Ready Player One
Written by Ernest Cline
Category: Fiction

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

"This non-gamer loved every page of Ready Player One."
—Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series

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Prime Time
Written by Jane Fonda
Category: Biography & Autobiography

In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.

Thirteen Million Dollar Pop
Written by David Levien
Category: Fiction

Enigmatic private investigator Frank Behr takes on his most disorienting case, probing a political crime ring and the white-collar dark side of Indianapolis—the middle-America landscape that earned David Levien's previous novel, City of the Sun, critical raves.

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The Fatal Gift of Beauty
Written by Nina Burleigh
Category: Current Affairs

The ongoing criminal trial of Seattle native Amanda Knox, charged with the sexually violent murder of her British roommate, has made headlines around the world. In The Fatal Gift of Beauty, Nina Burleigh investigates the murder, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central-Italy’s most beloved cities.

A Clash of Kings
A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two
Written by George R.R. Martin
Read by Roy Dotrice
Category: Fiction

Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.

Now available as an audiobook for the first time!

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The Language of Flowers
Written by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Category: Fiction

In this captivating, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, Vanessa Diffenbaugh beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.

“This heartbreaking debut novel about mothers and daughters, love, and the secret significance of flowers had me weeping with emotion and wonder.”—Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah’s Key

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1493
Written by Charles C. Mann
Category: History

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke.

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Let's Take the Long Way Home
Written by Gail Caldwell
Category: Biography & Autobiography

With her signature exquisite prose, Gail Caldwell mines the deepest levels of devotion, and courage in this gorgeous memoir about treasuring a best friend, and coming of age in midlife. Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a celebration of the profound transformations that come from intimate connection.

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To the End of the Land
Written by David Grossman
Category: Fiction

From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war.

“A boundary-pushing novel. . . . Grossman invites us to look beneath the shrill headlines, beyond the roadblocks, within the clenched fist—to see Israel’s predicament not as ‘the situation’ but as many situations, one for every person.”—The Washington Post