by Paulo Coelho & translated by Margaret Jull Costa ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1993 Coelho’s placebo has racked up impressive sales in Brazil and Europe. Americans should flock to it like gulls. Coelho is a Brazilian writer with four books to his credit. Following Diary of a Magus (1992—not reviewed) came this book, published […]
by Percival Everett ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 19, 2024 One of the noblest characters in American literature gets a novel worthy of him. Likes 34 Our Verdict GET IT Kirkus Reviews’Best Books Of 2024 Kirkus Prizewinner New York Times Bestseller National Book Award Winner National Book Critics Circle Finalist Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Stephanie Johnson & Brandon Stanton illustrated by Henry Sene Yee ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 12, 2022 A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. Likes 130 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered
From the Empyrean series , Vol. 2 by Rebecca Yarros ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 7, 2023 Unrelenting, and not in a good way. A young Navarrian woman faces even greater challenges in her second year at dragon-riding school. Violet Sorrengail did all the normal things one would do as a first-year student at Basgiath War
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Journalist and novelist LeBor, author of Hitler’s Secret Bankers: The Myth of Swiss Neutrality During the Holocaust, writes that losing World War I was no less disastrous for Hungary than for Germany. Formerly a full partner in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it emerged missing 70% of its former territory. LeBor describes Budapest as almost Parisian in
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From the Women Who Broke the Rules series by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Matt Collins ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 9, 2015 The author of the justly renowned What the Neighbors Thought series digs a little deeper with these equally engaging single… This brisk and pithy series kickoff highlights Sacagawea’s unique contributions to the Lewis
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by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020 Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a
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by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020 Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a
by Laura Nowlin ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 2013 There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head. Likes 97 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut. Autumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart;
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BREAKING THROUGH THE INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES OF GLOBAL BUSINESS by Erin Meyer ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 27, 2014 These are not hard and fast rules, but Meyer delivers important reading for those engaged in international business. A helpful guide to working effectively with people from other cultures. “The sad truth is that the vast majority of
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