The Best American Mystery Stories 2003
10 best books like The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (Michael Connelly): Second Glance, The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight, The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality, Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition, The Looking Glass, The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
Author | Jodi Picoult |
ISBN | 0743454510 |
When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal. (An interview about the book is included below the reading...
Author | Ellen Datlow |
ISBN | 0312018525 |
When I started the anthology, at first I felt robbed.
I hadn't read this one before, so most of the stories were new to me, but I have read other books in the series, as well as other things that the editors have done together.
I wasn't prepared to come back to it. Not only have both fantasy...
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Author | Emily Oster |
ISBN | 0525559256 |
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting
With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....
In this intriguing tale (not for children), storyteller extraordinaire Ursula K. Le Guin explores the magic of animals. Her animal characters -- from the irreverent trickster Coyote to the wise matriarch Grandmother Spider -- seem like people to us, just as they do to the little girl who finds herself...
The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453
Author | Desmond Seward |
ISBN | 0140283617 |
"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT I LIVE BY WAR AND THAT PEACE WOULD BE MY UNDOING?" -Sir John HawkwoodFrom 1337 to 1453 England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. Though it was a small, poor country, England for most of those "hundred years" won the battles, sacked...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Author | Jim Mattis |
ISBN | 0812996836 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis--the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time--and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine.
Call...
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
Author | Kimberly Ann Johnson |
ISBN | 1611804000 |
A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.
Pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum offer women some of the most emotionally enriching and satisfying experiences of their life. But many women...
Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition
Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you’ve been given about what to eat (or what not to eat) is well-meaning, but frankly, outdated or not evidenced-based. In Real Food for Pregnancy, you’ll get clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every recommendation....
Author | Richard Paul Evans |
ISBN | 0743430999 |
"It is silent now, the blizzard has paused and left the moment still. I think about them both at such times -- roaming the shadowlands of remembrance amidst the shards of my broken heart.""--Exerpt from Hunter Bell's diary
The winter storms of the wide-open frontier reflect the anguish raging...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
Author | Louise Penny |
ISBN | 0544949099 |
#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her “nerve and skill—as well as heart” (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year.
Writing short stories takes “Skill....
Author | Susan DeFreitas |
ISBN | 1941861288 |
In the high desert of Arizona, three roommates—students at Deep Canyon College, known for its radical politics—are looking for love, adventure, and the promise of a bigger life that led them West.
But when the FBI comes to town in pursuit of an alum wanted for “politically motivated...
The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
ISBN | 0217062113 |
The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson on August 31, 1837, to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge. He was invited to speak in recognition of his groundbreaking work Nature, published a year earlier, in which he established a new way for America's fledgling society to regard...
Author | Jeffery Deaver |
ISBN | 0743437810 |
It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the door. The room is empty.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia...
Author | Robbie Robertson |
ISBN | 0307401391 |
One of the most spellbinding, entertaining, major books of the fall: the long-awaited memoir from the Canadian music legend takes us candidly, in his own voice, into his extraordinary life and friendships with some of the greatest artists of the last half-century.
Robbie Robertson's...
Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
No wonder he wasn't invited back for thirty years .
Author | Laura Griffin |
ISBN | 1501162462 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Desperate Girls and Touch of Red returns to her sizzling Alpha Crew series with this fourth thriller filled with “scorching-hot chemistry” (Kirkus Reviews) featuring a Navy SEAL who meets his match in a fierce FBI agent as they work together to take down...
Author | Brad Thor |
ISBN | 1476789371 |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor comes Foreign Agent—a thriller as current as tomorrow’s headlines.
In a safe house near the Syrian border, a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director...
Author | Laurence O'Bryan |
ISBN | 1847562884 |
The Istanbul Puzzle is a thriller/mystery novel, first published January 19, 2012. It's the first in a series of novels featuring Sean Ryan and Isabel Sharp, being published by Harper Collins and a series of other publishers around the world.
Buried deep under Istanbul, a secret is about to...