us

Deborah Johnson
ISBN: 9780061255588
Price: $13.99

Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, this riveting debut explores the interactions among a group of residents in a small town on the verge of integration. Compelling, approachable and thought-provoking with endearing characters and a mystery that will keep readers guessing until the end. Read More… 

Sleep

Before I Go to Sleep

S.J. Watson
ISBN: 9780062060563
Price: $14.99

A gripping psychological thriller in the vein of Shutter Island and Memento, an amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor. “An exceptional thriller.” – Dennis Lehane. Read More…                                         

Black water

Black Water Rising

Attica Locke
ISBN: 9780061735851
Price: $14.99

Big oil and corporate corruption meet their match in Jay Porter, an attorney with a secret past. In the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Scott Turow, this critically-acclaimed debut novel is a brilliant thriller and Booklist’s “Best Debut Crime Novel of 2009.” Read More… 

Crooked letter

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Tom Franklin
ISBN: 9780060594671
Price: $14.99

Two boyhood friends are torn apart by circumstance and brought together again as adults by tragedy in a small Mississippi town in this compelling novel from the author of Hell at the Breech. “The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling.” – David Wroblewski. Read More… 

Cutting

The Cutting Season

Attica Locke
ISBN: 9780061802065
Price: $15.99

Beloved by librarians, this heart-pounding thriller interweaves two murder mysteries, one set in modern day Louisiana and the other involving a slave over one hundred years ago. Chosen by Dennis Lehane as the first publication in his new line of books with HarperCollins. Read More… 

Radiance

A Fierce Radiance

Lauren Belfer
ISBN: 9780061252525
Price: $15.99

Set during the early days of World War II, this suspenseful story follows photojournalist Claire Shipley as she captures America’s race to develop life-saving antibiotics – an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder. “An engrossing and ambitious novel…” – Booklist (starred review). Read More…

Land

A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash    
ISBN: 9780062088239
Price: $14.99

This New York Times bestseller and Library Journal Best Book of 2012, is a literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town. In the vein of Tom Franklin and Ron Rash. Read More… 

Live

Live by Night

Dennis Lehane
ISBN: 9780062197757
Price: $16.99

This critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller offers an unflinching tale of Prohibition and one man’s rise from petty thief on the streets of Boston to the greatest rum runner on the Gulf Coast. Read More…

Doves

The Plague of Doves

Louise Erdrich    
ISBN: 9780060515133
Price: $14.99

The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and named Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. Read More… 

Savage

The Savage City

T.J. English    
ISBN: 9780061824586
Price: $15.99

Through the stories of three desperate men – an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther – T.J. English tells the story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960s New York City. Read More… 

Wonder

State of Wonder

Ann Patchett   
ISBN: 9780062049810
Price: $15.99

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bel Canto returns with a provocative novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest that is both a gripping adventure story and a profound investigation of difficult human choices. Read More… 

 
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One World, Many Voices

 

Wind

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba
ISBN: 9780061730337
Price: $14.99

An immensely engaging true story about an enterprising teenager in Malawi who built a windmill from scraps found around his village and brought electricity- and a future – to himself and his family. “His book tells a moving and exciting story.” – Al Gore. Read More… 

Dressmaker

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
ISBN: 9780061732478
Price: $14.99

A New York Times bestseller, this is the recounting of Kamila Sidiqi, a fearless young woman who reinvented herself as an entrepreneur to save her family, and brought hope to dozens of women in war-torn Kabul during the rise of the Taliban. Read More… 

Muslim

The Good Muslim

Tahmima Anam
ISBN: 9780061478864
Price: $14.99

The sequel to A Golden Age, this touching novel focuses on the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh. It explores the lasting ravages of war, the competing loyalties of love and belief, and the deeply intimate roots of religious extremism. Read More… 

Madonnas

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Debra Dean
ISBN: 9780060825317
Price: $13.99

In this extraordinary debut novel by acclaimed poet Debra Dean, the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind of an elderly Russian woman in America over sixty years later. Read More… 

Mirrored

The Mirrored World

Debra Dean
ISBN: 9780061231469
Price: $14.99

From the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed The Madonnas of Leningrad comes an historical masterpiece of Xenia of St. Petersburg, set against the unparalleled extravagance of 18th century St. Petersburg. Read More… 

