The Vengekeep Prophecies
The Men Who United the States
From Booklist *Starred Review* The ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788 provided a common legal and political framework to bind 13 supposedly sovereign states to a stronger federal government. But the U.S. was still more of a theoretical nation than an actual one. The War of 1812 and the Mexican War engendered surges of […]
Big Nate Flips Out
Big Nate is flipping out! Everyone knows N-A-T-E does not equal N-E-A-T! And when Nate's sloppiness gets out of hand, Francis is in serious trouble. Can Nate clean up his act, or will he flip out first?
Maya's Notebook : a Novel
Booklist (starred review) “An explosive novel…Every character is enthralling…This is a boldly plotted, sharply funny, and purposefully bone-shaking novel of sexual violence, political terror, “collective shame,†and dark family secrets, all transcended by courage and love.â€
1356 : a Nove
Publishers Weekly Cornwell, a master of action-packed historical fiction, returns with the fourth book in his Grail Quest series (after Heretic), a vivid, exciting portrayal of medieval warfare as the English and French butcher each other at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356 during the Hundred Years War. Nobody writes battle scenes like Cornwell, accurately […]
Flight Behavior : a Novel
The Washington Post Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant. Flight Behavior isn't trying to reform recalcitrant consumers or […]
Dodger
“Lovingly crafted and completely enjoyable. The temptation to quote sentences, whole paragraphs, and possibly entire chapters is almost irresistible.†(Booklist (starred review) )
Big Nate : What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Round House : a Novel
“Erdrich threads a gripping mystery and multilayered portrait of a community through a deeply affecting coming-of-age novel.†(Karen Holt, O, the Oprah Magazine )
Telegraph Avenue : a Novel
Library Journal If any novelist can pack the entire American zeitgeist into 500 pages, it's Chabon (The Yiddish Policeman's Union). Here, he deftly treads race, class, gender, and generation lines, showing how they continue to define us even as they're crossed. In 2004, in an enclave bordered by Berkeley and Oakland, Brokeland Records sells used […]