• The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)

    #1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. “As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America’s rich rural cul... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ASIN: 1328484246
    • ISBN: 1328484246
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition (2019) (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

    Now celebrating its centenary, this prestigious annual anthology gathers the twenty best new short stories published in the previous year. An Anchor Books Original.The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019--continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence--contains twenty prize-winning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. The winning writers are an impressive mix of celebrated names and new, emerging voices. Their stories evoke lives both near and distant, in settings ranging from Jamaica, Houston, and Hawaii to a Turkish coal mine and a... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0525565531
    • ASIN: 0525565531
    • ISBN: 0525565531
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Best American Short Stories 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

    Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ASIN: 0544582942
    • ISBN: 0544582942
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

  • Wolves at the Door: The True Story Of America's Greatest Female Spy

    Virginia Hall left her Baltimore home in 1931 to enter the Foreign Service and went to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) when Hitler was building toward the peak of his power in Europe. She was assigned to France, where she helped the Resistance movement, escaped prisoners of war, and American Allied paratroopers. By 1942 she was considered so dangerous to the Gestapo that she had to escape over the Pyrenees mountains―on an artificial leg, no less. When she got to England, she was reassigned to France by the OSS, disguised as an old peasant woman. She helped capture 500... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • UPC: 884203109865
    • ASIN: 159921072X
    • ISBN: 159921072X
    • Brand: Lyons Press
    • Manufacturer: Lyons Press

  • The Secret Orphan: The emotionally gripping and gritty historical bestseller

    This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe USA Today bestsellerKeep her secret.Keep her safe.On the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved…As the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for them... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07CKQV7F8
    • ASIN: B07CKQV7F8
    • Manufacturer: One More Chapter

  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)


    • ASIN: 0316055433
    • ASIN: 0316055433
    • ISBN: 9780316055437
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 Edition

    The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative new ways to unsettle us. Chosen from a wide variety of venues, these stories are as eclectic and varied as shadows. This volume of 2017's best dark fantasy and horror offers more than five hundred pages of tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique-sure to delight as well as disturb . . .

    • ASIN: 1607015285
    • ASIN: 1607015285
    • ISBN: 1607015285
    • Manufacturer: Prime Books

  • Girl Last Seen: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

    Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart.An intense psychological thriller for readers of I Am Watching You, The Luckiest Girl Alive, and All the Missing Girls.Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots.I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago.If you have any knowledge of Olivia Shaw's whereabouts or any releva... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 145556902X
    • ASIN: 145556902X
    • ISBN: 9781455569021
    • Brand: GRAND CENTRAL
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • CyberStorm

    “ENTHRALLING!”-- Amazing Stories official book review. As the world and cyberworld come crashing down, Mike Mitchell finds himself in a desperate struggle to keep his family alive when a monster snowstorm hits New York on Christmas Eve. An increasingly bizarre string of disasters start appearing on the world’s news networks when, in an instant, New York is cut off from the world, becoming a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems... “Wow! Enthralling! CyberStorm is a must read...this book is such a page turner. I couldn't wait to see what happened next!” – Adria Fraser, book re... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0991677196
    • ASIN: 0991677196
    • ISBN: 0991677196
    • Manufacturer: PhutureNews Publishing

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Newsday • Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishab... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ISBN: 0399588191
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

  • The Tuscan Child

    From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B074QL7WNM
    • ASIN: B074QL7WNM
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

    The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Three women believe they are pregnant, but are torn from their husbands before they can be certain. Rachel is sent to Auschwitz, unaware that her husband has been shot. Priska and her husband travel there together, but are immediately separated. Also at ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

    For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler - both Edgar winners - have assembled the best that 1996 had to offer: twenty terrific, titillating tales from such masters of the genre as Elmore Leonard, Elizabeth George, James Crumley, Jonathan Kellerman, and Andrew Klavan, newcomers such as Brad Watson, and well-known literary writers such as Joyce Carol Oates and Michael Malone.

    • ASIN: 0395835836
    • ASIN: 0395835836
    • ISBN: 0395835836
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    “‘A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre.” ―Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal"Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." ―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewCatastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1250066212
    • ASIN: 1250066212
    • ISBN: 1250066212
    • Manufacturer: Minotaur Books

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    National Book Critics Circle Award, Nonfiction, 2011 In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to previously untapped data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B004RFAIWO
    • ASIN: B004RFAIWO
    • Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2019

    New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short

    • UPC: 497261548

  • The Pushcart Prize XLIII : Best of the Small Presses 2019 Edition

    "More good poems, essays and stories are found in these presses than any other place on the planet." Richard

    • UPC: 420842519

  • The Best American Poetry 2019

    The 2019 edition of The Best American Poetry--"one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world" (Academy of American Poets)--now guest edited by Major Jackson, award-winning poet and poetry editor of the Harvard Review. Since

    • UPC: 368810733

  • The Best of Intentions (Canadian Crossings Book #1) - eBook

    In the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. Yet Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew

    • UPC: 431477900
    • Rating: 4.7

  • The Journey Prize Stories 28 : The Best of Canada's New Writers

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    • UPC: 52610932
    • Rating: 3.0

  • Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019

    Guest editor Rob Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed collection The News, brings a passionate ear for rhythm, an eye for narrative compression, an appetite for vital subject matter, and an affinity for warmth and

    • UPC: 347817260

  • Barbara Kingsolver: Best Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist - Updated 2019 - eBook

    BARBARA KINGSOLVER BOOKS CHECKLIST IN ORDER WITH SUMMARIES INCLUDING THE GREER FAMILY NOVELSSUMMARIES, CHECKLIST AND ORDERING INFORMATION FOR ALL BARBARA KINGSOLVER NOVELS - UPDATED 2019Don’t miss a single Barbara Kingsolver novel.Here we have story summaries,

    • UPC: 690002924

  • Best of Terror 2019 - eBook

    The following recommendations are the best 15% of 1900 horror and horror-adjacent movies reviewed by Steve Hutchison. Movies are sorted according to the average of various ratings: overall, story, creativity, acting, quality, and rewatchability. How

    • UPC: 363657054

  • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 - eBook

    This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories

    • UPC: 303289004

  • Probably the Best Kiss in the World: The laugh out loud romantic comedy of 2019! - eBook

    ‘Such a fresh, funny romance! … Reminded me a lot of a Sophie Kinsella book’ Kaitlyn, Goodreads ‘One of my favourite books of the year…it wasn’t difficult to fall for the fine specimen of Nordic

    • UPC: 955819152

  • Fall Releases in Canadian Fiction That Sound Interesting

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