Best American Literature List - April 2024

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE  WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1616208686
• ASIN: 1616208686
• ISBN: 1616208686
• Brand: Algonquin Books
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501168681
• ASIN: 1501168681
• ISBN: 1501168681
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Harry Potter Complete Book Series Special Edition Boxed Set

The perfect gift for collectors and new readers alike, we now present a breathtaking special edition boxed set of J. K. Rowling's seven bestselling Harry Potter books! The box itself is beautifully designed with new artwork by Kazu Kibuishi, and the books create a gorgeous, magical vista when the spines are lined up together. The Harry Potter series has been hailed as "one for the ages" by Stephen King and "a spellbinding saga" by USA Today. Now is your chance to give this set to a reader who is ready to embark on the series that has changed so many young readers' lives.

• ASIN: 0545596270
• UPC: 718496506769
• ASIN: 0545596270
• ISBN: 0545596270
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Inc.

Where the Crawdads Sing

• ASIN: B078GD3DRG
• ASIN: B078GD3DRG
• Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524763136
• ASIN: 1524763136
• ISBN: 1524763136
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Crown Publishing Group

The Book Thief

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.  The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.  Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375842209
• ASIN: 0375842209
• ISBN: 9780375842207
• Brand: Alfred A. Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Before We Were Yours: A Novel

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425284700
• ASIN: 0425284700
• ISBN: 0425284700
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The A List (Ali Reynolds Series Book 14)

In the next “devilish page-turner” (People) from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds learns that no good deed goes unpunished.More than ten years after the abrupt end of her high-profile broadcasting career, Ali Reynolds has made a good life for herself in her hometown of Sedona, Arizona. She has a new house, a new husband, and a flourishing cybersecurity company called High Noon Enterprises, where her team of veritable technological wizards hunts down criminals one case at a time. But the death of an old friend brings Ali back to the last story she ever reported: a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H2LV8LN
• ASIN: B07H2LV8LN
• Manufacturer: Gallery Books

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507822X
• ASIN: 032507822X
• ISBN: 032507822X
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.   With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times.For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101980281
• ASIN: 1101980281
• ISBN: 1101980281
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestseller!Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads, Library Reads, Book of the Month, Paste, Kirkus Reviews, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many more...  “I read Little Fires Everywhere in a single, breathless sitting.” —Jodi Picoult“To say I love this book is an understatement. It’s a deep psychological mystery about the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224315
• ASIN: 0735224315
• ISBN: 0735224315
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

The mega-bestseller with more than 1.5 million readers that is soon to be a major television seriesOne of five Summer 2019 reading picks by Bill Gates"The novel buzzes with the energy of numerous adventures, love affairs, [and] twists of fate." —The Wall Street Journal He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility—a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143110438
• ASIN: 0143110438
• ISBN: 0143110438
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

Presents a style manual that covers manuscript structure and content, writing style, grammar, quotations, tables, footnotes, results display, and source citation for psychological and social sciences literature.

• ASIN: 1433805626
• ASIN: 1433805626
• ISBN: 1433805626
• Brand: American Psychological Association (COR)
• Manufacturer: Amer Psychological Assn

There There

National BestsellerOne of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe  Winner of the PEN/Hemingway AwardWinner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard PrizeWinner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize   Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction   “Powerful. . . . There There has so much jangling energy and brings so much news from a distinct corner of America... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525436146
• ASIN: 0525436146
• ISBN: 0525436146
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TO... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455563927
• ASIN: 1455563927
• ISBN: 9781455563920
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

The Best War Ever : America and World War II

Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were

• UPC: 43151947
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American History Book in the World : All the Information You Need to Know Without All the Stuff That Will Put You to Sleep

If you only have enough money to buy one book about American history, this better be that book. Whether you're a confused student, a stressed teacher or just a regular yahoo wanting to finally understand

• UPC: 53338013

America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II) : From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom

Respected scholar Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in this engaging narrative that slices through the cobwebs of time, memory, and prevailing cynicism to reinvigorate America with an informed

• UPC: 7764348
• Rating: 4.0

America: The Last Best Hope (Volume III) : From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam

Originally published in hardcover as: A century turns: new hopes, new fears by Thomas Nelson in

• UPC: 15983223
• Rating: 4.0

Lindell's List : Saving American and British Women at Ravensbrück

9780750966214

• UPC: 54868808
• Rating: 3.0

Encyclopedia Of American Cinema: Biographies Of The Best American Directors And Actors, Reviews Of The Best American Movies, And Lists Of Awards (Mobi Reference) - eBook

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards.FEATURES:-Fully illustrated. -Search for words or phrases. -Navigate from Table of Contents or read

• UPC: 683441079

The Mindset Lists of American History : From Typewriters to Text Messages, What Ten Generations of Americans Think Is Normal

"Snapshots of the U.S.'s last nine generations--from the creators of the Mindset List media sensation. Just as high school graduates in 1957 couldn't imagine life without zippers, those of 2009 can't imagine having to enter

• UPC: 15699902

Lee's American Tourist's Map of Paris : Complete Alphabetical List of Thoroughfares, Parks, Bridges, Churches, Public Buildings, Monuments, Museums, and Theatres

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 285333320

What and How to Read : A Guide to Recent English Literature, Containing a Minutely Classified List of the Best Books Published in England and America During the Past Five Years, with Critical Remarks and Suggestions, and an Introduction

What and How to Read: A Guide to Recent English Literature, Containing a Minutely Classified List of the Best Books Published in England

• UPC: 654952855

The Darling Family in America : Being an Account of the Founders and First Colonial Families, an Official List of the Heads of Families of the Name Darling, Resident in the United States in 1790, and a Bibliography

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 231354941