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Killing Time in the Catskills: The twisted tale of the Catskill Ripper Elizabeth "Lizzie" McNally Halliday

by Kevin Owen

Published: 2019-08-17

Paperback: 248 pages

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Hot on the heels of the Lizzie Borden case from 1893-1894, newspapers around the world began closely following a new and unusual case in upstate New York. Lizzie Halliday, a seemingly harmless woman, was about to stand trial for a triple homicide in Burlingham, NY. Lizzie Halliday lived in the hamlet...

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Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace

by Jojo Godinez, Amanda Warner

Published: 2018-05-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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Jojo Godinez grew up in L.A. County surrounded by gangs. The night he joined one, he swore to represent his gang until death. Fights, shootings, and arrests followed, but his love of violence waned through the years as more and more of his friends died around him. Amid the bloodshed, he m...

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The Nanny: A Novel

by Gilly Macmillan

Published: 2019-09-10

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“The Nanny kept me in white-knuckled suspense until the very last page. Gilly Macmillan’s breakout thriller is a dark and twisted version of Downton Abbey gone very, very wrong.” — Tess Gerritsen,  New York Times bestselling authorThe New York Times bestselling author of What S...

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Guts

by Raina Telgemeier

Published: 2019-09-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts!Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, wh...

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Come with Me from Lebanon: An American Family Odyssey (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East)

by Ann Zwicker Kerr

Published: 1996-09-01

Paperback: 344 pages

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Ann Kerr’s is a personal account of an American family during the most tumultuous years of Beirut’s political strife. It begins with the tragic assassination of her husband Malcolm Kerr, one of the most respected scholars of Middle East studies, in 1984, seventeen months after he became president...

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Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as a Daughter Lives with her Mom's Memory Loss

by Jann Arden

Published: 2019-03-05

Paperback: 208 pages

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This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days.When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden's parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for...

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Witch Wife

by Kiki Petrosino

Published: 2017-12-12

Hardcover: 60 pages

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"Petrosino delights in unsettling the familiar with startling results, whether channeling Anne Sexton or William Blake. Her stylish innovation refashions traditional forms that insist on repetition." —Harryette Mullin"Petrosino is at the forefront of a deeply heterogeneous, expansive poe...

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Summer of Hate (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

by Chris Kraus

Published: 2012-08-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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Baudrillard meets Breaking Bad in this stark and bleakly hilarious novel about a descent into an underclass world of born-again Christianity, self-help, and crack.“In his journal, Paul liked to make lists: What he ordered from Commissary (shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, the transis...

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Aug 9 - Fog

by Kathryn Scanlan

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 128 pages

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A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasonsFifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an ...

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Akira, Vol. 1

by Katsuhiro Otomo

Published: 2009-10-13

Paperback: 352 pages

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Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy ag...