Russian

Russian Winter

Daphne Kalotay
ISBN: 9780061962172
Price: $14.99

In this beautiful debut novel a famed ballerina’s jewelry auction in Boston will reveal long-held secrets of love, family, friendship and rivalry, harkening back to Stalinist Russia. “An auspicious first novel, elegantly written and without a false note.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review). Read More…

Some

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat

Hal Herzog
ISBN: 9780061730856
Price: $14.99

A maverick scientist who co-founded the field of anthrozoology offers a controversial, thought-provoking, and unprecedented exploration of the psychology behind the inconsistent and often paradoxical ways we think, feel, and behave towards animals. Read More… 

Space

The Space Between Us

Thrity Umrigar
ISBN:  9780062067890
Price: $16.99

Set in modern-day India, this bestselling novel demonstrates how the lives of the rich and poor are intrinsically connected yet vastly removed from each other, and how the strong bonds of womanhood are eternally opposed by the divisions of class and culture. Read More…

Tom

Visiting Tom

Michael Perry
ISBN: 9780061894466
Price: $14.99

Tuesdays with Morrie meets A Prairie Home Companion as a Midwestern writer approaching middle age finds guidance and inspiration in visits with his octogenarian neighbor. “Warmhearted….engaging….down-to-earth and genuine.” – Kirkus Reviews. Read More…

World

The World We Found

Thrity Umrigar
ISBN: 9780061938351
Price: $14.99

From the author of The Space Between Us comes a wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women, the enduring bonds of their friendship, and the power of love to change their lives. Read More…

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Moving Memoirs

 

Arrogant

The Arrogant Years

Lucette Lagnado
ISBN: 9780061803697
Price: $14.99

The author of the award-winning The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit returns with an extraordinary follow-up memoir filled with amazing details of life in Cairo and as a young Jewish girl in Brooklyn. “A paragon of memoir writing…” – The New York Times. Read More… 

Bucolic

The Bucolic Plague

Josh Kilmer-Purcell
ISBN: 9780061997839
Price: $14.99

Josh Kilmer-Purcell, New York Times bestselling author and the star of the television docu-series The Fabulous Beekman Boys uses his irrepressible sense of humor to narrate his unlikely journey from New York City ad man (and retired drag queen) to weekend farmer. Read More… 

Father

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung
ISBN: 9780060856267
Price: $14.99

Loung Ung’s bestselling memoir about her childhood in Cambodia and her struggle for survival when the Khmer Rouge invaded her city. Chosen widely for school and community reads and selected by the Asian/Pacific American Librarians’ Association for “Excellence in Adult Non-fiction Literature.” Read More… 

Happiness

The Happiness Project

Gretchen Rubin
ISBN: 9780061583261
Price: $14.99

Spending over a year on the New York Times bestseller list, The Happiness Project describes Gretchen Rubin’s year-long attempt to discover what leads to true contentment. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world applicability, this is an engaging chronicle of transformation. Read More… 

Kids

Just Kids

Patti Smith
ISBN: 9780060936228
Price: $16

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction, Patti Smith’s first book of prose offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City in the late sixties and seventies. Read More… 

Lit

Lit

Mary Karr
ISBN: 9780060596996
Price: $14.99

Mary Karr’s bestselling sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—follows her descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness—and her astonishing resurrection. Read More…

Princes

Little Princes

Conor Grennan
ISBN: 9780061930065
Price: $14.99

After volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home (an orphanage in Nepal), Conor Grennan launched Next Generation Nepal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reconnecting trafficked children with their families. Grennan’s gripping and inspirational memoir was an international bestseller. Read More… 

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The Magical Stranger

Stephen Rodrick
ISBN:  9780062004772 
Price: $15.99

In this powerful, beautifully written and very candid book, journalist Stephen Rodrick explores the life and death of his father, the man who indelibly shaped his life. A penetrating, thoughtful blend of memoir and reportage. Read More… 

Nazi

The Nazi Officer’s Wife

Edith H. Beer
ISBN:  9780688177768
Price: $15.99

A riveting new chapter in the history of the Holocaust – the memoir of an Austrian Jewish woman who forged her identity and married a Nazi in order to survive the war years in plain sight in Nazi Germany. Read More… 

