Wife 22 : a Novel
The Washington Post – Heller McAlpin : This modern-day, mixed-media comedy of manners is as up-to-the-minute as your favorite Twitter feed…Wife 22 channels the playful but incisive vibe of Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail. Like Ephron, Gideon is especially adept at puncturing contemporary vanities…In the crowded pool of novels about midlife crises, Wife 22 has […]
Tales From a Not-so-graceful Ice Princess
Overview In an all-new addition to the New York Times bestselling series that’s as popular as it is dorky, Nikki Maxwell is determined to help out her crush! Nikki Maxwell isn’t at all surprised to find out that her crush Brandon volunteers at a local animal shelter. He’s such a sweet guy—of course he wants […]
Bring Up the Bodies
Janet Maslin Two years ago something astonishingly fair happened in the world of prestigious prizes: the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for 2009 both went to the right winner…Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall…It was a hard act to follow. But the follow-up is equally sublime.…Bring Up the Bodies is […]
The First 20 Minutes : Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer
Publishers Weekly Gretchen Reynolds writes the Phys Ed column in the New York Times, and her book is an informative and entertaining review of current science about exercise and fitness, with good, commonsense recommendations that cut through confusing, often conflicting research on the subject. The author pulls no punches—with good humor she zeroes in and […]
Wild : From Lost to Found On the Pacific Crest Trail
It's uplifting, but not in the way of many memoirs, where the uplift makes you feel that you're committing mental suicide. This book is as loose and sexy and dark as an early Lucinda Williams song. It's got a punk spirit and makes an earthy and American sound…[Strayed] hammers home her hard-won sentences like a […]
Rather Outspoken : My Life In the News
Library Journal Rather hits all the high points of his career—including 44 years at CBS, 24 as anchor of CBS News—while also touching on his dismissal from CBS and profiling the people he has worked with or interviewed. Even more interesting (to me), he considers the crucial issue of where the news industry stands today […]
What Doesn't Kill You
Publishers Weekly Catherine Ling, an enormously talented CIA agent introduced in the Eve Duncan novel Chasing the Night (2010), takes center stage in bestseller Johansen’s grandiose yet agreeable thriller. As a teenage orphan fending for herself in Hong Kong’s underworld, Catherine was rescued from murderous thugs by Hu Chang, an enigmatic and reclusive apothecary, with […]
The Uninvited Guests
Publishers Weekly Sterne, the English country house at the center of this remarkable dark comedy, is home to the Torringtons—mother Charlotte, a widow now married to Edward Swift; children Emerald, Clovis, and “Smudgeâ€; and an assortment of faithful staff. Set sometime in the early part of the 20th century, somewhere in the north of England […]
The Chemistry of Tears
Library Journal Twice a Booker Prize winner and a Commonwealth and Miles Franklin honoree as well, the incomparable Carey returns with a story of secret grief assuaged. A museum conservator in London, Catherine learns that her lover and colleague has died but hides her pain because he was a married man. Her boss, the only […]
City of Lost Souls
Overview The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon. Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide? Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the […]