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Bent Road - Lori Roy
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Set in the mid '60s, Roy's outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys ... -
Bend Sinister - Vladimir Nabokov
A satirical fantasy on the rise of a tyrant state. Adam Krug stands alone in opposition to the new regime. His antagonist is the leader of the new party, Paduk. Grieving over his w... -
Belle - Lesley Pearse
Product DescriptionLondon 1910. Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her inno... -
Arthas_ Rise of the Lich King - Christie Golden
SUMMARY: Frostmourne.It was caught in a hovering, jagged chunk of ice, the runes that ran the length of its blade glowing a cool blue. Below it was a dais of some sort, standing on... -
Angel Cake - Cathy Cassidy
SUMMARY: Anya used to dream of moving to Britain to start a brand-new life. But as she sits in a school where nobody understands her, she dreams of Polish summer skies and the plac... -
Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the ... -
An Edible History of Humanity - Tom Standage
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of technology, changing the course of human progress by helping to build empires, promote industrialization, and deci... -
A Man Could Stand Up - Ford Madox Ford
The third volume of Parade’s End—one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm—this novel focuses on Valentine Wannop ... -
A History of the World in 6 Gla - Tom Standage
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Standage starts with a bold hypothesis—that each epoch, from the Stone Age to the present, has had its signature beverage—and takes readers on... -
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
SUMMARY: In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James M...