Hitler

On Hitler’s Mountain

Irmgard A. Hunt
ISBN:  9780060532185
Price: $14.99

Born in 1934, Irmgard Hunt grew up near Hitler’s Alpine retreat. In this candid and fascinating memoir she offers an intimate first-person perspective on this tumultuous era in modern history – witnessed through the eyes of a child. Read More… 

Paradise

Paradise Under Glass

Ruth Kassinger   
ISBN: 9780061547768
Price: $15.99

A witty and absorbing memoir about one woman’s unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home. This book will delight readers of Eat, Pray, Love and I Feel Bad About My Neck. Read More… 

Pearl

A Pearl in the Storm

Tori Murden McClure
ISBN: 9780061718878
Price: $15.99

The true story of the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. McClure’s memoir is more than a woman-against-the-elements adventure tale; it is a beautiful, moving, and inspiring story of an explorer who maps her world with rare emotional honesty. Read More…

Prague

Prague Winter

Madeleine Albright   
ISBN: 9780062030344
Price: $15.99

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright delivers a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. Read More… 

Happy Marriage

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett   
ISBN: 9780062236685 
Price: $15.99

From the New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto, comes a collection of autobiographical essays going back across Ann Patchett’s entire life, covering school, early writing and friendships, travel, marriage, and opening a bookstore. Read More… 

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Until I Say Good-Bye

Susan Spencer-Wendel   
ISBN:  9780062241474 
Price: $14.99

In the vein of The Last Lecture and Tuesdays with Morrie comes an inspirational reflection on life from one woman making the most of her final days. It’s a celebration of life and a look at the effort we must make to show the people that we love and care about how much they mean to us. Read More… 

Widow's

A Widow’s Story

Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780062020505
Price: $14.99

Joyce Carol Oates’s critically acclaimed, nationally bestselling memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. Told with blazing honesty and raw emotion, this is the perfect memoir to generate impassioned dialogue. Read More…

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Love & Loss

 

Rain

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein
ISBN: 9780061537967
Price: $14.99

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life…as only a dog could tell it. International and New York Times Bestseller and winner of the 2008 PNBA Book Award. Read More… 

Ruins

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter
ISBN: 9780061928178
Price: $15.99

From the author of The Financial Lives of the Poets comes a funny and romantic story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Winner of Audible’s Best Audible book for 2012. Read More… 

Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780061565311
Price: $16.99

A captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance. Winner of both the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Read More… 

Phone call

The First Phone Call from Heaven

Mitch Albom
ISBN:  9780062294401 
Price: $15.99

The bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie tells the story of a small town whose citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Part mystery, part allegory about the power of belief. Read More… 

Warm evening

The First Warm Evening of the Year

Jamie M. Saul
ISBN: 9780061449734
Price: $13.99

From the author of Light of Day comes a character-driven story that explores the intricate relationships between friends and siblings, husbands and wives, and demonstrates how true love can be discovered in the most unexpected places. Read More… 

Given

The Given Day

Dennis Lehane
ISBN: 9780062190949
Price: $16.99

This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses at the end of World War I. Read More… 

Wishes

If Wishes Were Horses

Robert Barclay
ISBN: 9780062011657
Price: $1.99

Wyatt Blaine’s life has been touched by unbearable sorrow, and he realizes the only way out is to reach out. In this unforgettable novel of love, hope and second chances, a grieving man’s personal plan for redemption takes him on a journey of self-discovery. Read More…

Land

A Land More Kind Than Home

Wiley Cash    
ISBN: 9780062088239
Price: $14.99

This New York Times bestseller and Library Journal Best Book of 2012, is a literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town. In the vein of Tom Franklin and Ron Rash. Read More… 

Haven

Leaving Haven

Kathleen McCleary
ISBN:  9780062106261
Price: $14.99

When Georgia is desperate to have a baby, her best friend Alice donates an egg. Blissfully happy, Georgia cannot wait for the birth of her son until the day she discovers Alice’s secret. A story of friendship and betrayal from the acclaimed author of House and Home and A Simple ThingRead More… 

Orchardist

The Orchardist

Amanda Coplin
ISBN:  97800621885198
Price: $15.99

This haunting debut tells the engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. In the tradition of William Faulkner, Michael Ondaatje and Toni Morrison. Read More… 

