Love Poems

About Love Poems Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images and reveling in a fiery re-imagining of the world. Mostly written on the island paradise of Capri (the idyllic setting of the Oscar-winning movie Il Postino), Love Poems … Read more

Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service

About Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service Written in the parable style of  The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans  uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature–not just another program … Read more

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

About Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool The instant New York Times bestseller! An NPR Book of the Year From the author of Expecting Better, an economist’s guide to the early years of parenting. “The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster … Read more

The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

About The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Meet Fred. In his powerful new book The Fred Factor , motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his job and who genuinely cares about the people he … Read more

Water for Elephants

About Water for Elephants When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put … Read more

All That Remains

About All That Remains In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president’s newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of … Read more

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

About The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of … Read more

The Glutton

About The Glutton A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to have been tormented and driven to murder by an all-consuming appetite. 1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting … Read more

Independence

About Independence India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor. Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a doctor, though society frowns on it. Deepa: the beauty, determined to make a marriage that will bring her family joy and status. Jamini: … Read more

You Will Know Me

About You Will Know Me Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful. But when a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community just weeks before an all-important competition, everything the Knoxes have worked so hard for feels suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl … Read more

Dune

About Dune Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a … Read more

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

About The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings … Read more

Station Eleven

About Station Eleven Set in the days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage … Read more

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

About Mislaid in Parts Half-Known Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning series. Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children. When her fellow students realize that Antsy’s talent for finding absolutely anything … Read more

Nickel and Dimed

About Nickel and Dimed Klasyka reportażu wcieleniowego Barbara Ehrenreich, amerykańska publicystka, dziennikarka, aktywistka społeczna, postanowiła dołączyć do milionów osób, które pracują w pełnym wymiarze godzin za najniższe stawki. Chciała na własnej skórze przekonać się, ile prawdy jest w stwierdzeniu, że praca – każda praca – może być przepustką do lepszego życia. Ehrenreich opuściła swój dom … Read more

Go as a River

About Go as a River A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman’s journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century Colorado On a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family’s farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled … Read more

The Bone Season

About The Bone Season The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon Hall. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people’s minds. For Paige is a dreamwalker, a clairvoyant and, in the world of Scion, … Read more

A Perfect Vintage

About A Perfect Vintage Old money. Younger men. One intoxicating summer. Lea Mortimer has everything under control. As a highly sought-after consultant specializing in transforming dilapidated French country estates into boutique hotels, she relishes her freedom as a single, childfree woman. And her life is full, occupied as much by her impeccable historic renovations as … Read more

Let Us Descend

About Let Us Descend From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. “‘Let us descend,’ the poet now began, ‘and enter this … Read more

Don’t Let Her Stay

About Don’t Let Her Stay Someone inside your house wants you dead, but no one believes you… Joanne knows how lucky she is. Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house… Life couldn’t be better. Until Richard’s twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken … Read more

Cry Wolf

About Cry Wolf Anna never knew werewolves existed, until the night she survived a violent attack… and became one herself. After three years at the bottom of the pack, she’d learned to keep her head down and never, ever trust dominant males. Then Charles Cornick, the enforcer—and son—of the leader of the North American werewolves, … Read more

The Reluctant Countess

About The Reluctant Countess New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Would-Be Wallflowers series with an enemies-to-lovers romance between a proper earl and an entirely improper lady–whom he can’t stop thinking about. Giles Renwick, Earl of Lilford, has never made a fool of himself over a woman–until he meets Lady Yasmin Régnier. … Read more

White Oleander

About White Oleander Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes–each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons … Read more

The Age of Miracles

About The Age of Miracles “It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and … Read more