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The Explanation for Everything: A Novel

by Lauren Grodstein

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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For college biology professor Andy Waite, Darwinian evolution is the explanation for everything. But the unpredictable force of a charismatic evangelical student--a young woman determined to prove the existence of intelligent design--threatens to undermine more than just his faith in scien...

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The Lion Seeker

by Kenneth Bonert

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 576 pages

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A brawny, brilliant debut novel about the epic struggles of an immigrant son in a darkening world.Johannesburg, South Africa. The Great Depression. In this harsh new country, young Isaac Helger burns with fiery determination— to break out of the inner city, to buy his scarred mother the ...

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A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

by Garrison Keillor

Published: 2011-10-25

Paperback: 192 pages

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The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment...

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Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

by Simon Baron-Cohen

Published: 2011-04-01

Hardcover: 190 pages

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Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift, turning the focus away from evil and on to the central factor, empathy....

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Looking for La La

by Ellie Campbell

Published: 2013-03-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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** THE AMAZON UK TOP #3 HUMOUR BESTSELLER **Literally a laugh out loud kind of book! Thrilling, Gripping and Unique - one of my favourite books this year by far - 23reviewstreetThis read was HILARIOUS! Many a times I got funny looks as I could no longer contain my laughing while on the tr...

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Lady Killer

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2008-12-30

Paperback: 420 pages

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Mary DiNunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates. But the last person she expects to walk into her office one morning—in mile-high stilettos—is super-sexy Trish Gambone, her high-school rival. Back when Mary was becoming the straight-A president of the Latin C...

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A Plain & Fancy Christmas: A Novel

by Cynthia Keller

Published: 2011-10-25

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Raised in a Pennsylvania Amish community, young mother Rachel Yoder has led a simple life within her close-knit family. Widowed three years ago, she has moved back in with her parents, attempting to raise her daughter, Katie, without further emotional upheaval. Meanwhile, four hours and a ...

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The Mountaintop

by Katori Hall

Published: 2013-03

Paperback: 44 pages

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Winner of  the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, “I may not get...

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Mountain Top

by Robert Whitlow

Published: 2007-07-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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Can he trust his client's dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future?Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things he has no right to know. A lawyer turned p...

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Crash Out: The True Tale of a Hell's Kitchen Kid and the Bloodiest Escape in Sing Sing History

by David Goewey

Published: 2005-11-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The enthralling and evocative story of tough Depression-era bandits who vowed to make something of themselves, even if that meant defying the stone walls of America’s most infamous prison, by a writer who grew up in Sing Sing’s shadow. During an era of never-ending breadlines and corru...