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The Promise of Stardust

Priscille Sibley
ISBN:  9780062194176
Price: $15.99

A topical and poignant love story that pits family members against one another, and explores the toll a medical crisis can exact upon loved ones. For fans of Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, and Jacquelyn Mitchard. Read More…

Daughter

Secret Daughter

Shilpi Somaya-Gowda
ISBN: 9780061928352
Price: $13.99

This New York Times bestseller explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that binds them together. Read More…

Achilles

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller    
ISBN: 9780062060624
Price: $14.99

This 2012 Orange Prize winner is a thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. For fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell and Colleen McCullough. “A book I could not put down.” – Ann Patchett. Read More… 

Stiltsville

Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel   
ISBN:  9780061963087
Price: $14.99

A gripping, bittersweet tale of a marriage—and a romance—that deepens over the course of three decades. For fans of Anita Shreve, Sue Miller and Annie Dillard. “An elegantly crafted work of art and a great read.” – Curtis Sittenfeld. Read More… 

Beautiful

This Beautiful Life

Helen Schulman   
ISBN: 9780062024398
Price: $13.99

The events of a single night shatter one family’s sense of security and identity in this provocative and deeply affecting portrayal of parenting and modern life, from the acclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time. Read More… 

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This Dark Road to Mercy

Wiley Cash
ISBN: 9780062088260
Price: $14.99

A resonant new novel about a father’s efforts to rescue his young daughters from foster care by the critically-acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home. Read More…

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We Are Water

Wally Lamb
ISBN:  9780061941030
Price: $16.99

A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel that recalls Richard Russo’s Empire Falls and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. Read More…

World

The World We Found

Thrity Umrigar
ISBN: 9780061938351
Price: $14.99

From the author of The Space Between Us comes a wrought, emotionally resonant story of four women, the enduring bonds of their friendship, and the power of love to change their lives. Read More…

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Literary Grab Bag

 

Air

The Air Between Us

Deborah Johnson
ISBN: 9780061255588
Price: $13.99

Set in Mississippi in the 1960s, this riveting debut explores the interactions among a group of residents in a small town on the verge of integration. Compelling, approachable and thought-provoking with endearing characters and a mystery that will keep readers guessing until the end. Read More… 

Rain

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Garth Stein
ISBN: 9780061537967
Price: $14.99

A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life…as only a dog could tell it. International and New York Times Bestseller and winner of the 2008 PNBA Book Award. Read More… 

Ruins

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter
ISBN: 9780061928178
Price: $15.99

From the author of The Financial Lives of the Poets comes a funny and romantic story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Winner of Audible’s Best Audible book for 2012. Read More… 

Canto

Bel Canto

Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780061565311
Price: $16.99

A captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance. Winner of both the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Read More… 

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Big Brother

Lionel Shriver
ISBN:  9780061458606
Price: $15.99

Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about obesity: an issue both socially and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much sacrifice we’ll make to save members of our families, and whether it’s ever possible to save loved ones from themselves. Read More… 

Billy

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain
ISBN: 9780060885618
Price: $14.99

This NBA finalist, from the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. A Catch-22 for our times. Read More… 

Canada

Canada

Richard Ford
ISBN: 9780061692031
Price: $15.99

Pulitzer Prize winning Ford delivers a haunting novel about the cataclysmic event that undoes one teenage boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace, only to confront violence in its purest form. Read More… 

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The End of the Point

Elizabeth Graver
ISBN:  9780062184856 
Price: $15.99

A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel that explores the complex legacy of place, and of family; what we are born into, what we pass down to the next generation, and what we must preserve, cast off, or willingly set free. Read More… 

Falling

Falling Together

Marisa de los Santos
ISBN: 9780061670886
Price: $14.99

The New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me returns with an emotionally resonant, powerfully moving, and pitch perfect story about friends, family, and love – with a college reunion at the center of this novel. Read More… 

Fang

The Family Fang

Kevin Wilson
ISBN: 9780061579059
Price: $13.99

Filled with endless creativity, vibrant prose and sharp humor, The Family Fang is a novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction: a family of demanding, brilliant oddballs. In the tradition of Wes Anderson’sThe Royal Tenenbaums. Read More… 

Poets

The Financial Lives of the Poets

Jess Walter    
ISBN: 9780061916052
Price: $14.99

National Book Award nominee Jess Walter offers a comic and heartfelt novel of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred. Named one of the year’s best novels by Time, NPR/Fresh Air and the Los Angeles Times. Read More… 

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Flight Behavior

Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780062124272
Price: $16.99

The extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible returns with her most accessible and commercial book to date: a suspenseful and brilliant novel about climate change, media exploitation and political opportunism set in present day Appalachia. Read More… 

Given

The Given Day

Dennis Lehane
ISBN: 9780062190949
Price: $16.99

This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of two families—one black, one white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses at the end of World War I. Read More… 

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The Golem and the Jinni

Helene Wecker
ISBN:  9780062110848 
Price: $15.99

An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, Helene Wecker’s sparkling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive in New York in 1899 and must forge lives in a very foreign environment. Read More… 

Hour

The Hour I First Believed

Wally Lamb
ISBN:  9780060988432
Price: $15.99

A profound and challenging work of fiction, this national bestseller explores the consequences of war and the aftermath of school violence. Read More…

House girl

The House Girl

Tara Conklin
ISBN: 9780062207517
Price: $14.99

A stunning debut novel that intertwines the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York, and in so doing asks questions of justice, love and family. Read More… 

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Kind of Kin

Rilla Askew
ISBN:  9780062198808 
Price: $14.99

In 2007 Oklahoma passed a new law, making it a felony to harbor an undocumented immigrant. This novel follows these lawmakers and lawbreakers as workers are exiled, friends turn informers, and families are torn apart in a state-wide exodus of Hispanics. Read More… 

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The Leisure Seeker

Michael Zadoorian
ISBN: 9780061671791
Price: $13.99

Easy Rider meets The Notebook in this story of two seniors who escape from their retirement home and embark upon an hilarious and touching end-of-life road trip. Read More…

Memory

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks
ISBN: 9780061857645
Price: $14.99

The young man at the center of this uncompromising and morally complex novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. “…it delivers another of Banks’s wrenching, panoramic visions of American moral life…” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More…

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Maya’s Notebook

Isabel Allende
ISBN:  9780062105639 
Price: $15.99

An international bestseller, this suspenseful contemporary coming of age novel is narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution and is forced to flee for her life. Read More… 

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Mrs. Kimble

Jennifer Haigh
ISBN:  9780062062611
Price: $16.99

The stunning literary debut from Jennifer Haigh, is the emotionally compelling story of three unique women married to the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmatic opportunist, Ken Kimble. It is a timeless story of grief, passion, heartache, deception, and the complex riddle of love. Read More… 

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News From Heaven

Jennifer Haigh
ISBN:  9780060889630
Price: $14.99

From the bestselling author of Faith and The Condition, comes a collection of interconnected short stories centered around the fictional mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, the setting for her previous, award-winning novel Baker TowersRead More… 

Orchardist

The Orchardist

Amanda Coplin
ISBN: 9780062188519
Price: $15.99

This haunting debut tells the engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. In the tradition of William Faulkner, Michael Ondaatje, and Toni Morrison. Read More… 

Outlander

The Outlander

Gil Adamson
ISBN: 9780061491344
Price: $14.99

An intoxicating debut novel reminiscent of early Cormac McCarthy, about a young murderess’s desperate journey into the 1903 wilderness. “A remarkable first novel, full of verve, beautifully written, and with all the panache of a great adventure.” – Michael Ondaatje. Read More…

Pact

The Pact

Jodi Picoult
ISBN:  9780061765230
Price: $16.99

Friendship, loyalty, lifelong love – and teenage suicide. This is a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish – and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence. Wonderfully observed, truly moving, frightening, and utterly impossible to put down. Read More…

Doves

The Plague of Doves

Louise Erdrich    
ISBN: 9780060515133
Price: $14.99

The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and named Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor. Read More… 

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The Promise of Stardust

Priscille Sibley
ISBN:  9780062194176
Price: $15.99

A topical and poignant love story that pits family members against one another, and explores the toll a medical crisis can exact upon loved ones. For fans of Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, and Jacquelyn Mitchard. Read More…

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The Round House

Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780062065254
Price: $15.99

This 2012 National Book Award winner is the story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Read More… 

Bone

Rule of the Bone

Russell Banks
ISBN: 9780060927240
Price: $13.99

In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’ quintessential novel of Bone, a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society, redefines the young modern anti-hero. Read More… 

Serena

Serena

Ron Rash
ISBN: 9780061470844
Price: $14.99

A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena is gothic tale of greed, corruption, and revenge with a ruthless, powerful, and unforgettable woman at its heart, set amid the wilds of 1930s North Carolina and against the backdrop of America’s burgeoning environmental movement. Read More…

Shoemaker

The Shoemaker’s Wife

Adriana Trigiani    
ISBN: 9780061257100
Price: $15.99

Inspired by her own family history, Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. Read More… 

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt
ISBN: 9780062041289
Price: $14.99

A violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love. Shortlisted for the Man-Booker Prize. For readers of Lonesome Dove or Wonder Boys. Read More…

The Son

The Son

Phillip Meyer
ISBN:  9780062120403 
Price: $16.99

An epic, violent, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land that follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas family from the Comanche raids of the 1800s to the border raids of the early 1900s to the oil booms of the 20th century. Read More…

Achilles

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller    
ISBN: 9780062060624
Price: $14.99

This 2012 Orange Prize winner is a thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. For fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell and Colleen McCullough. “A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett. Read More… 

Edgar

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski
ISBN: 9780061374234
Price: $16.99

A riveting saga about a young, mute boy and the family he is forced to flee from when catastrophe strikes. “A mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More…

Swimming

Swimming in the Moon

Pamela Schoenewaldt
ISBN:  9780062202239
Price: $14.99

From the author of When We Were Strangers comes another American story about a complicated relationship between mother and daughter set against the tumult of the early 1900s: the frenzy of union strikes, the thrill of Vaudeville, and the ever-growing promise of something more.  Read More… 

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Telegraph Avenue

Michael Chabon   
ISBN: 9780061493355 
Price: $16.99

Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. “A rare book that really could be the great American novel.” – Library Journal. Read More… 

Beautiful

This Beautiful Life

Helen Schulman   
ISBN: 9780062024398
Price: $13.99

The events of a single night shatter one family’s sense of security and identity in this provocative and deeply affecting portrayal of parenting and modern life, from the acclaimed author of A Day at the Beach and Out of Time. Read More… 

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The Valley of Amazement

Amy Tan
ISBN:  9780062107329 
Price: $16.99

The New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club brings us a sweeping, evocative novel of a mother and daughter, their intertwined fates and their search for identity, from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village. Read More…

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We Are Water

Wally Lamb
ISBN:  9780061941023
Price: $29.99

Paperback: August 2014 
ISBN: 9780061941030 

A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel that recalls Richard Russo’s Empire Falls and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. Read More…

Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver
ISBN:  9780061124297
Price: $14.99

This gripping international bestseller and winner of the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction is about a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence and her own ambivalence toward motherhood. A timely, piercing and penetrating exploration of violence, family ties, and responsibility. Read More…

Wicked

Wicked

Gregory Maguire    
ISBN: 9780060987107
Price: $16

The multi-million-copy bestselling novel that became the basis of the Tony Award–winning musical offers a radical new evaluation of one of the most feared and hated characters in all of literature: the much maligned Wicked Witch of the West. Read More… 

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Historical Highlights

 

Bitter

Bitter Brew

William Knoedelseder
ISBN: 9780062009272
Price: $17.99

Bitter Brew tells the astonishing story of how five generations of men took a bankrupt brewery and turned it into an international colossus, Anheuser-Busch. Knoedelseder also tells a broader story of American progress and decline over the last 150 years. Read More… 

Mcgee

The Eyes of Willie McGee

Alex Heard
ISBN: 9780061284168
Price: $15.99

In 1945, Willie McGee, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. This is his unforgettable story that evokes the bitter conflict between black and white, and north and south in America. Read More… 

Forgotten

The Forgotten Man

Amity Shlaes
ISBN: 9780060936426
Price: $15.99

Respected economic commentator Shlaes offers a fresh new interpretation of a crucial yet widely misunderstood moment in American history—the Great Depression. Shlaes shows how government mismanagement of the late 1920s and 1930s hurt the economy. Read More… 

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Frozen in Time

Mitchell Zuckoff
ISBN:  9780062133403 
Price: $15.99

The author of the smash New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La delivers a nonstop, gripping true story of survival that moves between World War II and today; an astonishing account of endurance, bravery, ingenuity, and honor set in the vast Arctic wilderness. Read More… 

House girl

The House Girl

Tara Conklin
ISBN: 9780062207517
Price: $14.99

A stunning debut novel that intertwines the story of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia with that of an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York, and in so doing asks questions of justice, love and family. Read More… 

Ida

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Paula J. Giddings
ISBN: 9780060797362
Price: $19.99

The 2009 BCALA award winner for Nonfiction, this is the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells, a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight against segregation and lynching, and the first “modern” black woman in the nation’s history. Read More… 

Lincoln

Lincoln

Harold Holzer
ISBN: 9780062265098
Price: $16.99

A new book—and companion to the Steven Spielberg film—tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery and end it.  The book also includes thirty historical photographs, a chronology, a historical cast of characters, and texts of selected Lincoln writings. Read More… 

Shangrila

Lost in Shangri-La

Mitchell Zuckoff
ISBN: 9780061988356
Price: $15.99

The untold story of an extraordinary mission to rescue male and female survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe members that aided those stranded in the ground in this “Shangri-la.” Read More…

Nazi

The Nazi Officer’s Wife

Edith H. Beer
ISBN:  9780688177768
Price: $15.99

A riveting new chapter in the history of the Holocaust – the memoir of an Austrian Jewish woman who forged her identity and married a Nazi in order to survive the war years in plain sight in Nazi Germany. Read More… 

Hitler

On Hitler’s Mountain

Irmgard A. Hunt
ISBN:  9780060532185
Price: $14.99

Born in 1934, Irmgard Hunt grew up near Hitler’s Alpine retreat. In this candid and fascinating memoir she offers an intimate first-person perspective on this tumultuous era in modern history – witnessed through the eyes of a child. Read More… 

Outlaw

Outlaw Platoon

Sean Parnell
ISBN: 9780062066404
Price: $14.99

In this vivid account of the legendary U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell recounts an action-packed, and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. Read More… 

Savage

The Savage City

T.J. English    
ISBN: 9780061824586
Price: $15.99

Through the stories of three desperate men – an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther – T.J. English tells the story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960s New York City. Read More… 

Train

A Train in Winter

Caroline Moorehead
ISBN: 9780061650710
Price: $15.99

The riveting and little-known story of 230 French women who were arrested for their participation in the Resistance during World War II, but whose friendships enabled them to navigate the hell of Auschwitz. Read More…

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Tubes

Andrew Blum   
ISBN: 9780061994951 
Price: $15.99

In this digital age, we are all connected. But connected to what? Blum takes readers on a journey to show that the internet is as fixed in real, physical places as any telephone ever was. Read More… 

Wanted

Wanted Women

Deborah Scroggins
ISBN: 9780060898984
Price: $16.99

The story of two brave women catapulted to fame by the War on Terror, offering a compelling look at the link between Muslim women’s rights, Islamic opposition to the West, and a radical jihadist movement. Read More…

Wench

Wench

Dolen Perkins-Valdez
ISBN: 9780061706561
Price: $14.99

The 2011 BCALA award winner for First Novel, Wench explores the moral complexities of slavery as it tells the startling story of four women who find friendship and possibly salvation at a resort for slaveholders and their black, enslaved mistresses. Read More… 

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Crème de la Classics

 

Alchemist

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho
ISBN: 9780061122415
Price: $14.99

The magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy, who yearns to travel in search of a wordly treasure. What he finds along the way teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts and following our dreams. Read More… 

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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9780061148514
Price: $16.99

This extraordinary work chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful – but slowly going mad. The reader is drawn into her breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes completely real and even rational. Read More… 

Vine

The Moonflower Vine

Jetta Carleton
ISBN:  9780061673238
Price: $14.99

Originally published in 1962, this re-discovered classic and timeless bestseller brings to life the rhythms and the mood of Midwestern rural life through its endearing characters, their secrets, fears, heartache and pleasure. It remains an utterly compelling story told with humor and deep compassion. Read More… 

Scout

Scout, Atticus and Boo

Mary McDonagh Murphy
ISBN: 9780061924125
Price: $14.99

Filmmaker Mary McDonagh Murphy commemorates more than half a century of this classic by exploring its great history and how it has left its indelible mark on such prominent figures as Oprah Winfrey, Adriana Trigiani, Wally Lamb, and Tom Brokaw. Read More… 

Eyes

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780061120060
Price: $15.99

A love story about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has been inspiring readers since 1937. Read More… 

Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
ISBN: 9780061120084
Price: $16.99

A gripping tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, told through the eyes of Scout, as her father risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime. Voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. Read More… 

Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith
ISBN: 9780061120077
Price: $17.99

The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg. A poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache. Read More…

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Who We Are

V Virginia Stanley

Virginia Stanley is the Director of Library Marketing at HarperCollins, and resident 40-something. She was included in Library Journal’s inaugural Movers & Shakers edition, being called a ‘Bridge Builder’ because of her outreach to libraries across the country and including libraries on author tours as often as possible.  

She enjoys coming-of-age books, Broadway shows and any song sung by Cher.


K Kayleigh George

Kayleigh George is Senior Library Marketing Associate at HarperCollins, and resident 20something. She helms the blog The Roaring 20s: Quarterlife Lit for the Twentysomething Set. She loves writing, cooking, baking, and spreading the word about stellar books

Me

Annie Mazes

Annie Mazes is the Library Marketing Associate at HarperCollins. She spent a few years living abroad before a Eureka! moment sent her back to school for an MLS. In addition to her love of books, she enjoys urban walking tours, dodgeball, and road trips.

Uncategorized

Coming-of-Age

 

Billy

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Ben Fountain
ISBN: 9780060885618
Price: $14.99

From the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara,  this National Book Award finalist is a razor sharp satire set in Texas during the American war in Iraq about the gaping disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. A Catch-22 for our times. Read More… 

Canada

Canada

Richard Ford
ISBN: 9780061692031
Price: $15.99

Pulitzer Prize winning Ford delivers a haunting novel about the cataclysmic event that undoes one teenage boy’s family, and the stark and unforgiving landscape in which he attempts to find grace, only to confront violence in its purest form. Read More… 

Fang

The Family Fang

Kevin Wilson
ISBN: 9780061579059
Price: $13.99

Filled with endless creativity, vibrant prose and sharp humor, The Family Fang is a novel about the art of surviving a masterpiece of dysfunction: a family of demanding, brilliant oddballs. In the tradition of Wes Anderson’sThe Royal Tenenbaums. Read More… 

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Maya’s Notebook

Isabel Allende
ISBN:  9780062105639 
Price: $15.99

An international bestseller, this suspenseful contemporary coming of age novel is narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution and is forced to flee for her life. Read More… 

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The Round House

Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780062065254
Price: $15.99

This 2012 National Book Award winner is the story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Read More… 

Bone

Rule of the Bone

Russell Banks
ISBN: 9780060927240
Price: $13.99

In the tradition of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’ quintessential novel of Bone, a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society, redefines the young modern anti-hero. Read More… 

Edgar

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

David Wroblewski
ISBN: 9780061374234
Price: $16.99

A riveting saga about a young, mute boy and the family he is forced to flee from when catastrophe strikes. “A mesmerizing read, audaciously envisioned as classic Americana.” – Janet Maslin, The New York Times. Read More…

Saints

Ten Thousand Saints

Eleanor Henderson
ISBN: 9780062021212
Price: $15.99

The New York Times bestselling, multigenerational drama that reveals the emotional tangle of births, deaths, loves and losses that shape families, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 80s. Read More… 

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Nancy Pearl’s 2012 Picks

Screen shot 2012-12-04 at 4.19.43 PMIt is a great honor to have four (omg!) books on Nancy Pearl's 10 Faves of 2012 list.  How awesome is that??  I was going to quote some witty person on how having good taste is such a virtue, but apparently no one seems to think it was! Examples:

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing” – Pablo Picasso. 

"A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.” – George Bernard Shaw

"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life” – Oscar Wilde

So never mind that, but definitely check out her list because I know her HarperCollins picks are excellent, and I would wager good present buying money that her other picks are great as well.

– Annie

 

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